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Tony Gamble

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Evolutionary biologist. Gaga for geckos. (he/him)

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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals
Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap
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Dr. Sarah Carey @scarey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am thrilled to share our pre-print for CBS-tools: a k-mer based analysis that utilizes whole-genome sequencing of a few sex-identified isolates to guide users from the discovery of the heterogametic sex through identifying the sex-determination region www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Identifying, phasing, and structurally annotating sex chromosomes for genome assemblies using CBS-tools
A complete reference genome for species with chromosomally-determined separate sexes should contain scaffolds for all sex chromosome homologs. However, sex chromosomes present distinct computational c...
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Insectes Sociaux @insectessociaux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New review article! 📚 Majoe & @phdbee.bsky.social argue that wing-fanning is a plastic behaviour that can serve as a model system to understand how insect societies respond to their environment 🌬️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000... #SocialInsects #Plasticity #Thermoregulation #ColonialBehaviour #Biology
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José María Santos-Pereira @josemsanper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are looking for motivated students to apply for the FPU scholarships to pursue a PhD in 3D genomics and gene regulation in development and disease. If you're interested, please email me: jsantos2@us.es
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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We like to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Applications due Nov 1, so get in touch soom! #EndlessFishMostBeautiful www.fishevodevogeno.org Pls repost!
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So very, very happy to see this out @plosbiology.org : Ancient inversion polymorphisms associate with sexually selected traits across natural guppy populations. Beautiful work by two very clever and talented coauthors, Yuying Lin and @vdbijl.bsky.social . journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/
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Ancient inversion polymorphisms associate with sexually selected traits across natural guppy populations
Genomic inversions spanning many genes can persist for millions of years. This study of Trinidadian guppy populations reveals how both ecological conditions and mate choice help maintain this hidden l...
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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology in my department at the university of Houston @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social Come be my colleague careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant or Associate Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Biology and Biochemistry Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston seeks to hire an evolutionary biolog...
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The American Genetic Association @theaga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Olfactory genes serve as important sources of environmental adaptation for vertebrates. Recently published work in the cyprinid fish Schizopygopsis younghusbandi examined their evolution and adaptation.  Photo: Hou Tangbin 1/2
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Nicolas Di-Poi @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our collaborative paper on snake coiling is now out in the latest issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on the cover! 🎉 Delighted to see our work highlighted this way. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ni9h3QW8S... @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
My two brains
David Duchovny as Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully from The X-Files
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum this weekend, Sept 25-27. Please sign up here if you can take a shift! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Help Save the Academy: Volunteer to talk with visitors and hand out flyers at the Academy.
Sign up for a shift outside the Academy of Natural Sciences during its last open days: Fridays to Sundays, Sept 18 to 20 and 25 to 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers will be on the ground outside the Ac...
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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Dang, what a cool show! Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney at the Salt Shed in Chicago! 🎶🎸🎵
A woman (Liz Phair) playing guitar on stage. A man playing bass is in the background.A group of people playing guitars on stageTwo women (Carrie Brownstein & Corin Tucker) playing guitars and singing on stage Two women (Carrie Brownstein & Corin Tucker) playing guitars on stage
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GEValT @gevaltcrispr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Meet GEValT! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction! No more injections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Infectious transgenesis in arthropods
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the development of in vivo germline genetic editing technologies in arthropods, first pioneered by the Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo ...
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Ed Stanley @drscanley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another long-time project is out now! I scanned these specimens for @sdbnorcal.bsky.social during my Postdoc @calacademy.bsky.social! Stan & @kaithefishguy.bsky.social led this description of a new deepwater species of Butterflyfish from Mozambique. doi.org/10.1643/i202...
A CT rendering of a new species of deepwater butterfly fish.
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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm recruiting new grad students for fall 2027, looking for students motivated by animal behavior and animal communication. Our main study system is acoustic communication in treefrogs. More details here, please spread the word: reichertlab.com/2026/09/07/r...
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Recruiting grad students for fall 2027
The Reichert Lab in the Department of Biology at Oklahoma State University is recruiting 1-2 graduate students (MS or PhD) for Fall 2027. Our lab does integrative research in animal communication a…
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026
Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
House fly proto-Y chromosomes differentially affect courtship success regardless of social context and female type www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really excited to share our latest paper with you! We examine patterns of skull shape evolution in an awesome group of fishes and show that they rapidly innovated following the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Selection, constraints, and contingency drive mosaic patterns of evolution during the carangarian adaptive radiation
Adaptive radiations generate remarkable morphological diversity, yet traits often diversify at different rates and modes, producing mosaic patterns of evolution. Modularity, the semiautonomous organization of traits, can shape how selection and ...
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ssarherps.bsky.social @ssarherps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are pleased to announce Dr. Lorin A. Neuman-Lee at Arkansas State for the 2026 Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology. She is honored for her empathy-driven teaching, international mentorship, DEI leadership, and Memphis Zoo research partnership. Congratulations! ssarherps.org/2026/09/2026....
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2026 Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology
Dr. Lorin A. Neuman-Lee, Associate Professor of Physiology at Arkansas State University, is the recipient of the 2026 Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology, recognized for teaching that spans G…
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
3/3 Link to the preprint, Physiology mediates transcontinental radiations of freshwater fishes found here doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
1/3 New preprint from #NearLab led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social Here we show species-rich freshwater fish adaptive radiations (notably cichlids, but also killifishes, pupfishes, and livebearers) were enabled by a shared mechanism: retained saltwater (marine salinity) tolerance
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 10/09/2026
New online! Zebrafish relatives as models for functional comparative genetics and genomics
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Zebrafish relatives as models for functional comparative genetics and genomics
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-01007-4Comparative functional genetics and genomics across Danio, Devario and Danionella species reveal molecular and cellular bases of phenotypic divergence, establishing danionin fishes as powerful model systems for understanding a wide range of evolutionary innovations.
