Little blue heron from the Florida panhandle #birds

Little blue heron from the Florida panhandle #birds

Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.

New paper! PhD student Julie Rej found that invasive brown anoles are more aggressive than native green anoles across a wide range of temperatures. The difference is greatest when it's hottest, ie, heat amplifies the aggression of an invasive species! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some more nice coverage of the lead work

The work of @basicbiologist23.bsky.social on lizards and lead in Nat Geo! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Brown lizards in New Orleans carry more lead in their blood than any other animal on record — levels that would kill humans — yet they seem unfazed, according to new Tulane study.

Early view: we find that brown anole lizards are one of, if not the most, lead tolerant vertebrates known to science combining measures of field exposure, responses to lab dosing, performance assays and functional genomics. Led by PhD student Annelise Blanchette www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Early view: we find that brown anole lizards are one of, if not the most, lead tolerant vertebrates known to science combining measures of field exposure, responses to lab dosing, performance assays and functional genomics. Led by PhD student Annelise Blanchette www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A lilac breasted roller looking resplendent

A lilac breasted roller looking resplendent

We made the cover www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see this out and congrats in particular to @patricepottier.bsky.social after leading such a huge effort! I think there are some really interesting findings here that challenge common ideas about the geography of warming risk and how we measure it

Nature research paper: Evolution of temperature preference in flies of the genus Drosophila https://go.nature.com/4i1VQn9

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

Thanks to @jdrakephd.bsky.social for highlighting the importance of #amphibians in the services they provide to humans www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... #malaria #disease #frogs #tropical 🐸🧪🌎🦟

In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

SICB is back! Please follow the society's new BlueSky account: @sicb.bsky.social SICB recognizes that the scientific enterprise is only successful because of the people performing that science. Without those people, science and all of the political and economic strength that it provides, stops.

Louisiana folks - Sen. Cassidy may be wavering on RFKj. Cassidy's office number in DC is (202) 224-5824 if you want to let him know what you think about that nomination.

If you need a distraction consider reading the final version of this paper on the heat tolerance of lizard sperm by PhD student Wayne Wang in JEB! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive @jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social

Our new paper on fish dynamics of thermal tolerance plasticity is finally out in Journal of Thermal Biology! This was an amazing collaboration with great researchers across the World! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Backyard here in New Orleans on Sunday compared to today.

In the coming days/months/years, don’t “yuck on people’s yum” here if you can avoid it. I know it feels trite seeing folks post their cute cats or jokes with friends in the midst of horrors unfolding. Fascism aims to take your joy. Pure joy is self-ownership; an act of resistance. Embrace joy.

I am very proud of the work that went into this new Sanger Lab publication. This paper was led by postdoc Marta Marchini and a number of my lab's undergraduate students, each of which contributed unique skills or effort to the completion of this project.

RIP to my goat David Lynch

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

🐍 Do you talk about reptiles with strangers🦎 🧬 Do you lay awake thinking about N50 scores? Close your eyes and see Manhattan plots?🧬 Well, have I got the answer for you. Come check out the Open Consortium for Squamate Genomics (OCSG - that’s a mouthful). Sign up here: forms.gle/TTmTwAMUqzWJ...

The first chapter of my dissertation is finally out. Thanks to all my co-authors and mentors. Gustavo Londoño, Martha Muñoz (@marthamunoz.bsky.social ), Don Miles (@lizardprof.bsky.social) and Rosario Castañeda doi.org/10.1093/evol... (1/5).

Gunderson lab (including collaborations) roll call for #sicb2025 Let’s start with PhD candidate Shannan Yates poster testing for replicated thermal evolution in urban #anolis on Sunday

We are starting 2025 off on a high note. Katherine Starr's paper on Anolis head evolution was recently published in Scientific Reports. For me, it also broke a 10 years hiatus from collaborating with my good friend Emma Sherratt. We started staring at anoles together as post docs. shorturl.at/1PGKy

tattersalllab.com/2024/12/31/s... New paper out in Ecology Letters, led by Alexa McQueen!

A terrible picture of a great grey owl in Sax-Zim bog

Nothing like the holidays in the frozen north country complete with the worlds largest hockey stick

I'm very happy to announce I just published a paper from my post doc with Gavin Thomas in @natureecoevo.bsky.social! So if you're interested in #macroevolution, #phylogenetics and sexual size dimorphism (SSD), strap in doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Checkout this awesome preprint from @a-weberling.bsky.social et al. with the first description of early embryogenesis in the brown anole! This dataset was no small feat to collect as much of early development takes place before the egg is laid!! Thrilled to have been a part of this project! 🦎

Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

NEW RESEARCH Too Hot to Handle: A Meta-Analytical Review of the Thermal Tolerance and Adaptive Capacity of North American #Sturgeon 📄 https://buff.ly/49ymsbN #climatechange #endagered species #conservation

New paper in J Exp Bio on the heat tolerance of sperm in the brown anole lizard. PhD student Wayne Wang developed a way to measure sperm cell LT50, found that sperm heat tolerance is repeatable across males, and that episodic male heat stress reduces sperm motility 🦎 #anolis doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

The third chapter of my dissertation is out now in the Journal of Biogeography! For this work, we examined the implications of using range maps to extract species richness for use in macroecological models. DM me if you don't have access & want a copy! :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out our cool new findings showing how developmental temperature and corticosterone have long term impacts on mitochondrial efficiency that coincide with consistent differences in body size through life! A fantatsic team effort doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Excited about our new paper asking: Why does the growth of most life have an optimal temperature below 40°C? We argue the average maximum oceanic temperatures of <37°C for 2+ billion years drove evolution of the temperature optima of prokaryotes. 1/5 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New work from the lab! Annelise Blanchette found that brown anole lizards may be the most lead (pb) tolerant vertebrate known to date by integrating physiological studies of field and lab exposed animals and transcriptomics #urbanecology #ecotox #anolis 🦎 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New work from the lab! Annelise Blanchette found that brown anole lizards may be the most lead (pb) tolerant vertebrate known to date by integrating physiological studies of field and lab exposed animals and transcriptomics #urbanecology #ecotox #anolis 🦎 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am so excited to announce that the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group (ALSG) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature SSC is officially approved and active! iucn.org/our-union/co... My Co-Chair, @jhancsalazar.bsky.social, and I are excited to get to work! Stay tuned 🦎

Scared to share this after 10 freaking years of waiting, but here we go: We found that temperature *perception* can change the biology of the next generations, even when “it’s just in the parents' head”. Read how C. elegans neurons control epigenetic inheritance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...