J Pardo
NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellow at the Field Museum of Natural History. Tetrapods in deep time: evolution, development, and paleontology. Also: mountains.
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- Why limit postdoctoral fellowships to AI-related proposals? If AI methods are superior, wouldn't AI proposals win anyway? The only reason to do this is you know AI is a scam and need to rig the deck in its favour.
- This is a pretty sad end for what was once one of the premier bioscience fellowship programs.
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- Reposted by J PardoResult from the Joggins Formation #paleostream! This Canadian site is an absolute classic and even if you are not familiar with its name you probably know at least one of its major players...
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- Reposted by J PardoReptile Handler At Birthday Party Ruthlessly Heckled By 6-Year-Old For Showing Amphibian theonion.com/reptile-handler-at-…
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- Reposted by J PardoTLDR; it is too early to stop doing taxonomic & natural history work and exclusively do meta-analysis; our existing datasets are highly structured & biology is weird. we shouldn't assume we already know enough to extrapolate a species' needs for conservation- we still need taxonomy & autecology
- I appreciate the sentiment but broadcasting your plans to hide people is dangerous as hell. People need to start thinking twice before talking to the media or each other about certain plans.
- Reposted by J PardoJack Horner in the Epstein File trying to raise money to fund dinosaur research. When I discovered we had rich nazis on our dig in 2008, I dropped them like a rancid turd; ask Don. There will never be a Trumpasaurus with my name attached! @paleontologizing.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
- Reposted by J Pardo"Network analysis reveals close faunal connections between the Huayuan and Burgess Shale biotas, indicating transoceanic dispersal. Dated shortly after the Sinsk event..." 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
- Reposted by J PardoSecond PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....
- Reposted by J PardoIntroducing a new Permian reptile: Scyllacerta creanae With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pala...
- Reposted by J PardoAnd it's out indeed! Huge congrats to @josanesousa.bsky.social, @gabrielalima19.bsky.social, @perezlouise.bsky.social & Hannah Schof! A true tour-de-force that highlights how emerging model systems can shed new light on long-standing macro-evolutionary questions. Go #axolotl, #polypterus #zebrafish!
- It’s out! 🐟 We compared three regeneration superstars—axolotl, zebrafish, and Polypterus—to ask how animals regrow limbs and fins. We find shared core processes, and other programs fine-tuned by evolution in surprising, lineage-specific ways. tinyurl.com/mpftkn7y
- Reposted by J PardoOur new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...
- New paper presenting rather compelling evidence that the stem-vertebrate Haikouichthys had paired lateral and supranumerary medial eyes (!!!), and proposing that the medial eyes may have deep homology with the pineal and parapineal organs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Supranumerary eyes are common in arthropods but absent in vertebrates. This would put early vertebrate central nervous system and sensory diversity more in line with what we see in arthropods and raises questions about exactly how much contingency there may have been in the origin of own body plan.
