Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciNico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 5hI am looking for graduate students to join my lab in Fall 2027. If your interests lie within the realms of phylogenetics, macroevolution, and/or invertebrate biodiversity please reach out to me!! 11715
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciPaul Z. Barrett PhD @nimravenous.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Happy to announce the publication of our article in Nature Ecology & Evolution on adaptive zone evolution in terrestrial mammal carnivores. Over the next few days, I’ll share the major results—and by extension, take you on a tour of carnivore evolution. (rdcu.be/6okG1hVhvtHa) 1/nrdcu.be 2139
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Thank you so much who came to watch my Palaeoverse lecture! Here's a link for anyone that's interested and couldn't catch it live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfi... Also, if you'd like to go through the tutorial I worked through during the lecture: brpetrucc.github.io/tutorials/sr...youtube.comPalaeoverse Lecture Series: Bruno do Rosario Petrucci - Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with..YouTube video by Palaeoverse 285
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciPalaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th August 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by @brpetrucci.bsky.social from Iowa State University on “Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec... 0149
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Hope to see you all on August 27th at 15:00UTC (10:00AM Central) for my @palaeoverse.bsky.social lecture! Details on how to register here: palaeoverse.org/events/ I'll be talking about inferring and dealing with budding phylogenetic trees, including a full tutorial!! Hope to see you all there!palaeoverse.orgPalaeoverseA community-driven initiative advancing open science in palaeontology through shared tools, training, and resources. 023
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciTracy Heath @trayc7.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab 08097
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 21/06/2026#Evol2026 has been a blast!! Hope to see some of you mutuals at my talk this evening. Let’s talk about dogs and fossils and dog fossils 😎 074
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Hope to see y'all at #Evol2026! I'll be talking about my simulation tests of cutting-edge fossilized birth-death models, and what we can learn from the Canidae phylogeny using these models. Come through! It'll be on Sunday (June 21st) at 5:15PM, room 22. Last talk first day 🤙 1124
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 21/05/2026There's still time to catch our symposium if you run! Come through!! 021
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciSociety for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Don't miss the virtual Research Synthesis Working Group's symposium at #Evol2026 this week! The symposium is in two sessions across Thursday and Friday. Topic: "Cross disciplinary approaches for understanding budding speciation" 054
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Come watch our symposium this Thursday and Friday at the virtual @evolmtg.bsky.social!! it’ll be a hoot and a half 010
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciSociety for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Congratulations to our 2026 Huxley Award recipient, Matheus Januario Lopes de Sousa, for the educational resource: “evolved: an open-source R package designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate instruction in evolutionary biology”! Read more: shorturl.at/1ZdFE@mjanua... 14623
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciCasey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...sciencedirect.comPopulation genomics of a sailing siphonophore reveals genetic structure in the open oceanThe open ocean is a vast, highly connected environment, and the organisms found there have been hypothesized to represent massive, well-mixed populati… 15646
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciJoe Spring @joespring.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Once upon a time, large bone-crushing dogs roamed across our continent. @restingdinoface.bsky.social takes a colorful look back at the lives of the successful carnivores. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...smithsonianmag.comWhat Happened to the Bone-Crushing Dogs That Once Hunted Across North America?Before going extinct roughly two million years ago, canids known as borophagines took down and consumed much larger prey 2359
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Going from reading almost exclusively simulation studies and theory papers to almost exclusively canid systematics/fossil description papers has been an interesting experience! Anyway look at this cool paper about Plio-Pleistocene European foxes! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comUnraveling the fossil record of foxes: An updated review on the Plio-Pleistocene Vulpes spp. from EuropeFossil foxes, genus Vulpes, are known since the Late Miocene of North America and the Old World but their record is utterly scarce, fragmentary, and r… 020
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 29/07/2025They're listening to my private conversations somehow, I'm certain of it. Holy crap I'm excited 🤩 010
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciApril Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Updated preprint! Thanks to suggestions from reviewers, we have some new insights on using continuous traits in phylogenetic estimation. And a lot more about dicynodont taxonomy. Seriously, google dicynodonts and tell me you don't want to know what's happening there www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgIncorporating continuous characters in joint estimation of dicynodont phylogenyContinuous characters have received comparatively little attention in Bayesian phylogenetic estimation. This is predominantly because they cannot be modeled by a standard phylogenetic Q-matrix approac... 13313
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciJasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025here are some space fireworks, happy 4th of july 🎆🌌 315325
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciMiguel Bastos Araújo, PhD @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025We’re hiring! Join us at maraujo lab as a #PhD candidate to model species abundances using cutting-edge ecological and statistical tools. Based at @mncn-csic.bsky.social @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. 🔗 www.maraujolab.eu/2025/07/04/p... #SpeciesDistributionModelsmaraujolab.euPhD candidate in species abundances modelling -Project Description Understanding species abundance patterns is essential to addressing fundamental questions in macroecology and biogeography, specifically about […] 02518
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Having to write an R script to write another script makes me feel like I am in limbo 000
