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Nils Chabrol
@nilschabrol.bsky.social
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Insects/birds chaser assiduous reader PhD in macroevolution, working on detecting the effect of competition on species' phenotypes with Phylogenetic Comparative Methods (with fossil data)
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Nils Chabrol @nilschabrol.bsky.social · 3d
First post here to show a bit the work I did with Joëlle Barido-Sottani and Hélène Morlon on phylogenetic diversification models with heterogeneous rates in a Fossilized BD Framework
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The paper is still under review but the method is already available in BEAST 2 !
The Fossilized Birth Death Process with heterogeneous diversification rates unravels the link between diversification and specialisation to a carnivorous diet in Nimravidae (Carnivoraformes)
Bayesian phylogenetic inference uses more and more complex diversification models as tree priors to test new macroevolutionary hypotheses. However, those models are usually developed in a neontologica...
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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 17d
🌳 What can Bayesian inference tell us about evolutionary history?
New edition of the course: Bayesian phylogenetic inference with BEAST2.

📅 27th October – 7th November 2025 (Online)

#WeareTransmittingScience
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 11d
Classic macroecological laws-long held as signatures of biological systems-also emerge in economic and geological systems. The real signal lies not in the static universal patterns, but in how those patterns shift with scale 🌐🧪 #scaling #macroecology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Separating Macroecological Pattern and Process: Comparing Ecological, Economic, and Geological Systems
Theories of biodiversity rest on several macroecological patterns describing the relationship between species abundance and diversity. A central problem is that all theories make similar predictions f...
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 18d
New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio
Book cover of “Modelling Evolution” by Walter Veit, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.
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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 17d
I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · 20d
👏🍾Congratulations to Joëlle Barido-Sottani, winner of the ERC Starting Grant 2025 for her project MORPHOFBD on Using morphological information to accurately date phylogenies and understand past diversification dynamics.
🔗 www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....
#ERCStG
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