Can we compare #living #species by their #extinction propensity? I think we can—and I’ll show you how on June 23 at 11:45 AM in Ecology I (Room 22) at @evolmtg.bsky.social

I will be recruiting Ph.D. students at #Evol2026 in Cleveland!

Looking forward to sharing one of my favorite projects of all time, developed with some of my favorite people! (with astonishing illustrations by @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social) Tuesday 12:00 pm Room 21 #Evol2026

Please join me next Tuesday at 3:15 PM (Room 21) at #Evol2026 to learn about the complex history of complex trait loss, extinction, and evolutionary radiation in extreme ecosystems in a clade of thousands of fishes!

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

Last week the lab had a reason to celebrate as Julia Laterza successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Doctor Julia Laterza! Your dedication, perseverance, and hard work have led to this remarkable achievement, and we are excited to see what comes next!! 🐸

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and #mountains? I'll soon be advertising a #postdoc position at Yale as part of a newly funded NSF project. Stay tuned for details!

Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon! 🧪🐟🦎

Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Have you registered for #Evol2026? Talk submission for both in person and virtual talks closes on Wednesday! Already registered? Learn how to submit your talk here: www.evolutionmeetings.org/instructions...

Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually! fapesp.br/18114/chamad...

Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8

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

Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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...

🧪🐠 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!

𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks! Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...

Don't forget to check out participation support for 2026! www.evolutionmeetings.org/participatio...

Applications now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Apply by January 30: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

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

Dream Job Alert ! Herpetology Collections Manager at the University of Michigan - manage one of the largest reptile and amphibian collections in the world in state-of-the-art facilities in the best college town in the world. #herpetology careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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/...

I am recruiting graduate students to begin August 2026. Apply by Nov 15th!

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

Brazilians at #Evol2025! @mjanuario.bsky.social and I are planning ab informal meetup tomorrow after the poster session (~7:30pm) at Creature comforts, a brewery 10 min from the conference center. Non-Brazilians who want to mingle and hear some Portuguese are always welcome!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

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!

Super excited to share our new paper investigating convergence across planktivorous fishes and assessing the impact of ancestry and light environment led by Dr Jen Hodge @fishncurious.bsky.social and including most members of the lab past and present academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

New from the Near Lab, a super collaboration led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149

What can #population-level processes tell us about large-scale #biodiversity? 🧵: 1/8 A key question in #evolutionary #biology: Can we predict how quickly lineages diversify (#speciation rates) based on #traits observable at the population level? #microevolution #macroevolution

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

Yesterday, we had a fantastic time at the Scientists in Action workshop at Dixwell Q House! Our team engaged with enthusiastic middle schoolers about our research. A big thank you to everyone who made this event a success! We look forward to more opportunities to inspire young minds!

New preprint from postdoc @bpwaldron.bsky.social and coauthors! Love to get to think about salamanders sometimes with the help of real experts like Brian, was my original academic goal to be a salamander biologist and I'm largely failing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You are invited to an online presentation "The Secret Lives of California Snakes" on Feb 20 from 12-1pm PT. Register ahead of time here: lpfw.org/snakes-webinar. Please share!