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did. 97109052200
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6263661411259
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Very cool paper! Glad to see Bluesky helping me find new cool science hot off the press 🍞 171
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario Petrucci𝙱𝙰𝚂𝙰𝙽𝚃𝙰 𝙺𝙷𝙰𝙺𝚄𝚁𝙴𝙻 @basantakhakurel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025🆕 Preprint now on bioRxiv! We introduce a covarion model for phylogenetic inference using discrete morphological data, addressing lineage- and character-specific rate heterogeneity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #phylogenetics #morphology #covarion #evolutionbiorxiv.orgA covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasetsThe rate of evolution of a single morphological character is not homogeneous across the phylogeny and this rate heterogeneity varies between morphological characters. However, traditional models of mo... 0127
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciPaul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 30/06/2025#MolluscMonday Ordovician orthoconic nautiloid in a paving stone at Hampton Court Palace. The section intersects the siphuncular tube on the right hand-side just below the living chamber. 24510
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciAnthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Excellent analysis & commentary by @johnhawks.net on 2024 study of 1.5 mya fossil hominin footprints in Kenya showing 2 different species of humans (Homo erectus & Paranthropus boisei) walking in the same direction, & possibly separated by only a few hours. Ichnology FTW! 🧪🐾🪨 12613
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 30/06/2025For those who followed me without knowing me (thank you and nice to meet you!), it’s very important for you to know that I am unhealthily obsessed with horseshoe crabs. I don’t even study them at all, and they’ve just been my favorite animal since I found out they existed. They’re the coolest! 020
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 27/06/2025 1/13 Time to talk about dogs and fossilized birth-death models! Here is a quick run-down of my #Evol2025 talk. 🧵 1155
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Thank you so much to all the new and old friends I had the pleasure of speaking to at #Evol2025. Hope I can establish lots of new collaborations and, even more importantly, new connections with these talented folks. See y’all in Cleveland!! 030
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciNadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 11/10/2024A horseshoe crab and its final footprints preserved in 149.4 million year old limestone from Solnhofen, Germany 😢 On display in the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum #fossils #FossilFriday #geology ⚒️🧪 27620
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciEvolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025It’s the last day of Evolution 2025! We hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have. The Super Social is tonight at the State Botanical Gardens! See you there? 🎉 #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social 1254
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Lots of cool talks happening in a few hours for the last sessions of #Evol2025! Nicolás Castillo Rodríguez from @roszenil.bsky.social’s group will be talking about the evolution of Bromeliaceae in sky island systems (Phylogenetic Comparative Methods, Olympia 1, 4pm) + 130
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 24/06/2025🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Brazilians at #Evol2025! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Creature comforts is closed today, so I’ll take that opportunity to rectify my mistake of scheduling something at the same time as the SSB mixer and say let’s just meet there! Little King's Shuffle Club: maps.app.goo.gl/M6qsf1q9kRQE...maps.app.goo.gl 000
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciRaymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Last but not least, I will be sharing some work on a model I have been developing for chromosome evolution today! Be there or be square! I'll be presenting at 4:45 in Phylogenetic Theory! #Evol2025 162
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 23/06/2025My talk might be done, but if you’re still looking for cool talks at #Evol2025, come watch Isabel Novick talk about the population genetics of webbing clothes moths at 4:30pm in Biogeography III (Athena CD)!! 030
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Thank you so much for everyone who came to my #Evol2025 talk! For those who couldn’t make it, I’m planning to upload it to my website and make a little thread here about the work, so stay tuned 🐕 091
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Ok I just realized the SSB mixer is also tomorrow at 7:30pm sooooo I guess the answer is bar hop??? 030
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Speaking of what to do tomorrow, hope to see y’all bright and early to hear about canids and fossilized birth-death models! #Evol2025 1133
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Brazilians at #Evol2025! @mjanuario.bsky.social and I are planning ab informal meetup tomorrow after the poster session (~7:30pm) at Creature comforts, a brewery 10 min from the conference center. Non-Brazilians who want to mingle and hear some Portuguese are always welcome!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 243
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Hope you were able to catch @mjanuario.bsky.social’s #Evol2025 talk about his evolution education package, evolved! My friends are so smart 111
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciRiley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 22/06/2025La Brea telling the truth. 🧪 840374
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025And day two of #Evol2025 is off! There’s still time to catch @corriemoreau.bsky.social’s @systbiol.bsky.social presidential address—trust me, it’ll be worth it! 050
Reposted by Bruno do Rosario PetrucciCorrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Happening this Sunday morning (6/22) at 8:30am if you are at #Evol2025! My talk is titled "An inordinate fondness for ants: What evolution has taught me about change, resilience, and communication" Hope to see y'all there! 23610
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Come watch my talk at #Evol2025 this Monday @ 9:45am, at the Phylogenetic Methods Development I section. I'll be talking about methodological considerations on inferring a complete phylogenetic tree of Canidae. Who doesn't want to hear about dogs??? (and fossilized birth-death models, obviously...) 0236
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Just created my Bluesky! Let's hope I use it more than twitter. Hope you follow me if you want to hear about Bayesian phylogenetics with fossils, state-dependent diversification, and canids!! 001