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Reminder - Collection Study Grants Program at AMNH: Application Deadline May 1, 2025 - mailchi.mp/8681e672e0b1/u…

New from RGGS Comp Bio alum Kaiya Provost and colleagues: Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates Frontiers of Biogeography 18: e139911. doi: doi.org/10.21425/fob.1… biogeography.pensoft.net/article/139911/

New from RGGS Comp Bio PhD Alum Mark Nikolic and colleagues: From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference Paleobiology 51(1): 214-236 DOI: doi.org/10.1017/pab.20… in a new window] cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations to RGGS postdoc Deming Yang on his tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Anatomy at Midwestern University, Illinois!

Congratulations to Dr. Amelia Zietlow on a successful Ph.D. dissertation defense (#51, 5/1/2025)!

Congratulations to AMNH Anthropology postdoc Christopher Smith on his tenure track Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Biology at Fairfield University, Connecticut!

Lessons in Conservation, Volume 14: Diverse Skills in Conservation- New issue includes articles by RGGS-AMNH postdoc Alex Salis, RGGS Affiliated Prof. Mary Blair, and colleagues amnh.org/research/cente…

New from RGGS-AMNH Postdoc Zoe Kulik: Disparate life histories in coeval Triassic cynodonts and their implications for the evolution of mammalian life histories | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3RZoHxa

Look at this amazing group of humans I work with! Our big group will be dispersed soon across other institutions but I am so excited to see what the future holds for all these lovely folks.

New from RGGS-AMNH postdoc Alex Salis, Comp Bio PhD student Meghan Forcellati, RGGS Prof Chris Raxworthy & Brian Smith, & colleagues: Unrecognised DNA Degradation in Flash‐Frozen Genetic Samples in Natural History Collections- Molecular Ecology Resources onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

New Science Advances paper led by RGGS-AMNH postdoc Samar Syeda- analyzing cortical bone in well-preserved hands reveals different dexterous and climbing behaviors in the hominin fossils Australopithecus sediba & Homo naledi : science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Cover of Molecular Ecology from AMNH RGGS PD alums Sean Harrington (Theodore Roosevelt Postdoctoral Fellow) and Ed Myers, RGGS Faculty Frank Burbrink & colleague: Pleistocene Glaciation Drove Shared Population Coexpansion in Eastern North American Snakes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Congratulations to CUNY EEB-RGGS AMNH PhD student Aaron Goodman on a successful defense of his dissertation "Systematics, Biogeography, and Comparative Morphology of Emerald and Tigertail Dragonflies (Anisoptera: Synthemistidae, Corduliidae)" on 19 May 2025!

The first chapter of my dissertation is out! Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes Dr. Karly E. Cohen Dr. Rene P. Martin Mason Thurman Dr. Jonathan Huie nature.com/articles/s4146…

From RGGS Comp Bio PhD student Emily Carr, Gerstner Scholar PD alum Rene Martin, RGGS Faculty John Sparks and colleagues: Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes

My new paper on Amazonian biogeography and genomics is out in early view at Biological Reviews onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

I am honored to announce that I have received The Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research from Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History RGGS at AMNH to fund my fieldwork at Karimunjawa in this year.

Congratulations to CUNY EEB-RGGS AMNH PhD student Elkin Tenorio on a successful defense of his dissertation "Origin and maintenance of the Andean bird fauna" on 30 May 2025!

New from RGGS Comp Bio PhD student Owen Goodchild and colleagues: Assessing pteropod shell dissolution to advance ocean monitoring techniques: a methods comparison of SEM, CT, and light microscopy frontiersin.org/journals/marin…

New from CUNY EEB-RGGS AMNH PhD student Kate Montana and colleagues: Tailor’s drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…