First pre-print posted for Ben Wiens out of KU!! 🎉 Best practices in identifying hybrids and hybrid classes using triangle plots, and showcasing the new R package: 🔺triangulaR🔺

The Prehistoric Museum is excited to announce the opening of a new position - a #Paleontology Lab and Collections Manager in our Price, UT museum! Most of the details are listed in the link below. #FossilFriday higheredjobs.com/search/details…

Fellow zoologists: what Pesola sizes (<1kg) do you use? I am shocked at the # of options! 10, 20, 30, 50, 60, 100, 300, 500... We have 100g & 1kg, but it would be nice to have in-between sizes. Which do you find yourself using most? Our catch ranges from shrews to fox squirrels.

Check out our latest Christopher Witt publication! If you’ve ever wondered how parasites might maintain population boundaries, affect vagrancy in birds, or just want to know which ocean vagrant brown boobies from New Mexico and Colorado originated from, this is the article for you.

After 20 years working in natural history #museums, I still get surprised with things like, "Oh look, there's a box of #penguins". 📦🐧🐧

Researchers at #UofUHealth are mapping what areas in Utah harbor the Valley fever fungus. The fungal infection spreads through spores in the soil and dust, and could be more widespread than anyone thought. Katharine S. Walter Katrina Derieg bit.ly/3xlvuKq

I love the days when I get to do good ol' fashioned #mammalogy. Double checking IDs on Peromyscus nasutus and P. boylii from Arizona; only two mis-IDs in the field which I think is pretty darn good considering how similar those mice are 🐭

Love this idea. Let's take it a step farther and pick a color for de novo reference genomes from specimens. Purple? Y'all sequencing genomes best be doing it from vouchers! 🧐

Welcome Jonathan Nations, our new curator of mammals! Like many scientists, the path from curiosity to profession was a winding journey—one filled with marmots, voles, shrews and rats. 🐀 More about Jonathan: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-fa…

Celebrating #IMD2024 doing museum stuff today: installing new material, cataloging a legacy series from a late ornithologist, double-checking subspecies IDs in woodcreepers/tanagers, and realizing of a new species for 🇨🇴 based a 2005 skin (wrong ID). Have a nice museum day y’all!

Terrible video, but did anybody else know that turkey chicks just... Tumble down hills? They were so cute but so clumsy!

Spotted skunks are the definitive crowd pleaser!

All the finalists’ presentations and research were fantastic. Never thought I would win this SSB premier award. I am truly honored. It really means a lot. I had to grow and sell catfish to get my first computer. It took a ton of them to get a $500 DIY-built PC in 2007. #Evol2024

Dieta de ratones del género Phyllotis de distintas elevaciones del norte de Chile 🌋🐀 🧄 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Spoiler: el animal de la cumbre del Llullaillaco quizás no pase el antidoping y estaría protegido de los vampiros. #sigmodontinae #metabarcoding #metagenómica

Exciting news! Toni Androski has joined us as the new Mammalogy collections manager! Welcome to the LSU MNS, Toni!

We're looking for a new staff curator of ornithology at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) -- please RT aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04534 Applications close on Wed 28 August.

Incredibly polite old man hit me with "Thank you so much, si-... my friend!" I think 'my friend' is my new gender neutral greeting for individuals...

One month left to apply to these positions! Others perks include: (1) faculty rental houses right next to the college; (2) post-tenure eligibility for a no-interest loan for housing, forgiven over time; (3) eligibility for sabbatical every 4th year; (4) PI-friendly overhead rates

Want to detect reticulate evolutionary signals in phylogenomic data? We have a new review on that -- gratefully co-authored with 🧬Jacob L Steenwyk and crew. Amazingly, this collaboration grew out of the Society of Systematic Biologists early career mentoring program!!

Please RT! 🦌🐺🐇 Jennifer K. Frey and I are recruiting another MS student to study the effects of wind energy development on medium and large terrestrial mammals in central NM. Anticipated start date: Jan 2025 Application deadline: Oct 13th Apply here: airtable.com/apppXPmuyXykkQ…