Priscila Rothier
@priscilarothier.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, PhD |
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Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com
Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
New bird paper led by the brilliant and talented Andrew Orkney! 🐣
We show that greater parental care is linked to greater evolutionary flexibility in how birds fly 🦅
We show that greater parental care is linked to greater evolutionary flexibility in how birds fly 🦅
Great expectations: altricial developmental strategies are associated with more flexible evolution of limb skeleton proportions in birds #ProcB #OpenAccess #Developmental Biology #Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
New bird paper led by the brilliant and talented Andrew Orkney! 🐣
We show that greater parental care is linked to greater evolutionary flexibility in how birds fly 🦅
We show that greater parental care is linked to greater evolutionary flexibility in how birds fly 🦅
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📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...
Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!
#rstats #geology #paleontology
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...
Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!
#rstats #geology #paleontology
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...
Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!
#rstats #geology #paleontology
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...
Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!
#rstats #geology #paleontology
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FREE Paleontology short course at GSA 2025: "Open science, collaboration & reproducibility in Paleontology"
📅 Oct 18, 8AM-5:30PM
🔬 Learn GitHub, R programming & paleo databases
✅ All career stages welcome
💰 FREE
📅 Oct 18, 8AM-5:30PM
🔬 Learn GitHub, R programming & paleo databases
✅ All career stages welcome
💰 FREE
2025 Paleo Short Course
www.paleosoc.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
FREE Paleontology short course at GSA 2025: "Open science, collaboration & reproducibility in Paleontology"
📅 Oct 18, 8AM-5:30PM
🔬 Learn GitHub, R programming & paleo databases
✅ All career stages welcome
💰 FREE
📅 Oct 18, 8AM-5:30PM
🔬 Learn GitHub, R programming & paleo databases
✅ All career stages welcome
💰 FREE
Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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I'm so excited to share my latest paper out now! How did the ancestors of mammals make the switch from sprawling to upright, taking over the world in the process? Spoiler alert; it's complicated! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals
The ‘sprawling-to-parasagittal’ postural transition is a key part of mammalian evolution from non-mammalian synapsids. This study uses evolutionary adaptive landscapes to reveal parasagittal postures ...
journals.plos.org
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm so excited to share my latest paper out now! How did the ancestors of mammals make the switch from sprawling to upright, taking over the world in the process? Spoiler alert; it's complicated! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Cornell too!
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
Cornell Sues DOE for ‘Unlawful’ Cuts to Indirect Costs for Research Grants
University administrators announced in a Monday statement that Cornell joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy and DOE Secretary Chris Wright which cut research grant funding for indire...
www.cornellsun.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Cornell too!
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
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City toads vs country toads, who's the toughest? 🐸 See our latest study, now published! 🎉 By comparing the morphology of common toads (Bufo bufo) across 4 different habitats, we found that toads don’t quite look the same…🔍
Link 👉 : link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@anthony-herrel.bsky.social
Link 👉 : link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@anthony-herrel.bsky.social
Do human-induced habitat changes impact the morphology of a common amphibian, Bufo bufo? - Urban Ecosystems
Human activities induce habitat modifications and the intensification of land use including urbanisation and agriculture. Human-modified habitats are often fragmented, generating patches separated by ...
link.springer.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
City toads vs country toads, who's the toughest? 🐸 See our latest study, now published! 🎉 By comparing the morphology of common toads (Bufo bufo) across 4 different habitats, we found that toads don’t quite look the same…🔍
Link 👉 : link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@anthony-herrel.bsky.social
Link 👉 : link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@anthony-herrel.bsky.social
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What a cool paper! 🤩 Using @inaturalist.bsky.social observations, Mayer et al. found that there are more melanistic snakes in colder regions than in warmer ones AND that melanistic snakes are more abundant with ⬆️ avian predator density 🐍🐦 Have look at it here: doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
December 15, 2024 at 5:45 PM
What a cool paper! 🤩 Using @inaturalist.bsky.social observations, Mayer et al. found that there are more melanistic snakes in colder regions than in warmer ones AND that melanistic snakes are more abundant with ⬆️ avian predator density 🐍🐦 Have look at it here: doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
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This is an amazing local charity working with families and schools to help everyone learn to love to read! All donations are doubled this week, so dig deep! 🦖🦕+📚=❤️
Children's author, @evoswami.bsky.social, is dig dig digging deep for the @biggive.bsky.social Christmas Challenge this week! From 3rd-10th December, all donations to @l2l2r.bsky.social will be DOUBLED. Please help us reach our target by donating today and supporting our work: bit.ly/3Vk8O6q
December 5, 2024 at 5:58 PM
This is an amazing local charity working with families and schools to help everyone learn to love to read! All donations are doubled this week, so dig deep! 🦖🦕+📚=❤️
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🐿️ Through digitization, the National Science Foundation-funded program “Ranges” is bringing the traits of Mammalogy specimens online to become tools for transformative conservation science in areas like the biodiversity crisis and climate change: bit.ly/DigitizedMam...
December 5, 2024 at 12:29 AM
🐿️ Through digitization, the National Science Foundation-funded program “Ranges” is bringing the traits of Mammalogy specimens online to become tools for transformative conservation science in areas like the biodiversity crisis and climate change: bit.ly/DigitizedMam...
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New croc paper alert! 🐊🚨
In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM
New croc paper alert! 🐊🚨
In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In this new study led by my friend and colleague Thiago Fachini, we reassessed the cranial morphology and phylogenetic position of Barreirosuchus franciscoi, a peirosaurian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Day 21 of posting cool mushrooms every day:
The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) has both teeth on its underside and "blood" on its top!
The "blood" is extracellular fluid, which is squeezed out when the fungus absorbs water, increasing pressure until the red fluid is squeezed out!
The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) has both teeth on its underside and "blood" on its top!
The "blood" is extracellular fluid, which is squeezed out when the fungus absorbs water, increasing pressure until the red fluid is squeezed out!
November 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Day 21 of posting cool mushrooms every day:
The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) has both teeth on its underside and "blood" on its top!
The "blood" is extracellular fluid, which is squeezed out when the fungus absorbs water, increasing pressure until the red fluid is squeezed out!
The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) has both teeth on its underside and "blood" on its top!
The "blood" is extracellular fluid, which is squeezed out when the fungus absorbs water, increasing pressure until the red fluid is squeezed out!
Reposted by Priscila Rothier
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
docs.google.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:48 PM
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Bears, for those who care.... a new paper. www.sekj.org/PDF/anz61-fr...
Bear Feet with Björn: tarsal evolution in the origin of polar bears. — Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 357–376.
Bear Feet with Björn: tarsal evolution in the origin of polar bears. — Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 357–376.
November 21, 2024 at 6:45 AM
Bears, for those who care.... a new paper. www.sekj.org/PDF/anz61-fr...
Bear Feet with Björn: tarsal evolution in the origin of polar bears. — Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 357–376.
Bear Feet with Björn: tarsal evolution in the origin of polar bears. — Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 357–376.
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Upper arms, forearms, even parts of our wrists originally arose in fish living in rivers, streams, and tidal environments hundreds of millions of years ago
November 25, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Upper arms, forearms, even parts of our wrists originally arose in fish living in rivers, streams, and tidal environments hundreds of millions of years ago
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Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
November 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Reposted by Priscila Rothier
New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 24, 2024 at 1:09 PM
New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...