November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ashley Bui of UCR is giving a great talk on eucharitid phylogeny, but most importantly she tells us what the giant scutal spines are for: handles for grabbing by suspicious ants (their hosts)
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Ashley Bui of UCR is giving a great talk on eucharitid phylogeny, but most importantly she tells us what the giant scutal spines are for: handles for grabbing by suspicious ants (their hosts)
Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)
aloofwife range map
aloofwife subspecies
aloofwife shywife coldwife
Uxoridae phylogeny
aloofwife subspecies
aloofwife shywife coldwife
Uxoridae phylogeny
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
aloofwife range map
aloofwife subspecies
aloofwife shywife coldwife
Uxoridae phylogeny
aloofwife subspecies
aloofwife shywife coldwife
Uxoridae phylogeny
Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
a 2017 paper that discusses the phylogeny of pantodonts by halliday, upchurch, and goswami can be found here:
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
a 2017 paper that discusses the phylogeny of pantodonts by halliday, upchurch, and goswami can be found here:
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...
JUST PUBLISHED!!!! A major azhdarchoid phylogeny paper coauthored with @skyemcdavid.com - the fruit of years of work - is now out in @journalsystpal.bsky.social! New clades, reconstruction of size evolution, and more. Full thread to come soon!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Enter the dragons: the phylogeny of Azhdarchoidea (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) and the evolution of giant size in pterosaurs
Azhdarchidae is a clade of pterosaurs which includes the largest-ever flying animals. The evolutionary history of this clade and its closest relatives remains incompletely understood and highly deb...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
JUST PUBLISHED!!!! A major azhdarchoid phylogeny paper coauthored with @skyemcdavid.com - the fruit of years of work - is now out in @journalsystpal.bsky.social! New clades, reconstruction of size evolution, and more. Full thread to come soon!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
Our recent azhdarchoid phylogeny paper has gotten a David Peters blogpost. I am now officially a pterosaurologist
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our recent azhdarchoid phylogeny paper has gotten a David Peters blogpost. I am now officially a pterosaurologist
IT'S FINALLY HERE!
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social and @skyemcdavid.com's paper on azhdarchoid phylogeny and pterosaur gigantism is officially out, with some very intriguing results in the phylogenetic analysis 👀
short 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(art by @kiracuriee.bsky.social)
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social and @skyemcdavid.com's paper on azhdarchoid phylogeny and pterosaur gigantism is officially out, with some very intriguing results in the phylogenetic analysis 👀
short 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(art by @kiracuriee.bsky.social)
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
IT'S FINALLY HERE!
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social and @skyemcdavid.com's paper on azhdarchoid phylogeny and pterosaur gigantism is officially out, with some very intriguing results in the phylogenetic analysis 👀
short 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(art by @kiracuriee.bsky.social)
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social and @skyemcdavid.com's paper on azhdarchoid phylogeny and pterosaur gigantism is officially out, with some very intriguing results in the phylogenetic analysis 👀
short 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(art by @kiracuriee.bsky.social)
JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales
@astragaler.bsky.social, @wile-phylote.bsky.social, @tribblelab.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#PlantScience
Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales
@astragaler.bsky.social, @wile-phylote.bsky.social, @tribblelab.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#PlantScience
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales
@astragaler.bsky.social, @wile-phylote.bsky.social, @tribblelab.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#PlantScience
Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales
@astragaler.bsky.social, @wile-phylote.bsky.social, @tribblelab.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#PlantScience
🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬
Trihelix transcription factors control developmental processes, from embryogenesis to reproductive growth, responses to pathogens & abiotic stress, & epigenetic modifications after ethylene & ABA perception - Ibarra & Reynoso
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Trihelix transcription factors control developmental processes, from embryogenesis to reproductive growth, responses to pathogens & abiotic stress, & epigenetic modifications after ethylene & ABA perception - Ibarra & Reynoso
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬
Trihelix transcription factors control developmental processes, from embryogenesis to reproductive growth, responses to pathogens & abiotic stress, & epigenetic modifications after ethylene & ABA perception - Ibarra & Reynoso
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Trihelix transcription factors control developmental processes, from embryogenesis to reproductive growth, responses to pathogens & abiotic stress, & epigenetic modifications after ethylene & ABA perception - Ibarra & Reynoso
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes 🏺🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes 🏺🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans emerge as the only species that consistently shows the highest evolutionary rate across almost all craniofacial regions in both males and females.
To mark the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled an open access collection of landmark JSP vertebrate palaeontology papers.
Next study to highlight is.. The phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs by Butler et al. (2008) buff.ly/O0hipyA
#2025SVP #PaleoSky @richardjbutler.bsky.social
Next study to highlight is.. The phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs by Butler et al. (2008) buff.ly/O0hipyA
#2025SVP #PaleoSky @richardjbutler.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
To mark the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled an open access collection of landmark JSP vertebrate palaeontology papers.
