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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1

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Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

bifrost: an R package for scalable inference of phylogenetic shifts in multivariate evolutionary dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Levi Newediuk @levinewediuk.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Come join our department as a full-time lab instructor! mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...

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MRU Talent Management - Laboratory Instructor - (3495)

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Will Bugg @wbuggiii.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

What underlies plasticity and persistent enhanced growth following warm temperature exposure? We sequenced lake sturgeon muscle tissue to find out A variety of molecular mechanisms and cellular changes work together to increase muscular development across timescales 🧪🌎🌐🐠 tinyurl.com/mr2n2cvb

Graphical depiction of the changes to the muscle transcriptome that result in persistent enhanced growth phenotypes in lake sturgeon

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Matt Thorstensen @biomatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Interested in the genomic, behavioral, and morphological drivers of bird evolution? The Weir Lab at UT Scarborough has PhD positions available! Please share widely. As a current postdoc in the lab, I am happy to share my experiences with applicants. 🐦🦜🦉🧬

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Will Bugg @wbuggiii.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

New lake sturgeon work out investigating transcriptional shifts in the gill during early development mRNA changes associated with histone modifications, DNA methylation, and apoptosis were conserved across both populations, as well as population-specific processes 🧪🌎🌐🐠 tinyurl.com/bdekwzed

Different process which changed in the gill of lake sturgeon during early development.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Are gene expression responses to an immune challenge conserved over macroevolutionary time? Not so much... in a new preprint we measure & compare differential expression in response to an immune adjuvant, in 14 fishes sampled from across Actinopterygii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread

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Will Bugg @wbuggiii.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Out in Global Change Biology, We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the thermal tolerance and adaptive capacity of North American Sturgeons. While sturgeons are incredibly thermally plastic, increasing temperatures limit their physiological capacity and likely recruitment🧪🐠🐡🌎 tinyurl.com/369edzft

This illustration depicts north america colored te to burnt orange, highlighting temperature differences across the continent. The 8 north american sturgeon species ring the outside of the map. Each sturgeon species is underlaid by a color which corresponds with dots on the map. The dots on the map show where thermal tolerance studies were completed, and the size of the dot corresponds to how many studies were completed in that area. Illustration by Madison Earhart.

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Evelien de Greef @eveliendegreef.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Excited to share our latest paper in Global Change Biology! 🐳Here we examined bowhead and narwhal genomics and the legacy of commercial whaling: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... Collabs w/ C. Müller, @biomatt.bsky.social, S. Ferguson, C. Watt, M. Marcoux, S. Petersen, @colingarroway.bsky.social

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