Nico Mongiardino Koch
@nmkphylo.bsky.social
In exile, at home 🇦🇷. Deep-time evolutionary biology, from genomes to fossils
https://www.nmkphylo.com/
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Great ambient music, terrible phylogeny, highly uncertain ancestral state
Spring is here
October 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Spring is here
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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
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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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I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
September 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️
Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️
Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️
Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️
Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Today I learned the (very) hard way that R will tell you a file does not exist even when it totally does if the path to it exceeds 260 characters
(in Windows)
(and you can enable long paths, but it is not the default)
(in Windows)
(and you can enable long paths, but it is not the default)
September 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Today I learned the (very) hard way that R will tell you a file does not exist even when it totally does if the path to it exceeds 260 characters
(in Windows)
(and you can enable long paths, but it is not the default)
(in Windows)
(and you can enable long paths, but it is not the default)
A Sunday reading Fabre’s “Souvenirs entomologiques” by the fireplace is a Sunday well spent
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A Sunday reading Fabre’s “Souvenirs entomologiques” by the fireplace is a Sunday well spent
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀
Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk!
Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025
It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀
Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk!
Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025
June 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀
Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk!
Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025
It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀
Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk!
Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025
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📢 Tired of choosing between fossils to incorporate into your phylogenetic analysis? Us too.
💥 Check out our new preprint on incorporating stratigraphic ranges into the FBD model, implemented in BEAST2. We explore how using ranges affects the inference of dog 🐶 and penguin 🐧 trees 🌳
💥 Check out our new preprint on incorporating stratigraphic ranges into the FBD model, implemented in BEAST2. We explore how using ranges affects the inference of dog 🐶 and penguin 🐧 trees 🌳
Enhancing Evolutionary Timelines: The Impact of Stratigraphic Range Information on Phylogenetic Inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649084v1
April 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
📢 Tired of choosing between fossils to incorporate into your phylogenetic analysis? Us too.
💥 Check out our new preprint on incorporating stratigraphic ranges into the FBD model, implemented in BEAST2. We explore how using ranges affects the inference of dog 🐶 and penguin 🐧 trees 🌳
💥 Check out our new preprint on incorporating stratigraphic ranges into the FBD model, implemented in BEAST2. We explore how using ranges affects the inference of dog 🐶 and penguin 🐧 trees 🌳
Reposted by Nico Mongiardino Koch
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in Fall 2025. Research topics will focus on building and using phylogenies to study the diversification of birds, with an emphasis on Neotropical bird radiations. Contact me if interested.
November 16, 2024 at 2:38 AM
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in Fall 2025. Research topics will focus on building and using phylogenies to study the diversification of birds, with an emphasis on Neotropical bird radiations. Contact me if interested.
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I finally have something worth posting here! A new paper on wormsI never expected to see fossilised! Juracanthocephalus is the first body fossil of Acanthocephala and remarkably provides links with rotifers and other gnathiferans.
Published in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Published in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A Jurassic acanthocephalan illuminates the origin of thorny-headed worms - Nature
An acanthocephalan body fossil, Juracanthocephalus daohugouensis, is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou biota of China, showing previously unrecognized diversity in ancient Acanthocephal...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I finally have something worth posting here! A new paper on wormsI never expected to see fossilised! Juracanthocephalus is the first body fossil of Acanthocephala and remarkably provides links with rotifers and other gnathiferans.
Published in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Published in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Malvinas War erupted 43 years ago. Its memory remains to this day alive in every corner
April 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Malvinas War erupted 43 years ago. Its memory remains to this day alive in every corner
Ahh the smell of fresh reviews in the morning
March 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Ahh the smell of fresh reviews in the morning
Check out my interview with @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social for some thoughts on phylogenies, uncertainty, and the complexities of life as a scientist
Our next author shortlisted for the 2024 Robert May Prize is @nmkphylo.bsky.social 🏆 Head over to the Methods Blog to read about his research and his journal in ecology 🌎 🧪
buff.ly
March 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Check out my interview with @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social for some thoughts on phylogenies, uncertainty, and the complexities of life as a scientist
Great ambient music, terrible phylogeny, highly uncertain ancestral state
Leken
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March 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Great ambient music, terrible phylogeny, highly uncertain ancestral state
More good news!! Our (@russellgarwood.co.uk, @cambriannelids.bsky.social) 2023 article in Palaeontology is a #TopCitedArticle! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Inaccurate fossil placement does not compromise tip‐dated divergence times
Time-scaled phylogenies underpin the interrogation of evolutionary processes across deep timescales, as well as attempts to link these to Earth's history. By inferring the placement of fossils and us...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
More good news!! Our (@russellgarwood.co.uk, @cambriannelids.bsky.social) 2023 article in Palaeontology is a #TopCitedArticle! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
One of the wood-associated seastars we described last year was chosen as one the top 10 new marine species of 2024! ⭐️
(8/10) The Scripps Cousins Wood-Dwelling Seastar has some remarkable adaptations for life on sunken wood.
