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Maxime Quétin
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MSc. in Ecology & Evolution 🇨🇵🐸
PhD student in Macroevolution & Biogeography of Tetrapods 🇨🇿🐍
Herping 📷🐊
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michaelnobis.bsky.social
🔊 New paper: first integration of population genetics🧬 and dynamic species distribution modeling🌐 using #KISSMig to reconstruct postglacial dynamics of wild black pepper, endemic to India’s Western Ghats. #macroecology #popgen #phylogeography #biogeography

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September 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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evoldir.bsky.social
PhD in Biogeography and Evolution of Vertebrates at Charles University, Prague. Analyze biodiversity across 30,000 species; funding available. Apply by April 10, 2025. More info: https://machac.weebly.com #phd
Antonin Machac
My research integrates phylogenies, maps and functional traits to uncover the processes that generated the diversity of life.
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March 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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oh this is nice! 🥳

a cute little frog not seen since it was first collected in 1893 has been rediscovered alive and well in a couple of populations in central Chile! 🐸🧪
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Rare frog rediscovered after 130 years
A team of researchers has rediscovered a frog species which has not been seen in more than 130 years. First described in 1902, Alsodes vittatus had evaded detection since then, despite multiple search...
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March 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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biogeography.bsky.social
Interested in a PhD? Check out this amazing opportunity to research the biogeography and macroevolution of vertebrates with Dr. Antonin Machac at Charles University in Prague. For more details about this position, click the following link! machac.weebly.com/open-phd-pos...
Open PhD Positions
PhD positions Biogeography. Macroevolution. Vertebrates. Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague Deadline: April 10, 2025 How did the diversity of life on Earth emerge? The successful...
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March 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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princessquatris.bsky.social
Very excited to use my first @bsky.app post to announce @echinerd.bsky.social and I's new paper in Proc B! 🎉

We used a dataset of Palaeozoic echinoids from 33 museums worldwide to see the impact museum ‘dark data’ has on biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in deep time!

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Museum ‘dark data’ show variable impacts on deep-time biogeographic and evolutionary history | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The age of digitally accessible datasets has transformed palaeontology, enabling previously impossible macroevolutionary insights. However, a substantial reservoir of generally inaccessible ‘dark data...
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February 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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chesters-phylo.bsky.social
Phylogeny of mammals #phylogenetics #evolution #treeoflife #mammals
February 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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andrejpaleo.bsky.social
Interesting model combining mass extinction of giant dinosaurs and their effects on the seed sizes and later diversification of giant mammals which were dependent on the emergence of large seeded plants 👇
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🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio ⚒️ #Macroecology #Complexity
Effects of the extinction of dinosaurs on the evolution of seed sizes and terrestrial mammal body sizes.
February 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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kateclancy.bsky.social
Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:
Screenshot of an email that reads: "Dear Authors, As you may know, the new presidential administration in the United States has issued Executive Orders, including one that impacts foreign aid.  As part of these Executive Orders, USAID-funded projects have received stop work orders. Given the circumstance, we must stop all work on Global Health: Science and Practice. As such, I regret that we will have to postpone processing submitted papers. We know that a lot of work has gone into preparing your paper. Please feel free to take your manuscript elsewhere. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation during this challenging time.   Sincerely, Natalie Culbertson Managing Editor Global Health: Science and Practice Journal"
February 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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nature.com
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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January 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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axelarango.bsky.social
Just opened my Bluesky account, and what better way to kick things off than with big news? Our paper, “Broad geographic dispersal is not a diversification driver for Emberizoidea,” is now out in PRSB!

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#Macroevolution #Macroecology #Biogeography
Broad geographic dispersal is not a diversification driver for Emberizoidea | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The movement of species to new geographical areas has been proposed to be crucial for speciation. As such, dispersal has been regarded as a likely explanation for the variation in species richness amo...
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January 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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andrejpaleo.bsky.social
An extinction event in plants in the aftermath of the Quaternary megafaunal extinction?
"Major potential plant extinction events were detected around 17,000 and 9000 years ago which lag maximum vegetation turnover."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio #Macroecology #Extinction
Potential plant extinctions with the loss of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe - Nature Communications
Plant extinctions during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition are poorly documented in the fossil record. Here, the authors present a method to detect plant taxa loss from sedaDNA and demonstrate that ...
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January 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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rlinares.bsky.social
#Andes + #biogeography + #frogs = cool paper

doi.org/10.1093/zool...
Systematics of minute strabomantid frogs allocated to the genus Noblella (Amphibia: Anura) with description of a new genus, seven new species, and insights into historical biogeography
Abstract. Noblella is a genus of 17 recognized nominal species of ground-dwelling, direct-developing frogs. It consists of two clades that do not form a mo
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January 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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willemvzyl.bsky.social
Rhombic Egg-Eater (Dasypeltis scabra), harmless.

#snakesofsa #snakesofza #snakesofsouthafrica #herpingsa #herpingza #reptiles #snakes #wildlifephotography #africa #animalphotography #herps #snaketheworldsmarter #herpingtheglobe
#africawildlife #africanwildlife #southafrica
A closeup view of a gray snake facing to the left with its tongue out.
January 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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jaimeculebras.bsky.social
en 2023 publicamos 2 nuevos registros de una rana poco común en la cuenca alta del Amazonas, la "Hyalinobatrachium iaspidiense". Ahora hemos podido volver a encontrar varios ejemplares. Aquí muestro un par de fotillos recientes.
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January 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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mwtingley.bsky.social
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM