With Megan Vahsen and collaborators on Sapelo Island collecting cores. The goal is to resurrect ancient seeds from the cores and see how the plants have evolved over time.

We were at the beach today, too! But surveying plants, not inverts. We did see a crab.

Great talk by @rominadimarco.bsky.social on butterflies and chemical defenses in our Latin American Ecology class. Thanks!!

Happy to get a visit from a past student (class of 2010) who is now working as a physician's assistant in intensive care. The kids are alright!

Pennings lab was thrilled recently to have a visit from my past PhD student, Chuan Kai Ho, now a Professor and Director in Taiwan, and two of his graduate students.

Invertebrate zoology class had a great fie trip to the beach and marsh today. Hermit crabs were the stars of the show.

This is a helpful guide for students new to the publishing game. A step-by-step guide to getting your manuscript across the finish line, from start to finish. I appreciate how it doesn't assume hidden curriculum and is informed by the author's experience with English not being his first language.

Great question for a biogeography class.

Check out the new iNaturalist project for @UHouston We have 1000 species now ♥️ www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...

“Clarity is kindness.” – Physicist @claudiaratti.bsky.social in A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing. Here are her top tips for clearer, kinder scientific writing 🧵👇

Best present for the students in the lab❤️ A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing was written for them!

“Other books teach you how to write beautiful sentences and paragraphs; Nunez tells you how to get your imperfect writing submitted and published.”

Congratulations Dr. Zuffal!

Congratulations @martin-nunez.bsky.social !!

Wildlife translocation project at @UHouston campus #GoCoogs !

Pro tip for writers: Read your text out loud when you're done with your paper. you'll catch lots of errors. Even better (updated 2025!): Use your computer 🖥️ to read it to you, and you sit and take notes. You'll catch even more🔥

The University of Houston greenroof is the nicest greenroof! #praire #texas #grasslands

Congratulations to Celine Saidy, who won one of the prizes for her poster presentation on long-term change in salt marsh plant height at the UH Ecology and Evolution symposium.

Congratulations to Dr. Daane for his research award!

Congratulations to Dr. Zufall on her teaching award.

Huge congratulations to Agostina Torres for winning a prestigious award for the final chapter of her PhD! 🎉 She's the most recent PhD graduate from the @martin-nunez.bsky.social Lab well deserved!

Yesterday I did an outreach activity that was one of my most impactful ever:) It was the UH STEMZone event for school kids I talked about mycorrhizas, and I had students looking at actual mycorrhizal root tips in longleaf pines 💚 Students got excited about mycorrhizae💕🍄!

Undergrad research day at @uhnsm.bsky.social is always great! So many posters with so many cool ideas ♥️

Go UH!!!

we have an Instagram account now✨ www.instagram.com/uh_ecoevo/

Join us for the 2025 Houston Regional Ecology & Evolution Symposium on Friday, May 2nd! Hosted by @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social at the UH Main Campus. Now accepting abstracts for posters and oral presentations from undergrad, grad students, & post-docs. eesymposium25.weebly.com/registration...

Forbes Ranks UH Among Top 50 Public Universities for 2025!! www.uh.edu/news-events/...

Houston’s Gray Fox UH students in BIOL 4206 captured these elusive canids inhabiting the city’s green spaces As the only tree-climbing foxes in North America, they use their tree-scaling skills to escape predators and nap on branches! #WildlifeWednesday #HiddenLifeofHouston

Really wonderful and inspiring talk by @colinaverill.bsky.social from Funga at Austin. Wow! Thanks so much Colin for the visit!

Interested in forests? Fungi? soils? or Climate change? On Wednesday we have the visit of @colinaverill from Funga We are sure that this will be a great event. If you don't know Colin, this is his Ted talk: www.ted.com/talks/colin_...

Deadline to apply is March 1, 2025!!

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪

The last paper of the year is out from my lab. This is from a project performed predominantly by undergraduates. We found that mis-expressing polo-like kinase (Plk) genes in the Drosophila male germline can reduce fertility and cause female biased sex ratios. 🧵...

Coexistence under extreme circumstances #HoustonSnow

Are you or someone you know interested in research in evolutionary genetics and genomics, but not quite ready to apply to graduate school this cycle? Then you should apply to our post-baccalaureate research program! More information below... 🧵

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

The STEGG-INTERACT Research and Mentoring for Post-baccalaureates program is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 cohort! Application deadline is March 1, 2025. Program runs June 2025 - May 2026 at University of Houston, Rice University, and Texas A&M.