sidney-davies.bsky.social
PhD student in molecular evolution / phylogenetics / palaeobiology @ University of Bristol. Interested in providing a timescale for the tree of life to elucidate major evolutionary innovations in Earth history. 🧬
👤 Joined on 15 May 2025
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@sidney-davies.bsky.socialI’m excited to share our work on brachiopods! We use phylogenomics to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships of living brachiopods and their relationships with other lophotrochozoans. Huge thanks to all my co-authors and collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Show PostThe gentoo penguin complex is historically treated as a single species, but a study in Communications Biology shows the existence of four divergent evolutionary lineages. The authors propose treating the lineages as four distinct species. go.nature.com/4iVxVZQ #evosky 🧬🌎🧪
Show PostI'm happy to share Avannaascolex, our new palaeoscolecid(omorph) from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Greenland 🪱 Written up with @siriuspalaeo.bsky.social @cambriannelids.bsky.social and other colleagues from KOPRI, Bristol and the NHM not on bsky www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
Show PostWelcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵
Show PostThere is actually only one true spreadsheet person. The rest of us are just posers. www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tats...
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