Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods Transmitting Science ONLINE course Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods, by Dr. Ignacio Quintero.

Want to learn the ins and outs of diversification, trait and biogeographic evolution models? I will be giving another edition of "Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods" in Oct! @tscourses.bsky.social www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evol...

Por si están en Bogotá y les interesa asistir a una charla en español sobre uno de mis trabajos de investigación.

Three male side-blotched lizard with three neck colors: orange, blue, and yellow

Lizards have evolved their own version of rock-paper-scissors. Here's my story on the genetics behind nature's games. Gift link: nyti.ms/493KGMI

Postdoctoral Researcher All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

LSU Museum of Natural Sciences is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: 🐀🦜🦎🐸🐠

Review begins February 15th, please share!

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Matching climate to biological scales Recent advances in climate modeling and remote sensing have increased the expectation that finer-grained climate data will improve biological relevance. However, the appropriate scale for biology depe...

New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference.
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@ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social

New paper out! 🐦📊

We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.

Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Cartoon of paleogeographic, biogeographic, and phylogenetic history of an island plant radiation, and plots of hypothesized relationships between regional features and biogeographic rates.

New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋

w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social

biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

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Replicate avian hybrid zones reveal the progression of genetic and trait introgression through time Replicate hybrid zones between the same taxa provide a unique opportunity to assess the repeatability of interspecific matings by uncovering recurrent genomic and phenotypic introgression patterns. Re...

Replicate avian hybrid zones reveal the progression of genetic and trait introgression through time | our latest, led by the amazing maria isabel castaño www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cienciacriolla

Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds - Evolutionary Ecology Evolutionary Ecology - Climate change is having profound impacts on biodiversity, with notable effects on the distribution, and morphology of species. Many studies have documented changes in body...

🚨Great to be part of this paper led by Natalia Pérez-Amaya quantifying a century of morphological change in lowland rainforest birds! @birdmapper.bsky.social @cdanielcadena.bsky.social @julisoto.bsky.social @amcuervo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I hope to take a PhD student in the coming application cycle. Please reach out if you are interested in joining our lab in EEB at Yale, especially if interested in working on the natural history/ phylogenetics/ morphology/ population biology/ development/ genomics of siphonophores. dunnlab.org

Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella

📷 David Irving, eBird

Nest location and architecture as primary drivers of variation in UV reflectance in avian eggs: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @cdanielcadena.bsky.social‬ #ProcB #evolution

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

our latest, led by undergrad maria elisa mendiwelso! Nest location and architecture as primary drivers of variation in UV reflectance in avian eggs royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Delayed flowering phenology of red-flowering plants in response to hummingbird migration McKenzie et al. use a community-science dataset from iNaturalist and a flexible computer vision model to show that red and orange flowers bloom later than other colors in eastern North America. The la...

In this issue @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social and colleagues use a community-science dataset from iNaturalist and a flexible computer vision model to show that red and orange flowers bloom later than other colors in eastern North America. Find out more here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

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An Immense World (Young Readers Edition): How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

AN IMMENSE WORLD: YOUNG READERS EDITION is out today! 🥳

I’m really grateful to AnnMarie Anderson for adapting it, Rebecca Mills for illustrating, Tom Russell for shepherding, and Rose Eveleth for reading the audiobook.

(And it’s dedicated to Typo.)

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Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty | PNAS Rates of evolution are fundamental to understand the processes that shaped the history of life. The predominant view holds that high rates of pheno...

Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12

Comparative population genomics reveals convergent adaptation across independent origins of avian obligate brood parasitism Parental care evolved as a strategy to enhance offspring survival at the cost of reduced fecundity. While most birds provide parental care, obligate brood parasites circumvent this tradeoff by exploit...

What makes a brood parasite genome? New collaborative NSF-funded project in submission somewhere and available as a preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

25+ years in the publishing game and finally the day came when a manuscript was accepted pretty much "as is" in the first round of review. at proceedings b. an undergraduate thesis project! so proud of maría elisa! #profeorgulloso #cienciacriolla

Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobates currulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests The number of amphibian species described yearly shows no signs of slowing down, especially in tropical regions, implying that the biodiversity of amphibians remains woefully underestimated. A new spe...

We describe a new species of poison frog from the Pacific coast of Colombia -- Epipedobates currulao. A long time in the making.

Describimos una nueva especie de una rana venenosa para la ciencia de la costa pacífica de colombia
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Pollination in walnuts (such as this Persian walnut, Juglans regia) and pecans occurs through a genetically controlled temporal flowering dimorphism. Two distinct morphs alternate their phases of male and female flowering across the season, promoting outcrossing that has maintained a stable equilibrium throughout tens of millions of years of evolution. See eado5578. Photo: Philippe Clement/NPL/Minden Pictures

It feels surreal to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Incredibly proud of the work that went into this. And so grateful for the opportunities, resources, support and mentorship from co-authors and my whole scientific community that made it possible

1/4New from the #NearLab, genomics and morphology demonstrate the famous Snail Darter, Percina tanasi, the little fish that swam to the United States Supreme Court is not a distinct species...

Open access at Current Biology
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Our latest piece in @theguardian.com lays out the simple premise that if the purpose of universities is to cultivate the mind, it is nearly impossible to deny that football, by degrading the brain, is antithetical to the process.

Football simply does not belong at universities.

Is there really such a thing as Tropical Biology? Tropical Biology may or may not be a distinct academic discipline.

It took forever, but here is the paper based on my ATBC Presidential Plenary onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Published today, plumage color genomics! We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with H.C. Lim. #evobio #birds 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...