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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Nice reporting on our recent paper by Ryan Truscott

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Some short term benefits but long term harm. Lemurs in these areas look underweight to me. No epiphytes that frogs and other critters rely on or mistletoes that feed and provide shelter to many birds and threatened lemurs.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

If the strawberry guava plant feeds endangered wild lemurs of Madagascar, but is ecologically invasive and harmful... how to make decisions about what to do? Research by @amydunham.bsky.social, scicomm by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social #lemurs #primates #anthropology #plants #invasiveplants #conservation

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Lemurs Love This Fruit That Is Choking Madagascar’s Forests

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Strawberry guava is one of the top 100 most problematic invasive species worldwide. In the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar we observed that it can arrest native forest succession causing long term ecological harm. But it also feeds endangered lemurs creating a challenging conservation problem.

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This amazing lemur pic was taken by Natalie Phelps

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Our work with Dr Matt McCary and team was featured in NYTimes! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/s...

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Lemurs Love This Fruit That Is Choking Madagascar’s Forests

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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

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Rachel @rachelscicomm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It's also incredibly difficult and expensive to eradicate, adding a very real financial consideration to any conversation efforts.

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Rachel @rachelscicomm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The stunted tree growth prevents regeneration of the rainforest after deforestation, even decades after deforestation has stopped. But the plant isn't hated - its straight stalks (bottom left) make for good building materials, and its fruits (bottom right) attract beloved lemurs.

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Rachel @rachelscicomm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

But strawberry guava can only grow in disturbed (deforested) parts of the rainforest. Once it's established, this study found it causes: decreased soil quality changed arthropod populations stunted tree growth

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Rachel @rachelscicomm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Lemurs, the most well-known Madagascar animal, eat the strawberry guava fruit. (Humans do too!) So the plant can have a very positive association - lemurs tend to be found around its groves.

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Rachel @rachelscicomm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Invasive strawberry guava is a favorite food of endangered Madagascar lemurs. It also prevents native trees from growing past the seedling stage, halting the regeneration process after deforestation. Study led by Amy Dunham and Matt McCary. news.rice.edu/news/2026/st...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Texas ground update.

Photo looking down at a meadow with hundreds of yellow and red flowers.

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ahead of International #ChameleonDay here is a pic of a female Parson’s Chameleon (Calumma parsonii) looking like a lichen covered leaf

A head on picture of a Parsons Chameleon standing next to two lichen covered leaves

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Environmental Science students @RiceUniversity learn a little bit about beekeeping during last class of the semester 🐝🐝

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Rice University Ecology & Evolutionary Biology grad students enjoying a #PaintYourPhD workshop. #sciart

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 26/02/2025

Our 1st Biodiversity Science-Policy 'starter pack' is now full (150 accounts). Access at: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Two years in a row our Purple Martins have made first appearances on Valentines Day ❤️❤️❤️🐦 (Houston)

Purple Martin male perching on top of a Martin house

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A White-bellied Reed Frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) from near Ranomafana, Madagascar. Also called the Starry Night Frog ❤️ A species I had hoped to see on my visit, and I saw exactly one. This one. #herps #NaturePhotography #FrogFriday

A frog in center frame, viewed from the side as it clings to a twig, diagonally with its head looking up to the upper right corner. The frog's belly is a stark white, and its back, head, and limbs are all black and covered with bright yellow oval spots. The eye is the same color as the belly, with a black pupil.

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oloNala @olonala.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We're relieved to hear from our friends at Centre ValBio that the #fire in Ranomafana National Park is finally out. Heavy rainfall finally came after months, ending an unseasonably long dry spell, and the community worked tirelessly each day to stop the fires from spreading.

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Congratulations to Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social, winner of this year’s @J_Exp_Biol sponsored Carl Gans Award at #SICB2025. His #biomechanics research examines the role of modularity in the evolution of the #fish skull. Don't miss his talk: 7 Jan at 13:30 in Marquis D Please repost

A photo of Kory Evans, winner of the 2025 Carl Gans Award

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

New paper led by former group member Jadelys Tonos! Simulations/empirical data reveal just a few trees bearing the most fruit in the landscape are critical for driving patterns of lemur movement & seed dispersal 🐒🥭🌱https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1365-2435.14702

red-bellied lemur eating fruit in a tree canopy

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐

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The fossil record suggests that climate change was the major driver of plant extinctions and regional extirpations from the Pliocene until recently, when anthropogenic habitat loss became dominant.
Known recent plant extinctions are disproportionately few in comparison with well-studied animal taxa, but many more species are probably committed to inevitable extinction unless given targeted support.
Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change and show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible.
The proximate causes for population extirpations are still rarely known but are likely to be highly varied and both species and location specific."

