📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@a-weberling.bsky.social & I characterize oogenesis from initiation in the germinal bed to ovulatory follicles for the first time in the brown anole, a powerful reptile model for evo-devo & functional genetics! Full preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!! w/ @brentpease.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚀🍊 Blast off! 🍊🚀 Excited to share that next month Zach and I will be joining the Department of Biology at the University of Central Florida! Because of our love for midcentury modern design, we will only acknowledge the Citronaut as the official mascot. 😉 @emberts.bsky.social @ucf.bsky.social

The Bulb Agenda is alive and well! #Geophytes

Deadline tomorrow, April 4th at 5:00pm! Apply & share!

Januario et al. found no correlation between sexual selection intensity & speciation rates or proxy traits. Because sexual selection intensity has high intraspecific variation and low phylogenetic signal, its macroevolutionary impacts are weak. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 410): Yellow-throated vireo (Vireo flavifrons) catching and eating a leaf-footed bug (Coreidae) on a southern live oak (Quercus virginiana)! #predation #biodiversity 📸: C. Denning

We've spent a while trying to understand the forces shaping morphological trait variation, and this is our best shot so far: Ecophysical trade-offs provide a set of relatively simple rules explaining the triangular structure and macroevolution of global bird diversity www.cell.com/current-biol...

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NEW: I wrote about a new study on the rapid evolution of purring crickets and parasitic flies—and what scientists dealing with federal funding cuts can learn from these resilient lil guys 🧪 read it in @atmosmagazine.bsky.social:

At #SICB2025, and excited to be sharing my lab's work about aerobic constraints on mate competition in high-elevation dragonflies! 🧪🌍🐙 #evolution Sunday Jan 5 at 2:30 in Ecophysiology: thermal effects session (International Salon 4)

#SICB2025 Do you like frogs? Wanna see some cool SEM images of sperm? Come to my talk today at 2:30 in Salon 2-3! Title: Evolution of diverse reproductive strategies and sperm morophology in tropical frogs. The other talks in my session (Evolution and diversification) look rad too! See you there!

On Sunday, be sure to stop by and chat with Oklahoma State University undergraduate James Davis about bulbs and their gym gains! #SICB2025 🌾🧅

We have a postdoc position available in the lab on post-copulatory barriers in hybridizing crickets. We have genomic data ready to be analyzed and crickets ready for experiments. This is a great collaborative group and a study system with a lot of potential for new projects. Join us!

📜 Did you ever wonder why females and males are of different size in many species? We tested if sexual selection could drive the evolution of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) synthesizing the results of 77 comparative studies. #OpenAccess in Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our big collaboration on anglerfish diversity is out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. THREAD PART 1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...