Alonso Delgado | Ph.D Candidate
@anemone-padawan.bsky.social
Evolutonary Marine Venom Biologist
Currently at Ohio State University -> postdoc @ Harvard OEB.
Currently at Ohio State University -> postdoc @ Harvard OEB.
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"The fossil record effectively provides a set of natural experiments," Wright said. "By studying these historical events, we gain insights into how ecosystems respond when pushed past their breaking points, which has direct implications for understanding biodiversity loss today." 🧪 #FossilFriday
Recovering From Disaster: OU Professor Awarded Junior Faculty Fellowship to Study Life After Mass Extinctions
Understanding how life recovers in the aftermath of a mass extinction is critical to unraveling the broad patterns of evolutionary development that have shaped Earth’s history.. To further this unders...
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June 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"The fossil record effectively provides a set of natural experiments," Wright said. "By studying these historical events, we gain insights into how ecosystems respond when pushed past their breaking points, which has direct implications for understanding biodiversity loss today." 🧪 #FossilFriday
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Please share!
We need a few more folks (esp. mentors) to join the SSB Mentorship Program for 2025. Help the next generation of systematists take flight!
Past mentors say: "really satisfying", "extremely gratifying", "optimism-inspiring", "just do it!"
www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
#evobio 🧪
We need a few more folks (esp. mentors) to join the SSB Mentorship Program for 2025. Help the next generation of systematists take flight!
Past mentors say: "really satisfying", "extremely gratifying", "optimism-inspiring", "just do it!"
www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
#evobio 🧪
It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!
Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.
Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...
@systbiol.bsky.social
Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.
Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...
@systbiol.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Please share!
We need a few more folks (esp. mentors) to join the SSB Mentorship Program for 2025. Help the next generation of systematists take flight!
Past mentors say: "really satisfying", "extremely gratifying", "optimism-inspiring", "just do it!"
www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
#evobio 🧪
We need a few more folks (esp. mentors) to join the SSB Mentorship Program for 2025. Help the next generation of systematists take flight!
Past mentors say: "really satisfying", "extremely gratifying", "optimism-inspiring", "just do it!"
www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
#evobio 🧪
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Colleagues, including my partner, with years of service at the agency. Some Permanent POs reclassified as Probationary. Exceptional scientists who were former professors at major institutions, and came to NSF to serve the community and ensure science thrives in the US.
February 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Colleagues, including my partner, with years of service at the agency. Some Permanent POs reclassified as Probationary. Exceptional scientists who were former professors at major institutions, and came to NSF to serve the community and ensure science thrives in the US.
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Why am I working harder than usual to get the next set of papers on #phylogenetics and #biomechanics completed and published? I have 3 proposals sitting at NSF, probably all dead in the water. I guess it’s just manic conflict avoidance, gonna keep on keepin on.
a man stands in front of a sphere with the words science written on it
ALT: a man stands in front of a sphere with the words science written on it
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February 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Why am I working harder than usual to get the next set of papers on #phylogenetics and #biomechanics completed and published? I have 3 proposals sitting at NSF, probably all dead in the water. I guess it’s just manic conflict avoidance, gonna keep on keepin on.
If i run basic evo models on a phylogeny for a given trait and get a best fit for an OU model, can I map the adaptive peak onto the phylogeny?
Help!
Using phylotools for this if it helps
#evolution #science
Help!
Using phylotools for this if it helps
#evolution #science
January 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If i run basic evo models on a phylogeny for a given trait and get a best fit for an OU model, can I map the adaptive peak onto the phylogeny?
Help!
Using phylotools for this if it helps
#evolution #science
Help!
Using phylotools for this if it helps
#evolution #science
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The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org
January 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org
All grants !?! ALL GRANTS! WTAF
January 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
All grants !?! ALL GRANTS! WTAF
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Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
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Ohio institutions receive over $1B in NIH funding for their work, with Ohio State receiving over $325 million.
Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
January 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ohio institutions receive over $1B in NIH funding for their work, with Ohio State receiving over $325 million.
