花と鳥と青い空。 Some days it's the little things. #nature #urban #birds

I managed to use the wrong tags. Here with the correct ones #popgen #consgen

If you are aware of grad program reduction due to cuts in science funding in the USA -- please help catalog it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🌿🐸

Cool meta-analysis on parasite-mediated sexual selection, showing associations between parasite load and ornament condition. Stronger negative correlations for ornaments that can change in quality, such as behavioral displays and skin pigmentation! 🪱🧪🌍🦚 #evolution #evobio doi.org/10.1093/evle...

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Great #popgen course, highly recommended! #DNA #aDNA

Climate change threatens amphibians & species representation within Protected Areas in tropical wetlands🐸 Suggests that expanding PAs is urgent. But, addressing drivers of environmental degradation, such as unsustainable practices in agriculture, is equally critical🌏🧪 🔗 https://buff.ly/3E7rlwO

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Forum in this collection: Phylogenetic framework to explore #trait #evolution in #Trypanosomatidae, authored by A.Y. Kostygov, A.T.S. Albanaz, A. Butenko, E.S. Gerasimov, J. Lukeš & V. Yurchenko. #Genome #Phylogenomics #Trypanosomatid #Catalase @czechacademy.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/paras...

Museum biology FTW! Cool!

What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱 How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐 Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits

#ornithology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bats carry many viruses but don’t get sick. Scientists found special immune genes that help bats fight viruses without harmful inflammation. One gene, ISG15, helps bats fight COVID-19 better than humans. 🦇🌎🧪🦊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing new global biodiversity paper! Confirms: > Wealthy areas well studied > Most Biodiversity not in these areas 🌍🌎🌏 Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

My #EcoEvo, #Ecology, #Biogeo & #FieldBioligy inclined folks: Do you have your #pics of your favorite #fieldsite? Below is the "Beaver Pond" in Gothic, CO - nestled on #RockyMountain #BiologicalLaboratories ( #RMBL ) land. Living in that valley was so special to me... I'd love to go back one day.

Apropos of nothing, just catching up on some much overdue reading.

In all the gloom, a ray of happiness. My 1st, first-authored paper was published today in @peerj.bsky.social. 🎉 Started during my post-bacc (2022), this project involved >1,000 #frogs from #NaturalHistoryCollections, 3 #pathogens, & spanned 32 states! 🐸🦠 #womeninSTEM doi.org/10.7717/peer...

As an #NSF Graduate Research Fellow, federal funding made it possible for me (a #firstgen) to publish my very first paper in @peerj.bsky.social this week on frogs 🐸, their pathogens🦠, and using machine learning 💻 as exploratory tools in large-scale, wildlife disease studies. doi.org/10.7717/peer...

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

Don't forget to guard your #mentalhealth: ferociously when you can! I know it's a very scary time, but #doomscrolling will hamper your ability to live long enough to fix things. Take breaks, look outside, & say no to that thing that's more stressful than rewarding. #AcademicSky #WomeninSTEM #DEI

#WEBINAR! Bat conservation as White Nose Syndrome approaches Friday, Jan 31, 2025 12 p.m. PT / 1 p.m. MT Bats in B.C. face unprecedented threats from white-nose syndrome which can wipe out entire colonies if introduced. With WCSC's Dr.Cori Lausen. Free. Registration required fwcp.ca/events/ 🦇🌎🦊🧪

A great data of human evolution/past dispersal & occurrences. I can see its usefulnees for paleo/extinction studies @jcsvenning.bsky.social do you know? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

One of my guilty reading pleasures are topics on how other disciplines handle things that ecologists/biologists often struggle with (e.g. data accessibility & reproducibility, flexible statistics, etc.). Can't wait to read this one!

Does anyone have any recommended #Bayesian #modeling workshop/recorded seminar/online course? Adding that skill to my #academic toolbelt is a must! Better if in #EcoEvo #genomic context, but general intro & applications is 👌 too. #AcademicSky #Statistics #statsky

The rare, but nutritious Fuzzy Baked Beans to brighten up your #Monday. These are the beans of a killer, Bella! #cats #catsky #petsky

Check out our preprint on #salamander 🦎 #macrogenetics 🧬 work. This was a lab-collaboration (lots of 1st time authors!) paper that I was lucky enough to be part of, headed by the Amphibian and Reptile Biodiversity Lab (ARBL) @ #UNM #Biology postdoc Luis Amador @luchoamador.bsky.social. 👏🎉 Well done!

