🐦🐦‍⬛🦜Happy to share our study on the 🧬genetic basis and #evolution of structural color polymorphism🪶 in the white-winged #fairywren ! Now published in
Molecular Biology and Evolution (1/6)
doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

Excited to finally have this paper out after multiple years in the making with The Bellwood Lab, Reef Function Hub, and Peter Cowman

'Analysing biological colour patterns from digital images: An introduction to the current toolbox'

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Thank you reviewer for going through the manuscript in *triple checks manuscript status* 4 hours ?!

Research Tech position available in our lab Princeton University! 🚨 Come work with us and develop new skill sets on morphometrics, CT data, and squamate evolution.
Great opportunity for college/MSc graduates to gain pre-doctoral reserach experience. Please RT: social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1710…

How could evolution have shaped so many winged birds like the emu, ostrich, and kiwi with no ability to fly? This question fascinated Scott Edwards, Agassiz professor of evolutionary biology Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and ornithology curator at @mczharvard.

#Harvard

harvardmagazine.com/2024/03/how-bi…

✍️New story on the #AvianHybrids blog!

A selective trade-off between mimicry and hybridization in woodpeckers
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/a-s…

Based on the J. of Avian Biology paper by Michaël Nicolaï and me | #ornithology

SSE Council, along with American Naturalist and Society of Systematic Biologists leadership, has written an open letter to express concern for the ongoing reduction of support for biological collections. Read the full letter here: drive.google.com/file/d/12VBnvr…

I will be presenting my work on nectar-feeding birds at #TAGC24 Genetics Society of America tomorrow, March 8, at 9:00 am, in Genomes and Genomics session. Join if you're interested in:
A) birds
B) sugar
C) comparative genomics
D) all of the above!

#PaleoArt imitates life! Layer after layer, MCZ Cryogenic’s very own Cynthia Wang-Claypool knit up this Fossil Frenzy cowl! Can you name every taxa in this wooly assemblage? #FossilFriday #MCZVertPaleo

🚨New paper🚨

Hybridization constrains the evolution of mimicry complexes in woodpeckers
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The woodpecker paper in J. of Avian Biology is finally out! Michaël Nicolaï and I explored the selective trade-off between mimicry and hybridization. #ornithology

Two new jobs available in my group to work on AI approaches for quantifying animal colouration:

Research associate: jobs.ac.uk/job/DFW385/res…

Research technician: jobs.ac.uk/job/DFY181/res…

Closing date for both 08 March '24

Please share widely!🙏

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Science at Sheffield