🚨Out TODAY🚨 our #new experimental paper showing that #wild jackdaws ditch old #friends and make new ones if it helps them get rewards... but stick with #family through thick and thin. Work led by #ECRs @Michael53566156 & Josh Arbon @CornishJackdaws tinyurl.com/yxjare3d

I'm so excited!! The craziest experiment you've read about in a long while and crown jewel of my PhD is now published with Springer Nature in NatureEcoEvo! Can dispersal help birds adapt to climate change? Read our paper here: rdcu.be/dl9ZH or in the thread below[1/8]

Corral-Lopez et al. use guppies as a model system for the evolution of collective motion, showing that guppies artificially selected for schooling remain highly coordinated across predation contexts and finding key changes in brain morphology Alberto Corral-López nature.com/articles/s4146…

Deep learning reveals the role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait. Wouter van der Bijl did it all - selection experiment, pedigrees, neural nets, GWAS - for the architecture of color and pattern in guppies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

So happy to be a part of this work with Dr. Emily H. DuVal Dr. Elizabeth Hobson and @clynfitzpatrick! We show that mistakes that females make when trying to infer what others find attractive can lead to the maintenance of variation in preferences and traits, among other cool patterns!

Just out NatureEcoEvo - Alberto Corral-López 's tour de force! Functional convergence of genomic and transcriptomic genetic architecture underlying sociability. Heritability, GWAS and neuro-transcriptomics of collective behaviour nature.com/articles/s4155… w Niclas Kolm & many others.

Updated and expanded version of Wouter van der Bijl 's analysis of the inheritance of male coloration in guppies is now up! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Deep learning reveals the role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait

Watching the Lance-tailed Manakin Cam from my office makes me feel like an overinvested coach stuck on the sidelines. "You in the middle, YWmF, get your team together! Sing in the trees, dance on the perch! It's called a DUET, guys! And on the left, did you JUST take a BATH?! Get serious!"

#Budget2024 💰 makes the largest investment in 20+ years for grad students & postdocs! It will support financial needs, boost mental well-being, allow focus on research, & promote diversity by easing barriers for underrepresented groups. 🎉💪🏽#SOSBudget2024

Our paper on the genomics of vocal rhythm in birds is out in Nature Communications! We assembled a tinkerbird reference genome and using 135 whole genomes in a hybrid zone, we found that rhythm speed and stability are associated with genes that affect human speech. nature.com/articles/s4146…

1/10 ⏰⏰ The final version of our #anglerfish #evolution paper is out Current Biology ! In it, we demonstrate how this clade rapidly assembled a unique trait-sexual parasitism-and secondarily invaded the open ocean in a manner reminiscent of whales! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

The new Natural History Museum exhibit 'Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre' is great! Engagingly curated & beautifully interprets some of our recent work like Asteriornis, the skull of Ichthyornis, & K–Pg forest collapse. Exhibit open now: tinyurl.com/48pf99h4 ©Trustees of NHM London

Many grueling hours coding in R without access to the internet at the Statistics Canada RDC have finally paid off!! Super wonderful interdisciplinary team and great leadership by Rachel Buxton (she/her)

Just out in Royal Society Publishing On the resolution of sexual conflict. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… What a pleasure to write with Tanya Pennell , Suzanne Alonzo and Dave Hosken!!

Back from a fantastic #Evol2024 meeting in Montreal, and I’m very pleased to officially talk about this project again, now published in Science Advances

Ever wondered if the wonderchicken is really a chicken? Our reinterpretation of the lower jaw of Asteriornis shows that the holotype does not preserve a key galloanseran jaw feature. Nevertheless, our analyses still find it to be a member of Galloanserae! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

JOB OPPORTUNITY! Mount Holyoke College Biology Dept is hiring an EVo-Devo tenure track faculty member!!! Our Dept is inclusive & supportive, and located in western mass, a top place to live in the USA. Please apply now and pass this on!! Careers mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

I love natural history bits like this olive-faced flatbills exit their nest backwards, rather than head-first bioone.org/journals/bulle…

NEW PAPER: Drivers of avian Neotropical diversification and speciation: patterns of genetic and phenotypic variation in the rufous-capped antshrike suggest a complex evolutionary history. ➡️ vist.ly/3mifssg Leonardo Campagna MACN-Conicet #ornithology #birds #speciation

Huge congrats to @gnavalon—it’s brilliant to see our new 80-million-year-old bird on the cover of @nature! Navaornis hestiae provides the clearest insight yet into how and when the distinctive brains of modern birds evolved. Paper open access: nature.com/articles/s4158…