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Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 I'm recruiting PhD students to join the Akopyan Lab at Rice University! If you're passionate about evolutionary genomics, I'd love to hear from you. Details: akopyanlab.org/opportunities Please share widely! 🙏
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We are recruiting PhD students in Evolutionary Genomics for Fall 2027 at Rice University!  Projects in the lab include investigating the causes and consequences of recombination rate variation, the...
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Continuing on my path toward becoming a only frogs account
A tiny baby porch frog
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Tree of Life web project is back! A phylogenetic view of biodiversity way ahead of its time (ca. 1995!), conceived and led by David Maddison, collaborative & human-curated, widely used in teaching. Defunct technology had doomed it until Travis, Danny, and Andrew revived it. 🥳🎉 🧪 #evolbiol
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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NSF Biology Postdoc Fellowships are back! Good news for everyone...great news for someone who wants to work in our group? Just reach out if interested. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
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David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Tree of Life Web Project is back online! tolweb.org Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.
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Tree of Life Web Project
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Big job opportunity in Johannesburg - Director of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
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UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So proud of Edina Nemesházi for this fantastic work about the consequences of sex reversal for the reproductive success of wild frogs, which is now out in Science Advances! 🥂💥🥳Congrats to all of the authors 👏 @klivvvienna.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · 07/09/2026
Threats to funding basic research are at an all-time high. But despite often sounding obscure, basic research can have majorly beneficial outcomes. Research into lizard venom, for example, led to a breakthrough discovery that created one of the most widely used diabetes treatments in the world.
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Help needed! Does anyone know of a lab that has glass (pigmentless) guppies? We are interested in getting them for a project
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Brant Faircloth @brantfaircloth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NSF PRFB RFP is out. If you have interests in AI approaches to studying bird color across big phylogenies, let me know! I have some ideas... And, if you don't, that's cool too, but please apply to do something with someone else if you can! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
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Alex Gunderson @agunderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ever wonder why high latitude ectotherms don’t consistently evolve greater thermal plasticity than those in the tropics? @ggcostoya.bsky.social, Mike Logan and I have an idea why, and we explore it in this theoretical analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Climate variability and the paradox of plasticity
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity is expected to evolve when environmental conditions change predictably over time. This has led to the hypothesis that ectotherms in environments with low temperature sea...
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Alexandra Weber @toedtoad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My first paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! We found that snake embryos coil due to a mismatch in growth rates between the gut and spine. This tight coil is one of the reasons why snakes are able to get so long. Read the paper here!
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ellerstrand & Hansson used WGS of male and female larks to demonstrate that gene essentiality slows functional divergence on both Z and W chromosomes, modulates faster-Z dynamics, and enables key W genes to remain functional. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
GBE | Selective Regimes and Evolutionary Dynamics of Z and W Gametologs Across an Expanded Avian Neo-Sex Chromosome
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How do bumblebees determine sex—and why does it matter for conservation? A new study identifies the B. terrestris sex-determination region, with major implications for managing genetic diversity. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit: M. Almbauer
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
1/11 🐟 2nd new preprint today from @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social We investigated how losing the swim bladder, the organ that most fishes use to control their buoyancy, has shaped the diversity of ray-finned fishes over 90 million years of Earth history. The results surprised us. 🧵
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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
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XY or ZW? Geckos reveal evolution's hidden playbook
Why do humans rely on XY chromosomes to determine sex, while birds use ZW — and many reptiles use neither, letting temperature decide instead? Sex determination is remarkably diverse across the ...
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Five gecko lineages began differentiating sex chromosomes within a narrow 7- to 12-million-year window around 9.6 million years ago, hinting at a climate-linked shift away from temperature-based sex determination.
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XY or ZW? Gecko chromosomes reveal evolution's hidden playbook
Why do humans rely on XY chromosomes to determine sex, while birds use ZW—and many reptiles use neither, letting temperature decide instead?
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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Genomic predisposition is associated with the direction of sex chromosome #evolution | Science @Science.org
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Genomic predisposition is associated with the direction of sex chromosome #evolution | Science
Sex chromosome evolution is among the most dynamic genomic innovations in vertebrates, yet why some lineages evolve XY while others evolve ZW remains unclear. Using chromosome-level genomes from 19 geckos, we found that gecko sex chromosomes originated ...
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Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tldr; MORE SEX CHROMOSOMES AND GECKO GENOMES
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#DevBio #Postdocs! Abstracts are being accepted for speakers in the 2026-2027 Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series. SDB postdoctoral members are eligible to apply. Deadline: September 1. #SDBPostdocSeminar bit.ly/3x1ptgb
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Application Deadline September 1, 2026 
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Aaron Griffing @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New gecko genomes and an amazing story I was very lucky to be a part of!
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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
New collaborative paper from the lab on gecko sex chromosome and genome evolution! 🧪🦎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Genomic predisposition is associated with the direction of sex chromosome evolution
Sex chromosome evolution is among the most dynamic genomic innovations in vertebrates, yet why some lineages evolve XY while others evolve ZW remains unclear. Using chromosome-level genomes from 19 ge...
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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/08/2026
Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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People Magazine @people.com · 25/08/2026
🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video. 📷: Getty
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Does habitat use drive morphological variation in snakes? Our new study of over 400 species shows how distinct environments shape head and body traits, revealing a complex balance between adaptation and specialisation 🐍 Hudry & Herrel 2026 #Ecomorphology #SnakeEvolution doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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From head to tail: Does habitat use drive morphological variation in snakes?
Abstract. Convergence, defined as lineages evolving to be more similar to one another than their ancestors due to selective pressures is a hallmark of adap
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