Jimena Golcher-Benavides
@jimenagb.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇨🇷Assistant Prof of Biology at Hope College in Michigan. My undergrad team investigates ecological and evolutionary drivers of freshwater fish diversity in 🇨🇷 and 🇺🇸
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Reposted by Jimena Golcher-Benavides
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Eastern winds powered an upwelling lake event -this is when eastern winds push the warmer surface water layer exposing deeper, cooler waters. The water temperarure in Lake Michigan went from 25.22 °C (77.4F) on 07/24, to 18.63 (65.5F) on 07/31, and then as cool as 13.72°C (56.7F) on 08/03!!!
August 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Eastern winds powered an upwelling lake event -this is when eastern winds push the warmer surface water layer exposing deeper, cooler waters. The water temperarure in Lake Michigan went from 25.22 °C (77.4F) on 07/24, to 18.63 (65.5F) on 07/31, and then as cool as 13.72°C (56.7F) on 08/03!!!
I am so unbelievably proud of my student Annie Waldron!!!! 🤩
Intern Update: Annie Waldron unpacks lake sturgeon eDNA | Michigan Sea Grant
Collecting a water sample from Kalamazoo Lake at Douglas Veteran’s Park. Photo: Annie Waldron
www.michiganseagrant.org
August 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I am so unbelievably proud of my student Annie Waldron!!!! 🤩
Reposted by Jimena Golcher-Benavides
Really proud to have worked with my 14-year-old, Anjali, on this new and free kids' book on #evolution.
Published in time for the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Please check it out and share!
www.lsu.edu/mns/news-and...
Published in time for the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Please check it out and share!
www.lsu.edu/mns/news-and...
June 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Really proud to have worked with my 14-year-old, Anjali, on this new and free kids' book on #evolution.
Published in time for the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Please check it out and share!
www.lsu.edu/mns/news-and...
Published in time for the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Please check it out and share!
www.lsu.edu/mns/news-and...
Reposted by Jimena Golcher-Benavides
NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF.
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF!
Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Our Media Tool can help you get started:
shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Our Media Tool can help you get started:
shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
May 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF.
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Reposted by Jimena Golcher-Benavides
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Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics (277333) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics (277333), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...