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If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at [email protected] or DM for Signal
January 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at [email protected] or DM for Signal
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It took me more than 4 years to capture a scene I could only dream of. A magnificent Condor soars above the peaks of Argentina's Mount Fitz Roy, as they are spot lit in beautiful morning light. 🪶
#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
January 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It took me more than 4 years to capture a scene I could only dream of. A magnificent Condor soars above the peaks of Argentina's Mount Fitz Roy, as they are spot lit in beautiful morning light. 🪶
#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
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Gritty continues to be a real one
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Gritty continues to be a real one
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OSU- Notre Dame game got me like
January 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
OSU- Notre Dame game got me like
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Take a break from all Zuckerberg’s platforms.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
January 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Take a break from all Zuckerberg’s platforms.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
I have been working and will be working remotely for the rest of the Ph.D. So, I was super stoked to find a new work space in the middle of Cincinnati at The Mercantile Library.
December 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
I have been working and will be working remotely for the rest of the Ph.D. So, I was super stoked to find a new work space in the middle of Cincinnati at The Mercantile Library.
🪸The lightbulb anemone Bellactis lux known from the Gulf of Mexico since the 1990s was described by @anemone-padawan.bsky.social, Paul Larson, yours truly, & @megdaly.bsky.social, and named after its tentacle tips resembling a 💡 Genomic 🧬 insights on this anemone are forthcoming.
December 11, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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✨A stunning photo of the giant tunicate Polycarpa spongiabilis (right and center) and the lightbulb anemone Bellactis lux (center and left) from the Gulf of Mexico. Genetic 🧬 studies on this tunicate are lacking 🌊 #tunicateTuesday 🪸🦑
📸: Mike Miller
📸: Mike Miller
December 11, 2024 at 12:59 AM
✨A stunning photo of the giant tunicate Polycarpa spongiabilis (right and center) and the lightbulb anemone Bellactis lux (center and left) from the Gulf of Mexico. Genetic 🧬 studies on this tunicate are lacking 🌊 #tunicateTuesday 🪸🦑
📸: Mike Miller
📸: Mike Miller
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🪸The lightbulb anemone Bellactis lux known from the Gulf of Mexico since the 1990s was described by @anemone-padawan.bsky.social, Paul Larson, yours truly, & @megdaly.bsky.social, and named after its tentacle tips resembling a 💡 Genomic 🧬 insights on this anemone are forthcoming.
December 11, 2024 at 1:06 AM
🪸The lightbulb anemone Bellactis lux known from the Gulf of Mexico since the 1990s was described by @anemone-padawan.bsky.social, Paul Larson, yours truly, & @megdaly.bsky.social, and named after its tentacle tips resembling a 💡 Genomic 🧬 insights on this anemone are forthcoming.
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🌊🪸More on the lightbulb anemone Bellactis lux here: mapress.com/zt/article/v....
Bellactis lux n. sp. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Aiptasiidae), a new sea anemone from the Gulf of Mexico
| Zootaxa
mapress.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:06 AM
🌊🪸More on the lightbulb anemone Bellactis lux here: mapress.com/zt/article/v....
My headphones and mouse died on the same day.....
December 9, 2024 at 3:25 PM
My headphones and mouse died on the same day.....
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I just figured out how to use feeds! So, sharing this with #popgen 🧪
Excited to share a new preprint with @jnovembre.bsky.social ! We use a combination of population genetic theory, simulation, and data analysis to ask: how does study design in genetic studies (including biobanks) impact the discovery of rare, deleterious variants?
Study design and the sampling of deleterious rare variants in biobank-scale datasets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626424v1
December 5, 2024 at 2:04 AM
I just figured out how to use feeds! So, sharing this with #popgen 🧪
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Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
November 19, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
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New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...
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November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm Alonso, a 5th year Ph.D. Candidate Ohio state finishing my PhD. with @megdaly.bsky.social
I study comparatice genomics of venom evolution of marine invertebrates within phylogenetics lens with in sea anemones and in the near future with cephalopods.
#evobio #stem #phylogenetics #comparative
I study comparatice genomics of venom evolution of marine invertebrates within phylogenetics lens with in sea anemones and in the near future with cephalopods.
#evobio #stem #phylogenetics #comparative
December 3, 2024 at 11:21 PM
I'm Alonso, a 5th year Ph.D. Candidate Ohio state finishing my PhD. with @megdaly.bsky.social
I study comparatice genomics of venom evolution of marine invertebrates within phylogenetics lens with in sea anemones and in the near future with cephalopods.
#evobio #stem #phylogenetics #comparative
I study comparatice genomics of venom evolution of marine invertebrates within phylogenetics lens with in sea anemones and in the near future with cephalopods.
#evobio #stem #phylogenetics #comparative