super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Happy to share the latest publication from our labs on the Apennine brown bear, a relict population not far from Rome, Italy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504409122 Thanks to great co-auths, we moved beyond our "genomic" comfort zone incl. cellular experiments and molecular dynamics simulations.

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

Congrats CD on your well-earned achievement! (This is _actually_ on the "journal" website) ＼(〇_ｏ)／

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!

While trying to see if two populations of the Antarctic longfin icedevil fish Aethotaxis mitopteryx were genetically differentiated, we uncovered a clear sex signal demonstrating that in this rarely encountered species males are the heterogametic sex! 🧪🐟🌎🐧🧊🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Want to make recombination maps from sperm/pollen/gametes? There is an easy way, based on Hi-C sequencing. Full details in the Hi-reComb paper now in Genetics: doi.org/10.1093/gene... Thanks to Richard Durbin and Ed Green and a great group of co-authors for contributions.

'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social‬

*PhD position* 🦉 Would you like to do a PhD with Indo-Pacific birds and evolutionary genomics? Join us in Stockholm: <deadline> 05 September 2025, 23:59 PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

1/16 🚨🚨 New paper!! I am thrilled to share our study that uses fossils, genomes, and a bit of geology to investigate how many times cavefishes evolved, and how they can help us figure out the ages of caves themselves! Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology in the "news" again 🤣

Happy to share our latest paper in which we use a new big phylogeny of birds to analyze the relationships between dispersal, geographic range size and diversification rates across all birds. See also post by ‪@sheardcat.bsky.social‬ and @josephtobias.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Despite the rearrangements, we find evidence of past hybridisation throughout the evolutionary history of these radiations. Multiple species show strongly admixed ancestries, indicating that hybridisation may have facilitated their evolution. This is something we are currently investigating more.

Excited to share that I will be a co-director for the upcoming Workshop on Phylogenomics @evomics.bsky.social, alongside the amazing main team lead @rosafernandez.bsky.social and Erin K. Molloy We are putting together an amazing workshop with details to come - can't wait to share it with everyone!🥳

Job alert! I am looking for someone who would like to join my lab as a senior researcher, permanent, with teaching included. My lab is new, I still have startup money, just sayin. DM or email me with questions. Deadline Aug. 11th, interviews in september. Ad here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...

Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!

1/13 Time to talk about dogs and fossilized birth-death models! Here is a quick run-down of my #Evol2025 talk. 🧵

Starting from wild brown fish from the Amazon, pet breeders have produced a wide array of varieties discus for the aquarium trade: doi.org/10.1007/s104...

How did nature’s incredible diversity come to be? These cichlid fish may offer a clue 🐠 Cambridge researchers have found that chunks of ‘flipped’ #DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary ‘superchargers’ 👇 bit.ly/3HGqEN6

Only two more days to apply!! Put your name in the hat, even if you feel like you don't match all criteria listed. Happy to chat regardless!

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

On 3 June, I'll be participating in the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft's online event #BookAScientist. I'll be sharing insights from my research at the @leibnizlib.bsky.social www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne... Book a free 25-minute chat with me and learn about native fishes. English and German.

Modern tree-dwelling sloths are dwarf morphs of (usually) ground dwelling giant sloths 😮 reminds me the evolutionary trajectories of dinosaurs into birds. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

I wrote an opinion piece for @livescience.com about the #ColossalBioSci dire wolf deëxtinction campaign by #BenLamm; I explore the consequences of their #DisInformation on information and scientific integrity... www.livescience.com/animals/exti...

Interested in measuring genetic load? We have a new paper out providing a modified version of GERP which is more user friendly in wildlife species and with scripts to automate making input files and pulling out derived alleles in your species #consgen #popgen star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4202

Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.

Here’s an exciting PhD opportunity for those interested in genomics and adaptive radiation: jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/8...

Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬 Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections. 🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen ⏰ Deadline: June 15th 📩 Contact me! 🚀 Excited to explore new horizons! Please share 🕊️

🧬 Another exciting opportunity at SMNS—this time in our Zoology Department! 🦎🔬 Looking for a Postdoc in molecular biogeography, conservation genetics, or evolutionary morphology. 🤝 Interdepartmental collaboration encouraged! 🔗 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/zoology

Three-year postdoctoral fellowship available at NHM Oslo: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🚨Two postdoc positions available at the Department for Neuroscience and Developmental Biology at the University of Vienna in the group of Oleg Simakov (neurodevbio.univie.ac.at/simakov-rese...), starting earliest from November 2025. #joblife #job #jobsearch #postdoc #researchopportunity

Late Cretaceous invasion of Madagascan fresh waters by percomorph fishes (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha) Alison Murray et al. 2025 Gondwana Research Documents the presence of percomorphs in Upper Cretaceous freshwater deposits of Madagascar www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Phylogenomic and Population Genomic Analyses of Ultraconserved Elements Reveal Deep Coalescence and Introgression Shaped Diversification Patterns in Lamprologine Cichlids of the Congo River @fishnandoalda.bsky.social et al. (including me!) 2025 Systematic Biology academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Phylogenomics establishes an Early Miocene reconstruction of reef vertebrate diversity Awesome new #TeamFish paper by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Happy Birthday to master storyteller Sir David Attenborough! 🎉 We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough. Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!

The Department of Natural History at NTNU is seeking an ambitious candidate for an open position as associate professor in vertebrate evolutionary genomics. Please see 👇 for details. Deadline for applications is May 25. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

1/10 🚨🚨 New paper with @tjnear.bsky.social! Here, we revise the systematics of sturgeons using a phylogenetic approach! We confirm an Early Cretaceous origin for the sturgeon total clade and resurrect several genera for living species!

Chase D. Brownstein and Thomas J. Near 2025 @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social "Toward a Phylogenetic Taxonomy of Sturgeons (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae)," 16 species previously classified as Acipenser are moved to Huso and the resurrected Sinosturio. doi.org/10.3374/014....

"the ‘genome-wide swamping’ model [a barrier locus resisting rampant introgression] fit the data better than the ‘locus-specific [adaptive] introgression’ model" 🤩 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Most endangered fish in the world just plummeted from 191 to 20 individuals over just a few months due to earthquake-induced starvation🧪🐙🐟 However, the population is so inbred this won't affect their genetic diversity much. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... www.sfgate.com/national-par...

😱Wow, in other news, Devil's Hole #pupfish just plummeted to an historic low of 20 fish this winter from 191 fish in the fall. Luckily, USFWS had a handy refuge population and *for the 1st time ever* reintroduced captive fish into the wild, doubling the population. www.nps.gov/deva/learn/n...

[Please share] 📢‼️ I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...