Honored to have been awarded the Wake Award for best student talk at this year’s SICB meeting (alongside the brilliant @linnealungstrom.bsky.social)! Already looking forward to the 2027 meeting and hearing about more cool research @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-dpcb.bsky.social 🐸🙌 sicb.org/sicb-news/co...

I'll have the magnirostris

Ben F continues to crush it as always!! Such an amazing colleague, friend, scientist, and well deserved! #birds 🦜🦅🐦

To a first approximation, all Australian vertebrates are lizards. 🦎 But not just any lizards, Sphenomorphine skinks! With more than 280 species they are hyper variable. Now, Janne Torkkola has pulled together the biggest phylogeny of the group to date. Read for free: doi.org/10.1016/j.ym... 1/4

Go @armanafzadeh.bsky.social !! 🦃🦖🦎

body mass declines have been widely noted, often attributed to warmer temps here, a great test of competing hypotheses to explain body mass declines using a ridiculously massive dataset evidence is that body mass declines arise due to increasing intersp comp over time --- v cool study

Are Great Tits becoming Not So-Great Tits? New preprint from @davididiaquez.bsky.social et al. documenting decline in mass of adult Great Tits in @wythamwoods.bsky.social of ~1 s.d. over 47 years - results from carry-over effect of increased population density during the nestling period. Thread ⬇️

We have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Keep your eyes out for @iamtaylornotyou.bsky.social's future papers...they're going to be spectacular! 🦎🥶🦎🥶🦎🥶

Can't believe last week I was doing this, and now I'm just sitting in my office looking at a computer

For those at Georgia Tech, please join our Women+ in Biology Career Panel this morning! Looking forward to some great conversation with three incredible biologists. (W+ is always open to all!)

Join us! @ssenese.bsky.social. @drgodwit.bsky.social jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.

Lab needed mousepads. Didn't know we could go this hard. 🦎🦎🦎

all right Marius! great job leading this v cool effort to test ideas about elevational migration at global scale

Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍 The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)

10 out of 10 bug

Outstanding paper and spectacular dataset!! And led by a @gtsciences.bsky.social undergraduate student!!! Congratulations Shreyas & @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social - fantastic!! 🐦🦅🪹

why do males defend territories in some species while pairs or family groups defend territories in others? then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species the best predictor? latitude academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

New paper out - fun collaboration with @wcratcliff.bsky.social & led by the wonderful Tony Burnetti! IMO, a rare clear example identifying the mechanism underlying priority effects at macroevolutionary scales. Also, continuing to justify my PhD from a plant lab 🍃 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New paper out! Here's a puzzle: phototrophy, the ability to use light for energy, is one of life's great innovations. It evolved early and transformed the biosphere. But it evolved 2x. Why not just once, why not more? Our work suggests the answer is priority effects. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The world's biggest species of orchid Grammatophyllum speciosum getting some protective love before this cold snap hits Miami tonight! And look at the size of that orchid(!!) seed pod! 🌱🌼

35F / <2C forecast for Miami this weekend...it's falling iguana time! ATL -> MIA 🛫 here we come 🛫 🦎🦎🦎

This paper has been a long time coming. I started it in the COVID-19 pandemic and made new software to collect data. There's more to it than what I mentioned here so please check it out. Here is a FREE link to access the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/J6UWIR... 8/8

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Yet more reasons that Sulawesi is fascinating www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"You don’t have to, like, put a blanket on them." 🥶🦎🥶🦎🥶🦎 www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social

Incredible award talk by @armanafzadeh.bsky.social !! Can't wait for you to start with us at @gtsciences.bsky.social !!! 🦃🏃‍♂️

Such a deserving award winner! @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

Packard Fellow and Johns Hopkins University scientist Dr. Jasmina Wiemann is working to understand how living organisms respond to planetary change by developing innovative ways to read molecular “memories” preserved in ancient organisms—helping fill some of the blank pages in the history of life.

The Garner Lab for Animal Morphology & Mechanics (GLAMM) is in full force at #SICB2026! Check out some of our work studying adhesion and locomotion in geckos, anoles, and sea urchins @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social

The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/s... great article about this work in @nytimes.com too! 🧪🌎

New paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social, led by HIGH-SCHOOL student Serene Park! We studied a moth that migrates from the Great Plains to the Rocky Mts (and back) each year and tested if they are harmed more by extreme heat or low O2 🧪🌍🐙 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘tis the season to celebrate the many animal species that reproduce via parthenogenesis - or reproduction from an unfertilized egg. Pictured here are 3 species of all-female, parthenogenetic gecko: Mourning Gecko; Bynoe's gecko; & Indopacific slender gecko #MerryChristmas #Herpetology 🎄🧪🦎

"The changing roles of Escherichia coli" -- a short essay by yours truly. rdcu.be/eVtXT

New paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters, led by undergrad superstar Laina Weiss! An experimental test of theory on the effects of temperature and resources on carrying capacity. So proud 🥹 tinyurl.com/yvmzmt9a @integrativebiology.bsky.social

On the fifth day of Christmas, Linnaeus gave to me...FIVE ANOLES! Well, more like anoles adapting to temperature change in the Andes, as taught to us in this lunchtime lecture! Kicking off the journal series, it contributed to the 1000+ lecture attendees this year! 🌍🧪Check it out👇 buff.ly/Tgjn9Pk

True toads (Bufonidae) originated in South America and invaded Africa via the Antarctic in the Cenozoic! (which was temperate/sub-tropical at the time). Super cool. 🐸🐸🐸 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

I love Letters to a Pre-Scientist week! This round, my pre-scientist pen pal (whose stem interest was "not at all") asked me about cool lizards. I doubt they've ever seen this buff worm! (Mexican worm lizard, Bipes biporus)

Excited to share our new Fire Ecology study! 🌲🔥 Terrestrial lidar can rapidly and accurately measure crown scorch 20x faster than traditional methods. Our R package, CrownScorchTLS, helps make this method accessible for large-scale forest monitoring. doi.org/10.1186/s424...

Curly-taileds are some of my favorite lizards, but unfortunately we don’t have them in Georgia… or do we?? One of the best things I’ve found in a cracker barrel parking lot! Check it out now in Reptiles & Amphibians journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda...

12/12 What's clear: we handicap ourselves by studying organisms in environments dramatically simpler than where they evolved. What other fundamental discoveries await scientists willing to bring ecology into the lab?

By combining mark-recapture and genetic parentage data from wild #lizards, we show that the offspring of older parents do not have lower survival or reproductive success than the offspring of younger parents: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Crain et al. 2025

Always repost brown anoles but especially if it's a Miami brown anole 🦎🦎🦎

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

How did the study of little brown lizards lead to advocacy for more engaging science communication? Anole Annals was an important stepping stone along this path.

Congrats @raularayadonoso.bsky.social !! 🦎🦎🦎