New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Why do males and females often differ in traits? The expected answer: selection. But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Join us! 👇

new work from the lab. Degeneration of Y chromosome does not seem to be one-way street. As a refugium of transposons @Alex Suh @valentinapeona.bsky.social , Y chromosome can recruit some genes by accidental TE burst: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1673852725002243

So excited to have this #dragonfly paper out! #Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in #Anisoptera (dragonflies) url: academic.oup.com/isd/article/... @ethantolman.bsky.social

Cannot stop laughing at this

Helsinki-Vantaa. Hushed, calm, piped birdsong, a garden, a museum, blond-wood daybeds -- daybeds! -- at the gates; last-minute reindeer pastrami; Eero Aarnio "Ball" armchairs in the lounge. Amazed anyone gets on a plane.

Fieldwork!

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

Priceless! 😆 For all you #paleobiology parents.

Happy to see this out online! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great science. Great person. Great opportunity.

As work ramps up, we've created a Starter pack to follow members of the consortium. go.bsky.app/QjiXdsc Please comment below to be added!

Do you work with equids, camelids, or aardvarks? We need lice from them for a research project. Please reach out if you might have access to those lice, I would love to tell you more about our project & collaboration guidelines! #mammals #lice 🧪