Lucas Carneiro

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Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!

AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

A gray wolf clone with dire wolf DNA edits.

It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Screenshot of MDD2 website

Does your feed need more MAMMALS?! Just in time for #2025MMM, we have what you need:

All new v2.0 of the Mammal Diversity Database just launched!

What's new?
- Preprint on MDD2: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Re-vamped website: mammaldiversity.org
- 50,230 species-level synonyms
- 6,759 species total

"Two lessons: Some experiments just don’t work out. And you get what you select for — in other words, evolution usually finds the simplest solution that is available to the organism, even if you were hoping for something else."

Short-tailed bat hanging from a tree branch

🦇 New Paper from our Research Group!! Developmental Instability, body mass, and reproduction predict immunological response in short-tailed bats. With @lcarneiro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/cz/z...

Latin American journals are open-access pioneers. Now, they need an audience SciElo, other platforms work to help journals reach readers around the world

We are late for this important and urgent discussion!

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#academicSky #phdsky #globalsouth #academicchatter

Ver morcego é tão bom, revigorante!