I’m defending my dissertation on Tuesday! DM me if you want to zoom in!

Just out today with Dr Kris Sales in Royal Society Publishing Exp. Heatwave exposed sperm🌡️ less successful at occupying the female tracts and male:female reproductive outcomes. Thanks to all the reviewers involved and especially Pau Carazo. @ScienceLeeds @biouea royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🌡️Noah Leith explains his research on the effect of thermoregulation on treehopper survival and reproduction. He delves into the joys of temperature models & how he came to study animal communication & physiology🪳 Read it here👇 buff.ly/3RaUHxZ

Noah Leith 🚨But wait, there's more!🚨 🔊Check out the recordings Noah and his team made of male-female courtship duets, which are transmitted as vibrational songs through plant tissues, of the treehoppers in his study🌱 Find it on YouTube👇 buff.ly/4bQ8AKs Noah Leith

New paper out about dragonfly ornamentation and extinction risk in Ecology Letters with Noah Leith @KFowlerFinn and Kimmedley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Had a great time working with Mike and the team on this one!

Congrats to #ABS2024 #ABSTurner awardee Yennhi Phan! She is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Saint Louis University studying sexual development in wolf spiders and treehoppers in the Fowler-Finn lab. (1/3)

Check out her upcoming ABS 2024 talk, "Temperature affects the resource-dependent development of sexual traits in wolf spiders," at 1:30 pm on Saturday, June 29 at the Sexual selection and sexual conflict 2 session! (3/3)

"We need to better understand factors shaping insect communities," says Leah Gath, who looks at how insects communicate vibrational signals through plant stems and leaves. How might competition for acoustic space affect the welfare of invertebrate individuals? #ABS2024

The first publication for my PhD thesis is finally out. This study focuses on water loss and hydration in Urosaurus ornatus. Great collaborative work with Donald Miles Here the full text doi.org/10.1093/icb/ic… [email protected]

Dragonflies with dark wings evolved to withstand heat and attract mates, offering insights into how species adapt to climate change. #evolution #biodiversity University of Pittsburgh Noah Leith scienceblog.com/548501/hot-win…

So excited to share this!

I am looking for a postdoc to join the lab! Come study the evolution of sexually selected weapons and shields with us! $60,000 annual salary, plus benefits. Start date will ideally be between January and May, but the exact start date is flexible. apply.interfolio.com/157125

A small step outside my usual field of study on bird migration during my postdoc at Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre. In this paper Functional Ecology, we explored the evolutionary trajectories of >350 endemic (extant&extinct) species from diverse island bird communities. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

🚨Incredibly excited to share my new pub in collab w/ Christopher Martinez, Katherine Corn, PhD, + Peter Wainwright in Evolution Letters! Opposite of long-held predictions, we find that a pharyngeal jaw novelty restricts diversification of feeding motions + morphology! doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

New paper out in @ASNAmNat with Reinhard Bürger and Maria Servedio: "Reconciling Santa Rosalia: Both reproductive isolation and coexistence constrain diversification" (1/11) journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Final version of this thing now published in PLOS Biology, so ... some weekend reading. 🧵 Sexual selection (SS) is a major strand of evolutionary theory, but how and why it varies across species at global scales is poorly known. 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Excited about our new paper showing that spider webs of all geometries are adjusted to capture precisely the amount of energy per unit mass spiders require (B), including creating in some (D) a hollow space within the web to grow the web's surface area without producing more silk

🌡️🦎 Our recent work shows skinks face a double whammy! Warmer incubation temperatures & stress during development reduce growth & energy efficiency, with effects lasting into adulthood. Read more here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… Daniel Noble 🇦🇺🇨🇦

So excited to share that the first chapter of my PhD is out as an advance article in Evolution Journal!!! 🤩🎉🪲🎉🤩 doi.org/10.1093/evolut…