Terrestrial tetrapod studying marine ones | ARC DECRA Fellow @MonashBiol @EvansEvoMorph | Associate Editor @JVP_vertpaleo | 🐋🐳🐬🦭 | Tweets mine | He/him
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined January 2013
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Unlike all other mammals, seals can hear both in the air and underwater. How do they do this? @Blogozoic @Palaeo_JRule @ian_g_brennan @OurANU @MonashUni theconversation.com/seals-ha…
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The Occurrence Birth-Death Diffusion Process: Unraveling Diversification Histories with Fossils and Heterogeneous Rates biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_evobio
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Introducing Janjucetus dullardi, a new species of toothed baleen whale from the Oligocene of Australia! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
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📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/20964471.202…
Fully #openaccess in @BigEarthData1 with insight about deeptime 📦 development and code examples!
#rstats #geology
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Interested in surprising and obscure #dolphins and #porpoises? Of course you are. Well, good news - I did a series of articles on these animals. We start with spinner dolphins, which (in some populations) have forward-canted dorsal fins and ventral keels... 1/n #cetaceans
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Insight into the evolution of toothed whales: redescription of Oligo-Miocene dolphin Squalodon grateloupii onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @maruchelys #FossilFriday @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace
ALT Two photographs of the skull of the fossil cetacean, Squalodon grateloupii (neotype; MHNL Dr.15) in dorsal (above) and left lateral (below) view. Scale bar underneath the top image (towards the left) is 10 cm.
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Cochlear analysis of Kekenodon onamata, a late Oligocene stem whale, suggests they specialised in low-frequency hearing, a trait of raptorial feeding in fossil whales. Low-frequency hearing may be characteristic of raptorial macrophagous fossil cetaceans @joshcorrie @Blogozoic
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SAVE THE DATE!
Calling all Australasian Vertebrate Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists and Systematists!
The 19th @CAVEPS_Palaeo meeting will be held on Kaurna Land, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia,
November 24th - 30th, 2025.
More info soon... @FlindersPalaeo
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How is the cetacean backbone patterned compared to terrestrial mammals? 🐋
Happy to share that we provide answers this question in the 1st publication of our #Back2Sea @MSCActions project with @MCZpaleo and @Kjonesthebones!
You can check the paper... 👇doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-5…
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The chronospace R package is now published!! I hope it'll provide useful tools for visualizing and exploring sensitivity in estimates of divergence times. A really fun project with lifelong friend @millacarmonia
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Meet Ontocetus posti 🦭 a new species of odobenines we described in a new study led by @MathBoisville based on material from the UK & Belgium 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Want to know more about this new fossil walrus? Here is a thread 🧵1/7. 🎨by @BranArtworks peerj.com/articles/17666/
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@secad2024 has been a wonderful experience for everyone around!!! Lots and lots of great scientists around. BUT THIS IS NOW OFFICIAL: We will be hosting #SECAD2027 at @MuseoHNUNMSM in the city of Lima Peru! #FossilFriday
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Kangaroo teeth grow forever – and keep a record of their owner’s age and sex. @WMGParker tells us all about it! theconversation.com/kangaroo… via @ConversationEDU
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What's the deal with seals? 👀
Seals are found in many oceans worldwide, but scientists are still unsure where they came from.
A new study has been diving into the origin of seals, and revealed the surprising history of walruses! 👇
brnw.ch/21wKdbX
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Please cite all R resources in your papers. A lot of effort has been paid to develop them. This package make it easy to do so.
[PAQUETE 📦] - Citar es importante al momento de usar 📦 de otras/os autores. {grateful} hace muy fácil citar R y los 📦 de R utilizados en cualquier análisis, para que los autores reciban su merecido crédito.
🌐 pakillo.github.io/grateful/i…
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Who’s out there looking for a postdoc using Morphometrics to study adaptation and trait evolution?
Are you based in Australia?
Want a CV boost and support to write a DECRA application in 2025?
I might have an opportunity for you. DM me 😊
