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Statue depicting a Multi-PI grant : An 18-meter tree and a 9-meter tree with their branches intertwined, jointly holding up an 11-ton marble block.
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Very cool and important paper on bat evolution and genomics. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Academic Editors and PIs: what’s the current temperature of AI use in manuscript preparation? Inclusive of content editing, code and figure preparation, but obviously excluding generating content from scratch. The caveat is full disclosure of any use is assumed.
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Yes! Use appropriately
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Perhaps, but unsure
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Our collaborative paper on snake coiling is now out in the latest issue of Current Biology and featured on the cover! 🎉 Delighted to see our work highlighted this way. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ni9h…
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🐍 🗺️Announcing the Snakebite Community Map
A free, global directory connecting researchers, clinicians & organizations working on snakebite envenoming.
📄 Read and share the 1-page announcement
🔓🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22300…
#SnakebiteAwarenessDay
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Our own modeling backs up this symbiotic reality. Indeed, there are far more mathematical paths to speciation in a holobiont world when we do the equations and/or run the lab experiments. Strict, host-centric models put the blinders on to biological reality and potential.
Hologenomic interactions promote the higher-order evolvability of phenotypic complexity dlvr.it/TVRrdh
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@ROMtoronto is hiring a Curator of Insects & Arachnids and the deadline is soon: royalontariomuseum.applytojo… via @JazzDotCo
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Hot off the press! Please RT and give our New perspective a read. Free link below:
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Hot off the press! Please RT and give our New perspective a read. Free link below:
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🚨🚨 1. New preprint! We examine whether the diversity of transcontinental freshwater fish radiations, such as killifishes and cichlids, might be driven by marine ancestry in the aftermath of an asteroid impact! #biology #science #fishes
doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.04.…
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Genomic insights into the persistence of Nubian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis) in conflict-affected South Sudan
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Staff Scientist position at University of Copenhagen. Come join our work on ancient environmental DNA! candidate.hr-manager.net/App…
Staff Scientist or Research Consultant in Bioinformatics at Globe Institute
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An open question in molecular diet analysis is whether metabarcoding is useful for quantifying relative intake, particularly for herbivores where individual scats are diverse. We compared metabarcoding, hybridization, and metagenomic sequencing for deer /1 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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With today’s very sad news that Philadelphia’s 214 year old Academy of Natural Sciences natural history museum is closing, it seems a good time to reshare this 2015 op-ed: nytimes.com/2015/02/27/opini…
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Ever wondered why snake embryos coil? 🐍
A beautifully simple question with a fascinating answer: a growth mismatch between body & gut shapes the coil
See our study together with T. Miyashita and @frogdiaz , published in Current Biology
cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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Good tools lower activation energy. The @EHologenome Initiative profiles host and microbial genomes, and now EHItk makes exploring them effortless: a sleek Python toolkit to filter, query, and download a wild vertebrate hologenome with ease.
academic.oup.com/bioinformat…
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1/10 🚨new preprint! we show that the asteroid impact that killed non-bird dinosaurs might have also instigated the radiation of the largest vertebrate assemblage on the planet: tropical freshwater fishes! #biology #evolution #science
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Evolution 2027 meeting logo contest! The winner will receive free conference registration and t-shirt! evolutionmeetings.org/2027-l…
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cool senior forest ecologist job with @Wilderness, salary 92-108K, location ideally here in Bozeman, in Denver, or DC, but other locations considered:
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