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Just a couple, though.

Know an undergrad who is interested in exhibit design and development? The NHMLA is now seeking applicants for a Getty Marrow Intern, which is a 10-week summer internship program working with our exhibits department. Please share with those interested!
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haha - I always get the same. happy to see you have a California Quail in there!

Here's another one... offers "interactive visualisation of polarised genomes, hybrid indices, clines and ternary plots". Slick! 👏

This looks cool. And, an up-to-date package for generating haplotype networks is very welcome.

Perfection at its finest. 🤌

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Does it open up a portal to another dimension? A better one?

It harkens back to the worst of days. Like when I had dysentery. Oh no…. here comes BioPerl… Guess I’ll suffer for a day to two.

If you get on Zoom, Teams, Facetime, Slack, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Discord video chat all at the same time, what happens?

It's hard to dislike something work-related more than I dislike BioPerl. But then I find myself in a white-hot rage because it's taking all day to install some random Bioconductor package.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

peak cat right there 🤣

It’s out! 🐟 We compared three regeneration superstars—axolotl, zebrafish, and Polypterus—to ask how animals regrow limbs and fins. We find shared core processes, and other programs fine-tuned by evolution in surprising, lineage-specific ways. tinyurl.com/mpftkn7y

Awesome!

That would be super cool to look at. I think the trick is that there are probably (many?) more taxa with super black plumage and structural color than have been identified, which makes that analysis difficult. That could just as easily be false... but I suspect across all birds it's likely.

Super black plumage is prevalent among Lepidothrix manakins Abstract. Super black plumage has been observed across the avian phylogeny, yet few studies have examined the prevalence of super black plumage at the spec

...that the development of super black feathers appears to start before males reach their definitive adult plumage.

Check out these and other cool results in her paper! And, congratulations to Roberta (robertacanton.com) 👏!

doi.org/10.1093/orni...

SEM images of back feathers collected from all taxa included in this study showing the differences in their barbule morphology. The header text provides the sex, taxon, and collection information for each specimen, and header backgrounds are filled according to the color of the back plumage patch: black for adult males that are super black, gray for adult males that are black, bright green for adult males that are green, and olive green for adult females and immature males that are olive green. Pink scale bars represent 10 µm.

...among black taxa within the genus, with 5 species and 7 subspecies of _Lepidothrix_ having evolved super black plumage.

Roberta also used SEM to show super black is produced by wider barbules that are closer together, and...

_Lepidothrix velutina_ photograph courtesy of David Monroy Rengifo (ML298008331).

Super black plumage was identified in birds as part of awesome work by Drs. Dakota McCoy (@reallymccoy.bsky.social), Rick Prum, and others.

Dr. Roberta Canton dug into one clade containing a taxon having super black plumage, _Lepidothrix_ manakins, to show that super black is relatively common...

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The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Forest Genetics, Genomics and/or Tree Breeding at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.
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Sheeeeeeit. I loved him.

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Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Definitely chilly.

Love this figure on the left - super cool!