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Hey folks going to #evol2025 in Athens. The SSE #DEI committee is sponsoring a workshop on how to avoid bias in writing T&P letters. Registration is required and the workshop is open to all career stages! Please share and help spread the word @sse-evolution.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

Congratulations to lab member Gabi Alves Ferreira who lead us in this fun project! She modeled how range shifts of neotropical frogs with climate change will change phylogenetic diversity and endemism in the new communities. So great to see this published #ProudPI 💪🐸 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Totally messed up.

I guess I didn't get the memo that every day isn't frog day.

Amidst *everything* going on, I'm still proud to see my 2nd chapter of my PhD out in full in the latest special issue of @animalecology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/1365... (1/4)

These NIH applications have the same materials and the same scoring criteria. Panels were postponed more than a month. Hopefully enough time to make the common-sense decision to reclassify these as standard applications and give full consideration this cycle!

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Learn more about Shanelle's research on her website: shanellewiks.github.io

Congratulations to my PhD student Shanelle Wikramanayake for being awarded a Rufford Small Grant and a HCI Michael Dee Grant to support her super cool research on the effects of fragmentation and climate change on rainforest lizards in her home country of Sri Lanka! #rainforest #ClimateChange

Here' comes Saruman for our forests. I love PNW old growth forests more than any other habitat on Earth. Devastating.

The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.

"I’m feeling betrayed, gutted, lost, anxious, and furious."

Our story for @science.org—on the ongoing mass firing of federal employees and reactions in the scientific community.

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New analyses of Italian wolves across time confirms they are genetically and morphologically distinct from other European wolves.
Also, there’s as tiny rebound of genetic diversity relative to the 20th century bottleneck. Conservation works! #consgen

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bluesky has not yet had any Rhombophryne testudo. Let’s fix that. I think it will do all of us some good. 🐸🟤

...genetically diverse populations—also termed “genetic rescue”—is an effective way to boost genetic diversity and population sizes. To see it pop out as the top management action for offsetting genetic diversity loss in this global meta-analysis just puts an exclamation point on this conclusion.

I was stunned that population supplementation was by far the most effective conservation management action for slowing down and counteracting the loss of genetic diversity. A lot of experimental and observational studies have shown that supplementing populations with individuals from larger, more...

Congratulations to @robynshaw.bsky.social, @cegrueber.bsky.social, and too many other friends to list here on this important paper in @nature.com on the global extent of genetic diversity loss. It was a pleasure discussing it w/ Elizabeth Pennisi from @science.org.
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Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters.
Find out more in the Science news here
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#Consgen

Diversity is pretty neat actually.

#SundayFishSketch

EXCITING BONUS: This paper presents the first published reference genome for the remarkable tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) from the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Along with its closest living relatives, New Zealand's Leiopelma, it forms a clade that represents the most basal lineage of all living frogs!

What do evolution and adaptation have to do with predicting vulnerability to climate change? Find out in our new paper led by the amazing Dr. @brennaforester.bsky.social and featuring the WORLD'S COOLEST 🐸 just published in Molecular Ecology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...!
#congen

Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Doh! Yikes! Stay safe!