Robert W. Burroughs, PhD
@rwburroughs.bsky.social
First Gen | Tejano | Assistant Professor of Biology at Bradley University | Understanding how and why vertebrates evolve their shapes | Opinions are my own
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I will never quite understand the gatekeeping mindset on giving As to students. Denying As because you think only "few" should be able to earn them is asinine. You can be rigorous AND fair. It's not either/or...
September 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I will never quite understand the gatekeeping mindset on giving As to students. Denying As because you think only "few" should be able to earn them is asinine. You can be rigorous AND fair. It's not either/or...
These two things are not correlated, they are causally linked. Without the IRACDA training and mentorship I received, my professorship would have been impossible. Gutting NIH Training Grants deprives our society and culture of talent. Continue telling reps that you oppose cutting science funding.
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
These two things are not correlated, they are causally linked. Without the IRACDA training and mentorship I received, my professorship would have been impossible. Gutting NIH Training Grants deprives our society and culture of talent. Continue telling reps that you oppose cutting science funding.
My amazing colleague and former lab mate! @diamondkmg.bsky.social
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When to Go Against the Flow: Examining Patterns of Performance Over Multiday Migration Events in the Hawaiian Stream #Fish, ‘O‘opu Nōpili (Sicyopterus stimpsoni)
Kelly M Diamond , Lance Nishiura , Troy Sakihara , Heiko L Schoenfuss , Richard W Blob
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When to Go Against the Flow: Examining Patterns of Performance Over Multiday Migration Events in the Hawaiian Stream #Fish, ‘O‘opu Nōpili (Sicyopterus stimpsoni)
Kelly M Diamond , Lance Nishiura , Troy Sakihara , Heiko L Schoenfuss , Richard W Blob
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August 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Today years old when I learned The Rats of NIMH are actually The Rats of the National Institute of Mental Health. The stories were inspired by Calhoun's experiments. I am not sure what to think right now.
August 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Today years old when I learned The Rats of NIMH are actually The Rats of the National Institute of Mental Health. The stories were inspired by Calhoun's experiments. I am not sure what to think right now.
Congratulations Armita!! You earned it!
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
July 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Congratulations Armita!! You earned it!
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#MammothMonday 🧪Mammoths/Asian elephants diverged from each other only 2.5 million years ago. In contrast, the human/chimp lineages split ~6.5 million years ago. Cold adaptations evolved *fast 🦣🐘
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timetree.org enter human/chimpanzee, or any other species pair 🦈–🦋 😃
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timetree.org enter human/chimpanzee, or any other species pair 🦈–🦋 😃
June 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#MammothMonday 🧪Mammoths/Asian elephants diverged from each other only 2.5 million years ago. In contrast, the human/chimp lineages split ~6.5 million years ago. Cold adaptations evolved *fast 🦣🐘
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
timetree.org enter human/chimpanzee, or any other species pair 🦈–🦋 😃
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
timetree.org enter human/chimpanzee, or any other species pair 🦈–🦋 😃
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Every year, migrating birds crash into McCormick Place in Chicago—but thanks to new window decals, deaths are down from previous years. The birds collected for science reveal something shocking: they’ve been shrinking over time.
Check out this video to learn more: youtu.be/eK7b1XIgQac?...
Check out this video to learn more: youtu.be/eK7b1XIgQac?...
John Bates Shows Us Birds Killed by Windows at McCormick Place - What They've Learned From The Birds
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June 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Every year, migrating birds crash into McCormick Place in Chicago—but thanks to new window decals, deaths are down from previous years. The birds collected for science reveal something shocking: they’ve been shrinking over time.
Check out this video to learn more: youtu.be/eK7b1XIgQac?...
Check out this video to learn more: youtu.be/eK7b1XIgQac?...
What a super cool paper! I love seeing this focus on development as a system of interconnected processes and mechanisms. @devoevomed.bsky.social
📣 New review! Dynamical systems and low-dimensional geometric structures in phase space help rationalize how embryos develop form and function, from large datasets. We focus on morphogenesis, cell differentiation, and their interconnection.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
What a super cool paper! I love seeing this focus on development as a system of interconnected processes and mechanisms. @devoevomed.bsky.social
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Funding Opportunity Alert: The Spencer Foundation in collaboration with The Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - have developed the Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program. Those whose NSF grant were recently canceled could be eligible.
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May 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Funding Opportunity Alert: The Spencer Foundation in collaboration with The Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - have developed the Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program. Those whose NSF grant were recently canceled could be eligible.
On May The 4th - Caleb Gordon wrote this nice summary of our turtle paper from last year. This was a long paper but one that was ultimately a lot of fun. iobopen.com/2025/05/04/c...
Can simple algorithms tell cryptic species apart?
by Caleb Gordon, MPhil, B.A. Some species are easy to tell apart. Take chimpanzees and humans, for example. We are each other’s closest living relatives, we share the vast majority of our DNA, and …
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May 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
On May The 4th - Caleb Gordon wrote this nice summary of our turtle paper from last year. This was a long paper but one that was ultimately a lot of fun. iobopen.com/2025/05/04/c...
Hi all, I am delighted to announce that this Fall I will be joining the faculty of Bradley University. I will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology!
March 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hi all, I am delighted to announce that this Fall I will be joining the faculty of Bradley University. I will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology!
I don't understand. @mcuban.bsky.social - why did they do this?!
February 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I don't understand. @mcuban.bsky.social - why did they do this?!
Unfamiliar territory, but the most fun and challenging projects take us there. I am grateful and excited to have been able to contribute to this work!
Preprint: Lab rat teeth took us (@rwburroughs.bsky.social & co) to unexpected places
Developmentally cascading structures do not lose evolutionary potential, but compound developmental instability.
#Evolvability & #PhenotypicPlasticity with implications for #Paleontology & #Macroevolution
Developmentally cascading structures do not lose evolutionary potential, but compound developmental instability.
#Evolvability & #PhenotypicPlasticity with implications for #Paleontology & #Macroevolution
Developmentally cascading structures do not lose evolutionary potential, but compound developmental instability in rat molars
Increasing variability down serially segmented structures, such as mammalian molar teeth and vertebrate limb segments, is a much-replicated pattern. The same phenotypic pattern has conflicting interpr...
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January 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Unfamiliar territory, but the most fun and challenging projects take us there. I am grateful and excited to have been able to contribute to this work!
Very excited to share the preprint from my latest paper co-authored with @nsvitek.bsky.social and C. Percival! The paper is now in review at JEZ:B. I shared the results of this at #SICB2025 last week!
#DevBio #EvoDevo
#DevBio #EvoDevo
Reduced Dietary Protein Induces Changes in the Dental Proteome
Experimental studies have demonstrated that nutritional changes during development can result in phenotypic changes to mammalian cheek teeth. This developmental plasticity of tooth morphology is an ex...
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January 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Very excited to share the preprint from my latest paper co-authored with @nsvitek.bsky.social and C. Percival! The paper is now in review at JEZ:B. I shared the results of this at #SICB2025 last week!
#DevBio #EvoDevo
#DevBio #EvoDevo
My first Bluesky post and I'm excited to say if you're at #Sicb2025 - come check out my talk tomorrow at 9:45a in A707. Learn about quantitative proteomics of dentition! For my #EvoDevo, #VertPaleo, #Rodent fans - it should be fun!
January 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My first Bluesky post and I'm excited to say if you're at #Sicb2025 - come check out my talk tomorrow at 9:45a in A707. Learn about quantitative proteomics of dentition! For my #EvoDevo, #VertPaleo, #Rodent fans - it should be fun!