Huge congrats to my student @crowleyk.bsky.social, who just had the first paper of her graduate research accepted for publication today (and first 1st authored paper)! Looking forward to sharing her fantastic work on the phylogeny, macroevolution, & biogeography of flexible crinoids with the world!

Absolutely exhilarated by this workshop, which featured an incredible lineup of fantastic scientists from around the world. Many thanks to the organizers and fellow participants. I'm looking forward to the ways in which we can move this exciting research forward! 🧪

"What we know about the past record relied heavily on museum collections—the cumulation of centuries of investigation of the fossil record. The sample of past biodiversity will accumulate only with continued exploration of the fossil record...and restudy of existing collections." -J. Sepkoski (1992)