Daniele (Dani) Wiley

It's so disillusioning taking my comprehensive exams while the state of my country is what it is.

Why do some islands have more biodiversity than others? In our new paper, published in @ecography.bsky.social , we sought to answer this question for amphibians! 🌐🏝️🐸

@provete.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

Follow the thread 🧵(1/7).

It's super grainy, but you get the idea. 😅

Nature's web interface has really tanked in the last few months. 😮‍💨 Interesting article though.

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please stick to the jays and the crows that you're used to 🎵🎶

I hardly think I'm fast enough, but a vast improvement to my other motivation to jog (outrunning zombies).

Dupont's lark fitted with a GPS/VHF tag. Photo: Pedro Saez Gomez

Fig. 1 from the article: Schematic representation of the three different VHF/GPS configurations used to analyse the effect of attaching a VHF to a GPS tag.

Fig. 2 from the article: Distribution of recorded locations (as a percentage of the total locations recorded) during the tests, according to the number of detected satellites and the three different configurations.

🚨 Top-downloaded 2024/25: new method using a rain-soluble GPS+VHF harness for tracking small, elusive birds without recapture (tested on Dupont's lark). Enables telemetry for species weighing less than 40 g

➡️ vist.ly/4sg4q

Dupont's lark photo: Pedro Saez

#ornithology #birds #methods 🪶📡

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why does the poorly kept taxidermy anger me almost as much 😖

Genomic adaptations for tail-length evolution in arboreal snakes Abstract. Adaptation to arboreal environments requires overcoming gravitational constraints, driving repeated morphological innovations across snake lineag

Wang et al. reveal that arboreality evolved independently in multiple snake clades, with tail elongation as a recurrent morphological adaptation, and identify accelerated evolution in genes associated with somite specification.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag029

#evobio #molbio

HapNet: a new Python package for automated population-aware haplotype network analysis and visualization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.706154v1

SEND HELP I CANT BREATHE

On one hand, DEI has already been dissolved, defunded, & distanced... I wonder how hard of a fight it will be for the exhausted disenfranchised to bring it back...

On the other hand, what a great opportunity for those that hold power & privilege to prove that they are *actually* allies this time.

Love the figures! 🐸✨ Congratulations!

Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio Aguilar-Gómez et al. use exome sequencing of 347 strawberry poison frogs to uncover the genetic basis of color variation. They identify that kit, ttc39b, and bco1 underlie blue-red, yellow-red, and gr...

The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action:
Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

It takes two: the value of integrating citizen science and scientific collections in biodiversity research Digitally accessible records are a vital source of primary biodiversity data, with citizen science now surpassing scientific collections in global rep…

Cuervo-Robayo et al. It takes two: the value of integrating citizen science and scientific collections in biodiversity research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CitizenScience

Eco-evolutionary dynamics shaping biodiversity in the urban mosaic Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The urban mosaic is a complex assimilation of habitats, biotic and abiotic factors with eco-evolutionary influence on local and regional biodiversity. In this Review,...

Excited to share our new review in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, coauthored w/allstar postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @annainthefield.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social Bridging island biogeography & evolutionary processes, we explore how eco-evo dynamics play out in the urban mosaic rdcu.be/e4tcj

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the support of our institutional subscribers, all Royal Society subscription journals will be open access in 2026 through #S2O. Researchers can read all articles and publish #OpenAccess in our eight subscription journals for free buff.ly/4Lu9VpW

Complex range expansion and selective regime in the introduced Florida cane toad - Heredity Heredity - Complex range expansion and selective regime in the introduced Florida cane toad

New paper led by my former student Cinnamon Mittan... find out what those cane toads have been doing once they got established down there in Florida... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An old quip: "All stories you read in the newspaper are completely true except those for which you have first-hand information." This has many corollaries, e.g. "All clades are purely diverging, without introgression, except for those for which you have the pertinent data." 🧪 #evolbio

New album just dropped

This article contains some pretty disturbing information. Some of the scientists referred to in the article have produced influential work in evolutionary biology (e.g. Trivers on parental investment, parent-offspring conflict, or reciprocal altruism). How can we separate the wheat from the chaff?

Peaceful manatee timeline cleanse 〰️🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #coralcitycamera #timelinecleanse #peaceful

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White H...

Trump to direct Pentagon to buy buggy whips to revive horse&buggy industry.

Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.

Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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🌙💡 Does light pollution go deeper than we think?

Our new study shows that LED light at night alters thyroid gland histology in Triturus newts, a key endocrine organ. Suggesting ALAN as a subtle endocrine disruptor, beyond known effects on melatonin and corticosterone

📄 www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/16...

Climate, ecological dynamics, and the seasonal distribution of birds in mountains Ecological dynamics related to energy use and competition drives the seasonal distribution of birds in mountains across the world.

Why is there such variation in the birds encountered as you go up or down a mountain? New paper in #ScienceAdvances examines how climate and ecological interactions drive bird distributions in mountains throughout the year:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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