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Menna Jones

@mennajones.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @GeoSci_UChicago | MEarthSci graduate ‘23 @OxUniEarthSci 🌎 | Palaeobiology & frog enthusiast | she/her

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Menna Jones @mennajones.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Stoked to see our paper out as a pre-print! Check it out if you're interested in how we can expand comparative methods to better accommodate the many-to-one mapping of evolutionary process to pattern... (or if you think frogs are cool) @gjslater.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Beyond the Panglossian paradigm: adaptation, constraint, and anuran functional trait evolution.
Recognizing patterns in functional trait evolution is a necessary step in testing macroevolutionary questions. Quantification of these patterns and interpretation of their generative processes relies ...
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Menna Jones @mennajones.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Great to see our pre-print out! Give it a read if you're curious about the underlying theory and potential applications of the discretized stochastic diffusion model: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Menna Jones @mennajones.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Honored to have been awarded the Wake Award for best student talk at this year’s SICB meeting (alongside the brilliant @linnealungstrom.bsky.social)! Already looking forward to the 2027 meeting and hearing about more cool research @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-dpcb.bsky.social 🐸🙌 sicb.org/sicb-news/co...
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Menna Jones @mennajones.bsky.social describes a multi-regime bounded Brownian motion model This model is assessed in frogs 🐸 to show that there may be shifts in developmental constraints #Evol2025 #Evol25
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Menna Jones @mennajones.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great to see our paper out in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! Check it out if you think Galapagos tortoises are as cool as we do...🐢 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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