Niall Rodgers

Clade dynamics support an early origin of crown eukaryotes

This study challenges the late origin of crown eukaryotes by showing that evolutionary dynamics require an earlier last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) to explain observed diversity and fossil records.

Complexity Begets Simplicity: Self-Supervised Learning for Palaeontological Images with Few or No Labels

This paper demonstrates that self-supervised learning can effectively classify paleontological images with few or no labels, achieving results comparable to traditional methods with reduced computational requirements.