Que grande este primer día del Congreso Latinoamericano de Herpetologia aquí en San Jose. Looking forward to another great day of talks and conversations #ASOHerp2026
Just read blatantly false information in the intro of a published paper claiming that many species of female anoles can clone themselves and it helps them recover from natural disasters. How do these things get through peer review??? I should not have expected much better of MDPI but still.
So bittersweet when our best students defend! Another great one defends at Auburn here explaining what a reaction norm is! Congratulations Morgan! Great job! @ranitomorgan.bsky.social
Thank you so much for your kind words and mentorship Laurie! I’ll miss you all!
Only two weeks left until my PhD defense
The limiting nutrient in these waters is iron & whales are the final step in a chain that moves iron from lower levels back up to the surface waters, where it can cause phytoplankton blooms.
Guess what eats phytoplankton? That's right: krill.
The whales are farming their food.
Oh how I wish for public health leadership to follow a mission like this…
Reading older papers as I write my dissertation and this quote from Stearns (1976) on the nature of science really hits:
“Our purpose is not to have beautiful ideas, or profoundly obscure ideas, but to arrive at explanations that meet the most rigorous challenges that evidence and logic can pose.”
C. Zhang, R. Nielsen and S. Mirarab integrate all ASTRAL-like methods into a single package called ASTER, comprising several tools that collectively enhance the scalability, accuracy, and versatility of species tree inference.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf172
#evobio #molbio #compbio
"In our age of extinction, natural history museums can be powerful catalysts for change, spaces for honest narratives & places where science meets society. #NatureMemory makes a thoughtful, readable & urgent case for why that matters."
🤩Review in @natecoevo.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What a cutie!
Check out our latest blog post in celebration of #Pride 🏳️🌈
In this post, @zoomingbio.bsky.social shares fieldwork advice for researchers with marginalized identities.
Read the post here 👉 buff.ly/rJhjheF
#RainbowResearch
Excellent alt text on the images here
God, I love this visual abstract for a paper on leafcutter ants
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Packing for #Evol2025? Bring your new and gently used field gear and clothes that you no longer use to donate to the Field Gear Swap! Hosted by the tri-society Diversity Committees - drop by their booth to donate or pick up! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @evolmtg.bsky.social
Of course I would be remiss not to share my favorite animal observations as well. Dream come true to see Anolis aquaticus in the wild and some other cool finds too!
Observation tower view and some of my favorite plant observations from Las Cruces Biological Station in Costa Rica. How anyone could come to the botanic gardens here and not leave fascinated by plants and tropical ecology is beyond me. Super grateful to visit here with OTS
Oh to be as sleepy as a tree frog in a chair on a rainforest morning
I wish people would approach my insect observations on iNaturalist with the same ferocity as my incorrect bird observations
so a man can’t have hobbies
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My other main reason to oversleep
Auburn really did us a solid by scheduling spring break to overlap with the time change. I am so excited to oversleep all week
Amphibians are at risk of overheating due to climate change in both hemispheres
2% species are currently exposed to overheating even in shaded conditions, so water bodies are essential for them to buffer the effects of heat waves @patricepottier.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
New preprint from myself and @snaildit.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....
We looked at how domain adaptation can overcome errors caused by model violations when using neural networks to test for introgression between two populations.
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#SICB2025! Have you been sad about an animal-centric view of sex in your daily life? Well!
Next year, at #SICB2026! Aramati Casper, Karen Warkentin, and I are excited to be hosting the symposium ✨Sex across origins: Questioning animal-centric assumptions and developing integrative frameworks✨
Join our team!
CURRENTLY running to Atlanta for this
Excited to talk about parallel adaptation to urban environments in anole lizards at #SICB2025 as part of the Cities as Natural Experiments Symposium! Swing by Marquis A Saturday at 9 and say hi! We'll talk about thermal performance, morphology, and kinematics, so be sure not to miss this!
