Gustavo Burin 🍉 (ele/dele - he/him)

Just arrived in Birmingham for #2025SVP! Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Ever wondered about the evolution of filter feeding in Antarctic seals?
If so, come along to my talk on Wednesday at 4pm in Hall 1.

The Durham cathedral

A male smoky rubyspot damselfly

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Get in touch if you want to chat!

A grumpy-looking Acanthropagrus australis (yellowfin bream), lateral view with the fins clearly visible.

Oi, stickleback researchers!

One of my PhD students is on a quest for lateral-view photographs of sticklebacks (like the one below, obvs not a stickleback). Any population/species, so long as the location and date of collection are known.

Does anyone know where we might find data like this?

Hot off the press. Our study on the #biogeography of Ceratobatrachid #frogs is now out in @ZoolJLinnSoc.bsky.social

I had a chance to present this work at the World Congress of #herpetology last year. I tried to compile the highlights from this study. Read the open access paper for more details

There is some python code for simulating a bunch of stuff including biogeography, climate, environment, and traits by Torsten Hauffe that might be useful, though I'm not sure how complex the biogeography part can be

github.com/thauffe/BDNN...

Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Huge congrats, Dan!

🚨🚨JOB ALERT 🚨🚨
Fresh new position in Comparative Biology at OSU!

We're looking for a comp. biologist, especially those who investigate biomechanics, functional anatomy, neuroanatomy, or morphological development.

Feel free to ask me any questions!
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...

Super well deserved, huge congrats!

Interaction between floral rewards and floral symmetry shapes diversification dynamics in Amazonian trees Floral zygomorphy, or monosymmetry, is thought to have a positive effect on the diversification rates of angiosperms, but its true impact is still an open topic. Given the controversy surrounding th...

Happy to see this finally out! Diego is a brilliant student that took our grad course on Macroevolution during lockdown, and this eventually escalated to me becoming a co-author in his PhD chapter.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

He combined floral anatomy, pollination-related traits and diversification rates of a very important amazonian tree group to show that a combination of two floral traits is related to changes in the diversification dynamics, likely in association with other unknown traits.

Interaction between floral rewards and floral symmetry shapes diversification dynamics in Amazonian trees Floral zygomorphy, or monosymmetry, is thought to have a positive effect on the diversification rates of angiosperms, but its true impact is still an open topic. Given the controversy surrounding th...

Happy to see this finally out! Diego is a brilliant student that took our grad course on Macroevolution during lockdown, and this eventually escalated to me becoming a co-author in his PhD chapter.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election

Guilty www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Brazil Supreme Court Majority Votes to Convict Bolsonaro for Alleged Coup Attempt Jair Bolsonaro faces life behind bars after Supreme Court majority finds right-wing firebrand guilty of 2022 coup attempt.

Brazil’s Supreme Court reached a majority to convict the right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 presidential election.

Dear friends from other countries:

please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.

Brazil's Supreme Court forms a majority to convict ex-President Bolsonaro of a coup A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.

JUST IN:
A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.

Today marks my first official day as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Gothenburg, working with Daniele Silvestro and Søren Faurby. Super excited for the next two years, and very much looking forward to sciencing hard while having lots of fun!

Yours truly and our mounted Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) specimen

The bird collection store, busy with visiting researchers, mounts, and in the background our volunteers who capture data from the specimen labels. It's not always this packed, but we do have a fair number of volunteers and visitors.

Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in trays in the cabinets. The collections spaces are pretty new, fresh, and functional, which is not always the case for museum collections...

A tray of African raptor eggs to illustrate the breadth of the bird collection, which holds som 70K skin specimens, 60K egg clutches, and 10K skeletons.

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553!

🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

For those at #ESA2025 today, I’ll be presenting at 4:15pm at COS 019 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience 2. Looking forward to a fun meeting with many great talks!

New paper out! We explore how environmental and historical factors shape the global phylogenetic structure of Canidae 🐺🦊🌍

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

Caralho, eu ia te mandar isso pelo outro perfil hahahha

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

I'll definitely take a look, thanks for tagging me!

🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨

Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae.

Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm

What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers?
There's a whole bunch more names to use!

Let me explain ...

Today is the day! Go visit @alencarlrv.bsky.social's poster to check the work she's brilliantly leading with the participation of a stellar team (and me)! See some cool stuff about the evolution of ovi/viviparity and climate in squamates, trying to uncover its hidden dynamics! #evol2025

The #evol2025 FOMO is real 🥲 First one I'm missing since 2017.... Wishing you all a great conference, and make sure you check @alencarlrv.bsky.social's poster for some really cool stuff!