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PhD Candidate @ UC Davis Wainwright Lab studying fish macroevolution and 🦷
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Katherine Corn 🌽
9 days ago
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...
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Tracy Heath
12 days ago
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at
#Evol2026
, you can talk to
@brpetrucci.bsky.social
&
@sigournie.bsky.social
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Emily Troyer
about 1 month ago
I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed in the Sam Noble Museum at University of Oklahoma! If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out. More info here:
fishdiversitylab.weebly.com
Please share widely!!!
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Matt Friedman
2 months ago
There are more individuals of the deep-sea fish Cyclothone than any other vertebrate genus, maybe as many as one million billion. Distinctively ornamented ichthyoliths place the origin of Cyclothone in the greenhouse world of the early Eocene, ~55.6 Ma.
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For reef fishes, benthic feeding is where it’s at! Our new paper in PNAS shows that diversification rates for reef fishes increased through time, likely caused by the rise of benthic-feeding groups like surgeonfish, rabbitfish, butterflyfish, and parrotfish! Read here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2533611123
2 months ago
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Menna Jones
2 months ago
Great to see our pre-print out! Give it a read if you're curious about the underlying theory and potential applications of the discretized stochastic diffusion model:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Society for the Study of Evolution
3 months ago
SSE is pleased to offer free virtual
#Evol2026
registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today!
www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
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Michalis Mihalitsis
3 months ago
New paper out with
@cichlidnick.bsky.social
and Peter C. Wainwright. We show that different habitats impact fish diversification. Habitats with a complex benthos show increased diversification rates across ray-finned fishes.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Alex Maile
3 months ago
‼️NEW ANGLERFISH PAPER! 🐟🎣 So excited to share the final part of my Master’s research! We explore the bizarre tacklebox of anglerfish lures and show how these fishes evolved different ways to attract prey and maybe even mates in the deep sea. 🧪🦑🌊🦇🦀 Open access paper link:
doi.org/10.1643/i202...
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Natalie Cooper
3 months ago
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here:
nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
https://nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
5 months ago
Fun news!
@gcbias.bsky.social
and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
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Davis Summer Population Genomics Program
Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PqXEKkW_0HXbdge1yXKGXFIf7NDjH72jTfIaEZThHhA/edit
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New paper out now! We show that innovations can have varied effects on a phenotypic evolution, determined by the interaction between external ecological context and internal changes to organismal structure. Read here:
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Multifaceted impacts of an innovation on dental diversity in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes
Abstract. Evolutionary innovations bring species into new ecological zones by opening ecological opportunity. However, innovations can have varied effects
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/292/2060/20252208/363969/Multifaceted-impacts-of-an-innovation-on-dental
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Graham Coop
9 months ago
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Emily Troyer
10 months ago
Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes
Troyer et al. examine lower jaw evolution in Silurian-Devonian bony fishes and find substantial differences in patterns of morphological disparity, rates of shape evolution, and functional diversity b...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01039-5
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PLOS Biology
about 1 year ago
Large
#teeth
& highly protrusible
#jaws
are 2 feeding innovations that have evolved in
#fish
. But
@cichlidnick.bsky.social
&co suggest that they're incompatible with each other; large teeth unlock new feeding modes, but constrain how prey can be captured
@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/3HVH7go
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PLOS Biology
about 1 year ago
Large
#teeth
& highly protrusible
#jaws
are 2 feeding innovations that have evolved in
#fish
. But
@cichlidnick.bsky.social
&co suggest that they're incompatible with each other; large teeth unlock new feeding modes, but constrain how prey can be captured
@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/3HVH7go
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Out today in
@plosbiology.org
! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other.
@mikemihalitsis.bsky.social
and Peter Wainwright. Free to read:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Incompatibility between two major innovations shaped the diversification of fish feeding mechanisms
Large teeth and highly protrusible jaws are two feeding innovations that have evolved in fishes. High-speed videography and comparative phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are incompatible with e...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003225
about 1 year ago
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Keiffer Williams
about 1 year ago
I'm defending my dissertation next week, Monday June 30th at 10 AM ET. DM for a zoom link if interested!
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