vêm da Grande Buenos Aires os mais novos indícios de ocupação muito antiga das Américas: restos de um gliptodonte - um primo extinto do tatu - que foi carneado por humanos há 21 mil anos, no auge da Era do Gelo piaui.folha.uol.com.br/tatu-gigante-e…

AVOTREX is out: an open-access companion to AVONET containing morphological traits for ~600 extinct bird species and a phylogeny grafting these taxa onto the global bird tree to support future research on Anthropogenic extinctions. Hat-tip to many co-authors; led by Ferran Sayol

Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age. It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch.

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…

Vellozia is one of the most rich and abundant endemic genus in the Campos Rupestres in #Brazil. In this paper we investigated how past climate change helped to shape #Vellozia the present distribution of this iconic genus 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1093/botlin…

Os que entram em pânico com a isenção de IR até 5 mil por conta do custo fiscal são os mesmos que vão fazer de tudo pra não deixar passar a taxação mínima dos milionários… só que se o Congresso aprova os dois juntos, aumenta a receita conforme estudo do Made

Led by the Iroro Tanshi, PhD for the The Linnean Society of London Announcing a special issue in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society titled: "Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South" I am a guest editor, learn more below... academic.oup.com/biolinnean/pag…

A presença de pessoas negras nos espaços acadêmicos de pesquisa precisa ser urgentemente revista! sbmz.org/carta-aberta-d…

The AOS awards one year of gratis student membership to students from anywhere in the world interested in pursuing a career in ornithology. Recipients of AOS-sponsored Student Memberships receive the full benefits of AOS membership. americanornithology.org/awards-grants/…

The AOS awards one year of free membership to students anywhere in the world who are interested in pursuing a career in #ornithology & who have not previously been an AOS member. Nominate yourself or someone else by 12/31/24 for a 2025 AOS membership! americanornithology.org/awards-grants/…

I am absolutely flattered to share our review at Nature Reviews Biodiversity. Lead by Dr. Camila Ribas. A collaborative/interdisciplinary work where we integrated geological, climatic, ecological and genetic evidence for the region that hosts the largest biodiversity on Earth: the Amazon!

📢 Exciting Opportunity! 🌟 We have an open postdoc position to work on comparative #Genomics of Neotropical 🐦 LSU Museum of NatSci. For more info: thom-lab.org/join #LSU #Research #Science #AOS #postdoc #biodiversity #Genomics #Evolution #sciencejobs jobRxiv jobRxiv

One of the most importantly depressing pieces of research we have produced to date: birds in pristine central Amazonian forest are not doing well. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Ok, if yesterday's excellent paper in Nature wasn't enough for Jesus Aguirre, today he has a new worrying but significant study out in Science where we show that tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change 🌳🌴🌲 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🧐 O Brasil é o maior consumidor mundial de agrotóxicos, com mais de 700 mil toneladas por ano. Neste #SerrapilheiraIndica, a pesquisadora Larissa Mies Bombardi compila dados que nos permitem compreender a gravidade do problema representado pelo uso massivo de herbicidas, pesticidas e

🧐💰 Quem ganha dinheiro com a desinformação online? Marie Santini, professora da UFRJ e diretora do NetLab UFRJ, explica como funciona o negócio por trás das mentiras na internet. Assista e compartilhe! #desinformação

Also posted to #evol2025 app social feed, but in case anyone's looking on here, I'd like to give away a copy of my book to a non-U.S./Canada grad student, since I know it can be harder to get outside N.A. Respond here or on the app want it! I'll pick the recipient at random. 🎲