Thursday, July 26, 2012

Interesting Papers

It's been way too long since I posted about recent interesting papers. I am preparing to move to the USA for 9 months as a Fulbright Student Fellow and I have been ridiculously busy! I have a few minutes right now and better take advantage of it!

A paper from one of my University of Calgary colleagues! Longrich et al. (2012) describe a transitional snake fossil!
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11227.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120726

Kohler et al. (2012) find further evidence for homeothermy in dinosaurs.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7407/full/nature11264.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120719

Pecoits et al. (2012) present evidence of 585 Ma burrows and grazing!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6089/1693.short

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Evolution 2012 is nigh!

Tomorrow is the beginning of the Evolution 2012 conference. We will be handing out registration packets and name tags at the welcome desk, which is located in the Ridea Canal Atrium on the second floor of the Ottawa Convention Center.

You can check out the program at this link (http://www.confersense.ca/Evolution2012/program.htm).

I am also chairing the Biogeography, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology session on Monday July 9th from 8:30 am to lunch time. I am also presenting some preliminary data for one of my dissertation chapters on geographic range sizes, climate change, and risk of extinction in mammals.

I'll be tweeting about the meeting @DaniFraser2.

See you there!