The biggest hummingbird in the world is a new species. Now out in PNASNews and 8 years in the making, here's how we figured it out with mini tracking devices, genomics, and a century and a half of museum specimens.👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵1/

Using ancient DNA recovered from a fossil bone, researchers in Science Advances have reconstructed a complete genome of the little bush moa, an extinct species of flightless bird that once roamed the forested islands of New Zealand. scim.ag/75U

Minha defesa de mestrado será transmitida on-line no dia 4 de junho às 14:00. Interessados em assistir, por favor, me enviem uma mensagem ou e-mail para receber o link. [English below in the comments]

A #newspecies of tanager (#Aves: Thraupidae) from the Eastern slopes of the Andes mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

Happy to share some of the results of Pablo Cerqueira PhD dissertation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zs… - A new species of antshrike from the Caatinga. Named after the pioneering archaeologist and conservationist Niede Guidon, founder of the Serra da Capivara National Park.

Another paper by “global north” authors ignoring relevant data from the “south”. (fortunately some of the experts they consulted ammended part of their results) So here is another short and grumpy thread on “northerners” boycotting initiatives they have no hands on: 🧵

🚨New Paper🚨 A pleasure to share the first paper by one of my lab’s students!😍 Congrats to Leda Stefan + thanks to her coadvisor dr. Thais Zanata. Our sampling on the birds of Pantanal—the largest tropical inland wetland—is quite limited and biased. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Excited to share my first publication from my dissertation with Ana Carnaval: we used genetic data from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest to investigate when and how ecological traits help us predict intraspecific population differentiation. Check it out in: doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0…

Phylogenetic Conflict Between Species Tree and Maternally Inherited Gene Trees in a Clade of Emberiza Buntings (Aves: Emberizidae) | Systematic Biology academic.oup.com/sysbio/article… #ornithology

Why do some raptors have more than one plumage morph? In a new publication in Ornithology, we outline what is currently known, and the rich research potential provided by plumage polymorphism in this group. doi.org/10.1093/ornith…. American Ornithological Society

New paper in Evolution Letters (open access: academic.oup.com/evlett/advance…). Using dwarf kingfishers as a model, we believe we've constructed the most complete and explicit published framework explaining the underlying mechanistic causes of the classic "paradox of the great speciators".

Interested in grackles and bird eye color? The recording of my #Evol2024 talk is now available here! youtu.be/Qaf3hsvuVzU?si…

DNA-based studies and genetic diversity indicator assessments are complementary approaches to conserving evolutionary potential link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The more I teach science writing, the more I find that students best learn the basics when they have a concise example to follow. Here's my streamlined version of the ideal empirical paper, annotated with 14 important points. Let me know what you think. What should I change?

Check out this cool figure (made with the help of #phytools) in the recent article 'Multimodal signalling in manakins: lack of correlated evolution between acoustic, visual and behavioural traits' in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 by Sonia Ariznavarreta et al.: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13….

Out today in Science Advances. We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with HC Lim. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

New paper on Camptostoma tyrannulets uncovering hidden species diversity! doi.org/10.1093/ornith…

Welcome Glaucia Del-Rio, our new curator of ornithology! 👏👏👏 🦜🗺️ Along with her curator duties, she wants to establish a collection of cell cultures, both as a scientific resource and as insurance against extinction. About Glaucia Del-Rio + her work: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/glauci…

Register today for the EMBO course on #genome sequencing, assembly, curation, and downstream analyses meetings.embo.org/event/25-genom…

Thrilled to co-advise this important work: "Unraveling the genetic parameters, social relationships, and conservation aspects of a group of Touit melanonotus (Brown-backed Parrotlet)" Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/ornith…