New species of antthrush, the Baturité antthrush (Chamaeza baturitensis, right): www.scielo.br/j/zool/a/qbw... 🪶🧪 (📷Eduardo P. Brettas)

"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

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Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model

Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...

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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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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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The Society of Systematic Biologists is looking for a new editor for the Bulletin! The Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists is the Society’s diamond OA journal. Are you interested? Or know someone who might be? See 👇 www.systbio.org/eicbssb.htm

Musculoskeletal anatomy of the flight apparatus in the southern screamer: academic.oup.com/iob/advance-... 🪶🧪 (📷 @tyrannosaura.bsky.social et al.)

Our new review paper is out - iOrnithology: a review of the use of web-sourced photographs and videos in ornithological research, published in Ibis @connorpanter.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<fc>iOrnithology</fc>: a review of the use of web‐sourced photographs and videos in ornithological research

The internet hosts vast quantities of digital media across webpages, repositories and social media platforms, providing unprecedented opportunities for ecological research. The use of web-sourced med...

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🐦 Why are bird genomes so difficult to assemble? Birds have dozens of tiny, gene-rich microchromosomes that are frequently fragmented, misplaced, or missing from genome assemblies despite containing important genetic information. 📖 Read the publication: lnkd.in/gar-GrKZ #BirdGenomics #Biodiversity

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential | PNAS

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

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Arriving in the Cordillera Blanca, our latest paper is out. The tropical American mountains are Earth's most diverse alpine regions, but history shapes biodiversity more than latitude in these habitats. Tomorrow I'll be running above 4,400 m, hoping to spot remarkable birds. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44sFvTg

Official transition of the University of New Orleans to the LSU system

Phylogeny of flamingos: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Díaz et al.)

Curator of Vertebrates Position at the Smithsonian! www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Research Zoologist

The Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a major bureau of the ...

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🚨New paper🚨 For decades, it was widely assumed tropical species would be hit hardest by #ClimateChange. Turns out climate-related local #extinctions are already more frequent among temperate species. Read our new study 🧵 @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... #BiodiversityLoss #SciSky

Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions - Nature Climate Change

The authors analyse global-scale resurvey data for 5,151 species to reveal the sensitivity of tropical versus temperate species to climate change. They show significantly higher frequencies of local e...

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I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

Excited to share the (modest) results of our monitoring of bird-building collisions at Rice University, along with the hot and probably ill-informed takes of an evolutionary biologist dabbling into conservation for the first time!!! With huge thanks to... ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Here's the paper in @plosbiology.org. The upshot: several genes that can be altered to make birds more colorful have been passed around the warbler family tree many times and across large evolutionary distances.

A colorful legacy of hybridization in wood-warblers includes frequent sharing of carotenoid genes among species and genera

Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...

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If you're at #Evol2026 and want to talk about publishing a review in Proc B, come find me. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/pages/r...

🧵 Excited to share my final PhD paper in Ecology Letters! A classic question in ecology is why some clades contain more species in local assemblages than others. We argue that part of the answer lies in the timing of speciation itself. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

The July issue of Systematic Biology is out. See Tribble et al.'s fantastic anniversary article on character macroevolution, a Tinamou Spotlight (featured on the cover), and several more. academic.oup.com/sysbio/issue... @systbiol.bsky.social

New study in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org where we investigate the consequences of divergence in multiple mating signals for reproductive isolation doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... We show that species with more similar acoustic signals 🎶 are more likely to hybridize @ebdonana.bsky.social

Song but not colour divergence constrains hybridization in birds

Abstract. Mating signals, such as songs or plumage ornamentation, are key prezygotic barriers that promote behavioral isolation by ensuring that individual

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Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...

Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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Why do species' ranges stop where they do? New theory shows that matching habitat choice can sharpen range boundaries and reinforce limits imposed by competition academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... By Shirani and @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social

Coevolution of species’ range borders: Interactions between interspecific competition, gene flow, and matching habitat choice

Abstract. Existing theory examining the coevolutionary dynamics of species’ range borders assumes random dispersal, which causes maladaptive gene flow from

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I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at sclaramu@uno.edu

Like macroecology & macroevolution? Want to listen to some cool talks from the comfort of your own office (or couch -- we don't judge!) ? We're still accepting online registrations for #BESMacro2026 , July 15-17. Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

BES Macro 2026

A British Ecological Society special interest group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career

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Hey IQTree3 paper is out. Bread and butter for tree building anything in my workflow. They have a pretty standout documentation too. 🖥️🧬 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

IQ-TREE 3: phylogenomic inference software using complex evolutionary models

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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