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I painted the giant amphibian Eryops megacephalus, known from the Early Permian of Texas and even Late Carboniferous of New Mexico. These carnivores could reach an impressive length of 3 meters.
#eryops #permian #carboniferous #texas #newmexico #palaeozoic #palaeontology #vertebrate_paleontology #sciart #scientificillustration #amphibian #temnospondyl #fossil #watercolour #animalart #wildlifeart #natureart
Urda buechneri is a species of potentially parasitic isopod from the Middle Jurassic of Germany that was described by @mcranium et al. in 2023. The paper that describes U. buechneri also discusses how the genus Urda fits on the isopod family tree and how the associated fossils relate to the extant isopod family Gnathiidae.
#isopod #fossil #crustacean #arthropod #invertebratepalaeontology #palaeontology #geology #invertebrate #sciart #scientificillustration #jurassic #animalart #parasitology
New lab at the University of Reading
From 8 January 2024, I will be starting at the University of Reading as Lecturer in Zoology. I haven't technically got a research group or lab as such but I've decided to call my "lab" the Phylogenetic Form and Function Lab (for the time being in any case). I will be continuing with my teaching and research in vertebrate zoology, phylogenetics, and form and function. I am very excited to start on this new journey. If you are…
https://manabusakamotouk.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/new-lab-at-the-university-of-reading/
The #rstat #dispRity pkg v1.8 is now out live! Many new updates including PGLS and disparity with multiple matrices and trees!
You can find all the details on the CRAN https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dispRity;
GitHub https://github.com/TGuillerme/dispRity
or the basic paper in MEE https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13022
A modular package for measuring disparity (multidimensional space occupancy). Disparity can be calculated from any matrix defining a multidimensional space. The package provides a set of implemented metrics to measure properties of the space and allows users to provide and test their own metrics. The package also provides functions for looking at disparity in a serial way (e.g. disparity through time) or per groups as well as visualising the results. Finally, this package provides several statistical tests for disparity analysis.
A Hydrotherosaurus basks in the moonlight of the late Cretaceous summer
#paleoart #paleontology #art #blender #blender3d #dinosaurs #plesiosaur
I now added to our lab webpage a description of our approach to #publication, please have a look.
https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/gaspar-jekely/our-approach-to-publication
Please share, reuse, criticize as you see fit. We are constantly evolving our thinking on the issue.
Word of the day: Stigmergy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
Stigmergy is a form of self-organization. It produces complex, seemingly intelligent structures, without need for any planning, control, or even direct communication between the agents. As such it supports efficient collaboration between extremely simple agents, who may lack memory or individual awareness of each other.
My new favorite paper on the topic:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818759116
Describes how the characteristic shapes of the mounds of different species emerge. "During mound construction, environmental factors such as heat flow and gas exchange affect the building behavior of termites, and the resulting change in mound geometry in turn modifies the response of the internal mound environment to external thermal oscillations."
Critterzoology
Raptor's Nest (He/Him)
Thomas Guillerme
Callum Pursall
Gaspar Jekely
Nicole Rust