I posed recently about my recent obsession with Hooke's Micrographia (1665) and the incredible feather drawings it has. I really wanted to see an original copy and luckily, Yale has two! So, earlier this week, I headed down to the Beinecke Library with @mylestogo.bsky.social to check it out

I bumped into a very cool reference today! Micrographia by Robert Hooke was published in 1665 and is basically a bunch of descriptions of things seen while looking through a microscope

One of my favorite parts of writing is remembering that the perfect citation exists and even remembering what one of the figures looks like but not remembering any of the key words that make finding the paper possible

My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!

🪶 Feathers are complex, each one an elegant structure crafted through millions of years of evolution. As habitats shrink and climates continue to warm, understanding the why and how of colorful bird feathers could help us better protect them into the future: go.nhm.org/feathers-work

Presenting tomorrow at #Evol2025, swing by to hear about feathers, cell types, and a little teaser about pigmentation patterns!

I hope to take a PhD student in the coming application cycle. Please reach out if you are interested in joining our lab in EEB at Yale, especially if interested in working on the natural history/ phylogenetics/ morphology/ population biology/ development/ genomics of siphonophores. dunnlab.org