She’s finally here yall!!! My painting for the Amer. Birding Assoc. of the Belted QUEENFISHER!

Fantastic postdoc opportunity in Shane DuBay’s lab at @utarlington to study environmental change using museum specimens, funded for 3 years (w/ benefits). Please RT! #CollectionsAreEssential

Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study abc.net.au/news/science/2… via ABC Australia

Pleased to announce that my lab at UC Riverside has been awarded an NIH/NIGMS MIRA. This grant will fund our research on the evolution and genetics of recombination rate variation. We are also now recruiting at multiple levels, starting with postdocs (see QT below!).

1/ A thread about mutation and recombination in vertebrates and what we learned by studying three-generation pedigrees of zebra finches. Take home: the remarkable similarities between birds and mammals in many properties of these fundamental processes.

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

A new paper with big news in the world of red carotenoid ornamentation: House Finches do not utilize CYP2J19/BDH1L to produce red feather pigments. Why is this big new?...(1/6) doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Checkout the latest Stoddard Lab paper! 🦚 Hyperspectral imaging in animal coloration research: A user-friendly pipeline for image generation, analysis, and integration with 3D modeling By Ben G. Hogan & Mary C. Stoddard journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…