How to assess the plasticity of a given species across environmental conditions when you've measured tons of variables? We introduced a simple method that led to a provocative ecophysiological hypothesis about photosynthetic plasticity & leaf resource investment: academic.oup.com/treephys/art...

We know that marine fishes 🐠 have an inverse gradient of speciation compared to that of spp richness, with higher speciation at higher latitudes. But, what about freshwater 🐟? Find out in the new PhD paper by Juliana Herrera-Pérez and friends (not just colleagues) 🤿 👇 shorturl.at/zgKfA

Balancing selection maintains some remarkable biological diversity, but detecting it from genomic data alone can be tricky. This may bias our view of its true prevalence. We investigated what makes balancing selection more or less detectable in genomic scans. + in thread & preprint!

Happy to share that this paper has just been published in Ecology Letters! We hope that our framework can be useful for theoreticians and empiricists working on different systems. Let me know if you hit a paywall and would like a pdf. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity (Barcelona, Spain) I am seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate (any nationality) to apply for the Sara Borrell Fellowship, 3 years postdoc funding, in the 2026 upcoming call (starts on Jan 2027 if funded). The project is on environmental health 👇

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

📢 Hello! Slightly unusual request from me, buttt we're likely to need a freelance writer to produce some content in Feb & Mar for the NHM's 'Find Your Climate Action' tool. If you've experience writing about the climate and inspiring action, please send me a message! www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/fi...

date: can you take off your work gloves Jim Henson: they have names

It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK

Next week I'm heading to Aarhus to attend #tibs2026. If anyone is going too, let me know!

Next week I'm heading to Aarhus to attend #tibs2026. If anyone is going too, let me know!

I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

It’s reached that time of year again where I gently suggest you hang on to your manuscripts and submit them early in 2026. Otherwise they’re likely to just sit on a virtual to do list for the next 3 weeks sending auto-reminders to editors/reviewers. 🎄

I am absolutely delighted to see the post by National Geographic Society covering our recent publication on new bush #frogs 🐸 🐸 from northeast #India just in time for #frogfriday 😃

🚨ALERT🚨 In our new paper, published in Microbiome, we show how host-mediated selection can produce microbiomes that enhance plant fitness under salt stress by up to ~198%. We explore the mechanisms behind these benefits and how our protocol shaped microbial community structure. rdcu.be/eSjbu

Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants. Please share and get in touch if interested www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...

📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)

A GREAT DAY AT LAST

A GREAT DAY AT LAST

Reminder that my lab is seeking graduate students for fall 2026. As part of @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, my lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational approaches to investigate macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Link w/ more info below:

Thrilled to see that Diego's paper was featured on the cover of the latest issue of @newphyt.bsky.social! Go check his paper if you haven't already (open access) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New species 🚨, not one, not two, 13 new bush frogs from Northeast India!!! One of the exciting revisions I've been involved in for a few years now is out today. It is led by @bitupan-herp.bsky.social, a PhD. student who will soon be a doctor.

Thrilled to see that Diego's paper was featured on the cover of the latest issue of @newphyt.bsky.social! Go check his paper if you haven't already (open access) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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!

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