Nick Mason
@Nick_mas0n
Ornithology, evolution, ecology. Assistant Professor and Curator of Birds at LSUMNS. I also enjoy rugby, rap, house music, art, and food. He/him. Views my own.
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http://mason-lab.org 17-10-2009 20:02:51
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How do structural variants shape avian phenotypes?
This is what Maria Recuerda Carrasco learned mainly from chickens.
doi.org/10.1111/mec.17…
(pic by Dennis G. Jarvis - CC BY-SA 2.0)
Honored to receive this recognition for our paper!
A big thank you to BOU 👩🏻🏫👨🏿🏫🧕🏽👳🏽♂️ 🌈, Leica Nature & Birding, and to everyone who enjoyed reading about bird eye color! 🦉👀
Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…
BOOM, #BirdTwitter ! Flashy new family tree of #birds just landed in nature: doi.org/10.1038/s41586…. From B10K, led by Josefin Stiller, using nearly 1 BILLION ACT&Gs, we improve age estimates vastly & introduce cool new clade #Elementaves . 🧵
#ornithology #phylogenomics
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New paper in BioScience (American Institute of Biological Sciences) summarizing the #oVertTCN effort to 3D digitize 6,400 vertebrate genera & counting. This was a huge effort across many museums & institutions led by David C. Blackburn 🐸 & Ed Stanley at Florida Museum
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Scan: Dr. Jaimi Gray
Our bird eye color paper 🦉👀 has been nominated for best paper by an early-career researcher in BOU 👩🏻🏫👨🏿🏫🧕🏽👳🏽♂️ 🌈! Please consider voting for it at bou.org.uk/ibis/ibis-best…, and check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…
Birds of a feather select colour together, plumage colour of #cardinals & #grosbeaks is affected by selection pressures, investigated here from the avian visual perspective! Check it out below👇🐦🖤
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The Linnean Society of London Oxford Journals Kevin Burns
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A group of @lsu @lsu_mns students and I wanted to study so-called ‘unexplored’ places - we mapped specimen collections data from around the world - we realized lack of digitization may explain many ‘biodiversity blind spots’
Preprint here:
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Our review on Amazonian avian biogeography is out! doi.org/10.1093/ornith…. This work was written by many many hands, and I want to thank all coauthors that made it possible! Gregory Thom Lukas Musher Alex Lees Vanessa Luzuriaga mateus ferreira +
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The wonderful natural history museum where I work , the LSU Museum of NatSci, is looking for an Outreach Coordinator - details here lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119-M…