Palaeontologist studying phylogeny, phenotypic evolution and early vertebrates.
Bristol, England
Joined April 2012
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Well twitter, its been fun, but its time to migrate. You can find me on @evopalaeo.bsky.social
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Over 99% of species that ever lived are extinct. Without palaeontology, the new Natural History GCSE will only cover a snapshot of life's history.
@ThePalAss is making the case for fossils in the new GCSE 🦴🐚🌿
teach.ocr.org.uk/palaeontolo…...
The DfE consultation on subject content is open now! Have your say👇
consult.education.gov.uk/gcs…
Closes 4 Sep 2026.
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🥳 We would like to share a newly uploaded video on the #PalAss YouTube channel:
🎥 Palaeontologists Explain: How Do Fossils Form? ⬇️
🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7qnYF…
#palaeontology #fossil #youtube #video #channel #new
Brown Nugget has just finished 20,925,000 ancestral state estimations. 🫡 I realise that without context, this makes no sense.
Making lectures and inserting outdated memes. @RussellGarwood would be proud.
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For everyone interesting in exploring phylogenetic or macroevolutionary models and methods, TREvoSim v3 has been released 🤩
joss.theoj.org/papers/10.211…
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New Paper Alert. @Ella_Nicklin leads our new paper in @Dev_Bio_Journal Evolution, development, and regeneration of tooth-like epithelial appendages in sharks. What do all 'odontodes' have in common? Is a tooth, just a tooth? #sharks #teeth #skinteeth
sciencedirect.com/science/ar… – at Gainesville, FL
When did feathers evolve? Are bird feathers homologous with pterosaur tufts? Check out our new preprint, lead by the fantastic Pierre Cockx. We use different models, outgroups and coding strategies to clarify feather evolution.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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BentonFest: A celebration of the career of Professor Michael Benton
@BristolPalaeo invites you to a research symposium of leading researchers, celebrating Mike's astonishing career, Friday 6th September 2024 @BristolUni
Reserve your free place: shorturl.at/v9ZC2
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Super proud to announce my first publication: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240113. A big thanks to all those involved, @jfabrombacher @anjgoswami @tomezard, Alex Searle-Barnes and Marisa Sweeney!
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A new interpretation of Pikaia reveals the origins of the chordate body plan: Current Biology cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Chuffed to bits with my Diademaspis, one of the first fossils I ever worked on, brought to life by James McKay @YorksFossilFest – at Redcar, England
In sunny Redcar for @YorksFossilFest this weekend. Found my first fossil already... – at Redcar, England
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I've just seen this, I'm fuming, did they do no background research? There are soo many more deserving palaeontologist who they could have interviewed @BBCRadio4 @jimalkhalili
Introducing treesurgeon (github.com/evo-palaeo/treesu…), a new R package of tools and tricks for working with phylogenetic trees and data, especially morphology! Here's a few things it can do...
There is also a function for computing tree to tree distances in parallel using the foreach package. This will allow you to visualise tree spaces with large numbers of trees!
