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LSU Museum of Natural Sciences is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: 🐀🦜🦎🐸🐠 Review begins February 15th, please share! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119...

Brazil has now signed agreements with Springer-Nature and Elsevier for Brazilian researchers to read AND PUBLISH for free for 3y. Rest of the world, take note: THIS is how you support and promote open science. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

🇧🇷Formigueiro-de-barriga-cinza 🌎Ammonastes pelzelni Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O formigueiro-de-barriga-cinza é uma ave da ordem Passeriformes, da família Thamnophilidae. 📷 Hiram Pereira

Thrilled to share our new review online with @scottvedwards.bsky.social in @Trends Ecol & Evo! “pangenomics is rapidly transforming our ability to dissect the genetic basis of ecological and evolutionary change in natural systems.”

📢 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! Excited to share a special issue I co-edited on bird–window collisions, a major yet overlooked source of bird mortality Bringing together 8 papers, this issue advances methods, evidence, and solutions to inform bird-friendly(er) built environments OA: tinyurl.com/yss5mvf2

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deadline soon (end of Nov) for this PhD position in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics in my group.

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The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

Song complexity in suboscine birds: evolutionary drivers and ecological constraints https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682597v1

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Our paper on the temporal genomics of Ethiopian birds has been highlighted (and gotten the cover) in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social Article: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163 Highlight: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf175 w/ @bourgeoisyann.bsky.social, @lcampillo.bsky.social, and others not on bsky

🌼 New paper showing that it's not just pollinators shaping flowers—abiotic factors like humidity and temperature also influence floral form and function. Check out this new paper on a more complex picture of floral evolution. 🌬️🐝 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Your regular reminder that plant genomes are messy. Good luck getting your shortbread data to recapitulate this:

The most important paper in evolutionary biology I'd never heard of: 1/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In a new Review article in GBE, @scientific-arlie.bsky.social et al delve into the growing field of phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping (PhyloG2P), discussing advances and future directions for using phylogenomic data to map traits to genomes 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf150 #genome #evolution

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

Big news for everyone who makes use of museum collections, VertNet is back online! www.vertnet.org

What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Museums aren’t just collections — they’re classrooms. 🦋🏛️ @corriemoreau.bsky.social's #Scopes100 talk shows how exhibits make #evolution accessible & engaging. https://loom.ly/vFnwcRo#Scopes100#evolution @ncse.bsky.social

How sex shapes transcriptome evolution in the songbird brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671601v1

Determinants of mutation load in birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670172v1

When populations evolve different strategies to defend against a recently acquired parasite (e.g., tolerance, resistance), what sets of gene expression responses are conserved, or diverge? Using a vaccination experiment with #stickleback @laurenfuess.bsky.social reports some fun results...

History of divergence and gene flow shaping geographic variation in Andean warblers (Myioborus) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.667688v1

Our latest preprint explores the evolution of the primate amylase locus, uncovering structural innovations, regulatory shifts and molecular convergence. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Music to my ears. This is brilliant. Either 90% of us can claim to be better musicians than Beethoven or… maybe just maybe polygenic scores aren’t perfect?

🇧🇷Saudade 🌎Lipaugus ater Conservação:Quase Ameaçada A saudade é uma ave passeriforme da família Cotingidae, monotípica 📷 Cal Martins

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...

New research from our lab documents important drought impacts on desert bird communities in the SW United States 🌎🐦 25 years of bird data across the Mojave & Sonoran deserts, show drought drives clear declines in bird abundance & species richness. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

Does anyone know who first used the term "Manhattan Plot"? Wikipedia links to a 2010 paper by Greg Gibson. I haven't yet found an earlier use, but Greg's phrasing suggests that he did not invent the term. doi.org/10.1038/ng07...

Success!! We just moved our tissue collection into a brand new cryogenic facility. Top infrastructure to preserve Colombia's genetic resources, one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth #institutohumboldt

If you're interested in the interaction between genetic and epigenetic changes during rapid adaptation, take a look at our recent paper in @pnas.org ! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Have you ever wondered about the origin of birds restricted to specific regions? Led by doctoral student Hevana Lima, we attempt to unravel the origins of birds endemic to the Caatinga dry forests in Brazil. Check our ms out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Lawmakers approved a bill that weakens Brazil’s environmental licensing framework, which creates self-approving licensing and hands decisions to local politicians. The new law eases critical impact studies for large-scale enterprises and threatens hundreds of Indigenous and Quilombola communities.

‪A really lovely commentary on @vdbijl.bsky.social's paper by Nidal Karagic and Claudius Kratochwil in @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Staff scientist position (computational): I am looking for a computational scientist to join my genomics lab at Stanford. They should have an outstanding skillset in ML/statistical methods for genomic applications, postdoc experience and a strong publication record. #sciencejobs

This was a very special encounter, watching an adult Equatorial Antpitta feeding its offspring. At Hacienda el Bosque #Colombia #birds #nature #feedme

In 2023, La Corona, Venezuela’s last standing glacier in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida National Park, was reclassified as an ice field, having shrunk to the size of barely two football fields. The country is now the first tropical nation to lose all of its glaciers.

The Biodiversity Collections Task Force is a nascent effort to help collections through anticipated difficult times in the near future. We are planning a webinar series, beginning in September 2025. Let us know which topics would be most useful to you: lnkd.in/gQmyMKmN

Evolution of endothermy in marine fishes is related to competition with cetaceans. This incredible paper is a masterpiece of phylogenetic comparative methods and a future classic for marine biologists www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Quick reminder that the deadline for applying for our EXCITING NEW ROLE of Senior Collections Lead at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social is THIS SUNDAY. Come and make a huge difference here at one of the UK's most important natural history collections 🤩. #MuseumJobs www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/