We've already got hundreds of students and mentors here, sharing how the sudden policy change has derailed plans. We're looking at formally "delivering" results to NSF leadership tomorrow, please do keep sharing and spreading the word: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

I just edited a Wikipedia page for the first time, and it was so exhilarating.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts

I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??

here she is at her burrow entrance.

Our review on the last decade+ of hybrid incompatibility research is now out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cool study. Shows low dispersal of mammals across continents. Most are continental scale endemics. Significant in understanding the modern structure of the Bretskyan hierarchy from mammalian perspective.
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. In our new study, we looked beneath their skin with cutting-edge imaging techniques – and we may just have found the key to their evolutionary success. youtu.be/RfOK2wWYjLo

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.

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I’m so proud of Sadie and Jordan! They did a great job presenting their research on genetic and morphological examination of non-native New Mexico whiptail lizards. #JMIH25

It was awesome to start and end the conference with your talks 😂 and likewise great to meet you!

Differential gene expression was observed between tissues, species, and reproductive modes (asexual vs sexual) in whiptail lizards by Josh Rivera. Very cool! #JMIH25

Higher rates of amino-acid changing mutations in a hybrid unisexual whiptail species compared to its parental species with lots of variation in different gene categories- super cool findings by Zoë Müller! #JMIH25

What the heck are unisexual salamanders good at? @amphibs.bsky.social looked into the chemical composition of skin secretions. Of 67 unique compounds, sexual species have more than the unisexuals- so more digging is left to answer the original question.

The impact of salinity exposure during development has been examined in fish and amphibians, but little is known about reptiles (despite many coastal species). Sydney Wayne gave a fantastic talk showing the negative impact of both exposure to and development in saline environments #JMIH25

Andrew Durso presented on the utility and development of a snake ID app. Many cases of snake bite go un/misidentified to the species level (only 5% are identified in the USA). The app is awesome on par with several other major AI identification apps (inat, Merlin) #JMIH25

The evolutionary foundations of transcriptional regulation in animals www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/evDcA) 🧬🖥️🧪

Jack Dirck showed that Mediterranean House Geckos introduced broadly in the USA show evidence of dispersal via stepping stone and a mainland-island effect (in different regions).

Dellen Roush showed that a species of lungless salamander (Plethodon cinerea) don’t seem to select regions under cover refugia for thermoregulation- at least when looking at the two dimensional space. It may be that they thermoregulate vertically in the soil rather than across the horizontal space.

Herbivorous lizards have several “rules” (rare, large bodies, tropical, warm climates) that are broken in the family Liolaemidae- the family of lizards with the most herbivorous species. Bobby Espinoza gave such a fun talk packed with photos, data, hypotheses, and questions. #JMIH25

Snake fungal disease, officially reported in the US in 2006, might have origins as early as 1945. Looking at 531 New Mexico museum specimens from five snake species, Hannah Bradley assessed presence of SFD, performed swab tests, and qPCR, with evidence for SFD in NM dating back to 2006. #JMIH25

Looking at stable isotopes in museum-preserved fishes and herps from the past ~70 years, Bryce Sweely showed relatively slow niche shifts occur in native species compared to introduced species. Some intro sp have narrow niches that directly compete with nat sp, while others are more broad #JMIH25

#JMIH25 hit a home run with the plenary by @amphibs.bsky.social on the history and new findings of work with unisexual Ambystoma. An excellently transparent explanation of how frustrating and fascinating this group has been, with data frequently created more questions without answering current ones.

I love an inspiring travelogue. #JMIH25 started for me with a great talk about adventure, resilience, accepting mistakes, and making discoveries in both new- and old-world tropics by David Bickford.