New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am thrilled to present my latest work, which finds that bacterial genetic diversity (in the form of co-colonizing strains of the same species and the genetic variants they harbor) is uniformly distributed along the gut. Read more about it at Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

The “Fraud Squad” is a more accurate name. And this is horrible for Rice’s Whale and other endangered wildlife.

Holding a meeting of the ESA God Squad for NMFS’s jeopardy biological opinion on the effects of oil development on the endangered Rice’s whale is absurd even for Trump Implementing the BO’s Reasonable & Prudent Alternative is an economic & physical no-brainer www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3//2025-05/...

plus a nice dispatch on the island-hopping kaleidoscopic frogs www.cell.com/current-biol...

A great compliment. I drew most of the graphical abstract and put a lot of love into it 🥰. I cannot take credit for the amazing photo that was my collaborator @yusanyang.bsky.social

Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur

And guess what’s on the cover of Current Biology today 🐸

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action: Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

In the midst of the darkness, I am pleased to announce that UCLA will be hosting the upcoming Southern California Evolutionary Genetics (SCalE) conference on November 1! Registration & abstract submission is here: www.scalemeeting.org/home Deadline is October 13! Hope to see you at UCLA!

Infidelity, divorce, and real-estate drama in the Alpine swift: Dumas et al. found that mate switching behaviours in the Alpine swift likely follow a win-stay lose-switch strategy. Summary & analysis by Diana Aguilar Gómez: www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

A new PNAS Special Feature combines speciation genomics and conservation biology to address habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss. The articles explore how monitoring and restoring gene flow can support resilient ecosystems in the Anthropocene. Learn more: www.pnas.org/topic/574.