Weisbecker B&B Lab
@weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social
Vera Weisbecker's (she/her) Flinders Uni lab of more-or-less Aussie scientists on unceded Kaurna land; loves bones, biodiversity, and biostatistics.
It's been the most fun science I've done for a long time...visiting @ansto.bsky.social synchrotron to scan huge shark heads with @draliceclement.bsky.social
48 hours, 8 sharks, 3 researchers and a WHOLE LOT OF DATA! 🦈 🩻 Another busy and successful trip to @ansto.bsky.social synchrotron!
With @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social for an exciting new project with @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social & our other fabulous collaborators… 🦈🦈🦈
With @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social for an exciting new project with @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social & our other fabulous collaborators… 🦈🦈🦈
September 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It's been the most fun science I've done for a long time...visiting @ansto.bsky.social synchrotron to scan huge shark heads with @draliceclement.bsky.social
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[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It’s live!🎉
The new ARDC Nectar Research Cloud node at the University of Adelaide is now providing South Australian researchers with cloud computing resources. Learn how Nectar can boost your research >
🔗 ardc.edu.au/article/new-...
The new ARDC Nectar Research Cloud node at the University of Adelaide is now providing South Australian researchers with cloud computing resources. Learn how Nectar can boost your research >
🔗 ardc.edu.au/article/new-...
New Nectar Node at the University of Adelaide Launched | ARDC
The new node at the University of Adelaide has boosted cloud computing resources for South Australian researchers. Read about the showcase and explore how the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud is supporting ...
ardc.edu.au
June 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It’s live!🎉
The new ARDC Nectar Research Cloud node at the University of Adelaide is now providing South Australian researchers with cloud computing resources. Learn how Nectar can boost your research >
🔗 ardc.edu.au/article/new-...
The new ARDC Nectar Research Cloud node at the University of Adelaide is now providing South Australian researchers with cloud computing resources. Learn how Nectar can boost your research >
🔗 ardc.edu.au/article/new-...
An incredible new resource - Go @bluerehn.bsky.social !
New paper for the palaeofire fans!
Presenting the SahulCHAR collection, containing 687 sedimentary charcoal records from across Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand 🔥
Read it open access: doi.org/10.5194/essd...
This is the product of my final postdoc - thanks to all who contributed their data!
Presenting the SahulCHAR collection, containing 687 sedimentary charcoal records from across Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand 🔥
Read it open access: doi.org/10.5194/essd...
This is the product of my final postdoc - thanks to all who contributed their data!
June 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
An incredible new resource - Go @bluerehn.bsky.social !
Congrats to @draliceclement.bsky.social for a very well deserved Research Leader Award!
Cheers for the recognition @flindersuniversity.bsky.social College of #Science and Engineering Emerging #Research Leader Award 🏆
June 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Congrats to @draliceclement.bsky.social for a very well deserved Research Leader Award!
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The latest episode of What The Duck (Dogs!) is all about dingoes! Have a listen!
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Dogs in Australia: What is a dingo? - ABC listen
This is the story of the domesticated animal that feralised itself.
Where did dingoes come from and when?
Where does a wild dog stop and a dingo begin?
How much can genetics really tell us about Au...
www.abc.net.au
June 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The latest episode of What The Duck (Dogs!) is all about dingoes! Have a listen!
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@draliceclement.bsky.social is making waves across the country!
"Students keen to explore Canowindra’s fossils". A nice write-up in the Cowra Guardian about our recent Flinders University @flindersuniversity.bsky.social 3rd year palaeontology fieldtrip to Canowindra, NSW. Did you see it @canowindracranky.bsky.social ?
www.cowraguardian.com.au/sport/studen...
www.cowraguardian.com.au/sport/studen...
Students keen to explore Canowindra's fossils - Cowra Guardian
www.cowraguardian.com.au
June 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
@draliceclement.bsky.social is making waves across the country!
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Rare job opportunity @ WA Museum Perth. Research Officer of marine fishes 2 year position. Fish IDs, DNA sequencing, curation and digitisation 🐟🔬🧬📷
search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
WA Government Jobs | Research Officer (Fishes)
search.jobs.wa.gov.au
June 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Rare job opportunity @ WA Museum Perth. Research Officer of marine fishes 2 year position. Fish IDs, DNA sequencing, curation and digitisation 🐟🔬🧬📷
search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
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Happy to say that @aus10ash.bsky.social's MSc work on patterning at the p4/m1 boundary is out: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
#mammal #ungulate #dentition #DevBio #morphometrics #EvoDevo #evolution
#mammal #ungulate #dentition #DevBio #morphometrics #EvoDevo #evolution
Tying the knot between morphology and development: using the patterning cascade model between cheek teeth to study the evolution of molarization in hoofed mammals
link.springer.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy to say that @aus10ash.bsky.social's MSc work on patterning at the p4/m1 boundary is out: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
#mammal #ungulate #dentition #DevBio #morphometrics #EvoDevo #evolution
#mammal #ungulate #dentition #DevBio #morphometrics #EvoDevo #evolution
Oh like the Ninja Turtle in Go Extinct! Megafauna! I will ruthlessly exploit the opportunity to plug that this and 29 other drawings of Australian (mega)fauna is freely available CC-BY-SA on Wikimedia Commons, link is on: epicaustralia.org.au/resource/goe... @wikimediafoundation.org
June 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Oh like the Ninja Turtle in Go Extinct! Megafauna! I will ruthlessly exploit the opportunity to plug that this and 29 other drawings of Australian (mega)fauna is freely available CC-BY-SA on Wikimedia Commons, link is on: epicaustralia.org.au/resource/goe... @wikimediafoundation.org
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Pleased to say that the final chapter of my PhD is out today in Nature Ecology and Evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!
