A shared pathogen reservoir can tip widespread infection into mass mortality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.17.719273v1

Our new preprint On a global scale, plants did not experience a catastrophic mass extinction during the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB). However, they still suffered losses, with extinction rates reaching around 30%. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Today marks a special day. 💚 We started this project nearly a decade ago when I was just a wee undergrad with a burning curiosity. Now to see it published in Oecologia as a PhD candidate is surreal... & on the one-year anniversary of my father's passing, no less. So grateful. doi.org/10.1007/s004...

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

Our work as Editor's choice in @evolletters.bsky.social !✨️ Developmental biases & micro- to macroevution in the lizard skull 🦎 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Yu et al. propose a measure for stochastic game dynamic: the likelihood ratio of the probability density of phenotypic frequency under selection versus neutral conditions. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Current grad students: Submit your research proposal by May 18th to be considered for a Graduate Research Excellence Grant! Learn more about how to craft a strong proposal on our website: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

From Knowledge to Action: Next Steps for the Natural Science Collections Community Ellwood et al. 2026, BioScience academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

If only I was just a hop away... 🐸

Fun bird facts 🐦

Thankful to have a solid foundation in this and no bad habits to break, but I'll be sending this to all the new students in the department. It's so important and future you (or whoever inherits your data) will thank you! 🤣

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

I’m happy to share that the third chapter of my doctoral dissertation has been published in Global Ecology and Biogeography: Diversification and Evolutionary Dynamics in Tropical Montane Regions Huge thanks to my co-authors for their support! doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Oooh, I've been waiting for this album to drop too!

The University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) here at the Florida Museum, a collection of over 530,000 preserved plant specimens, marked a major milestone with their 300,000th vascular plant specimen being accessioned into the collection! 👏👏👏 What was it? www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-blog/...

Hey I did a fun thing with @warren.senate.gov about breaking up giant healthcare conglomerates

Nice guide to Structural Variants (SVs)

Phenotypic complexity determines the predictability of molecular convergence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709483v1

Ruckman & Long review how affordable sequencing is transforming complex trait research, focusing on how affordable sequencing has fundamentally reshaped what questions evolutionary researchers can ask and how they can answer them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag025 #evobio #molbio

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).

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/...

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

🚨 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 🪶📡

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

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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.

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...

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

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

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 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...

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/... 1/10 ⬇️

"No, you're not stupid. No one knows what the hell they're doing."

Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...

This email between Epstein and JD Vance’s tech oligarch benefactor Peter Thiel where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves seems… not great (They also met with the UN ambassador to Russia together)

Spatial distribution of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in central Hokkaido, Japan and associated ecological factors revealed by intensive short-term survey in 2024 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.703647v1