First preprint from Forest Speciation Lab: a multimodal documentation of rainforest tinamou mating ritual. The female courted with egg-laying-hen-like clucking and peacock-like feather-ruffling. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #paleognath #courtship #dance #behavioralsciences #Panama

Check out our new paper on Matador bugs with Juliette Rubin Jorge L. Medina-Madrid Jay 钻升 Falk

I have new work out in Ecotone’s Labor issue, equal parts love letter to Panama, where I lived for six years, and to my family, who’ve made me who I am... 🧵 ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/lov…

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/

Nice to see matador bugs making it to the cover of Behavioral Ecology - Check out our paper led by Juliette Rubin with Jorge L. Medina-Madrid Jay 钻升 Falk

Our comprehensive review of melanin's interactions w radiation from x-rays to NIR, led by Wanjie Xie, is now out. If you are into uv/γ protection, color, thermoregulation, or other functions of melanin in nature/synthetic materials, check it out! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Chemical Reviews

I feel like you could use a video I took of an octopus hunting.

My friend and office-mate from grad school is running for congress and she is fantastic 😍

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Proud scientist running for office for the first time! Can you retweet and tag your favorite scientist to let them know?? If elected, I’d become the first woman in history to hold a STEM PhD in Congress. Let’s make it happen!!!!! secure.actblue.com/donate/flipchip

Been a while since my last Evolution conference! I'll be presenting my postdoc work with @Dr_Scott_Taylor on the genetics of sex phenotypes in a hummingbird. Hint: there is a fun gene! 10am Sunday, Genomics V #Evol2024

Hey #Evol2024 if you have worked at STRI Smithsonian Panama or are interested in doing so we’re getting lunch today (Monday)! Meet up outside the poster room!🌴🐠🦜

Jousting weevils made the cover. Work with Salvatore Anzaldo and beautiful cover photo by Peter Marting. Also with Dr Chrissie Painting 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…

Ever seen a blue lobster? Scientists think they overproduce a specific protein that, when interacting with the red carotenoid astaxanthin, forms a blue complex called crustacyanin—cladding the affected individual in blue. This mutation occurs in ~1 of every two million lobsters.

Find out how the genetic basis of the kākāpō structural color polymorphism suggests balancing selection by an extinct apex predator – such a great collaboration w Hernán Morales Dr Andrew Digby Deidre Vercoe GenomicsAotearoa Anna Santure Joseph & many more: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

It actually happened. The final paper of my PhD is now published! Why are sunbirds so colourful? Apparently there is no easy solution, but genetic and geographic differentiation seem to be the key players! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Go Kristin!! 💙💙

🦜Very excited to share a study on the molecular mechanism for the vivid #parrot #plumage #color! We have discovered that a single enzyme is responsible for controlling the red and yellow 🪶#feather color in parrots. Now published in Science Magazine (1/7) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…