Next study to highlight is.. The phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs by Butler et al. (2008) buff.ly/O0hipyA
#2025SVP #PaleoSky @richardjbutler.bsky.social
Next study to highlight is.. The phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs by Butler et al. (2008) buff.ly/O0hipyA
#2025SVP #PaleoSky @richardjbutler.bsky.social
Thanks for good summary, I'm really looking forward to seeing the paper. Fascinating results. A lot of interesting stuff on azhdarchoid diversity, phylogeny and biology is underway, great news as more people are clearly being attracted to the study of them.
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Thanks for good summary, I'm really looking forward to seeing the paper. Fascinating results. A lot of interesting stuff on azhdarchoid diversity, phylogeny and biology is underway, great news as more people are clearly being attracted to the study of them.
The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…
subulatepalpomere.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf
#2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM
Metazooa is a site with essentially a daily phylogeny game. Guess an animal from its' database, and it will draw a tree showing you the finest scale group that both your guess and the mystery animal are both in, and it'll update it from each additional guess.
metazooa.com
metazooa.com
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Metazooa is a site with essentially a daily phylogeny game. Guess an animal from its' database, and it will draw a tree showing you the finest scale group that both your guess and the mystery animal are both in, and it'll update it from each additional guess.
metazooa.com
metazooa.com
First time in Aarhus. Grateful to @felixthehauskat.bsky.social @drelenamiu.bsky.social for inviting me to a great workshop on ontogeny, phylogeny, innovation & adaptation, seeking to understand what makes human childhood special @aiasdk.bsky.social @au.dk
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
First time in Aarhus. Grateful to @felixthehauskat.bsky.social @drelenamiu.bsky.social for inviting me to a great workshop on ontogeny, phylogeny, innovation & adaptation, seeking to understand what makes human childhood special @aiasdk.bsky.social @au.dk
2025. Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny - Communications Biology
Phylogenetic and machine learning analyses reveal that bats (order: Chiroptera) are not a group with uniform viral epidemic potential: virulence, transmissibility, and death burden cluster within dist...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
2025. Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Pleased to see my 2010 archosaur phylogeny study in this collection. My Master's research!
Of course, now almost totally superseded and some of it proven wrong by later research from many colleagues. But I hope it was a useful waypoint.
Of course, now almost totally superseded and some of it proven wrong by later research from many colleagues. But I hope it was a useful waypoint.
Article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
In honour of the 85th Annual SVP Meeting, this special collection highlights landmark studies that present comprehensive systematic frameworks for a diverse range of vertebrate groups #2025SVP
JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology
Explore the article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Pleased to see my 2010 archosaur phylogeny study in this collection. My Master's research!
Of course, now almost totally superseded and some of it proven wrong by later research from many colleagues. But I hope it was a useful waypoint.
Of course, now almost totally superseded and some of it proven wrong by later research from many colleagues. But I hope it was a useful waypoint.
For the 85th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark JSP vertebrate palaeontology papers
Next up... is a comprehensive phylogeny of Mesozoic birds by O’Connor & Zhou (2013) buff.ly/6P2TNBl
#Paleosky #PaleobirdNerd #2025SVP
Next up... is a comprehensive phylogeny of Mesozoic birds by O’Connor & Zhou (2013) buff.ly/6P2TNBl
#Paleosky #PaleobirdNerd #2025SVP
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
For the 85th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark JSP vertebrate palaeontology papers
Next up... is a comprehensive phylogeny of Mesozoic birds by O’Connor & Zhou (2013) buff.ly/6P2TNBl
#Paleosky #PaleobirdNerd #2025SVP
Next up... is a comprehensive phylogeny of Mesozoic birds by O’Connor & Zhou (2013) buff.ly/6P2TNBl
#Paleosky #PaleobirdNerd #2025SVP
Cuckoo eggs match the eggs of their adoptive hosts thanks to (mostly) loci inherited from their mothers, who put them there — impressive multifaceted genomic study buff.ly/r8xpxaR
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cuckoo eggs match the eggs of their adoptive hosts thanks to (mostly) loci inherited from their mothers, who put them there — impressive multifaceted genomic study buff.ly/r8xpxaR
Lineage-specific phylogenetic structure of boreal habitats suggests different assembly processes across phylogenetic and spatial scales vist.ly/4cxrw #Clustering #Phylogeny #Scale #Distance
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Lineage-specific phylogenetic structure of boreal habitats suggests different assembly processes across phylogenetic and spatial scales vist.ly/4cxrw #Clustering #Phylogeny #Scale #Distance
For the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers.
Next study to highlight is the phylogeny of Macraucheniidae- one of the most diverse families of South American native ungulates, by Lobo et al. buff.ly/PCwWnmq
#Paleosky #2025SVP
Next study to highlight is the phylogeny of Macraucheniidae- one of the most diverse families of South American native ungulates, by Lobo et al. buff.ly/PCwWnmq
#Paleosky #2025SVP
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
For the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers.
Next study to highlight is the phylogeny of Macraucheniidae- one of the most diverse families of South American native ungulates, by Lobo et al. buff.ly/PCwWnmq
#Paleosky #2025SVP
Next study to highlight is the phylogeny of Macraucheniidae- one of the most diverse families of South American native ungulates, by Lobo et al. buff.ly/PCwWnmq
#Paleosky #2025SVP