Important training note: pseudo code and sudo code are very different things. Don’t tell a mentee that practicing their pseudo code will help them with python without clarifying 🤣🤣🤣

I’m excited to share that my first journal article was published today in Molecular Ecology! Check it out, it's titled “Multisensory integration by polymodal sensory neurons dictates larval settlement in a brainless cnidarian larva” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Why are we still using email addresses for corresponding authorship instead of ORCIDs? Didn’t we start using ORCIDs because we recognized that institutions/email addresses change? Half my reviewer logins are ORCID now. Why not use these for authors? Solves a lot of corr. issues…

Ctenophores or sponges? We identified chromosomal changes that support ctenophores as the sister group of all other animals. In nature w/ stevehaddock.bsky Dan Rokhsar et al. Support from MBARI U.S. National Science Foundation European Research Council (ERC) 🔗nature.com/articles/s4158…

Did life evolve more than once? A fun collaboration with The Conversation, a short fun piece on the origin(s) of life University of Bristol University of Bristol Biological Sciences UoB Palaeobiology theconversation.com/did-life-evolv…

We are excited to announce that our fifth scientific meeting, GIGA V, will be held in Cartagena, Colombia Oct 31-Nov 3, 2023. Learn more and join in: gigacos.org/index.php/meet…

We have the most amazing Todd Oakley grad students! Congrats to Cheyenne McKinley for Lerner Grey, to Bridget Vincent for the ConchologistsOfAmerica, Seth for a Sigma Xi, and Sriram Ramamurthy for a Coastal Fund! LOOK AT THEM GO!

Exciting news! ✨My TEDx talk is finally online! Join me in the mesmerizing world of firefly communication and synchronization ❤️ Hope you enjoy watching it 🫠 🫣: youtu.be/PeA8TBg2px0

Our new pre-print on the collective synchrony of mating displays is out now!

We are now accepting abstracts for the GIVA V scientific conference in Cartagena, Colombia October 31-November 3 2023. Abstract deadline is August 1st, 2023.

So many fond memories of Martha and her mushroom jokes, and the way her biology honors students embraced the challenge of her class with passion. She was a joyful person, a joy to be around, and also a fantastic teacher and scientist. 🍄

Introducing meiofauna to my students “Hope they find good stuff so they love it”. Students five minutes in “hey look an aplacophoran! Oh a halacarid! Look at this nematode cuticle! This platyhelminth has cute eyes! Check the statocyst on this acoel!” Me 🥺😲😍 They are amazing!

Rule #2 of marine biology!!! ❤️

Very excited to share our new paper on Pancrustacean Phylogeny with a number of surprising findings! 🧵 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40…

Just got my Letters to a Pre-Scientist penpal match for the …nope I feel old… year running! Excited to continue writing to a young scientist and encouraging their confidence! Bring on the letters! If you haven’t heard of this program look it up; penpal registration still open!

So excited to have this out! Such a privilege to work with this amazing group of scientists; every single one of them was vital to making this happen! You never know what might be 'critical' in guiding evolution's paths!

Congratulations Catherine Peichel of Universität Bern, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #genetics #evolutionarybiology

Chromosome-scale genome structure evolution is a dynamic new field - but seeing three manuscripts submitted within 7 days nearly analysing the same dataset (with focus on annelids) is kind of crazy... Darrin Schultz, Rosa Fernández, Yi-Jyun Luo you could fill your own special issue!

Some things stay with you all the way through academia. Like this Sigma-Aldrich box. It was a lab discard when I was a sophomore at UC Davis. It’s moved me 8 times, across town & country, BS,MS,PhD,Postdoc. And it just moved me into my new faculty office. It’s a quality box.

I saved a bunch of letters of recommendation to write today. Instead of watching the news, I am focusing on hope, joy, and finding synonyms for “inspiring”. This is the best decision I’ve made in a while.