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Maria Servedio

@servedio.bsky.social

Theoretician, Speciation, Sexual selection, will post rarely!

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Maria Servedio @servedio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Kuangyi Xu, a current EEB postdoc at UToronto and a former student in my lab, spearheaded this new dissection of the lek paradox. It often doesn't hold! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

When sexual selection through mate choice depletes versus exaggerates genetic variation: Unraveling the lek paradox | PNAS

The evolution of female preferences for male display traits relies on females receiving indirect benefits from their mate. This requires substantia...

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Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social · 2y ago

SMTPB will host a panel discussion on grant writing in theoretical population biology Monday Nov 18 at 8AM PT / 11AM ET. Host: Maria Servedio, panelists: Mark Broom, Thomas Lenormand, Marie-Josée Fortin, Scott Nuimser & me. Register here: unc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

SMTPBconnect PANEL DISCUSSION: GRANT WRITING
hosted by Maria Servedio (UNC) Participants will gather to discuss grant writing strategies for theory and mathematical research.
• Mark Broom (City, University of London)
• Thomas Lenormand (CEFE-CNRS)
• Marie-Josée Fortin (University of Toronto)
• Scott Nuismer (University of Idaho)
• Christopher Klausmeier (Michigan State University)
November 18th 8:00 AM PT

Maria Servedio @servedio.bsky.social · 3y ago

Loved this collaboration with amazing scientists and a chance to model a novel mechanism of sexual selection!

Elizabeth Hobson@elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 3y ago

New paper!! "By casting the female brain as the central selective agent, Inferred Attractiveness captures novel & dynamic aspects of sexual selection & reconciles inconsistencies between mate choice theory and observed behavior" doi.org/10.1371/jour... @emilyhduval.bsky.social @servedio.bsky.social

An image showing the title of our paper in PLOS Biology (“Inferred Attractiveness: A generalized mechanism for sexual selection that can maintain variation in traits and preferences over time”), a photo of all four authors while visiting the Santa Fe Institute (with the best monolith, Beta, in the background), and the main conceptual and summary plots of the paper.