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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...
Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Transmitting Science ONLINE course Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods, by Dr. Ignacio Quintero.
www.transmittingscience.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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Por si están en Bogotá y les interesa asistir a una charla en español sobre uno de mis trabajos de investigación.
January 28, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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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
January 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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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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Postdoctoral Researcher
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January 7, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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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.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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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...
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January 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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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....
January 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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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
December 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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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...
December 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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💥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.
September 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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
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...
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August 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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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
The Dunn Lab
Casey Dunn's laboratory in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.
dunnlab.org
June 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella

📷 David Irving, eBird
June 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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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
May 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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...
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May 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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/...
May 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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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...
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...
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May 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"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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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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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An Immense World (Young Readers Edition): How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets
How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets
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May 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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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
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...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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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...
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...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
April 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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
doi.org/10.3897/zook...

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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...
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February 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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
January 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM