Amazing symposium on Sex and Gender at #Evol2025 So grateful to all the speakers for bringing us together to think about how to teach and communicate these complex topics @jacanamama.bsky.social Thomas Sanger @bio-eddy.bsky.social @cissyballen.bsky.social

Do proportional changes in neurons underlie behavioral divergence in Lake Malawi cichlids? Come to my talk at 4:15 in Olympia 1 to find out! #Evol2025

Had such an amazing time at the 2025 Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Workshop! Thanks so much to the amazing organizers and participants @pseudacris.bsky.social @lauraalencar.bsky.social @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Patrick Carter, Jacqueline Sztepanacz, & Joe Felsendtein

Please share! JOIN THE LAB! We are looking to recruit a motivated reserach technician to assist with field research on restoration and lidar data collection in #longleaf pine at the beautiful @thejonesctr.bsky.social Apps due July 6 jonesctr.org/wp-content/u...

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Convergent evolution of "smelling like rotting meat" is mediated by a 3 amino-acid chance in a conserved enzymes, just out @science.org 🔽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Green anole, originally from tropical Cuba, have evolved to live in this. Wut. @iamtaylornotyou.bsky.social 🦎🦎🦎

Running away isn't always the best strategy, simply staying put and hoping the danger will pass can be better, & now Damián Oliva & co show that signals in the mudflat crab's MLG1 neurons trigger freezing when the crab is at risk from a distant threat journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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

Teaching has gotten to this point in the semester in my second year courses. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Using the whole brain to measure cognitive skills seems crude in the light of modern cognitive neuroscience studies that look at specific parts of the brain. But how relevant are these types of lab-based studies to cognition in the wild? https://buff.ly/3C5uqNc

We are just 10 days away from the Lund Thermal Biology meeting, covering everything temperature in across the tree of life 🌞❄️🐸🐦🐟. ALL talks will be live-streamed on Zoom and registration is not needed. Check out the conference website for the final program 👉 shorturl.at/rKqeY

Check out our recent preprint! We find LARGE (half-chromosome) inversions in Lake Malawi cichlids 🐠 are associated with habitat preference, lineage, and sex. Suggesting they protect phenotypic traits and play an important role in this impressive adaptive radiation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Every night’s a great night when you’re catching lizards! Thanks Cox Lab for lending us your eyes 🦎👀 @coxevolab.bsky.social @jameststroud.bsky.social

Well I didn't expect to see that when I caught this Cuban knight anole (Anolis equestris) last night! It had just eaten a baby corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus)... Every day is something new in Miami! 🦎🍽️🐍

more eBird poems, birds eating lizards edition Red-tailed Hawk Sitting on rock. Swooped onto lizard. Ate lizard one gulp Crested Caracara Following the flaming front. One with a glass lizard American Kestrel absolutely rekked a lizard. A good morning for the kestrel, not so much for the lizard.