OpenAccess science sounds great! But what if authors have to pay (Gold OA)? Well, clear biases appear: less participation from low and middle-income countries.
Find all about it in our new study led by Pablo Huais and Javi Nori 👇@oikosjournal.bsky.social
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What do we know about mammal biodiversity patterns in the American tropics? Find out in the new book chapter by @liomys.mx and yours truly 👇
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
The whole book is a gem for those interested in the study of mammals of one of the world's most diverse regions!
Don't miss out on our guest speaker Dr. Elisa Thébault and her scientific talk "Species diversity, food web structure and ecosystem stability: Bridging the gap between theory and data"
More details about our Lunchbox models seminar series on: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...
All in all, our study challenges the idea that dispersal ability is a universal driver of bird evolution. Instead, we think that factors like ecological specialization and behavior likely take the lead in shaping the incredible diversity of Emberizoidea. (6/6)
Furthermore, we found no evidence that HWI evolution is coupled with speciation. While many key traits evolve alongside lineage splitting, wing shape evolution in these birds appears to be unrelated. (5/6)
While we saw a peak of speciation at intermediate HWI, our best-fit model shows that speciation in these birds is actually driven by unmeasured "hidden" traits, not dispersal. (4/6)
The classic "Intermediate Dispersal Model" suggests species with mid-range dispersal ability should speciate most by balancing range expansion with isolation. (3/5)
Does dispersal ability drive bird diversification? We dived into this classic question using 749 species of Emberizoidea (~90% of the clade!). We used the Hand-Wing Index (HWI) as a proxy to see if dispersal ability shapes species divergence. (2/5)
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Better late than never! A little after our paper officially hit the press in Evolution, I’m finally sharing a thread on what we discovered about bird dispersal and diversification. (1/5)
Congratulations to our @esme-ashe.bsky.social for winning one of the @biogeography.bsky.social poster award at #TIBS2026. Well deserved! 🎉
Glad to be back at TIBS conference #TIBS2026. Specially, to find my former students and now colleagues @axelarango.bsky.social and @aberenicega.bsky.social presenting their cool postdoc work.
Got to see old friends and met new ones, always the best part ;)
Read the latest issue of Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/issue...
Work by our @axelarango.bsky.social is now out!!! @uni-wuerzburg.de Effects of the #dispersal ability in the #diversification dynamics of Emberizoidea (Aves: Passeriformes) url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
One more step towards more insightful analyses in Evolutionary Macroecology. Thanks @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social and all coauthors still not blueskylized for the collaborative endeavor!
SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social
To celebrate 20 years of #BiologyLetters, we’ve curated a collection of the journal’s most popular papers. View the papers below and discover more about Biology Letters here: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/03...
📢Our new paper on alien vertebrates in the world's mountains is now out @naturecomms.bsky.social. Using data on 700+ spp across ~3,000 mountains we explore their distribution patterns,flows across realms, presence in protected areas, and the factors driving these trends.
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👉 rdcu.be/ebidu
#ProcB in nationalgeographic.com | Rapid evolution of prehistoric dogs from wolves by natural and sexual selection emerges from an agent-based model: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help!
We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter.
Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol
I first read the famous 1925 Yule paper at its 80th birthday - during my Master thesis work, and it shaped my research profoundly. It was a pleasure and honour to lead this special 100 anniversary issue celebrating Yule's legacy and phylogenetic models with @noahrosenberg.bsky.social and Mike Steel!
Where do species come from? where and when did they meet and exchange genes? find it out with our new R tool for historical biogeography, RRphylogeography is published:
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
🌍 Ecosystems are shaped by feedbacks! ✨
From tipping points to spatial patterns, this study by @ricardsole.bsky.social shows how non-linear thresholds govern biodiversity loss and resilience 🌳🔥
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
🔑 Embracing #Gaia’s complexity is key to conservation!
🌐🌍🦤🍁#GaiaTheory
This challenges long-held ideas about how biodiversity develops. And opens up interesting research venues.
This paper was in the works for long. I am grateful of my team and collaborators
Excited to keep uncovering biodiversity’s stories!
We found that for the Emberizoids (a group that includes charismatic birds such as McArthur’s warblers and Darwin’s finches), diversity isn’t driven by dispersal between regions. Instead, speciation happens within stable habitats, shaped likely by ecological opportunities and range stability.
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