Vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, currently postdoc at @LMU_Muenchen. Lost among fishes, phylogenies and drifting continents
Munich, Bavaria
Joined October 2018
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Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Our #mormyrid paper is finally out in Eco&Evo!😍 We show that trophic ecology of African elephant fishes differs within the species community, incl. three species (two undescribed!:-) of the Mormyrus genus from the Sanaga River in Cameroon. Thks, Gina!
doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70173
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Possibly the weirdest fossil teleost🐟you'll see today?
Check it out in our new preprint out in @biorxivpreprint, with Giorgio Carnevale
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Alessio Capobianco retweeted
🎓Join us for James Andrews’ dissertation defense!
🗓️ Monday, August 26
⌚️11 AM
📍 NUB 2540
Let's support James as he presents his research on evolutionary insights into early acanthomorphs!
More info: lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-us…
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Finished the parrotfish skull, pretty on the inside and outside. These guys are basically just wrasses that dialed their bones up to 10 so that they can crunch hard stuff... I respect it #backdatwrasseup
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Michigan paleontology past, present, and future at #NAPC2024. 📸@rodrigoichthys
ALT Generations of Michigan paleontologists on the steps of the U-M Museum of Art.
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Outstanding set of presentations in today's session at #NAPC2024 celebrating the contributions of Lance Grande of @FieldMuseum!
ALT Presenters for the Grande Symposium at the North American Paleontological Convention standing on steps.
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Welcome to the world, Macroprosopon! Huge thanks go out to @acapomorphic and @Friedman_Lab for giving me the opportunity to work on both the skeletal and life reconstructions of this crazy fish.
Say hello to Macroprosopon hiltoni, "[Eric J.] Hilton's long face". This long-snouted fossil bonytongue was a relative of today's freshwater arapaima, but it lived in Moroccan seas 50 million years ago! Magnificent artwork by Sky Jung @HBivittatus Link: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Get out the #map 🗺️
Get out the map and lay your phalanges anywhere down👈
We’ve done the figuring
For those who join us from way outta town✈️
Know where to drink the #coffee☕️
There seems to be food spots for everyone🍱
sites.lsa.umich.edu/napc2024…
#paleontology #NAPC2024 #fossil
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
We are having a TIME in LA right now! We managed to CT scan an OARFISH!! Perfect way to end a Friday afternoon!
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
I am stoked to annouce that my masters has finally been published in @ASNAmNat! Here we investigated whether the evolution of a diadromous life history can alter rates of trait evolution and drive phenotypic convergence in clupeiformes. Check er out!
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ep…
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
You’ve been replaced Matt Friedman - I’ve adopted your lab #GoBlue @Friedman_Lab
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
A new #OpenAccess study led by @ZhuEarlyFishLab & @osteichthyan describing the postcranium of the Silurian maxillate placoderm Entelognathus: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
The most exciting thing? Believe it or not, it’s the scales. Read on to see why.
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
We're taking next steps to assemble conference symposia... digging through the proposed topics, here are the most common themes that are emerging!
Abstract submissions open in the next month!
#napc2024 #paleontology #paleontologist #fossil @UMichPaleo @PaleoSoc @SVP_vertpaleo
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Once again it's that time of the year 🎃
ALT Spoof Spirit Halloween costume for a museum director, showing Alessio Capobianco dressed up as Matt Friedman.
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Hey #ICVM2023 folks! Check out my talk tomorrow at 2:45pm (Auditorium C) on a quirky morphology in Osteoglossomorphs, but specifically in mormyrids!
Have you ever wondered about the Bony Tongue? You're not alone. Come on this exploratory journey with me!!
ALT A presentation title slide. "To Bite or Not to Bite?" An investigation into the Tongue-Bite-Apparatus in mormyrid fishes (Osteoglossiformes). The authors are Dr. Kassandra Ford and Dr. Patricia Hernandez. Images include head pictures of 3 mormyrids, 2 skull pictures from CT scans, and 1 Tongue-Bite-Apparatus picture.
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Unfortunately I will miss #smbe2023 this year but @acapomorphic and Ronja Billenstein are representing the group and both have posters. Please go and check them out.
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Nice talk by Luca Ferretti on the problem of branch elongation at increased sample sizes in phylogenetic inference related to the typical choice of using a discretised gamma distribution with four rate categories #SMBE2023 #phylogenetics #evolution
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
Never thought we'd see an infographic about conodont biostratigraphy in a piece about Barbie and Oppenheimer, but here we are. Also: conodonts are now officially horrifying jawless eels to me from here on out. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
ALT Infographic from Washington Post article explaining biostratigraphy. Conodonts are referred to as "a type of horrifying jawless eel."
Alessio Capobianco retweeted
How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
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