Did you know that Evolution Letters now publishes reviews?! Our inaugural one is fantastic! Deep learning is opening new doors for evolutionary genomics, especially for nonmodel organisms with sparse or uncertain genomic data. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
A gente fica aguardando a foto
This is a cool story! 💪💪
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!
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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.
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Um pássaro pequeno de coloração predominantemente marrom e preta repousa sobre um tronco coberto de musgo verde vibrante. Sua cabeça e nuca exibem um padrão intricado de manchas cinzentas e marrons, enquanto as costas e as asas são marrons com pequenas pintas amareladas. O peito é escuro, quase preto, contrastando com a barriga mais clara. Suas pernas finas e azuladas seguram firmemente o tronco, e o bico fino e alongado aponta para a direita. O olhar atento do pássaro sugere vigilância. O fundo é um borrão suave de tons verdes e marrons, indicando uma vegetação densa. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.
🇧🇷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
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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
Genome Biology and Evolution October 2025 cover image with a photo of an Ethiopian White-eye.
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
Photo by Nash Turley
🌼 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. 🌬️🐝
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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:
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What if NIH had been 40% smaller? | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
GBE | From Trees to Traits: A Review of Advances in PhyloG2P Methods and Future Directions
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
A black vulture sits on a sign that says "black vulture notice."
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...
Promotional graphic for Corrie Moreau’s Scopes Symposium lecture titled Teaching Evolution through Museum Exhibits. On the left, Moreau is shown speaking at a podium, wearing glasses and a patterned jacket, gesturing with her hands. On the right, text reads “Corrie Moreau – Teaching Evolution through Museum Exhibits.” Logos for Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies and the National Center for Science Education appear at the bottom, along with a small photo of framed butterfly specimens in a museum display.
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
@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
