Another paper from my PhD published!🐦 J. of Avian Biology

Sensory assays show Hadeda Ibises need water in soils to find food sensing vibrations, what this means for their range expansion in SA, and implications for studies of waders' habitat requirements

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I won't be able to listen to BBC Radio 4 's Life Scientific tomorrow, but I hope Jim Al-Khalili asks his interviewee all about that time he had a major grant removed due to bullying, and how he's not allowed to supervise students anymore #duediligence

Our #phylogenomics study on the evolutionary relationships of birds 🦉🦃🦆🦜based on whole genome analysis of 363 species is now available as a preview article in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thanks for the great review Dan, so pleased you enjoyed the book so much!

Read Dan's review if you are interested in fossil birds and consider getting Birds of the Mesozoic! 👇👇👇

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide by Juan Benito and Roc Olivé for Ornithology. Highly recommend this skillfully illustrated and information-rich book as a reference or just for fun.

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Relative Homoplasy Index: A New Cross-comparable Metric for Quantifying Homoplasy in Discrete Character Datasets biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

I'm in the field so will post more later, but exciting to see our work on a new procolophonid, Hwiccewyrm trispiculum, from Late Triassic of SW England finally out! Led by myself & Luke Meade, with collaboration from Nick Fraser Dr Terri Cleary & others anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

Great review of 'Birds of the Mesozoic' by Jingmai O'Connor, thanks for the nice words Jingmai!

If the review picked your attention, you can get the book at 👇 lynxeds.com/product/birds-…

It's nice to see this huge barrier somehow quantified. And, as others have said, it goes far beyond. Seemingly simple things, such as replying to an email (or even tweeting 😅), can take muuuch longer.

Juan Benito is here at Global Birdfair to give an interesting talk on 'Birds of the Mesozoic' TODAY at 12:30h at Curlew Stage! See you there!
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Very happy to announce that my masters thesis has finally been published! We looked at the wing anatomy of a tinamou in 3D, which will useful for understanding the evolution of modern bird flight muscles.

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Pei-Chen Kuo really smashing it on our palaeojournal club talking everything avian quadrates, excellent jokes too!

If you watched today’s #PrehistoricPlanet , you probably saw the amazing Hesperornis! It’s the only aquatic creature in this episode that is a dinosaur. Dinosaurs may be better known for their diversity on land, but Hesperornis shows how they’ve adapted superbly to the ocean, too.

Cambridge Earth Sciences must be quieter than usual this week! Wrapping up the last presentation from our group at #SAPE23 in Málaga—13 presentations covering almost 100 million years of bird evolution! Nice work everyone especially Grace Burton who gave her first ever conference talk!!

Selección editorial de libros sobre los fascinantes origenes de las aves 🦅

Esta semana La Radio del Somormujo entrevistan a Juan Benito 🎧📻
Escucha en el programa un código promocional de descuento ‼️ para comprar en Oryx su libro 'Birds of Mesozoic' + regalo de un póster ✨

Ha sido una gozada poder hablar en La Radio del Somormujo sobre mi investigación y mi libro “Birds of the Mesozoic” con Roc Olivé y Lynx Nature Books .

Si os apetece escucharme desbarrando sobre dinosaurios emplumados, aves fósiles y evolución ¡Dadle una oída! 🦖🦆🦃🦤

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Big congratulations to Pei-Chen Kuo for publishing his first PhD thesis chapter!! This is a detailed and thoughtful exploration on the impact of incorporating fossils into analytical reconstructions of ancestral morphologies, focusing on the bird quadrate: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jm…