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This is why I carry an SI-calibrated 1 kg weight everywhere I go.

15.01.2026 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bushtit?

13.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A poster advertising the symposium. See post link for talk titles, presenters, and affiliations.

@henryweith.bsky.social and I are organizing a symposium featuring evo-devo research, taking place at the AMNH on September 25th! If you're in the NYC area, please consider attending! (RSVP: forms.gle/bA2UeAaimrh6...)

16.09.2025 22:18 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

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Big news for everyone who makes use of museum collections, VertNet is back online!

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05.09.2025 21:41 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations!

20.08.2025 16:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hidden white and black feather layers enhance plumage coloration in tanagers and other songbirds Colorful songbirds use hidden white or black feather layers to enhance plumage color, an optical trick well known to artists.

Congratulations to Rosalyn, a mentor I'm deeply grateful to, for her newest publication appearing in Science Advances!

Hidden white and black feather layers enhance plumage coloration in tanagers and other songbirds | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

24.07.2025 18:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Telomere-to-telomere reference genome of the common five-lined skink, Plestiodon fasciatus (Squamata: Scincidae) Although the publication of high-quality reference genomes is steadily increasing for vertebrate groups, many clades remain chronically neglected. Skinks (order: Squamata; family: Scincidae) are one of the most diverse lizard families (1,785 species), yet there are currently just four published chromosome-level skink genomes. Here, we present the first telomere-to-telomere, chromosome-level reference genome for one of the most abundant lizards in the eastern United States, the common five-lined skink ( Plestiodon fasciatus ). Through the sequencing of RNA, long-read DNA, and Hi-C chromatin interactions, we produced an annotated reference genome (N50 = 227MB, L50 = 3) consisting of 6 macrochromosome pairs and 7 microchromosome pairs with 98% of BUSCO genes (lineage: sauropsida; 7480 BUSCO markers) represented, providing one of the most complete skink genomes to date: rPleFas1.1 . Functional annotation predicts 32,520 protein-coding genes (16,100 unique, named genes) with an average gene length of 9,372bp. Repeat annotations estimate that transposable elements comprise 46.7% of the genome, for which we show the amount and content is remarkably conserved across Scincidae.

My friend just posted his first paper from his PhD on bioRxiv: Telomere-to-telomere reference genome of the common five-lined skink, Plestiodon fasciatus (Squamata: Scincidae). Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

08.07.2025 16:29 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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