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Eric Wuesthoff @ericwuesthoff.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The theme of our symposium is #Primates and Regenerating Forests: Futures in #Restoration. If you or someone in your network has research they'd like to share on this topic, send me a message so we can get you involved in this work. Hope to see you in Tana! 🐒🦍🦧🇲🇬 @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

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Eric Wuesthoff @ericwuesthoff.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

That's one way to sum up my PhD research lol Thanks to Rice undergraduate Nayounghee Tuetkin for writing and designing a cool story about my work in Madagascar. Check out her work and the features from other writers in the new edition of Rice's Catalyst journal! ricecatalyst.com/catalyst-vol...

A banner image of a brown lemur's face as it clings to a tree trunk next to a title in block letters reading "It's brown, it's stick, it's lemur poop." An inset includes the subtitle "Analyzing seed dispersal impacts on reforestation." Cursive text reads "By: Nayounghee Tuetkin." Title is from an undergraduate-authored article in Rice's Catalyst journal highlighting some of Eric's doctoral research.

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Eric Wuesthoff @ericwuesthoff.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I've been here a while but now that it's getting busy I should reintroduce myself! I'm an ecologist & conservation biologist interested in restoring ecological interactions and supporting community-led stewardship 🌱🐒 I am currently privileged to work in Madagascar 🇲🇬 with incredible local partners.

Eric wearing a face mask and holding a notebook in pen in a rainforest looking upward (toward unpictured lemurs) during research in eastern Madagascar.

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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Just moved over from twitter give me a follow if you want to see cool CT scans of fishes!

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

UCSB EEMB is *thrilled* to be hiring a Terrestrial Global Change Biologist (asst prof level). Please apply by 1 Nov. I can't wait to welcome a new colleague into our vibrant and growing department! Please share widely! #unicornjob🦄 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02500

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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. Come join us: Excellent and supportive colleagues at a private university with a beautiful campus and great students! please RT #RiceEEB #EEBjobs #phdchat #facultyjobs apply.interfolio.com/152527

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

This is a dream job y’all 👇

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Amy Dunham @amydunham.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

RiceU is hiring Assistant Prof in Evolution in the Anthropocene! Great place to work, excellent students & wonderful colleagues. I'm search chair. Feel free to email/DM me with questions. Spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/152527

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Julia Saltz @juliasaltz.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

This was a really exciting find! “Regular” indirect genetic effects become genotype dependent when we measure flies again the next day ⏳

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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

We are looking for a new Data Editor AmNat @asn-amnat.bsky.social to start in 2024. In 2021, we pioneered the use of a data editor to greatly improve the quality of data repositories for all published papers. More details are here: amnat.org/announcements/… Please repost to help spread the word

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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 01/10/2023

As bluesky grows, it feels to me like we are not seeing many early-career researchers or academics of colour. Are we being intentional about elevating underrepresented and diverse voices? Can we grow a culture of listening and openness? I worry we fall into old habits from previous wastelands...

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I'm Kelly Zamudio, Professor of Integrative Biology at UT Austin. I study pop gen and evolution of reptiles and amphibians, and the dynamics of wildlife diseases. I am president of @sse-evolution.bsky.social. I like cooking, baking, traveling. I own and love a pet longhorn steer named Polly.

a tree frog photographed in Amazonia sitting on a thin branch

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

We are hiring TWO #tenuretrack positions in the #Biology Dept. @ULLafayette in Ecology or Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Appointments at the Asst. Prof. level, and part of at least four hires being planned for Fall 2024. louisiana.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 15/09/2023

Using dead spiders for grabbing things? Why not. Work on zombie spider robots (from my alma mater Rice University) received an IgNobel prize 🧪🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dead spider with a syringe attached to its back is grabbing a small object.

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