@anshumans.bsky.social
Loves networks, ecology & fossils || Asst. Prof. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Asst. Curator of Paleontology at University of Michigan || Else can be found cooking or reading || Alum: IISc-UMD-Harvard|| Odia ๐ฎ๐ณ
๐จResearch alert! Two new studies, led by Museum scientists, suggest that biofluorescence in fish dates back ~112 million years & has evolved independently 100+ times, with the majority of that activity happening among species that live on coral reefs. Learn more โฌ๏ธ amnh.link/4nlyBrk
17.06.2025 19:58 โ ๐ 78 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3
It's been a pretty strange week.
I was interviewed a bit ago for an article about Foraminifera and a recent spate of papers.
Sadly, but predictably, @chrislowery.bsky.social got the best quote in.
@seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I donโt think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
02.06.2025 13:30 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Screenshot from the cover page of the paper
A map of the world showing fly migration study locations and estimated routes
A close up photo of Eristalinus taeniops the stripey eyed hoverfly on a yellow flower in Cyprus
A close up photo of the locust blowfly Stomorhina lunata on a rock. My favourite fly
It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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New online! Temporal dynamics and global flows of insect invasions in an era of globalization
03.02.2025 03:29 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Preparing CTD-rosettes
When an international group of empiricists and theorists go to sea, good things happen...
New manuscript showing how recurring zones of elevated oxygen that harbor dense populations of phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria are connected to viral activity - a ๐งต.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lots of good ecologists here!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New Contribution from recent UMMP PhDs James, Ethan, and Rodrigo! New Mississippian vertebrates from the Blue Ridge Esker near Jackson, Michigan. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social @james-v-andrews.bsky.social
15.01.2025 14:38 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Fossil fishes from Holzmaden, preserved as black fossils on dark gray rock.
Fossil fishes (mostly) from Solnhofen, with brown fossils on cream colored rock.
Fossil fishes from Bolca, with dark brown fossils against gray to beige matrix.
In transit to #SICB2025 on #FossilFriday, but here are snapshots of three famous European marine Lagerstรคtten from a New Year's Day visit to USNM: Holzmaden (Early Jurassic), Solnhofen (Late Jurassic), Bolca (Eocene).
03.01.2025 21:26 โ ๐ 61 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Hi! Can I be added?
11.12.2024 14:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.
26.11.2024 18:48 โ ๐ 82 ๐ 100 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2
Amazing fossil alert.
Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomachโฆ
๐งช #evolution #paleontology
Hi Josh! Could you add me? I am an incoming curator at the museum of Paleontology at University of Michigan.
26.11.2024 12:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" ๐งช
22.11.2024 23:55 โ ๐ 689 ๐ 189 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 6
A fossil dragonfly relative
A fossil insect with long legs
Some cool insect fossils we've got at @ummnh.bsky.social for #FossilFriday
23.11.2024 01:35 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods ๐๐ฆ๐งต www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w
20.11.2024 16:14 โ ๐ 1222 ๐ 324 ๐ฌ 25 ๐ 43New here. Can you add me?
16.11.2024 12:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0New here. Would like to be added
16.11.2024 12:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Would love to be added! New here!
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