Phil Donoghue
@glpcjd
Fondler of fossils, University of Bristol. Interested in causes and consequences of major evolutionary transitions. Some views shared by others, surely?
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/doi/10.1098/rs…
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/sc…
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
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
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
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
Funded PhD on plant genome and phenome evolution @MilnerCentre @UniofBath with the awesome James Clark @sometimesferns
A PhD opportunity (findaphd.com/phds/project/g…) to come to Bath and work with myself @WillsProf and @glpcjd on all things plants, from morphology to genomes 🌿🌲🌱
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
Awesome talk on the palaeobiology of Ediacaran beasties using computed fluid dynamics by Imran Rahman @VirtualPalaeo at last week's Palaeo Seminar @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience
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 royalsociety.org/science-events…
Leverhulme Trust Early Career PostDoc Fellowships (for UK degree holders) leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-f… are supported by @BristolPalaeo. If you are interested in applying, please get in touch with one of our fossil- or genome-fondlers
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/articl…
