Lan-Nhi /ˈlanniː/ 🐦🇻🇳
@lannhiphung.bsky.social
Postdoc @ U of Rochester | Ph.D. Penn State Biology | biogeography, genomics, evolution, sexual selection, bird songs | tweets mine, about birds or otherwise | int’l student advocate
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BIG day for warbler genomes, with work led by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social! Whole genomes nearly *every species* of warbler.
Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ...
www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...
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Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ...
www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...
🦉🧪
Warblers borrow color-related genes from evolutionary neighbors, study finds | Penn State University
A new study has uncovered several instances of wood warblers — some of the most colorful birds in North America — passing color-related genes to other wood warbler species, including those that are no...
www.psu.edu
December 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
BIG day for warbler genomes, with work led by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social! Whole genomes nearly *every species* of warbler.
Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ...
www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...
🦉🧪
Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ...
www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...
🦉🧪
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I mean, the title says it all: Genetic confirmation of an “uncommon mourningthroat” (Geothlypis philadelphia × G. trichas): A rare but persistent hybrid warbler. Fun stuff with @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social and Kurt Gielow, OA in @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social!
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I mean, the title says it all: Genetic confirmation of an “uncommon mourningthroat” (Geothlypis philadelphia × G. trichas): A rare but persistent hybrid warbler. Fun stuff with @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social and Kurt Gielow, OA in @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social!
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
sorry folks i am indeed a splitter
Going to be a big month for warbler science! First out of the gates is @lannhiphung.bsky.social, with song & genomics of Nashville warblers. Eastern and western subspecies: non-overlapping and super distinct. Keep an eye on your life list 😉
🦉🧪@journal-evo.bsky.social
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🦉🧪@journal-evo.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
sorry folks i am indeed a splitter
???? Help??? What???
How is this possible?
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
September 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
???? Help??? What???
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Interested in how new sex chromosomes evolve in birds? Our NSF-funded collaborative work with the (Daven) Presgraves lab at @urochester.bsky.social is out this week in @pnas.org. Check it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Interested in how new sex chromosomes evolve in birds? Our NSF-funded collaborative work with the (Daven) Presgraves lab at @urochester.bsky.social is out this week in @pnas.org. Check it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Super last minute as I’m on my flight to #AOS25 — I will be talking about my work on bowerbirds on Wednesday morning in Genomics 2. Looking forward to seeing everyone and sharing this incredible dataset 🐦⬛
August 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Super last minute as I’m on my flight to #AOS25 — I will be talking about my work on bowerbirds on Wednesday morning in Genomics 2. Looking forward to seeing everyone and sharing this incredible dataset 🐦⬛
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#AOS2025 don't miss @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social's talk at 11:15am on Wednesday in the Genomics 2 session (Ballroom C). We're cooking up some cool stuff with @mbtoomey.bsky.social on warbler carotenoid processing enzymes! 🦉🧪
August 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#AOS2025 don't miss @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social's talk at 11:15am on Wednesday in the Genomics 2 session (Ballroom C). We're cooking up some cool stuff with @mbtoomey.bsky.social on warbler carotenoid processing enzymes! 🦉🧪
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Some good news for a Friday morning: it's been a long road, but this work from my M.S. is now published! Using RAD-seq data, we assessed genetic diversity and the demographic history of the world's second largest migratory wildebeest population in Zambia's Greater Liuwa Ecosystem
April 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Some good news for a Friday morning: it's been a long road, but this work from my M.S. is now published! Using RAD-seq data, we assessed genetic diversity and the demographic history of the world's second largest migratory wildebeest population in Zambia's Greater Liuwa Ecosystem
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A lot of blood sweat and tears put into this one: we revisit Robert MacArthur's classic warbler study—with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and colleagues—using, among other techniques, fecal metabarcoding.
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📸 Ronnie d'Entremont
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@psubiodept.bsky.social
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📸 Ronnie d'Entremont
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@psubiodept.bsky.social
Reassessing niche partitioning in MacArthur’s warblers: foraging behaviour, morphology and diet differentiation in a phylogenetic context | Biology Letters
Owing in large part to Robert MacArthur’s classic research, wood warblers in the family
Parulidae are textbook exemplars of species competition and niche partitioning. Conventional
wisdom suggests tha...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A lot of blood sweat and tears put into this one: we revisit Robert MacArthur's classic warbler study—with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and colleagues—using, among other techniques, fecal metabarcoding.
