@macroevoeco
@macroevoeco.bsky.social
Macroevolution & Macroecology, Australian National University
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Are you a university staff member? Tired? Stressed? Overworked? It will only take 5-6 mins to help independent researchers shine a light on the state of wellbeing in our universities. Results will be published and responses anonymous. Please help by adding your voice: nteu.info/census
October 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Are you a university staff member? Tired? Stressed? Overworked? It will only take 5-6 mins to help independent researchers shine a light on the state of wellbeing in our universities. Results will be published and responses anonymous. Please help by adding your voice: nteu.info/census
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Language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations, a recent study shows.
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
September 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations, a recent study shows.
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
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AES 2025 ECR Awards – Apply Now!
Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane.
Two categories:
PhD and Postdoc
Winners get $500 travel support + free rego
🔗 ausevo.com/2025_researc...
Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane.
Two categories:
PhD and Postdoc
Winners get $500 travel support + free rego
🔗 ausevo.com/2025_researc...
August 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
AES 2025 ECR Awards – Apply Now!
Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane.
Two categories:
PhD and Postdoc
Winners get $500 travel support + free rego
🔗 ausevo.com/2025_researc...
Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane.
Two categories:
PhD and Postdoc
Winners get $500 travel support + free rego
🔗 ausevo.com/2025_researc...
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Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 7 Aug 2025 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Emily Stringer & Dr Jarrod Sopniewski, Postdoctoral Research Fellows from the Centre for Conservation Ecology and Genomics at the University of Canberra. Details: rb.gy/x3t1fm
E&E Seminar Series: Boom-bust population dynamics drive rapid genetic & Conserving species with an ecological niche perspective
This seminar is presented by Dr Emily Stringer and Dr Jarrod Sopniewski, Postdoctoral Research Fellows from the Centre for Conservation Ecology and Genomics at the University of Canberra.
rb.gy
July 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 7 Aug 2025 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Emily Stringer & Dr Jarrod Sopniewski, Postdoctoral Research Fellows from the Centre for Conservation Ecology and Genomics at the University of Canberra. Details: rb.gy/x3t1fm
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New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky
July 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky
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Why is there such variation in species diversity among regions? Work led by @alexskeels.bsky.social shows that the history of climate change driving expansion & contraction of biomes is at least as important as current environments. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502129122
New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky
July 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Why is there such variation in species diversity among regions? Work led by @alexskeels.bsky.social shows that the history of climate change driving expansion & contraction of biomes is at least as important as current environments. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502129122
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Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
The value of information for ecological management
study.uq.edu.au
July 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
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New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.
doi.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...
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Great to get this paper out on macroevolutionary trends of the hyperdiverse southwest Australian and eastern Australian floras! @alexskeels.bsky.social
Article is open access and can be downloaded here:
lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ
Article is open access and can be downloaded here:
lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ
July 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Great to get this paper out on macroevolutionary trends of the hyperdiverse southwest Australian and eastern Australian floras! @alexskeels.bsky.social
Article is open access and can be downloaded here:
lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ
Article is open access and can be downloaded here:
lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ
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fiery effulgences, infernally superb
June 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
fiery effulgences, infernally superb
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Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations
Bromham et al., PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Bromham et al., PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations | PNAS
Evolution of complexity in human languages has been vigorously debated, including
the proposal that complexity can build in small, isolated populat...
www.pnas.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations
Bromham et al., PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Bromham et al., PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Is language complexity more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations? We test this idea using global occurrence of one particular form of morphological complexity - polysynthesis (complex word forms that embody whole phrases) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations | PNAS
Evolution of complexity in human languages has been vigorously debated, including
the proposal that complexity can build in small, isolated populat...
www.pnas.org
June 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Is language complexity more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations? We test this idea using global occurrence of one particular form of morphological complexity - polysynthesis (complex word forms that embody whole phrases) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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#ICCB2025 I'll be presenting our work on "Over the Horizon" extinction risk forecasting for proactive conservation planning at 10:30am on Monday, in M2.
It will be minus 3 degrees in Canberra tonight so looking forward to escaping to Brizzie for a few days...
It will be minus 3 degrees in Canberra tonight so looking forward to escaping to Brizzie for a few days...
June 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
#ICCB2025 I'll be presenting our work on "Over the Horizon" extinction risk forecasting for proactive conservation planning at 10:30am on Monday, in M2.
It will be minus 3 degrees in Canberra tonight so looking forward to escaping to Brizzie for a few days...
It will be minus 3 degrees in Canberra tonight so looking forward to escaping to Brizzie for a few days...
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WE DID IT, FOLKS
A song for the entomologists of the USDA m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI...
A song for the entomologists of the USDA m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI...
June 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
WE DID IT, FOLKS
A song for the entomologists of the USDA m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI...
A song for the entomologists of the USDA m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI...
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Open letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances.
ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.
ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.
Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts
Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc
Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3
__________________________________________________
Letter to AN...
forms.gle
May 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Open letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances.
ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.
ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.
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ANU colleagues, stand up and protect your workplace and each other. Let's stop the reputational and psycho-social damage being done by the disproportionately heavy-handed response of the executive. Please sign and share widely in your networks. #ourANU
If you're part of #ourANU, please read this open letter to the ANU executive, and consider signing it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts
Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc
Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3
__________________________________________________
Letter to AN...
docs.google.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
ANU colleagues, stand up and protect your workplace and each other. Let's stop the reputational and psycho-social damage being done by the disproportionately heavy-handed response of the executive. Please sign and share widely in your networks. #ourANU
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More great PhD opportunities, this time with @felicitymeakins.bsky.social
study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
Dingo Lingo: Australia's past through the lens of biology, language & music
study.uq.edu.au
March 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
More great PhD opportunities, this time with @felicitymeakins.bsky.social
study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
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We love it when art and science meet to create something spectacular! ✨
These amazing projections at Mt Stromlo Observatory were produced by ANU art and design students for Enlighten Festival.
