Incredible. That’s Frankfurt, London, and the Smithsonian all with calls for herpetology curators open at the same time. Unheard of!

With the #BYI announcement buzz settled, I’ve been reflecting on what this award means to me. 🎓 It’s a win for R2s, a boost for #wildlifegenomics 🐸🧬🖥️, and a testament to my @rittigers.bsky.social lab of students ✨ Reflections here: bit.ly/4xGNhX9 Thank you to @beckman-foundation.bsky.social!

Robert Ricklefs - in memoriam dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

I am so looking forward to this new book about boas! 🐍🧪 #Herpetology #Snake www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Our print copies have arrived in the mail! This has been fun/humbling/ridiculous/exciting all at once. Little me would think I’m pretty cool today. Big me thinks I still have a lot of work to do — can’t wait to start my lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social this fall. #SciAmYoungScientists

18 June 1858 The day Charles Darwin received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace that will change everything.. and speed up the presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection, and the publication of "On the origin of species". www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter?docId...

🎉 @armanafzadeh.bsky.social has been named to @sciam.bsky.social’s inaugural class of Young American Scientists for her innovative research. Manafzadeh will join Georgia Tech this fall as an assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences. Learn more: biosciences.gatech.edu/news/fossils...

Yes Armita! Go go go! Can't wait for you to start you lab here with us! 🔥🔥🔥 🎉🎉🎉

Two new preprints from my lab, both putting computer science approaches to work for ecology & evolution 🦎 Each tackles the same old bottleneck — turning huge piles of digital images into usable data — and each is a free, open-source web tool you can actually use 🎉 Quick threads on both below 🧵

Thanks @markowenmartin.bsky.social, this was great fun to do, I really enjoyed our chat. Keep up the great work!

There are few researchers for whom an entire field is so clearly distinct before and after their work. The gap between evolutionary biology "before Joe" and "after Joe" is just awesome. It is a measurably different enterprise, and the reach of his influence doesn't end at the phylogeny. Hats off!

Black skimmer, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida #birds #wildlifephotography

This exceptional event (in terms of absolute temperature) is also unusual in coinciding with the time that we monitor breeding great and blue tits in Wytham Woods: we're hoping to do some assessment of possible effects fairly soon.

Go @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social another banger and with a 💯 co-author line up!! 🏔️

I think a lot about how mountain species are responding to warming temperatures so it was great to team up with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social @kjfeeley.bsky.social Christi McCain & Jenny McGuire to write a review of sp responses to both modern AND Quaternary warming www.nature.com/articles/doi...

Join us on May 27th for the next Funk Biogeography Seminar! Dr. Michael Landis from Washington University in St. Louis will be speaking about the use of phylogenetic models to explore the biogeography of the past. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ma...

This is wild. Who are these people?

Georgia Tech not UGA!! @gtsciences.bsky.social

Summer 2026 field season is here! 🦎🦎🦎

Great idea and superb work @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social and Georgia Tech students! 📊🙅‍♂️

ok, so some good and some bad but are we getting better as a field? I think this is the best news - authors are increasingly showing the data over time in pretty much all journals, even within our narrow 5 year sample!

“Above all else, show the data” — Edward Tufte But do biologists follow this directive? To find out, we analyzed 8,834 figures from 2,930 studies published between 2021 and 2025 in 18 journals from five fields of biology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Happy 100th birthday to the living legend and national treasure that is Sir David Attenborough. Few figures alive have done as much for nature and conservation as Sir David, and we've been very lucky to work with him over the years. #DavidAttenborough #Attenborough100 #Nature #PlanetEarth

Our warmest and wildest 100th birthday wishes to Sir David Attenborough, vice-patron of our Society. Today, we are celebrating Priam's Birdwing, which he said he would include in his "ark" to protect from extinction. This illustration is from E Donovan's "An Epitome of...Insects of India" (1800).

Yes go @choosyfemale.bsky.social !! 🎉🎉🎉🏆🏆🏆

I'm on NPR "All Things Considered" today talking about the near-extinction of the Devils Hole pupfish this past year and the federal agency management chaos that ensued! 🐟😈🕳️ www.npr.org/2026/05/07/n...

Yes go @choosyfemale.bsky.social !! Crushing it! 🎉🎉🎉

Woohoo go @katie-is-alive.bsky.social !! 🎉🎉🎉

Low-density high-hollowness bones vs high density low-hollowness bones in anoles! academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Amy Bray is our 2026 John Spedan Lewis Emerging Leader Award winner! At just 16 she founded youth-led charity Another Way, now a movement empowering thousands to act on the climate crisis. With 30,000+ trees planted, she’s turning passion into lasting impact across the UK.

Congratulation to @jameststroud.bsky.social on winning our Bicentenary Award 2026! An exceptional evolutionary ecologist with 61 papers and 3,000+ citations, his 2025 paper in Nature caps a decade of landmark lizard evolution work. His outreach programme Lizards on the Loose has engaged thousands!

Love this summary phrase: "biomechanical divergence despite ecological convergence" And looks like a super cool study too! 🌺🐦

new perspective piece about the role of reproduction in arthropod extinctions! with PhD student @sarahnalley.bsky.social and @noahleith.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cudenverclas.bsky.social

Woohoo! So thrilled to receive this honour from such an outstanding society!! @linneansociety.bsky.social Can't wait to be there in May!! 🦎🦎🦎 cos.gatech.edu/news/james-s...

Since 1888, the Linnean Medal has honoured those advancing our understanding of nature. This year, we celebrate 10 individuals—pioneering researchers, communicators & campaigners—whose work spans discovery, conservation and public engagement, united by a commitment to safeguarding the natural world.

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2026 SSE Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Samuel M. Scheiner! Read more about his work as a researcher and NSF Program Officer, as well as his service to the biology community: www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awar...

Last bird class of the semester, love this student haiku Ornithology Walked in not a bird person Pleasantly surprised

Swimming invasive snakes colonize Mediterranean islets by active swimming, then wipe out Endangered endemic lizard populations. A hidden pathway for biological invasions with profound conservation implications, as they re-shape island ecosystems 🐍 🌊 #OpenAccess in 'Ecology' Picture: Rubén Casas

Had such a great time talking to the amazing UToronto EEB department yesterday as part of the @eebatwood.bsky.social symposium! 🦎🦎🦎

They're out on Georgia tech's campus in Atlanta too! 🦎🦎🦎

Excited to visit UToronto this week for the famous Atwood Symposium! 🦎🦎🦎

checklists flying in from campus. cool birds too - several warblers seen today were the first local records of the year!

@benjaminfreeman.bsky.social and his fantastic lab have turned Georgia Tech's campus into Georgia's #1 eBird hotspot!! 🐦🦉🦅🐦‍⬛🦆🦃 🔥🔥🔥 @gtsciences.bsky.social @gtresearch.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

🐦‍⬛ April is peak bird season in Georgia, so expect to see and hear plenty of species the next time you’re on Georgia Tech's campus.

#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!! 🦎🦎🦎