🚨📝 New Voices of Academia blog Doing a PhD with OCD by Isabelle Berrow "Days would pass by where all I had done was cry and hide myself away, punishing myself for how I felt." voicesofacademia.com/2025/01/27/d... ##AcademicMentalHealth

The journey is tough 😅

Here's your #happyhumanity post for the month: It's finally been cold enough for the fountain near the Bio dept. building @ #UNM to freeze... It only took a few days before it was given handcrafted felt eyes, a name, & it's own social media account. My money is on the theater kids. 😅 #academicsky

What do evolution and adaptation have to do with predicting vulnerability to climate change? Find out in our new paper led by the amazing Dr. @brennaforester.bsky.social and featuring the WORLD'S COOLEST 🐸 just published in Molecular Ecology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #congen

Just opened my Bluesky account, and what better way to kick things off than with big news? Our paper, “Broad geographic dispersal is not a diversification driver for Emberizoidea,” is now out in PRSB! 1/3 #Macroevolution #Macroecology #Biogeography

🔥 Just out 🔥 our paper featuring a method to account for disequilibrium dynamics & time lags in species distribution model #SDM is published in Ecology Letters ⬇️ It outperforms traditional SDMs for 95% of the 92 European forest 🦅 species we tested @etiennelalechere.bsky.social shorturl.at/CVYPw

With one week until our Graduate Student Recruitment 'extravaganza', I wanted to ask #Academia / #AcademicSky folks... When you were choosing your eventual grad institution, what were the things that made it appealing/stand out to you? Are there things we should be doing to appeal to students?

Finding #salamanders (& #snakes) feels like looking for buried treasure. The Sacramento Mountain Salamander (Aneides hardii) is no exception! A #NM endemic & in the Plethodontidae family, meaning they're lungless at their adult stage! Instead, special tissues & env moisture help them breathe!(2024)

🌿 Half a Century of Plant Community Changes in Non-Forest Habitats 🌿 Our new article in Global Change Biology, led by Klára Klinkovská, reveals how the plant species composition in treeless vegetation has changed over the last 50 years.

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/155... Mammal folks & wolf scientists alike - #Ecolog sent out a great postdoc opportunity based in Fort Collins, CO at CSU's Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. #EcoECRcareer with #USGS

Opinion in this collection: #Evolution of #parasitological knowledge: can the past inform the future? authored by Robert Poulin. #Breakthroughs #Ecological #Parasitology #Phylogeny @zoologyotago.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/paras...

Push your institutions, businesses, conferences, & socials OUT of #Meta ( #Facebook, #Instagram) & #X ( #Twitter ) & INTO alternatives like #Bluesky which still have intellectual integrity. Are they perfect? No, but I refuse to support unabashed oligarchical overreach. #Academia #Science #Nature

Dumpster divers now have competition—dumpster dabblers

I am leading a session on the Impact of Environmental Change on Symbiotic Interactions at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference on animal Symbiosis. Registration is open. Join us! #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🌎🧪🌊🦑🌐🪸 www.grc.org/animal-micro...

Where does your mind escape to when stressed? #vacation spots? #fieldsites ? For me, it would be my time in #Japan. Trying to remind myself that this is the summer to save $ & stay in the states, but I do miss it...

"The question arises: #Wildlife (like humans) may be surviving with #climatechange & infectious #disease, but are they thriving?" Evaluation of the energetic cost to surviving during these uncertain (🦠) & stressful (🌡️) times through a dynamic energy budget (DEB) framework. 👏 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This study compared two approaches to mapping pathogen hotspots: 1) a top-down global predictive model, 2) a bottom-up expert panel with local knowledge. Most instructive were the mismatches between methods. THM: both approaches have additive value 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🌎

Student research #grant alert! @asn-amnat.bsky.social has #funding open to #PhD students (US + international), deadline 14 March. Each award is US$2K for research that advances the conceptual unification of #ecology, #evolution, or #behavior. bit.ly/asn_grant_25 Please share widely! 🧪🌾🌍

Really cool PhD positions, to work with a great team!

Maybe not every conservationist's favorite group to advocate for, but #parasites have helped shape the wonderful #biodiversity that we see today. Like other indispensable forces in #nature that act as selective pressures, parasites are an integral part of #life and deserve to be here. #conservation

#Sarawak, in #Borneo is a gem of a city. From incredible pieces of architecture that appear seemingly out of nowhere, to sanctuaries & protected areas that hold some of nature's most iconic species! So grateful to have gotten to spend time there (Aug 2024) & hope to go back. #orangutans #malaysia

Now accepting proposals for symposia and workshops at the XIII Latin American Congress of Herpetology set for 23-27 February 2026 in fabulous Costa Rica! Deadline for proposals = 28 feb. 2025. 🐸 🦎 🐢 🐍 🐊 www.herpcr2026.com/inscription These meeting are great fun, very educational & trilingual.

Humanize your #scientists! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... Great #article about how sharing the #identity and personal info about scientists alongside their work increased student #engagement. #academia #outreach #science Part of their 'Data Nuggets' (lol) included answering questions like...