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@scrippsocean.bsky.social
#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies #deepsea
marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...
@scrippsocean.bsky.social
#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies #deepsea
March 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
One of the wood-associated seastars we described last year was chosen as one the top 10 new marine species of 2024! ⭐️
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Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...
March 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...
The deep sea as a Dutch Golden Age painting
I love photos like this. The octopus is just surrounded by a tuna crab buffet, but they are all just sort of chilling.
🦀🐙📷Dave (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
🦀🐙📷Dave (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
March 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The deep sea as a Dutch Golden Age painting
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And finally have it in preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In it, we (@basantakhakurel.bsky.social, @brenenwynd.bsky.social, @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, and Christian Kammerer) took a look at estimating a phylogenetic tree of dicynodonts using both discrete and continuous characters.
In it, we (@basantakhakurel.bsky.social, @brenenwynd.bsky.social, @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, and Christian Kammerer) took a look at estimating a phylogenetic tree of dicynodonts using both discrete and continuous characters.
March 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
And finally have it in preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In it, we (@basantakhakurel.bsky.social, @brenenwynd.bsky.social, @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, and Christian Kammerer) took a look at estimating a phylogenetic tree of dicynodonts using both discrete and continuous characters.
In it, we (@basantakhakurel.bsky.social, @brenenwynd.bsky.social, @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, and Christian Kammerer) took a look at estimating a phylogenetic tree of dicynodonts using both discrete and continuous characters.
New preprint out with @echinerd.bsky.social et al. on total-evidence dating showcasing:
1) Sea urchins (the best clade)
2) Lyrics by Peter Gabriel-era Genesis (the best prog band)
3) Extreme effect of the type of relaxed clock on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences (a bit scary honestly)
1) Sea urchins (the best clade)
2) Lyrics by Peter Gabriel-era Genesis (the best prog band)
3) Extreme effect of the type of relaxed clock on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences (a bit scary honestly)
But the clock, tick-tock: the preeminence of relaxed clock models in total-evidence dated phylogenetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.640870v1
March 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New preprint out with @echinerd.bsky.social et al. on total-evidence dating showcasing:
1) Sea urchins (the best clade)
2) Lyrics by Peter Gabriel-era Genesis (the best prog band)
3) Extreme effect of the type of relaxed clock on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences (a bit scary honestly)
1) Sea urchins (the best clade)
2) Lyrics by Peter Gabriel-era Genesis (the best prog band)
3) Extreme effect of the type of relaxed clock on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences (a bit scary honestly)
To celebrate the 7th month of our exile in 🇦🇷 (or 29.17% of our sentence), it sure is good to share with everyone that I have become a remote member of @trsimoes.bsky.social lab at Princeton EEB
March 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
To celebrate the 7th month of our exile in 🇦🇷 (or 29.17% of our sentence), it sure is good to share with everyone that I have become a remote member of @trsimoes.bsky.social lab at Princeton EEB
I was sent this paper to review about a month ago by the journal MDPI Plants. After reading the abstract I decided not to.
I will leave the abstract here without further comments. 1/7
I will leave the abstract here without further comments. 1/7
Geometric Models of Speciation in Minimally Monophyletic Genera Using High-Resolution Phylogenetics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40006789/
February 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I was sent this paper to review about a month ago by the journal MDPI Plants. After reading the abstract I decided not to.
I will leave the abstract here without further comments. 1/7
I will leave the abstract here without further comments. 1/7
Altmetric has gone rogue with a rant about atonal music and metal. @russellgarwood.co.uk I bet you didn’t see that coming
THREAD
BORN IN DISSONANCE
An ophidian trek into the heart of how paradigm shifts can happen in modern music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtO3...
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BORN IN DISSONANCE
An ophidian trek into the heart of how paradigm shifts can happen in modern music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtO3...
1/45
MESHUGGAH - Born In Dissonance (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Reigning Phoenix Music
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February 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Altmetric has gone rogue with a rant about atonal music and metal. @russellgarwood.co.uk I bet you didn’t see that coming
Urban paleontology
February 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Urban paleontology
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New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
The consequences of budding speciation on trees
Abstract. Paleobiologists have long sought to explain how alternative modes of speciation, including budding and bifurcating cladogenesis, shape patterns o
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February 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...