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
These amazing projections at Mt Stromlo Observatory were produced by ANU art and design students for Enlighten Festival.
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
Illuminating the cosmos: ANU students light up Mount Stromlo
Students from the ANU School of Art and Design are showcasing astronomically inspired work as part of the Enlighten festival.
science.anu.edu.au
March 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We love it when art and science meet to create something spectacular! ✨
These amazing projections at Mt Stromlo Observatory were produced by ANU art and design students for Enlighten Festival.
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
These amazing projections at Mt Stromlo Observatory were produced by ANU art and design students for Enlighten Festival.
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
March 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
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This study confirms what Robert May once said: "As we
move from the furries and featheries, down through the innumerable species of insects, and on down to bacteria and viruses, sentimental concern does not merely wane. It changes sign.”
move from the furries and featheries, down through the innumerable species of insects, and on down to bacteria and viruses, sentimental concern does not merely wane. It changes sign.”
Most conservation funds go to large vertebrates at expense of ‘neglected’ species
Most conservation funds go to large vertebrates at expense of ‘neglected’ species
Study shows funding bias towards animals like rhino while other endangered species including amphibians and algae disregarded
Most global conservation funds go to larger, charismatic animals, leaving critically important but less fashionable species…
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This study confirms what Robert May once said: "As we
move from the furries and featheries, down through the innumerable species of insects, and on down to bacteria and viruses, sentimental concern does not merely wane. It changes sign.”
move from the furries and featheries, down through the innumerable species of insects, and on down to bacteria and viruses, sentimental concern does not merely wane. It changes sign.”
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Australian Researchers,
If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support.
forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn...
Q: "Are they eligible?",
A: "Let's find out"
Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!
If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support.
forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn...
Q: "Are they eligible?",
A: "Let's find out"
Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!
Letter of Support for nomination of @ARC_Tracker for a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science
In signing this form you endorse the proposal to nominate @ARC_Tracker for a Eureka Prize in the category 'Leadership in Science'. The list of signatories will be appended to the nomination form. I wi...
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February 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Australian Researchers,
If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support.
forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn...
Q: "Are they eligible?",
A: "Let's find out"
Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!
If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support.
forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn...
Q: "Are they eligible?",
A: "Let's find out"
Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!
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I'm very happy to announce I just published a paper from my post doc with Gavin Thomas in @natureecoevo.bsky.social! So if you're interested in #macroevolution, #phylogenetics and sexual size dimorphism (SSD), strap in
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A phylogenetic comparative analysis of male and female body size across tetrapods globally shows that directional change in size is usually greater in males but reveals different underlying mechanisms...
doi.org
December 23, 2024 at 11:06 PM
I'm very happy to announce I just published a paper from my post doc with Gavin Thomas in @natureecoevo.bsky.social! So if you're interested in #macroevolution, #phylogenetics and sexual size dimorphism (SSD), strap in
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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If you are interested in applying population genomics, experimental genetics, and innovative breeding to dissect the genetic basis of resilience in future environments, please contact me. You will join my lab and a wonderful team of researchers from the ARC training centre in predictive breeding.
Interested in exploring novel approaches to identify the genetic basis of resilience in mungbean?
Then join our Centre and work on this exciting PhD project with UQ and DPI!
Apply by 6 January 2025
➡️https://shorturl.at/4C9UR
Then join our Centre and work on this exciting PhD project with UQ and DPI!
Apply by 6 January 2025
➡️https://shorturl.at/4C9UR
December 6, 2024 at 2:19 AM
If you are interested in applying population genomics, experimental genetics, and innovative breeding to dissect the genetic basis of resilience in future environments, please contact me. You will join my lab and a wonderful team of researchers from the ARC training centre in predictive breeding.
Genotype/phenotype distinction is critical in evolutionary theory
(e.g. Central Dogma: DNA<->RNA->protein).
Languages don’t have separate genotype & phenotype – so do they break evolutionary theory? Or can we still apply biological methods to language data? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(e.g. Central Dogma: DNA<->RNA->protein).
Languages don’t have separate genotype & phenotype – so do they break evolutionary theory? Or can we still apply biological methods to language data? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The genotype concept and language evolution
www.sciencedirect.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Genotype/phenotype distinction is critical in evolutionary theory
(e.g. Central Dogma: DNA<->RNA->protein).
Languages don’t have separate genotype & phenotype – so do they break evolutionary theory? Or can we still apply biological methods to language data? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(e.g. Central Dogma: DNA<->RNA->protein).
Languages don’t have separate genotype & phenotype – so do they break evolutionary theory? Or can we still apply biological methods to language data? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A bit late to the Bluesky party, but I'll start with a plug for our non-technical, non-mathematical, introductory text on macroevolution & macroecology.
It probably won't give you many answers to big questions about biodiversity. But hopefully it will give you the tools to ask good questions.
October 29, 2023 at 10:17 PM
A bit late to the Bluesky party, but I'll start with a plug for our non-technical, non-mathematical, introductory text on macroevolution & macroecology.
It probably won't give you many answers to big questions about biodiversity. But hopefully it will give you the tools to ask good questions.