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📸 Ronnie d'Entremont
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@psubiodept.bsky.social
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📸 Ronnie d'Entremont
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@psubiodept.bsky.social
As a comic relief I present to you the worst name ever for an R package
March 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
As a comic relief I present to you the worst name ever for an R package
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A PhD position has opened up in my old lab group in Uppsala with Anna Qvarnström! I can't recommend Uppsala and the group highly enough. This is a really great opportunity! If anyone wants to learn more about life in Uppsala or in the department, I'm very happy to talk.
February 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A PhD position has opened up in my old lab group in Uppsala with Anna Qvarnström! I can't recommend Uppsala and the group highly enough. This is a really great opportunity! If anyone wants to learn more about life in Uppsala or in the department, I'm very happy to talk.
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I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.
February 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.
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To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
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To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
As of now, NSF does not appear to be changing course at all given the temporary restraining order or the rescission of the memo. I can't help but feel that the NSF director is failing us and his handling of this is indefensible. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
new.nsf.gov
January 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
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This one hour of day seven of the presidency.
January 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This one hour of day seven of the presidency.
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I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
January 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
USAspending.gov
www.usaspending.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
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Seeing and hearing that NSF panels & reviews shut down. Again, for the love of science, this is not the time for scientists to be quiet..speak up if you can and push Uni administrators to do so as well.
January 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Seeing and hearing that NSF panels & reviews shut down. Again, for the love of science, this is not the time for scientists to be quiet..speak up if you can and push Uni administrators to do so as well.
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Hey #SICB2025 - interested in adaptive radiation? Morphological evolution? Cool birds? Just trying to figure out where to start tomorrow morning?
I’ll be presenting the results of my first dissertation chapter, looking at diversification in Malagasy vangas, in A601 at 8:45am!
I’ll be presenting the results of my first dissertation chapter, looking at diversification in Malagasy vangas, in A601 at 8:45am!
January 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Hey #SICB2025 - interested in adaptive radiation? Morphological evolution? Cool birds? Just trying to figure out where to start tomorrow morning?
I’ll be presenting the results of my first dissertation chapter, looking at diversification in Malagasy vangas, in A601 at 8:45am!
I’ll be presenting the results of my first dissertation chapter, looking at diversification in Malagasy vangas, in A601 at 8:45am!
At long last, my first paper (ever, first-author, and with @davetoews.bsky.social) is out in @plosone.org 🐦🎶
We quantified and compared song divergence within and between 8 pairs of common North American songbirds—please check it out!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
We quantified and compared song divergence within and between 8 pairs of common North American songbirds—please check it out!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Comparative bioacoustics of multiple eastern versus western songbird pairs in North America reveals a gradient of song divergence
Vocalizations are one of the key premating reproductive barriers that could affect species formation. In song-learning birds, vocal traits are sometimes overlooked in species delimitation, as compared...
journals.plos.org
December 26, 2024 at 9:12 PM
At long last, my first paper (ever, first-author, and with @davetoews.bsky.social) is out in @plosone.org 🐦🎶
We quantified and compared song divergence within and between 8 pairs of common North American songbirds—please check it out!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
We quantified and compared song divergence within and between 8 pairs of common North American songbirds—please check it out!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
something coming from me, watch this space tomorrow 👀🐦🎶
December 26, 2024 at 4:31 AM
something coming from me, watch this space tomorrow 👀🐦🎶
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I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share
#postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions
genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141
#postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions
genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141
December 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share
#postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions
genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141
#postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions
genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141
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New warbler paper /w Anna María Calderón & Zachary Szpiech. Kirtland's warblers were ESA delisted in part because of 👍 management. What wasn't known at the time—and we show here—is that they have a striking footprint of inbreeding in their DNA🦉
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📸 Nathan Cooper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📸 Nathan Cooper
December 9, 2024 at 6:49 PM
New warbler paper /w Anna María Calderón & Zachary Szpiech. Kirtland's warblers were ESA delisted in part because of 👍 management. What wasn't known at the time—and we show here—is that they have a striking footprint of inbreeding in their DNA🦉
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📸 Nathan Cooper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📸 Nathan Cooper
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Happy holidays from @tropbiolab.bsky.social! We enjoyed our ugly sweater-themed
farewell party for wonderful Elsie and Ferro.
Grateful for #teamwasp and #teambird!
farewell party for wonderful Elsie and Ferro.
Grateful for #teamwasp and #teambird!
December 8, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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