Good thread.

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Check out our new paper in GEB, led by @andrebellve.bsky.social and with help from @reymiyajima.bsky.social, on spatio-seasonal variation in avian dietary attributes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

OFFICES. It’s that simple. If I have to be “in the office”, I want an OFFICE. Not an open space, not a shared cube, an OFFICE. With a door. That I can close and lock.

1/ Nature doesn't come with labels. Biological patterns are often continuous, overlapping, and difficult to categorize. That's why we built BioPatternNet: a pipeline that quantifies pattern variation from biological images without relying on predefined pattern categories dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

I have checked what the Japanese media are saying and there seem to be competing names for the man. Some are going with ゴミ箱伯爵 (Gomibako Hakushaku - Count Trashcan) whilst others are using the katakana that you have for foreign loan-words and opting for ビンフェイス伯爵 (Binfeisu Hakushaku).

New paper now out in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society @botjlinnsoc.bsky.social 🌼 Student-led, by Elizabeth Forward! Hummingbirds nearly double the diversification rate of bromeliads, the pineapple family @leverhulme.ac.uk @uor-research.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/botl...

We will have a 23 month research associate role opening to support our work on mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. Open to candidates with substantial CT-segmentation experience with Masters or PhD qualifications. Advert should be out next week - will post soon but do get in touch if of interest.

Damn this is a cool paper.

BTW, it continues to be the case that someone paid for a ticket but never told us their name or their email. :-(

Maybe you need to watch this King Bird-of-paradise dancing.

Across the pond, Londoners are demonstrably more healthy thanks to London's congestion pricing programs: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Leaf size is an important trait shaping species distributions globally. We looked at how climate and evolutionary history influence leaf size in conifers! Spoiler: lots of evolutionary conservatism! Check out our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper led by two undergraduates examining the scaling and ecomorphology of lagomorph body shape and appendicular skeleton is now out in @anatrecord.bsky.social! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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It's worth stressing that the *magnitude* by which some of these records are being broken is nothing short of astonishing

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Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Oh, this one's fun. (tl;dr, ITV responds to different environmental drivers between birds, salamanders, and small mammals) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Brown mid-term (take-home, honour system): average of 96, forty perfect 100s Brown final (in-person): average of 45, and 22 of the perfect 40s didn't even show up. Oof. english.elpais.com/education/20...

Anyone know anyone still looking for a PhD for this autumn? Vicky Sleight's lab* here at Aberdeen has a late-breaking vacancy to study mollusc morphogenesis. Deadline July 12, 'home' students only. *And team of co-supervisors, myself included 🤓🐚 sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

Other than the Chunnel, I would struggle to come up with the deepest underground I've ever been in relation to sea level. Like, I've been in some caves in Panama basically at sea level, so presumably that?

I'm sorry what? (I guess these are supposed to be AI-hallucinated sloths? They look more like meerkats to me.)

Mandatory cameras-on for a non-interactive training session is such ableist bullshit.

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I grew up somewhere that routinely got to -35/-40°C in winter. I was deeply unprepared for UK winters. It's *so humid*, dwellings and especially windows aren't built for the cold, and rain is so much worse than snow.

How about we tax billionaires? Refugees aren’t even allowed to work.

I reviewed some WOS grants this year and was BLOWN AWAY by the quality. Congratulations to all recipients -- it was a highly competitive pool!

The avian colourscape is disproportionately threatened by species extinctions 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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a 1% worth highlighting, excellent timing from #ProcB

New paper from Sruthi Krishna Moorthy and @ymalhi.bsky.social examines 60 years of tropical ecology research 🌍 The study highlights the growing dominance of tropical forest research and persistent global inequities in tropical ecology authorship. doi.org/10.1111/btp....

Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out [email protected]! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...

My maps are getting better, but yet somehow also not better. (This is supposed to be a map of [redacted bird trait].)

"skeletal size in passerines does not strongly adhere to Bergmann's Rule, suggesting spatial temperature-size relationships may be unlikely to predict temporal responses of size to climate change in this group" 👀👀👀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Crikey this is a cool paper (on bird migration) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I was trying to find a paper in my field, so I Googled the first author's (rare) surname and the topic of the paper. Google's AI summary popped up with the correct paper but also: 1. The wrong first name for this author 2. A misidentified picture of the third author 3. A meaningless summary

Idk man, maybe if the UK spent more time on prepping for the climate change we all knew was coming, and less time Brexiting and burning down immigrant homes and making it illegal to be trans, y'all would be able to afford some basic ass A/C.

I'm actually genuinely extremely organised (I have much higher gremlin-energy than I am an actual gremlin), but sometimes I leave rather baffling notes on my to do list. Today's example: "Drumnadrochit exists". Thanks, past!self, super clear what kind of action point that was supposed to be.

Registration for the American Society of Naturalists stand-alone meeting is now open! www.amnat2027.org The former Asilomar meeting will be held in a mansion on Long Island in Jan '27. Limit of 200 people. @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2026

Alright, today we have Round 2 of "why we don't let the PIs code": this is supposed to be a global map of avian species richness.

Happy #PrideMonth! To celebrate, I'm starting a thread of readings on queerness in animals/evolution, and keep adding throughout the month. I'll include a mix of writing for popular audiences as well as some scientific articles and book recommendations! 🧪 🏳️‍🌈 (1/n) Nature has ALWAYS been queer! 🌈

Here's the paper in @plosbiology.org. The upshot: several genes that can be altered to make birds more colorful have been passed around the warbler family tree many times and across large evolutionary distances.

Me: OMG, I successfully plotted my data, this is so exciting! R: Methinks you celebrated too soon. (This is supposed to be a phylogeny of ~4000 species of birds. It actually very well may be, just smol?)

I like it when the title makes the message super clear: Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions. ​(even if the message mostly sucks). 🧪 Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02669-y​

Me: MSc My uni's Outlook autocorrect: Msc Also my uni's Outlook autocorrect: 'Msc' is spelled wrong. Did you maybe mean 'MSc'? Me: Yes I did. Because that's what I typed. 'MSc' My uni's Outlook autocorrect: Ah, yes, 'Msc', I understand. But also, did you know that that's spelled wrong?

I'm having major FOMO about #evol2026 -- despite the horrors, it looks like y'all are doing excellent science! (Time is such nonsense -- I think the last major conference that I attended was in 2023?! Dunno how that happened.)