Our latest paper started out as a DDIG project 14 years ago and grew into an interdisciplinary reassessment of Madagascar's oldest fossil lizard, showing that Konkasaurus mahalana is a gerrhosaur and the earliest known colonization from Africa by an extant Madagascan lineage. doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!

Watch the #SICB student journalist chat that accompanies this youtu.be/iu1y_26-di8?... #SICB #Student #journalist piece, on Yuchen Chen by Meghan Forcellati sicb.org/sicb-news/th... & read ICB's paper by Chen, @jacanamama.bsky.social & Hobson doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

One day at sea. Recently, WCS scientists saw all this wildlife 25 to 35 miles south of Long Island. These waters haven’t always been recognized as important whale habitat. The sightings remind us how extraordinary and important the New York Bight is today. bit.ly/4vXAJIK 🌎

Proud to share our latest paper in out in Nature today on the origin of #snakes. We present Tametara mirim, an articulated 3D preserved stem snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Tametara helped us re-tell the story of snake origins in a novel way... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - Nature

A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape disparity in the group.

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Happy #WorldSnakeDay! 🐍 We’re heading into the Museum’s Department of Herpetology to learn some interesting facts about these diverse and important reptiles.

108 climate transitions in pit vipers shown by @lpnunez.bsky.social. Looking at 23 pit viper genomes showed that, of 636 genes, 36 showed evidence for intensifying selection disproportionally happening in peptide binding sites for immune receptors. FACE MELTING! #JMIH26

#JMIH26 is just a little over a week away. If you're attending, be sure to check out the symposium @danpaluh.bsky.social and I organized celebrating the career and legacy of Aaron Bauer! It will be filled with amazing talks about geckos, snakes, skinks, and more!

🌈Museums are for everyone! Today, over 40 members of AMNH PRIDE, a resource group for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies within the Museum community, participated in the NYC Pride March. Happy Pride!

Congratulations Dr. Anna Eichert! #stonefly #plecoptera @annaeichert.bsky.social

Congratulations to this year’s Hamilton Award winner, Princeton Vaughn! @princetonvaughn.bsky.social www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Very happy to announce that I will be continuing my #snake research as an Assistant Professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania Fall 2026! This is the start of the SERPNT Lab! 🐍 Thank you to the huge number of individuals that have made this possible!

Hard to keep track of all the changes to dragonfly classification? Check out our new paper for all the news! www.worlddragonfly.org/article/tijo...

Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢 #Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...

I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Join us at virtual #Evol2026 this Friday to hear from the finalists for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Student Presentation! This symposium is in 3 sessions starting at 11 am Eastern.

Really happy to share I will be joining the Dept. of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University this fall as an assistant professor!! My lab will focus on ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution, integrating fossils and living species. DM if you have interest in joining my new research group!

my paper on pogonomyrmex harvester ant biogeography with bob johnson and @corriemoreau.bsky.social came out today! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MEB3T9...

Happy to announce the alpha release of the SCINKD3! SCINKD3 is an extension of SCINKD streamlines the use of WGS data from multiple individuals to identify sex chromosomes. In testing, its shown to be robust in many cases with as few as 4 individuals. github.com/DrPintoThe2n...

GitHub - DrPintoThe2nd/SCINKD3: development repo of SCINKD (v3)

development repo of SCINKD (v3). Contribute to DrPintoThe2nd/SCINKD3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Our 2026 Linnean Medal winner for research, @mstiassny.bsky.social, has transformed understanding of fish evolution, from African rivers to the tree of life. Blending fieldwork and advanced imaging, she’s revealed blind species adapted to low-light environments and alarming declines in biodiversity.

New simulation study with Ethan Gyllenhaal highlighting a potentially big problem for biogeographic inference. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Spatial impacts on gene flow may hinder linking phylogeographic data to macroevolutionary patterns

Abstract. Biogeography relies on estimates of phylogeny and gene flow to test hypotheses. Established theory posits: (i) gene flow varies non-randomly with

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So glad to have this published in the J. Biogeography! We use genomics to elucidate patterns of diversification and dispersal in the Indo-Australian Archipelago and reject notorious biogeographic hypotheses in the region! Amazing job to all of the coauthors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today was a great day for the lab: @hcamarillo.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Camarillo! We are very happy and excited to see what comes next for you.

My PhD student will be finishing soon and is looking for a postdoc position to start in the fall semester. If you have a postdoc ad or opening and are looking for someone experienced especially in population/evolutionary genomics with a knack for coding and bioinformatics, let me know.

African frogs haven’t forgotten the ice ages. 🐸🧊 A new study shows ancient forest refugia in Central Africa align with the modern diversity of frogs. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/afri... Study: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Endangered sei whales take spring break in the waters off New York and New Jersey, a new study led by the WCS New York Bight Program shows. Sei whales are the world’s 3rd largest whales. Also, one of the least studied large whales in the North Atlantic. 🌎 Read more: bit.ly/3O0CgOb

Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8

I’m so excited to announce our new paper in @journal-evo.bsky.social showing how embryology can help us determine ancestral character states in temporal niche academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... Collab w/ A Bauer, A Wegerski, @tonygamble.bsky.social, & A Rasys #GeckoEvoDevo #Aristelliger 1/x

🟢 BREAKING | An international coalition of activists, trade unionists, & humanitarian groups is preparing to sail next month w/ food, medicine, & essential supplies to Cuba, seeking to break the intensifying U.S. siege of the island. Organizers of the “Nuestra América Flotilla” say tightened U.S...