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You may start off young and poor in academia, but after years of hard work you will no longer be young

Many river captures, great and small. Including the largest such events known in the geological record, forming the modern transcontinental Amazon river, and resulting in the Great Amazonian Biotic Interchange. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Looking for a PhD lab in ecology and evolution? I'm recruiting for Fall 2025. Applications to the University of Arizona EEB program are due Dec. 1. For more information visit mcnewlab.com/contact and please share!

plenty of variability in the center of an avian hybrid zone

i’ve been reading david hull’s “science as a process” (thrilling; also a slog) and one of the many ways it has changed my perspective is that anyone who tells you there is some narrowly correct way to do science or that science only works when motivations are pure is full of shit

This Cinnamon Flycatcher has his head screwed on backwards. (Quidío, Colombia, Aug. 23, 2024.)

8. As happens ofen with inconvenient or null-findings, our manuscript was desk-rejected by several journals until one editor decided for review. One reviewer said “The anti-suicidal effect of lithium in bipolar, unipolar and some other psychiatric disorders is absolutely sure.”

6 main figs and 5 supplementary figs .

Estimated number of evolutionary shifts to and from hummingbird pollination among angiosperm groups. The pronounced asymmetry in the number of interacting hummingbird (366) and plant (~7,000) species illustrates a few-to-many mapping of this ecological association.

New Evolution Journal paper alert! Paul Dougherty explored continued rapid change in the iconic (to at least 2-3 people) Passerina bunting hybrid zone. doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

🚨🚨🚨 New Evolutionary Repeatability Paper Klaxon 🚨🚨🚨 Very happy to share this study in which we explore the repeatability of local adaptation to climate across 25 plant species ☘️🌱🌵🌾🌿🪴☀️🌧️🌡️ nature.com/articles/s4155…

NYPD arrests scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 at Citibank: “I’m a biologist, I’ve been studying climate change since 1982 and no one is listening to the data. So today they’re going to have to listen to my body blocking the doors of the world’s largest funder of new fossil fuel

Nice photo, but no, "Science"! That is not Aedes aegypti -- it is Aedes albopictus. Seems to me that "Science" magazine ought to identify its mosquitoes correctly!science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Spatial cognitive ability is associated with longevity in food-caching chickadees | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

UTEP is offering a tenure-track, assistant professor position for a Quantitative Community Ecologist: utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetail…

Every time I read a paper using stable isotope analysis to quantify carnivore diets, I die a little inside.

Pick up a copy of this weekend's The New York Times Book Review if you like horses...

First ever pitta on the front cover of an international research journal? Could be. The Louisiade Pitta as example of a "lost bird" rediscovered with the help of citizen science. Paper by Cameron Rutt and others from eBird and BirdLife International: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…