My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Using a newly developed spatiotemporal phylogeographic path analysis method combined with phylogenetic niche modelling, the authors estimate clade-wide dispersal maps spanning the early Permian to end...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Pleased to say that the final chapter of my PhD is out today in Nature Ecology and Evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!
My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!
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Wildlife belongs in the wild, not hung up on walls as decoration.
That's why we're urging Amazon to join Etsy and eBay and stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong. Add your voice. ⬇️
That's why we're urging Amazon to join Etsy and eBay and stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong. Add your voice. ⬇️
Painted bats belong alive in the wild — not dead on walls.
Tell Amazon to stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong.
act.biologicaldiversity.org
June 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wildlife belongs in the wild, not hung up on walls as decoration.
That's why we're urging Amazon to join Etsy and eBay and stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong. Add your voice. ⬇️
That's why we're urging Amazon to join Etsy and eBay and stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong. Add your voice. ⬇️
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🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
What a brilliant idea! Now let's find a way of getting dead white men's names off those charts :-)
Super awesome paper I helped on about where bird names come from!
ooooh new paper out today. a couple of years ago a big group of us were like "hey let's spend a few weeks painstakingly looking up the sources of every official bird common name" and as of today, you too can join us in our ornitholetymological (yes i made that up) rabbit-hole:
June 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
What a brilliant idea! Now let's find a way of getting dead white men's names off those charts :-)
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Laurel Nave-Powers is scanning sand lance to do cranial morphometrics on different species. She just got her first volume rendering of her own scans. Very exciting.
#scanAllFish
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#scanAllFish
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June 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Laurel Nave-Powers is scanning sand lance to do cranial morphometrics on different species. She just got her first volume rendering of her own scans. Very exciting.
#scanAllFish
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#scanAllFish
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We postponed the deadline to June 22, so there is still a bit less than two weeks to apply!
🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
June 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We postponed the deadline to June 22, so there is still a bit less than two weeks to apply!
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If government really took this issue seriously it could be fixed very quickly and everyone—most importantly Australia's wildlife and ecosystems—would be far better off www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
Going Rogue: The practice of rewilding native animals
ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production
www.abc.net.au
June 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
If government really took this issue seriously it could be fixed very quickly and everyone—most importantly Australia's wildlife and ecosystems—would be far better off www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...
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Decided there's not enough lizards in the #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection 🦎 So, new to the gang: Phyllurus platurus (southern leaf tail gecko). An Aussie lizard of course, and one of the 1st specimens I scanned at Florida Museum in 2021
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/
June 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Decided there's not enough lizards in the #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection 🦎 So, new to the gang: Phyllurus platurus (southern leaf tail gecko). An Aussie lizard of course, and one of the 1st specimens I scanned at Florida Museum in 2021
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/
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🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
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Less than two months before our book is finally released. If you are interested in bird behaviour or comparative neurobiology and want to learn more, this is the book for you!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
And the ebook will be open access!
#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
And the ebook will be open access!
#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠
June 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Less than two months before our book is finally released. If you are interested in bird behaviour or comparative neurobiology and want to learn more, this is the book for you!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
And the ebook will be open access!
#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
And the ebook will be open access!
#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠
Today we’re publishing Ozboneviz, an open-access 3D atlas of Australian vertebrate (mostly mammal) bones: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Ozboneviz: an Australian precedent in FAIR 3D imagery and extended biodiversity collections
Abstract. Billions of specimens are in biodiversity collections worldwide, and this infrastructure is crucial for research on Earth's natural history. Thre
doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Today we’re publishing Ozboneviz, an open-access 3D atlas of Australian vertebrate (mostly mammal) bones: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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Declining to behave unethically & declining to capitulate to zionists could've saved Melbourne Symphony Orchestra $3.3 million in legal fees
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra recorded biggest loss in its 118-year history. Legal bills helped blow a $3.3 million hole in its budget
Concerts were postponed & members protested over its sacking of Gillham after he dedicated a song to killed Palestinian journos
www.afr.com/life-and-lux...
Concerts were postponed & members protested over its sacking of Gillham after he dedicated a song to killed Palestinian journos
www.afr.com/life-and-lux...
Pianist furore leads to record losses for Melbourne Symphony
The discrimination suit bought by pianist Jayson Gillham after he was cancelled over pro-Palestinian comments helped inflict a record $3.3 million deficit on the orchestra in 2024.
www.afr.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Declining to behave unethically & declining to capitulate to zionists could've saved Melbourne Symphony Orchestra $3.3 million in legal fees
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A leaked report has confirmed what Larrakia people and environmental experts have been saying all along — Labor's Middle Arm Gas Hub is an ecocidal disaster in the making.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Leaked document shows two threatened species could be wiped out at Middle Arm development site
Exclusive: Conservation advocates say assessment shows controversial NT project ‘shouldn’t get past the starting gun’
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A leaked report has confirmed what Larrakia people and environmental experts have been saying all along — Labor's Middle Arm Gas Hub is an ecocidal disaster in the making.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you happen to be in Alice Springs this Saturday morning, Megafauna Central is hosting an international tabletop game day featuring our Go Extinct! Game. If you happen to be elsewhere, you can print and play at home: epicaustralia.org.au/resource/goe...
Go Extinct! Megafauna | CABAH
Go Extinct!
epicaustralia.org.au
June 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If you happen to be in Alice Springs this Saturday morning, Megafauna Central is hosting an international tabletop game day featuring our Go Extinct! Game. If you happen to be elsewhere, you can print and play at home: epicaustralia.org.au/resource/goe...