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Martin R. Smith

@palaeosmith.bsky.social

Palaeontologist developing phylogenetic and stratigraphic methods to understand the origins of life's rich diversity

Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ever wondered which characters support individual clades in a tree? My new method maps phylogenetic support across a dataset. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... Try it in R: pak::pkg_install("ms609/TreeSearch@cpp-search") ?TreeSearch::ClusteringConcordance

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's easier to lose a morphological trait than to gain one. When models and datasets reflect this asymmetry, phylogenetic reconstructions improve. doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

There were at least five independent origins of lichens – and at least one had occurred by the Devonian www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Fossil mushrooms from the Cretaceous – almost fresh enough to top a pizza with! doi.org/10.1093/botl...

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

What was burning? Evidence of Ediacaran wildfires doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

An early "mollusc" reconsidered: Is Shishana, in fact, a chancelloriid? Read our new paper @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

StratoBayes: our quantitative tool for automated stratigraphic correlation. Read the preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Derived Cirratuliform annelids in Cambrian SCF deposits – possible relatives of Iotuba? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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