Reposted by Nathan MichielsenDávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🦇🧬Congratulations to E & E alum Bill R. Thomas, whose collaborative work upended bat biogeography in a major new Nature study from the @ bat1kgenomes.bsky.social ! 👉 Check it out! doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1167
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenNature @nature.com · 27/09/2026A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals go.nature.com/4d5p304go.nature.comGenome project opens the next chapter for studying bat evolutionNature - A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals. 16010
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenThe Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026📢 Hiring! PAGES (Past Global Changes) is seeking a Data Science Officer in Bern, Switzerland. Work with paleoscience data, reproducible workflows, FAIR/LiPD, statistics, ML & AI. Review starts 2 Nov 2026. Details & apply: pastglobalchanges.org/news/we-are-...pastglobalchanges.orgWe are hiring! | PAGES 1712
Nathan Michielsen @nathanmmichielsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fully funded PhD or MPhil opportunity on Antarctic ancient DNA at Adelaide University! 🐧🧬 Reconstruct past Antarctic seabird ecosystems using ancient DNA + ecological modelling, and help predict how coastal food webs respond to future change. Applications close 30 September 010
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenHannah Owens @hannahoish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026#occCite version 0.6.3 is now on CRAN, ready for the #rgbif changeover to Catalog of Life Extended release taxonomy. #Rstats #RopenSci docs.ropensci.org/occCite/news...docs.ropensci.orgChangelog 165
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenLove Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026🦣🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦣 What was the cause of all those mass accumulations of mammoth bones that have been found across Europe and Siberia??? Natural traps or humans? Answers here: www.cell.com/current-biol... 0197
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenDávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026🧪🚨Out for July in @elife.bsky.social: how does evolution shape leaves🌿🍂? Using phylogenetics and in silico mutations of the leaf development module, work lead by Jamie Malone & Ard Louis reveals developmental bias toward simple leaves 1/2 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...elifesciences.orgDevelopmental bias explains the evolutionary trend towards simple leaf shapes 121
Nathan Michielsen @nathanmmichielsen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Who "pays" the extinction debt, and why? 🦎 🏝️ 🇬🇷 Thrilled to share a new paper out now in Ecology and Evolution (open access). This work from my MSc asks how sea-level rise since the last ice age has shaped reptile extinctions on Greek islands. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... 🧵(1/6)doi.orgWho Is Paying the Extinction Debt? Phylogenetic and Functional Structuring on Greek Islands Is Shaped by Sea‐Level Rise Since the Last Glacial MaximumSince the Last Glacial Maximum, sea-level rise has isolated, fragmented, and shrunk islands, supersaturating squamate communities and triggering ongoing community relaxation. Integrating a paleo-coas... 143
Nathan Michielsen @nathanmmichielsen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Very fun to see some findings from our recent study in @consletters.bsky.social being transmitted this way! I will happily back this campaign :p www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAustralia needs a national animal. No, not the kangaroo... the dingo! | First Dog on the MoonEveryone loves dingoes and if they don’t they should 042
Nathan Michielsen @nathanmmichielsen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026🐕🧬 Contributed to a new paper out in @consletters.bsky.social! Using a palaeogenomic baseline, we found domestic dog introgression is limited in free-living dingoes, and associated with human population centers and lethal control practices. 1/2 163
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenDr Nicholas Freymueller @smilodontology.bsky.social · 28/04/2026🐋🐋🐋 MASSIVE WHALE PAPER ALERT!!! 🐋🐋🐋 Our new paper "Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling" has just been published in @pnas.org! Come see how we use centuries-old #logbooks to understand population recovery patterns a century after Arctic #whaling. Details below 👇 1/🐋 313841
Nathan Michielsen @nathanmmichielsen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Good news still exists! www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMarsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New GuineaThe chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says 000
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenRobert J. Whittaker @rjwhittaker.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!pnas.orgThe global island species–area relationship for plants | PNASThe island species−area relationship (ISAR) is known to be near-ubiquitous, but its properties across the fullest span of island areas globally and... 02410
Nathan Michielsen @nathanmmichielsen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026🚨 You have only one more hour left to check out my poster at #TIBS2026! (Or zoom in on this picture at your leisure) 🚨 Had a blast talking to people about dingo paleobiogeography, and how my PhD aims to answer some pervasive questions about the natural history of this iconic canid. 🐕 🌏 040
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenLachie Scarsbrook @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social · 24/11/2025🚨 PNAS Special Feature 2 🐕 We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia. 🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 0268
Reposted by Nathan MichielsenDr Nicholas Freymueller @smilodontology.bsky.social · 22/05/2025🐋 WHALE PAPER ALERT! 🐋 My 2nd #PhD Chapter is now out #OpenAccess in @ecol-evol.bsky.social where we built a 11,700 year-long ecological baseline of #bowhead whales in the #Arctic Thread 1/🐋 1369