Fondler of fossils, University of Bristol. Interested in causes and consequences of major evolutionary transitions. Some views shared by others, surely?
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28 May 2025
Our latest, led by @sometimesferns of @MilnerCentre shows that the notorious mismatch between molecular and palaeontological estimates for the timing of origin of flowering plants is a consequence of the equivocal interpretation of their fossil record royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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4 Apr 2025
Fun @BristolPalaeo and friends collab which shows that aerobic bacteria arose in the Archaean, long before the GOE - after which aerobes proliferated through HGT.
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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5 Mar 2025
March 11 deadline looming for 44 month PostDoc @BristolPalaeo researching timing, sequence and phenotypic consequences of rediploidisation following whole genome duplication: comparative genomics, molecular clock and phenotypic disparity methods, with myself and @sometimesferns
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This postdoc is based in the lab of @glpcjd at Bristol Life Sciences Building, but will be co-supervised by
@sometimesferns who is based in nearby Bath
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X won't let me post the application url so search using the job code 'ACAD107969' and the deets should be the first hit - if not, email me: phil.donoghue@bristol.ac.uk
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15 Nov 2024
This week Prof Susie Maidment @Tweetisaurus from @NHM_London gave the palaeo seminar @BristolPalaeo on Middle Jurassic armoured dinosaurs from Morroco
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15 Nov 2024
Our latest, by Emily Carlisle @Some__Sunshine Zongjun Yin @YinZjyin Davide Pisani and myself @BristolPalaeo: 'Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa' science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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15 Nov 2024
From new geochronology and fossil interpretations, our molecular timescale infers crown animals to have originated and diverged into phyla within a Ediacaran - early Cambrian interval
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8 Nov 2024
This week's palaeo research seminar @BristolPalaeo was from @fieldpalaeo on '200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents', a review of Dan's group's amazing discoveries of the past few years, plus equally exciting new insights into early bird evolution
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1 Nov 2024
In this week's palaeo seminar, our own Daniela Schmidt told us about palaeontology's contribution to understanding climate change, including her work informing policy from IPCC to local government @BristolPalaeo
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27 Oct 2024
We presented our Tree of Life outreach project @BristolCathedra Festival of Gaia. The quilt was created by Ilaria Padovani and Julie Harvey, and represents the history of Earth and Life. Here supported by project scientists Davide Pisani, Chris Kay @BristolPalaeo @Project_Telos
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25 Oct 2024
This week we've been celebrating our first 10 years in the Life Sciences Building @BristolUni @BristolBioSci, culminating in last night's soirée where our very own Liz Martin-Silverstone @gimpasaura received the 'unsung hero' award! The next decade starts today! @BristolPalaeo
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25 Oct 2024
Funded PhD on plant genome and phenome evolution @MilnerCentre @UniofBath with the awesome James Clark @sometimesferns
25 Oct 2024
A PhD opportunity (findaphd.com/phds/project/ge…) to come to Bath and work with myself @WillsProf and @glpcjd on all things plants, from morphology to genomes 🌿🌲🌱
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11 Oct 2024
In this week's palaeo seminar we have @ErinSaupe telling us about climate change as a predictor of extinction risk in deep time @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience
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11 Oct 2024
Awesome talk on the palaeobiology of Ediacaran beasties using computed fluid dynamics by Imran Rahman @VirtualPalaeo at last week's Palaeo Seminar @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience
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9 Oct 2024
Register free for our Royal Society Discussion meeting "Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres" Nov 11-12 London. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering the emergence of life on Earth to the search for exobiospheres
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27 Sep 2024
Leverhulme Trust Early Career PostDoc Fellowships (for UK degree holders) leverhulme.ac.uk/early-caree… are supported by @BristolPalaeo. If you are interested in applying, please get in touch with one of our fossil- or genome-fondlers
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23 Sep 2024
Commentary by @LewisAlcott and myself on the recent study by @RichardStockey and friends of the Late Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic oxygenation of the biosphere. @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience
Geobiology: When did animals develop their oxygen habit? sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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