Tiago Simões
@trsimoes.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @Princeton EEB. #phylogenetics/#macroevolution/#paleobiology
http://simoes-lab.com
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http://simoes-lab.com
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Almost as a small Christmas miracle, our second (and final) response to the supposed presence of varanoids in the Triassic: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
With M. Caldwell, S. Scarpetta, C. Brownstein, D. Meyer, and M. Lee
With M. Caldwell, S. Scarpetta, C. Brownstein, D. Meyer, and M. Lee
Cryptovaranoides is not a squamate
Claims for a Triassic-aged crown lizard merit detailed reanalysis, the results of which find that Cryptovaranoides is not only not a lizard, but is a more distantly related diapsid reptile.
doi.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Almost as a small Christmas miracle, our second (and final) response to the supposed presence of varanoids in the Triassic: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
With M. Caldwell, S. Scarpetta, C. Brownstein, D. Meyer, and M. Lee
With M. Caldwell, S. Scarpetta, C. Brownstein, D. Meyer, and M. Lee
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Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
lu.varbi.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Today we had Simon Scarpetta from USF delivering a talk here at EEB @princeton.edu on the technical and empirical challenges in sorting the phylogenomics and biogeography of iguanas...rafting over 8,000 km from North America to Fiji!
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Today we had Simon Scarpetta from USF delivering a talk here at EEB @princeton.edu on the technical and empirical challenges in sorting the phylogenomics and biogeography of iguanas...rafting over 8,000 km from North America to Fiji!
Awesome week meeting with our whole team investigating the genomic basis of phenotypic evolution across all squamates at @princetonupress.bsky.social and @amnh.org with my fellow PIs @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and Frank Burbrink and all our students and postdocs in this enterprise!
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Awesome week meeting with our whole team investigating the genomic basis of phenotypic evolution across all squamates at @princetonupress.bsky.social and @amnh.org with my fellow PIs @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and Frank Burbrink and all our students and postdocs in this enterprise!
Our lab's PhD student Daniel's take on body size biases in tetrapod taxonomy: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Too big to miss: body size biases in tetrapod species descriptions and their implications for conservation
While species descriptions are rooted in biological diversity, their timing and patterns have also been influenced by historical, socioeconomic, and perceptual biases. Among these, body size has long...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Our lab's PhD student Daniel's take on body size biases in tetrapod taxonomy: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes
Squamates (lizards, including snakes) are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today and have an evolutionary history dating back to at least the Middle Triassic (ca. 242 Mya). D...
www.annualreviews.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioq.bsky.social et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioq.bsky.social et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin apply.interfolio.com/175702
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October 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin apply.interfolio.com/175702
Position right next door for vert paleo!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
Assistant Professor in Paleontological Vertebrate Evolution
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and the Department of Ecology,Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers University-New Brunswick invite applicants for atenure-track positio...
jobs.rutgers.edu
October 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Position right next door for vert paleo!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
Folks, I am always happy to send papers through research gate...but maybe you wanna avoid the trouble when the papers are open access...just saying
October 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Folks, I am always happy to send papers through research gate...but maybe you wanna avoid the trouble when the papers are open access...just saying
Our latest paper, now how to conciliate apparently discrepant evolutionary rate patterns in squamates, but which may well apply to any study system with Stephanie Pierce and
@7brumas.bsky.social
#macroevolution
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@7brumas.bsky.social
#macroevolution
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Evolutionary rate incongruences in squamates reveal contrasting patterns of evolutionary novelties and innovation
Abstract. Understanding the rate of phenotypic evolution can reveal fundamental aspects of organismal evolutionary trajectories. Hence, several studies hav
academic.oup.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Our latest paper, now how to conciliate apparently discrepant evolutionary rate patterns in squamates, but which may well apply to any study system with Stephanie Pierce and
@7brumas.bsky.social
#macroevolution
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
@7brumas.bsky.social
#macroevolution
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco
Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...
usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...
Really nice paper! Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record
www.cambridge.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Really nice paper! Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to share the advance version of our big AREES review on squamate origin and early evolution: From Fossils to Genomes with my two amazing colleagues, Frank Burbrink and @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes | Annual Reviews
Squamates (lizards, including snakes) are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today and have an evolutionary history dating back to at least the Middle Triassic (ca. 242 Mya). D...
www.annualreviews.org
September 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Happy to share the advance version of our big AREES review on squamate origin and early evolution: From Fossils to Genomes with my two amazing colleagues, Frank Burbrink and @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Important updates on EvoPhylo (release 0.3.5)! cloud.r-project.org/web/packages...
Nothing like a sleepless night to fix some bugs and add new features. Website with updated articles too: tiago-simoes.github.io/EvoPhylo/
Nothing like a sleepless night to fix some bugs and add new features. Website with updated articles too: tiago-simoes.github.io/EvoPhylo/
EvoPhylo: Pre- And Postprocessing of Morphological Data from Relaxed Clock Bayesian Phylogenetics
Performs automated morphological character partitioning for phylogenetic analyses and analyze macroevolutionary parameter outputs from clock (time-calibrated) Bayesian inference analyses, following co...
cloud.r-project.org
August 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Important updates on EvoPhylo (release 0.3.5)! cloud.r-project.org/web/packages...
Nothing like a sleepless night to fix some bugs and add new features. Website with updated articles too: tiago-simoes.github.io/EvoPhylo/
Nothing like a sleepless night to fix some bugs and add new features. Website with updated articles too: tiago-simoes.github.io/EvoPhylo/
Reposted by Tiago Simões
Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu
August 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
If you like evolutionary rates or donut-shaped trees, check out the poster bybstudent Ruby Redlich (313) today at #ESEB25 benchmarking rate inference performance
August 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you like evolutionary rates or donut-shaped trees, check out the poster bybstudent Ruby Redlich (313) today at #ESEB25 benchmarking rate inference performance
Paper led by co-advisee Joao da Silva on the Permian dicynodont Rastodon procurvidens (Synapsida, Therapsida) using micro-CT scanning and with phylogenetic and biogeographical implications academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Osteology and ontogeny of the Permian dicynodont Rastodon procurvidens (Synapsida, Therapsida) based on micro-CT scanning and its phylogenetic and biogeographical implications
Abstract. Dicynodonts were a globally distributed group of herbivorous synapsids that first appeared during the middle Permian (Guadalupian) and survived t
academic.oup.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Paper led by co-advisee Joao da Silva on the Permian dicynodont Rastodon procurvidens (Synapsida, Therapsida) using micro-CT scanning and with phylogenetic and biogeographical implications academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
If you are interested in #macroevolution, check some of our lab student's posters today at #ESEB25, 296 and 303!
Daniel Vasquez-Restrepo and Izabel Salvi
Daniel Vasquez-Restrepo and Izabel Salvi
August 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If you are interested in #macroevolution, check some of our lab student's posters today at #ESEB25, 296 and 303!
Daniel Vasquez-Restrepo and Izabel Salvi
Daniel Vasquez-Restrepo and Izabel Salvi
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Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
eeb.msu.edu
August 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...
Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Careers At Field Museum
Position Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology FLSA Status Exempt Department Negaunee Integrative Research Center Our Mission Since the 1893 World Columbian Exposition our organization has aimed...
fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...
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“This is a once-in-a-hundred-years discovery.” scim.ag/4lPz3MX
July 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“This is a once-in-a-hundred-years discovery.” scim.ag/4lPz3MX