A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Serra do Quiriri, northeastern Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil, with a review of the diagnosis among species of the B. pernix group and proposed conservation measures journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Environmental drivers of scale morphology in a Canary Island lizard across 3700 m of elevation. new paper just out on J Zool zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper alert! Ancient Introgression Explains Mitochondrial Genome Capture and Mitonuclear Discordance Among South American Collared Tropidurus Lizards onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ant head shape evolved to compromise bite-induced mechanical demands New paper led by Cristian Klunk academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Vaga de pós-doc em projeto "DNA marinho: dinâmica do DNA ambiental (eDNA) em ecossistemas marinhos", uma parceria entre a UFPR e a Petrobras: www.prppg.ufpr.br/site/ppgz/wp...

Global diversity patterns in anurans are determined by terrestrial and arboreal species. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Effects of freezing duration and speed on environmental DNA (eDNA) degradation in water samples: a controlled mesocosm study link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Caves as Species Pumps: Key Innovations, Isolation and Periodic Introgression Drive the World's Largest Cavefish Radiation in a Dynamic Karstic Landscape onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological Niche Modelling of Microendemic Species: Understanding the Distribution of Montane Frogs in the Southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

This is gold.

Does the Gut Microbiome of the Insular Lizard Gallotia galloti Reflect Variation in Sex, Environment, and Population Genetic Differentiation? New paper led by Dayna Cottam et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Vertical distribution of free and multi-fraction environmental DNA in a controlled aquatic system: insights into dispersal dynamics and sampling implications. #eDNA link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ant head shape evolved to compromise bite-induced mechanical demands. Cristian Klunk and Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

one month late, but still worth sharing: I received the @ufpr.bsky.social Excellence in Academic Award for my thesis on body size evolution! special thanks to @marciopie.bsky.social for the support! also, two papers came from this—check them out: doi.org/10.1007/s116... doi.org/10.1093/biol...

PhD in Biogeography and Evolution of Vertebrates at Charles University, Prague. Analyze biodiversity across 30,000 species; funding available. Apply by April 10, 2025. More info: https://machac.weebly.com #phd

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Why do we still need standardized journal abbreviations? It looks like something that was important to save space when journals were printed on paper, but are a complete waste of time nowadays.

I see no logical reason to choose MDPI over society journals.

Funny how, when two academics meet, the first thing they do is perform that “song and dance” ritual to uncover even the slightest overlap in their research interests.

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

📣 Jobs alert- please share! 4(!) PhD positions on topics including species interactions, AI, global mapping and tropical ecology 🫐🌿🌸🍄🌏 PhD 1: bit.ly/TREES-Mappin... (w/ UCL East) PhD 2: bit.ly/TREES-CV-4-I... (w/ UCL East) PhD 3: bit.ly/TREES-Megadi... (w/ Kew Gardens) PhD 4: bit.ly/4i35cj5 (CSC)

Bittersweet moment for me... I've decided to leave Edge Hill University, my UK home for the past three years, to return to Brazil due to personal reasons. I'll deeply miss the amazing friends I've made here and all the memories we've shared. Thanks for making me feel so welcome!

My last day teaching at Chongqing Normal University as part of Edge Hill University’s travelling faculty. Cold weather, hot (🌶️🌶️🌶️) food and lots of learning!

We are looking for a PhD student to work on "Faunal diversity dynamics of the Seychelles using environmental DNA". Your primary supervisors would be David Gower (NHM, London) and Julia Day (UCL). For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau... 🐍🧪🐸🔬

Assessing the bioinvasion of the golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) through different watersheds in South Brazil: a comparison between quali-quantitative microscopic and molecular techniques #eDNA #ATGC link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hi 🧪 community, #eDNA #environmentalDNA #ecology communities etc. We are engaged in a research study on ethics and eDNA. We value your perspective. Help us by completing our survey forms.office.com/r/P6R57BAbZq Please pass it along to other users. Post, like repost. Help us reach a wider community.

I had a fantastic time visiting the research group of professor Du Wei-Guo at the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Thank you all for your great hospitality!

Really useful tips here!

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students for several projects: jonathanpdrury.com/opportunitie... #PleaseRepost

Given the large number of new people here, the academic migration from X to bsky seems to be in full force.

The win-stay, lose-switch renesting strategy of a territorial bird endemic to subtropical salt marshes www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

Habitat fragmentation drives pest termite risk in humid, but not arid, biomes. www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...

Does Clade Density Constrain Geographical Range Evolution? New paper with Raquel Divieso and Fernanda Caron. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Revision of the conservation status and assessment of the Green Status of the Parana Antwren Formicivora acutirostris with management proposals. New paper in collaboration with Marcos Bornschein, Giovanna Sandretti et al. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On the macroecology of rarity and vulnerability to extinction in terrestrial mammals New paper led by @raqueldivieso and Joaquín Hortal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The evolution of body size in terrestrial tetrapods link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The macroevolution of sexual size dimorphism in birds New paper led by Fernanda Caron academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Are you interested in a career in #palaeontology / #palaeobiology? 🦕🐚🧬 Our International #MSc program at FAU is now open for applications! Come join us in beautiful Bavaria! 🇩🇪🌿 See our dedicated webpage for more information: palaeobiology.nat.fau.de

Finally, given that funding rates are becoming lower each year, the capacity for this to exacerbate biases seems to me much more important than anything related to publications per se.

Also, big grants that provide teaching buyouts are more likely to be obtained by people in large, prestigious universities. In practice, this means that taxpayer money is used to subsidize salaries of universities that already concentrate a lot of funding.

Yes, the model of scientific publications is broken. However, there's something else that is even more insidious: in many universities, the main criterion for hiring/promotion is not the quality of the science, but the amount of funding that someone can bring. (cont.)

I'm advertising two awesome macroevolution-y PhD projects (at the University of Aberdeen) with upcoming deadlines: 1. On the global vertebrate pet trade, due Jan 17: quadrat.ac.uk/projects/tra... & 2. On parental care in fish, due Jan 30: findaphd.com/phds/project... Join us!

What a great way to be greeted back after a few days away attending the BES meeting in Belfast.

Substantial variation in species ages among vertebrate clades. New paper in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

I got Colin the Caterpillar cake for my birthday yesterday. I've been told that it's pretty much halfway to UK citizenship.

Population of the Parana Antwren Formicivora acutirostris reassessed as being 64% smaller: Revision of its conservation status and assessment of its Green Status, with management proposals www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Either I'm very stupid, or this doesn't make any sense at all. How did this make it through peer review? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please don’t view yesterday’s Nobel Prize story as an indication that good research will eventually be rewarded. Pay attention to what this exception tells us about the rule. Who do we ignore in order to worship at the altar or elitism? #womeninSTEM 🧪🌱 #academicsky #plantscience

Not surprisingly, my word cloud is pretty haphazard.

No one is forced to accept to review a manuscript. But if you agree to review, please either submit your review in a timely manner, or let the AE know that you won't be able to. This is a manuscript with 10(!!) overdue reviews. Not cool.