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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

During #SSB2026 @bruno-soares.bsky.social gave an excellent talk about the difficulty Global South researchers have describing new species because they often have to view types in US/European museums. Here is one solution we came up, published today: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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Recognizing the value of type localities can help democratize taxonomy for the Global South

Type localities, the geographic areas from which type specimens originate, play a central role in taxonomy (Azevedo-Santos et al. 2025, 2026). Despite thei

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Hernán @hernanhvm.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Come join me and other great colleagues at @ib_unam !! We’re searching for a new orno 🦅 🦢 🦉 systematics researcher/prof. for the largest bird collection in Mexico. See details herein www.ib.unam.mx/ibunam/Convo... Amigxs ornitólogxs! Habemus búsqueda de nuevx investigadorx! Apliquen!

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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

ntSynt: multi-genome synteny detection using minimizer graph mappings doi.org/10.1186/s129...

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02455-w

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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Opportunities

***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…

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Lukas Musher @lukemusher.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The genomic landscape of asymmetric introgression tracks chromosomal characteristics in tinamous (Aves: Tinamidae) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Ethan Gyllenhaal @ethanofthegulls.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Look forward to more about Solomon Island phylogeography in the future, but in the mean time, @lukemusher.bsky.social and I have a pre-print that highlights how a similar phenomenon can occur on continents (with bias in both topology and branch lengths): doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A figure showing the "core" and "periphery" of lowland forest in South America, a figure showing the genetic structure of our population genetic simulations, and a figure of three alternate divergence histories simulated.

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Ethan Gyllenhaal @ethanofthegulls.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Just out in Systematic Biology, we explore the role of gene flow in island phylogeography of the Solomons Black-and-white Monarch complex. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... Up first, strong genetic structure between islands groups and weak (but present!) structure between Pleistocene-connected islands (🧵)

Figure with a photo of a member of then Solomons Monarch complex, a map of the Solomon Islands (divided into four island groups, Makira being the most isolated), and a principal component analysis highlighting the distinct between-island-group structure, with moderate structure within the New Georgia Group and weaker structure within the Bukida group (highlighted in an inset).

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Lukas Musher @lukemusher.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Our paper on tinamou evolution is finally out in @systbiol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)

Diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among tinamous, a group of superficially partridge-like birds more closely related to ostriches and emus.

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Lukas Musher @lukemusher.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

We have a new preprint in the whole-genome phylogenomics of tinamous! We compare gene tree estimation error for protein-coding and ultraconserved elements and find these two data types behave quite differently. Also a new species! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Whole-genome phylogenomics of the tinamous (Aves: Tinamidae): comparing gene tree estimation error b...

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Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

3 articles, Oct 30 Women remain underrepresented in academia www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Toxic workplaces are main reason women leave academic jobs www.nature.com/articles/d41... Women faculty feel pushed from academia by poor workplace climate www.science.org/content/arti... #WomenInStem

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Women more likely to leave academia due to work place climate than due to work family conflict.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Did you think hermit crabs always live in snail shells? 🧪🦀 Some deep sea hermit species live symbiotically with anemones that DISSOLVE the shell and SECRETE a new one ("carcinoecium") made of chitin! The carcinoecium has evolved at least 3 times! Photo credits in alt text. @megdaly.bsky.social

Hermit crab (Pagurus prideaux) on the substrate looking up at you. Instead of a shell it is covered in an orange anemone (Calliactis palliata) with pink spots. Coming off that are neon pink silly strings, which are the anemone's tentacles!
Photo by Darryl Meyer
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27988477@N02/3992801991/in/photostream/

Hermit crab (Sympagurus dofleini) in the deep sea. It is facing to the side, with a purple striped sea anemone (Stylobates) covering its posterior, with the anemone's tentacles facing down.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/waf/okeanos-animal-guide/Paguroidea015.html

4 different views of the carcinoecium produced by the anemone Stylobates aeneus, which look exactly like a snail shell. But they are not.
Image by Chong Chen
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207492582127068&set=a.10200283324540134&type=3

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Lukas Musher @lukemusher.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Hi folks! I’m an evolutionary biologist who studies speciation, genomics, and biogeography of birds and their ectoparasites. I’m currently a postdoc at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

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Lukas Musher @lukemusher.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Our paper on how phylogeographic signal covaries with recombination and selection landscapes out in Systematic Biology! Read about how extrinsic factors like river capture interact with genomic processes to drive diversification of an Amazonian bird here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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