This week, we will discuss a new method for fossil-based time-calibration of molecular phylogenies:

Pete Cranston has suggested this paper for discussion and it follows on from the theme of two weeks ago:

Shape Analysis (Geometric Morphometrics) is the analytical toolkit to quantify and study shape variation of a set of specimens or artefacts.

The study of adaptation and the evolution of natural systems benefits from recent progresses made in the field of genomics and phenomics. We will demonstrate

Society of Systematic Biologists Stand-alone meeting 2015

The recent publication in PLoS One of a paper that explicitly recognises paraphyletic higher taxa re-opens a debate that we thought was settled long ago - in

Metals contaminate freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Insects typically dominate the invertebrate species pool in most freshwater ecosystems, and are focused upon

The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment is pleased to announce a Next Generation Sequencing and Analysis workshop on the topic of transcriptomics for

This week's discussion theme is theory and methods of biogeographic regionalisation.  For consideration, I am posting two papers sent to me by Craig Moritz and