Robert W. Burroughs, PhD

Reduced Dietary Protein Induces Changes in the Dental Proteome Low dietary protein (10%) from normal (20%) does change protein expression in tooth proteome and alter developmental pathways. Among the significant protein expressions changes are actin-based myosin...

Delighted to share my latest publication, co-authored with my postdoc advisors (including @nsvitek.bsky.social) which is a new research direction for me in proteomics. But I am sad that I wasn't at the @sicb.bsky.social meeting when it dropped!

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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...

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

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!

#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 🦈–🦋 😃

YouTube video by Birds of a Feather Talk Together Podcast John Bates Shows Us Birds Killed by Windows at McCormick Place - What They've Learned From The Birds

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?...

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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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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.

Thanks @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social for writing this blog piece!

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 …

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!

I don't understand. @mcuban.bsky.social - why did they do this?!

I really need a Behind the Music on why the band broke up.

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!

@devoevomed.bsky.social - 👀

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...

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

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!