Matheus Januario
@mjanuario.bsky.social
Postdoc @IGCB / Ecol. & Evol. Biol. @ U of Michigan. https://mjanuario.github.io/
Unbelievably! excited that the first chapter of my dissertation is PUBLISHED in EVOLUTION!! I am incredibly proud of the work and my amazing coauthors! Special shoutout to my undergrad mentee and collaborator Ryan Isdonas! He’s fantastic, and it’s such a privilege to get to publish alongside him!
Mark Westneat 🐟@mwestneat.bsky.social · 2d agoSurgeonfishes are cool! Our Evolution paper now out in final form, the amazing patterns of change in fish shape and covariance (new method!) elegantly revealed by @linnealungstrom.bsky.social 🐟🐠🦑🌿 academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
It's that time! Abstract submission is open for #SICB 2027! Come share your research and learn about the most exciting areas #scientific research in Pittsburgh, PA on January 3-7, 2027. abstract deadline is August 28 at 11:59 PM HST. Questions go to Matt McHenry: ProgramOfficer@sicb.org.
The Cornell Lab invites applications for Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowships. These competitive awards support innovative, independent research by early-career scholars of exceptional promise. Two to four awards are made in each cycle. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32334
Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology
Job #AJO32334, WDR-00059934 Rose Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1
Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...
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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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Stoked to see our paper out as a pre-print! Check it out if you're interested in how we can expand comparative methods to better accommodate the many-to-one mapping of evolutionary process to pattern... (or if you think frogs are cool) @gjslater.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Beyond the Panglossian paradigm: adaptation, constraint, and anuran functional trait evolution.
Recognizing patterns in functional trait evolution is a necessary step in testing macroevolutionary questions. Quantification of these patterns and interpretation of their generative processes relies ...
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Phylogeny, classification, and evolutionary history of Neogastropoda: doi.org/10.1093/zool... #evolution #phylogenetics #systematics #mollusca
Congrats to Grace Zhang who gave a fantastic defense seminar this week! Shown here presenting and with the lab at the after celebration!
Gina Baucom@gbaucom.bsky.social · last mo.Happy-sad to see another student on the path to graduation!
Every time I teach Evolutionary Genetics, I assign the students to write a Digest in the style of the journal Evolution and encourage them to submit it if they are eligible. This past spring, an undergraduate student, Henry Ayers, decided to submit his, and it just got published. Way to go, Henry!
Digest: Longitudinal striping in rodents
Abstract. Why do some rodents exhibit longitudinal dorsal stripes rather than the much more common monochromatic pelage coloration? Caro et al. (2026) inve
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Huge congrats to Lindsey DeHaan on receiving the Stoye Award for best student presentation in ichthyology at #JMIH26 in New Orleans! Lindsey presented work on macroevolutionary shifts in spiny eels, representing one of her dissertation chapters. 📸: @leicurtis.bsky.social
We received almost 300 applications to our Graduate Research Excellence Grants this year. We expect to fund around 50 proposals. Help us fund an additional 10 by making a tax-deductible donation to our GREG GoFundMe campaign! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...
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Happy-sad to see another student on the path to graduation!
I'm excited to share that our latest paper is now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... It was a pleasure working with @landismj.bsky.social and Ammon Thompson on this project, developing a new phylogenetic model for infectious disease transmission with realistic host movement dynamics. #evobio
Today marks one of the most important days in the history of Science. OTD in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred R. Wallace revealed the idea of evolution by natural selection @linneansociety.bsky.social meeting (although any of them was actually present) darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
🇵🇾: Vení de Paraguay para matar-te! 🇩🇪: Para que? 😳😰 🇵🇾: Paraguay!
#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!
We have officially retired the old stipend site, no more @reptilerhett.bsky.social .app - looking for Biology PhD stipends, make sure to use our new (and much cheaper) site: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...
Biology PhD Stipends
Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.
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Your tax dollars once paid a doctor at a VA hospital in the Bronx to study the venom of a poisonous lizard. It produced Ozempic, Wegovy, and a $38.6 billion therapeutic class. 🧵
🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5
The smallest centipedes have 30 legs, while the largest ever discovered had 382 👀 🐛 Despite the name, no centipede with exactly 100 legs has ever been found. Surprising science explains why!
Incredible. That’s Frankfurt, London, and the Smithsonian all with calls for herpetology curators open at the same time. Unheard of!
Prosanta Chakrabarty@prosanta.bsky.social · 2mo agoY'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000
They found a moribund Indonesian coelacanth in shallow waters in Sulawesi yesterday. This species was described in 1997 and has a story behind the description and discovery almost as crazy as the one from the original Western species in 1938. www.facebook.com/share/r/1VNQ...
The World Climate Research Programme @wcrpclimate.bsky.social has been aligning global research efforts towards policy needs since 1980. We suggest that an analogous organisation for #biodiversity science is needed in order to enable and support effective policy action.
Macroecology lab @unipotsdam@zurelllab.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow do we ensure a globally coordinated and sustained research agenda to address the biodiversity crisis? We think it's time to explore a World Biodiversity Research Programme - a mechanism to coordinate and better connect biodiversity research with global policy needs. doi.org/10.1038/s415...