I’m happy to share that the third chapter of my doctoral dissertation has been published in Global Ecology and Biogeography: Diversification and Evolutionary Dynamics in Tropical Montane Regions
Huge thanks to my co-authors for their support!
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Always repost outstanding lizards. A+ walking lichens 🦎
Spring has sprung in Atlanta 🦎
Assistant Professor Benjamin Freeman has been named a 2026 Research Fellow by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. Freeman studies birds worldwide, focusing on how species respond to a changing climate and how to facilitate their survival.
🎉Congrats, @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social !
There is also an amazing news article in @nature.com on our recent paper in the same journal.
Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de
Honored to have been awarded the Wake Award for best student talk at this year’s SICB meeting (alongside the brilliant @linnealungstrom.bsky.social)! Already looking forward to the 2027 meeting and hearing about more cool research @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-dpcb.bsky.social 🐸🙌
sicb.org/sicb-news/co...
I'll have the magnirostris
Ben F continues to crush it as always!! Such an amazing colleague, friend, scientist, and well deserved! #birds
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To a first approximation, all Australian vertebrates are lizards. 🦎
But not just any lizards, Sphenomorphine skinks!
With more than 280 species they are hyper variable. Now, Janne Torkkola has pulled together the biggest phylogeny of the group to date. Read for free:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
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Go @armanafzadeh.bsky.social !!
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body mass declines have been widely noted, often attributed to warmer temps
here, a great test of competing hypotheses to explain body mass declines using a ridiculously massive dataset
evidence is that body mass declines arise due to increasing intersp comp over time --- v cool study
Are Great Tits becoming Not So-Great Tits? New preprint from @davididiaquez.bsky.social et al. documenting decline in mass of adult Great Tits in @wythamwoods.bsky.social of ~1 s.d. over 47 years - results from carry-over effect of increased population density during the nestling period. Thread ⬇️
We have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Keep your eyes out for @iamtaylornotyou.bsky.social's future papers...they're going to be spectacular!
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Can't believe last week I was doing this, and now I'm just sitting in my office looking at a computer
Amazing! Good luck!!
For those at Georgia Tech, please join our Women+ in Biology Career Panel this morning! Looking forward to some great conversation with three incredible biologists.
(W+ is always open to all!)
Join us! @ssenese.bsky.social. @drgodwit.bsky.social jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.
Lab needed mousepads. Didn't know we could go this hard. 🦎🦎🦎
all right Marius! great job leading this v cool effort to test ideas about elevational migration at global scale
Send an email to Tony Burnetti (the corresponding author who is not on Blue sky) as he will love to talk about it! @wcratcliff.bsky.social
Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍
The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)
10 out of 10 bug
Outstanding paper and spectacular dataset!! And led by a @gtsciences.bsky.social undergraduate student!!! Congratulations Shreyas & @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social - fantastic!! 🐦🦅🪹
*walking around campus* Wow look at those distichous leaves...reminds me of 🦎Anolis distichus. I mean...leaf venation. Huh lizards have veins. Wait. No. Plants. Chlorophyll is cool...why do no lizards photosynthesize? Plants probably blocked them. Yeh, that makes sense. Should write a paper.
why do males defend territories in some species while pairs or family groups defend territories in others?
then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species
the best predictor?
latitude
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
New paper out - fun collaboration with @wcratcliff.bsky.social & led by the wonderful Tony Burnetti! IMO, a rare clear example identifying the mechanism underlying priority effects at macroevolutionary scales. Also, continuing to justify my PhD from a plant lab 🍃
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New paper out! Here's a puzzle: phototrophy, the ability to use light for energy, is one of life's great innovations. It evolved early and transformed the biosphere. But it evolved 2x. Why not just once, why not more? Our work suggests the answer is priority effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
