Thanks Izzy 😀

Im excited to be starting my own lab and research program next spring. Heres to many fruitful years of academia, research, and growth!

2) Importantly, I am looking to recruit a PhD-level graduate student to start next school year (August 2026). My lab website (still under construction: christopherhemings.wixsite.com/my-site) has the details outlining the position and applying.

a few important updates:

1) Im happy to announce I'll be starting as an Assisstant Professor in Marine Biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston next March! So fortunate to have landed a position in these uncertain times, at my undergrad alma mater nonetheless

Applications for the Stengl-Wyer Scholars program through the Univeristy of Texas are now open! This has been such a wonderful postdoc program with incredible support. Please reach out if you have any questions, more than happy to share my experience!

Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.

Just a couple days left to apply! Come join us in South Texas. We have a wonderful lab group and look forward gaining new expertise!

The CABRA lab Christmas cookie party was a great time! Keeping the tradition going of baking a single, crypto themed cookie each year 🐠 Merry Crypto-mas

We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

Super cool! So, those little bumps are actually bone from the neurocranium?

Fantastic job with all of this Bailey!

Lurking near the reef equivalent of the Grinch - COTS!

Do I expect this work to be cited alot? No. But I do hope it sheds some light for those curious but unsure how to get into this field. Its what I would have liked to see when I started this journey 7 years ago. And I am happy to hopefully help others along the way

I pushed at the end of my PhD to include a final summary chapter that discussed these techniques. I wanted to provide an entry resource for those curious about the field to show what techniques are out there (while always encouraging reading the original literature)

I was new to the field of colour science when I started my PhD, and was overwhlemed/impressed by the different ways you can collect and analyse colour data.

As I began my journey, I started keeping track of all the different techniques, and what they could/couldn't do

Excited to finally have this paper out after multiple years in the making.

"Analysing biological colour patterns from digital images: An introduction to the current toolbox"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Not sure about PhD positions, but for postdocs and faculty positions, the eco evo jobs spreadsheet is pretty good!