#morelizardcovers Congrats @thenaturedave.bsky.social on a great article and getting the cover -- and what a great species pic! The first klemmeri(?) ever on a journal cover?? 🦎🔥🦎🔥🦎🔥

The final "Early Career Researchers in Speciation"-themed seminar is coming up on the 5th of May! This session features talks by Aryeh Miller on Anolis lizards 🦎 and @rishidekayne.bsky.social on speciation research in industry 📊 + we'll hear from Dr Mariana Braga about her career in the Q&A ✋

Very proud of my incoming PhD student, Joanna Baker, for receiving the NSF GRFP! She worked extremely hard on her application and I'm very much looking forward to her joining my lab @gtsciences.bsky.social this year.

I'm very happy to announce that I will be joining @jameststroud.bsky.social's lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social this June as a Postdoc Fellow! Super excited to join the 'zard hunt on "lizard island" and for all the excited research ahead! #anoletime 🦎

@ggcostoya.bsky.social has signed! Can't wait for Guille to join my group as a postdoc this summer -- lots of lizard papers on the horizon!! 🦎🦎🦎

1/25 New paper out in PNAS! We show that the fitness costs of reproductive specialization, where somatic cells give up reproduction, scale inversely with organism size. Larger organisms can afford far more soma, removing a key barrier to multicellular complexity.

Yes! Outstanding! 🐍🐸🌳🕳️ = 🔥

Atwood 2026 is just around the corner! 🕺💃 The schedule will be released soon, but there will be an incredible lineup of talks from students, postdocs, faculty, and invited speakers. 😎 The artwork this year was made by the wonderful Martin Henry, Michelle Liu, & Youngseo Jeong.

Grassland ecomorph of the Pondo Dwarf Chameleon (Bradypodion caffer) at Mkambati Nature Reserve.

SEAN!!!! waytogo. Sean thinks deeply and carefully about speciation, trait evolution, and how diverse communities assemble over evolutionary time. Representing @gtsciences.bsky.social

Huge huge huge and very deserved congratulations to @seananderson.bsky.social!! Massive things to come from Sean and his group here at @gtsciences.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏

2 weeks left to apply to this postdoc here at @gtsciences.bsky.social! Full details here: www.mcguire.gatech.edu/opportunitie... Deadline: 13th April 🦎🐦🦴⛰️

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

Up now on YouTube: The Evolution of Darwin's Finches! Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant discuss their work on Darwin's finches, to understand how new species are formed. Catch up on this incredible talk at the Linnean Society at the link below: buff.ly/RJ97vwD

Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant paid a special visit to the Society last week. The talk was a fascinating insight into the Grants' work on the Evolution of Darwin's Finches, supported by @cloeucl.bsky.social and @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social. Listen at buff.ly/3cT7E6u

Always repost organisms on the cover of Nature/Science/Cell/PNAS Congrats again, @kimholzmann.bsky.social! 🦋

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue: www.nature.com/nature/volum... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

We're hiring a *post doc*! Are you a global change ecologist (broadly defined) and want to work with Jenny McGuire, @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social, me & many others?!🦎🐦🦴⛰️ Come join an amazing, hungry, and very exciting eco-evo group here at GT! careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

We're hiring a post doc! Looking for a global change ecologist to work with Jenny McGuire & a multidisciplinary team including me and @jameststroud.bsky.social on the ecology side of things please share widely!

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)

I’m happy to share that the third chapter of my doctoral dissertation has been published in Global Ecology and Biogeography: Diversification and Evolutionary Dynamics in Tropical Montane Regions Huge thanks to my co-authors for their support! doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Always repost outstanding lizards. A+ walking lichens 🦎

Spring has sprung in Atlanta 🦎

Assistant Professor Benjamin Freeman has been named a 2026 Research Fellow by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. Freeman studies birds worldwide, focusing on how species respond to a changing climate and how to facilitate their survival.  🎉Congrats, @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social !

There is also an amazing news article in @nature.com on our recent paper in the same journal. Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

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