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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎

@alencarlrv.bsky.social
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Associate Research Scientist @ Yale University | Macroevo/eco of Lizards & Snakes! | AE Evolution

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Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 05/10/2026
Dipping my toes into some new stuff, and my first manuscript as last author! Huge effort by my great friend Edu, with great input from Ayumi and Santiago
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend the 2027 Evolution meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. Submit your application by November 1st! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
The San Juan coastline. Text: Evolution 2027, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 25-29. Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: November 1.
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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 21/08/2026
Now is a great time to check out the rattlesnake live-streaming cams! Check out this footage of a mama giving birth throughout the night last night! Watch live at RattleCam.org YouTube link: youtu.be/KozlUcz5jQk
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Wild rattlesnake gives birth over and over during the night!
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Tiago Simões @trsimoes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Proud to share our latest paper in out in Nature today on the origin of #snakes. We present Tametara mirim, an articulated 3D preserved stem snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Tametara helped us re-tell the story of snake origins in a novel way... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - Nature
A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape disparity in the group.
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🧵1/11 New paper alert! One of 2 out today from #NearLab. Tunas are basically the superheroes of the ocean — warm-blooded, massive, and blazing fast. But HOW did they get that way? A new study just cracked open 50+ million years of evolutionary history. Let's dive in. 🐟⬇️
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
💬 In the latest Evolution Exchange, SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with @journal-evo.bsky.social Editor in Chief Dr. Jason Wolf about his role, the success of the journal, and the benefits of publishing in society journals. www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...
Headshot of Jason Wolf. Text: A Conversation with the Evolution Editor in Chief with Dr. Jason Wolf. The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
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Matheus Januario @mjanuario.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Can we compare #living #species by their #extinction propensity? I think we can—and I’ll show you how on June 23 at 11:45 AM in Ecology I (Room 22) at @evolmtg.bsky.social
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I will be recruiting Ph.D. students at #Evol2026 in Cleveland!
Title slide for presentation at Evolution 26. Talk on deep-sea fish evolution by Elizabeth Santos
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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎 @alencarlrv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Looking forward to sharing one of my favorite projects of all time, developed with some of my favorite people! (with astonishing illustrations by @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social) Tuesday 12:00 pm Room 21 #Evol2026
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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Please join me next Tuesday at 3:15 PM (Room 21) at #Evol2026 to learn about the complex history of complex trait loss, extinction, and evolutionary radiation in extreme ecosystems in a clade of thousands of fishes!
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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎 @alencarlrv.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below
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MunozlabYale @munozlabyale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Last week the lab had a reason to celebrate as Julia Laterza successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Doctor Julia Laterza! Your dedication, perseverance, and hard work have led to this remarkable achievement, and we are excited to see what comes next!! 🐸
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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎 @alencarlrv.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and #mountains? I'll soon be advertising a #postdoc position at Yale as part of a newly funded NSF project. Stay tuned for details!
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Sandy Kawano, PhD @sandyk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon! 🧪🐟🦎
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Research Associate in Biology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Research Associate in Biology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia
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Thais Vasconcelos @tvasconcelos.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Research Fellow - Vasconcelos Lab | U-M Careers
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Have you registered for #Evol2026? Talk submission for both in person and virtual talks closes on Wednesday! Already registered? Learn how to submit your talk here: www.evolutionmeetings.org/instructions...
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Where to find the link to submit your in-person talk, virtual talk, or poster.  --------------> Note: You must register and pay for the meeting before these links will show up on your personal...
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Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 08/04/2026
Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually! fapesp.br/18114/chamad...
Screenshot with the project information (title, grant number, etc.) that can be found in the link https://fapesp.br/18114/chamada-internacional-para-jovens-pesquisadores-tem-propostas-selecionadas
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A spiny Coast Horned Lizard on sandy ground in bright sun. Its body and head are covered with horns and keeled scales, and the background shows a dry, rocky landscape. Photo credit: Saúl F. Domínguez-Guerrero.
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Leroy Núñez, Ph.D. @lpnunez.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎 @alencarlrv.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
Evolution 2026 meeting logo. Clilp art of a globe and laptop showing a virtual presentation. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Global Meeting Participation.
