Morphological Evo-Devo Lab, Marsupial Lovers, 3D Nerds, Coffee Junkies. All opinions our own
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@DRexMitchell shows that the littlest rock wallabies pack a punch when it comes to biting hard. We call it the "Little Wallaby Syndrome". Rock wallabies are awesome to study skull adaptation because they are a recent radiation yet found across Australia. royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Basically every major rock pile in Australia has a different species of rock wallaby on it😉
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
12 Dec 2023
Why is a gecko 🦎 tail like a cactus 🌵?
Because their bulbous tail stores resources for uncertain times
Parallel evolution of expanded tails in monsoonal tropics lineages of an Australian gecko radiation in
@ZoolJLinnSoc
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
11 Dec 2023
This Christmas, give the gift of Science by donating to Kits-Mas!
For every $600 raised, DeadlyScience will send Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learner classrooms a deadly microscopy kit.
Visit ow.ly/p6Ik50Qhg8w and donate today.
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
11 Dec 2023
But this review isn't just about skulls. We show how phylogenetic tests of allometry can be a problem when size correlates with phylogeny. As one reviewer said, it's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater! @DrEmSherratt @WeisbeckerLab
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We’ve known for a while that larger mammals often have longer faces (think of deer vs. moose), but we couldn't fully explain why. @DRexMitchell sized up the answer in our new open-access review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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The gist of it is – long-faced mammals can afford it. Read up the long and short of it in our @TheConversation article:
theconversation.com/why-the-…
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
11 Dec 2023
Several years in the making with two of the biggest brains in the field! @WeisbeckerLab @DrEmSherratt
We unpack the who, the what, the where, the when, and the how of mammalian skull proportions and how they change with size across species.
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
11 Dec 2023
Ever wondered why large mammals have long faces? Biomechanics explains it 😊 Thanks for the fun discussions @DRexMitchell and @WeisbeckerLab
#allometryrules
@ConversationEDU
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
7 Sep 2023
Our manuscript on island biodiversity is out! Islands today are more similar to each other than they were in a pre-human past, because of 1) extinctions, 2) introductions of the very same species everywhere @newbiogeo @naturalis @SUNY 🏝️🐘=gone🐀=new
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
7 Sep 2023
Nice article by ABC's Emma Haskin about the newly-discovered 25 million year old koala fossils that we published on!
abc.net.au/news/2023-09-08/p… via
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
1 Jun 2023
Anatomy education is a rare academic area with more jobs than qualified people. I strongly advise grad students in my research field (biological anthropology) to get solid anatomy training. It will dramatically improve prospects for livable employment.
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
2 Jun 2023
This week saw the launch of VAMP; the Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology.
sites.flinders.edu.au/vamp
@VAMP_Palaeo
#dinosaur #dino #dinosaurus #fossil #fossilskeleton #fossilfriday #palaeontologists #paleontology #jurassicpark #vertebrates #museums #Australia
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
1 Jun 2023
@VAMP_Palaeo launched tonight so now we’ve all got free digital access to hundreds of Aussie fossils 🐾🦴 huge congrats to the team @DrAliceClement @Zoelenotherium @DiprotoRon
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@Zoelenotherium ambulating us through how surface scanning can help us find out about Australia's incredibly weird extinct megafauna.
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Read more on theconversation.com/newly-de…
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
31 May 2023
In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩🔬
We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process!
Watch out Monet 🎨 @accidental_aRt
#rstats #Rtistry
ALT map of Australia with multi-coloured data points
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Don't miss this opportunity to hear from a giant in the field of Marine Mammal Research, Dr Cath Kemper!
1 Jun 2023
Join us for our next meeting on Thursday June 8th. We will hear from Dr Catherine Kemper, former mammal researcher @SAMuseum on "South Australian Museum collection: an essential resource for the study & conservation of Australia’s marine mammals" 🐋🐬🦭
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
1 Jun 2023
We are launching tonight! 🚀 🤯
Read more about VAMP ahead of our launch party tonight in our article published today in @ConversationEDU 👀 theconversation.com/a-new-vi…
@FlindersPalaeo @wamuseum @SAMuseum @MAG_NT @FlindersCSE
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What should happen to native forests when logging ends? Ask Victoria's First Peoples theconversation.com/what-sho… via @ConversationEDU
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Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) retweeted
1 Jun 2023
New research out! We found that red kangaroos living with dingoes grow up faster than red kangaroos that live safe behind the dingo fence 🦘🦘🦘
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