Just arrived in Birmingham for #2025SVP! Looking forward to seeing everyone. Ever wondered about the evolution of filter feeding in Antarctic seals? If so, come along to my talk on Wednesday at 4pm in Hall 1.

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

Oi, stickleback researchers! One of my PhD students is on a quest for lateral-view photographs of sticklebacks (like the one below, obvs not a stickleback). Any population/species, so long as the location and date of collection are known. Does anyone know where we might find data like this?

Hot off the press. Our study on the #biogeography of Ceratobatrachid #frogs is now out in @ZoolJLinnSoc.bsky.social I had a chance to present this work at the World Congress of #herpetology last year. I tried to compile the highlights from this study. Read the open access paper for more details

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

🚨🚨JOB ALERT 🚨🚨 Fresh new position in Comparative Biology at OSU! We're looking for a comp. biologist, especially those who investigate biomechanics, functional anatomy, neuroanatomy, or morphological development. Feel free to ask me any questions! jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...

Happy to see this finally out! Diego is a brilliant student that took our grad course on Macroevolution during lockdown, and this eventually escalated to me becoming a co-author in his PhD chapter. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy to see this finally out! Diego is a brilliant student that took our grad course on Macroevolution during lockdown, and this eventually escalated to me becoming a co-author in his PhD chapter. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Guilty www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Brazil’s Supreme Court reached a majority to convict the right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 presidential election.

Dear friends from other countries: please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.

JUST IN: A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.

Today marks my first official day as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Gothenburg, working with Daniele Silvestro and Søren Faurby. Super excited for the next two years, and very much looking forward to sciencing hard while having lots of fun!

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

For those at #ESA2025 today, I’ll be presenting at 4:15pm at COS 019 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience 2. Looking forward to a fun meeting with many great talks!

New paper out! We explore how environmental and historical factors shape the global phylogenetic structure of Canidae 🐺🦊🌍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨 Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae. Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers? There's a whole bunch more names to use! Let me explain ...

Today is the day! Go visit @alencarlrv.bsky.social's poster to check the work she's brilliantly leading with the participation of a stellar team (and me)! See some cool stuff about the evolution of ovi/viviparity and climate in squamates, trying to uncover its hidden dynamics! #evol2025

The #evol2025 FOMO is real 🥲 First one I'm missing since 2017.... Wishing you all a great conference, and make sure you check @alencarlrv.bsky.social's poster for some really cool stuff!

Are you looking for a distraction? Do you love natural history and museum specimens? Join @joshlukedavis.com and I for "The 'Perfect' Specimen" - an irreverent look at the natural world through via some of the @nhm-london.bsky.social's 80 million specimens, and increasingly random adjectives...

Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !

How do ecological communities respond to pulse perturbations (e.g. storms, wildfires)? We have a solid theory for stable fixed points, but what about cycles, transients, or chaos? In this preprint, we introduce a unified framework for these nonequilibrium cases. 1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our (@leosbastos.bsky.social‬ and I) comment about dengue risk is highlighted in the cover and the cover itself!!! Link to our comment: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Eu fiquei muito feliz de estar nesse ep! Foi muito legal! Por favor ouçam, se quiserem e puderem!

Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12

🎂 Happy 10th birthday to the fossilised birth-death model, and happy 50th birthday to Paleobiology 🎂 I had a lot of fun working on this review, led by @lauramulvey.bsky.social, in which we celebrate how the FBD has been applied and give pointers to those interested in giving it a go! 🌳

Highly recommend and happy to talk about it with anyone interested!

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/...

Out now in @pnas.org , we study the recovery dynamics of biodiversity across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. We quantify how species-area relationships – how diversity scales with geographic area – have changed for dinosaurs, mammals and others: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Please share this opportunity widely! Instructors: @fmachado.bsky.social @alencarlrv.bsky.social @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Jacqueline Sztepanacz, Patrick Carter & Joe Felsenstein (virtually)

Can anyone recommend a well-balanced essay on the ethical considerations of using functional genomics and genome-editing tools in agriculture and the environment? *The idea is to discuss them with undergrads taking my class on functional genomics for global environmental change Thanks!

📖Published📖 In their new research article, Carpenter et al. provide a brief introduction to empirical dynamic modelling (EDM) and use this to develop multiview cross-mapping (MVCM), a novel and robust method for gap filling 🌎 🧪 Read the article here 👇 https://buff.ly/4i28emQ

Last first-author paper finally published! This took too many years but even after leaving research we manage to get it done, with Odile Maliet, @leandrist.bsky.social, @noguesbravo.bsky.social, @n8upham.bsky.social, Walter Jetz, and really supportive Hélène Morlon www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm happy to see my latest preprint out on stratigraphic intervals, a topic I've been interested in since my first year as PhD student. Available in the brand-new StratIntervals.jl (github.com/gaballench/S...) @julialang.org package. Preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New blog post alert!🚨 Head over to the Methods Blog to find out the story behind the new R package RRphylogeography 🌎 🧪 👇

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

This a summary of last part o my Ph.D. We investigated how temperature can affect the outcome of dengue infection. The study covers a 10y period in all five regions of Brasil and all sub-climates of the country We conclude that higher temperature makes risk of hospitalizations due dengue bigger!

Brilliant research led by my very good friend @rafalpx.bsky.social, go check it out!

Message from SSE Council: Supporting our Community and our Mission mailchi.mp/evolutionsoc...

Good strong statement from SSE, specifying what society leadership is doing, and suggesting what members can do to help, including contacting Congress, taking AIBS advocacy training, writing op-eds, and organizing locally

open.spotify.com/track/2vyCXI... Monday morning soundtrack

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

📖Published📖 Mondanaro et al. present RRphylogeography, a package to find the area of origin of species, and to locate feasible zones of contact between species throughout their history 🌎 🧪

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council