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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 09/12/2025
𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks! Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Don't forget to check out participation support for 2026! www.evolutionmeetings.org/participatio...
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Participation Support
There are various way to reduce the cost of participating in Evolution 2026. Funding is available for eligible individuals at different career stages, from different parts of the world, and for those....
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Applications now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Apply by January 30: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
Evolution 2026 logo. Text: Evolution 2026, Cleveland, OH, June 20-24. A globe with a plane flying across it. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: January 30.
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
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Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Dream Job Alert ! Herpetology Collections Manager at the University of Michigan - manage one of the largest reptile and amphibian collections in the world in state-of-the-art facilities in the best college town in the world. #herpetology careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 09/10/2025
Happy to see this finally out! Diego is a brilliant student that took our grad course on Macroevolution during lockdown, and this eventually escalated to me becoming a co-author in his PhD chapter. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Interaction between floral rewards and floral symmetry shapes diversification dynamics in Amazonian trees
Floral zygomorphy, or monosymmetry, is thought to have a positive effect on the diversification rates of angiosperms, but its true impact is still an open topic. Given the controversy surrounding th...
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I am recruiting graduate students to begin August 2026. Apply by Nov 15th!
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Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 23/06/2025
Today is the day! Go visit @alencarlrv.bsky.social's poster to check the work she's brilliantly leading with the participation of a stellar team (and me)! See some cool stuff about the evolution of ovi/viviparity and climate in squamates, trying to uncover its hidden dynamics! #evol2025
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Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Brazilians at #Evol2025! @mjanuario.bsky.social and I are planning ab informal meetup tomorrow after the poster session (~7:30pm) at Creature comforts, a brewery 10 min from the conference center. Non-Brazilians who want to mingle and hear some Portuguese are always welcome!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
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Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 21/06/2025
The #evol2025 FOMO is real 🥲 First one I'm missing since 2017.... Wishing you all a great conference, and make sure you check @alencarlrv.bsky.social's poster for some really cool stuff!
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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Super excited to share our new paper investigating convergence across planktivorous fishes and assessing the impact of ancestry and light environment led by Dr Jen Hodge @fishncurious.bsky.social and including most members of the lab past and present academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Unravelling the Effects of Ecology and Evolutionary History in the Phenotypic Convergence of Fishes
Abstract. Understanding the ecological drivers and limitations of adaptive convergence is a fundamental challenge. Here, we explore how adaptive convergenc
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New from the Near Lab, a super collaboration led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149
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Phylogenomics establishes an Early Miocene reconstruction of reef vertebrate diversity
Phylogenomics reveals a younger-than-expected age of reef fish diversification.
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Matheus Januario @mjanuario.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What can #population-level processes tell us about large-scale #biodiversity? 🧵: 1/8 A key question in #evolutionary #biology: Can we predict how quickly lineages diversify (#speciation rates) based on #traits observable at the population level? #microevolution #macroevolution
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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Please share this opportunity widely! Instructors: @fmachado.bsky.social @alencarlrv.bsky.social @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Jacqueline Sztepanacz, Patrick Carter & Joe Felsenstein (virtually)
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MunozlabYale @munozlabyale.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yesterday, we had a fantastic time at the Scientists in Action workshop at Dixwell Q House! Our team engaged with enthusiastic middle schoolers about our research. A big thank you to everyone who made this event a success! We look forward to more opportunities to inspire young minds!
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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
New preprint from postdoc @bpwaldron.bsky.social and coauthors! Love to get to think about salamanders sometimes with the help of real experts like Brian, was my original academic goal to be a salamander biologist and I'm largely failing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders
Color polymorphism, the occurrence of multiple discrete color morphs with co-adapted sets of traits within the same population, may provide the raw materials for rapid species formation. It has been h...
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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 14/02/2025
You are invited to an online presentation "The Secret Lives of California Snakes" on Feb 20 from 12-1pm PT. Register ahead of time here: lpfw.org/snakes-webinar. Please share!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Secret Lives of Snakes with Emily Taylor. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias in the world, yet step into any local zoo and you'll find the snake pit to be among these menageries' greatest attractions. Join us as we host Dr. Emil...
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