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James T. Stroud

@jameststroud.bsky.social

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Asst Prof @ Georgia Tech. Evolutionary ecology using lizards 🦎🦎🦎 most interested in connecting micro-scale processes to macro-scale patterns

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · Mar 25

Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 16h

Nice!

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Henry Gee @endofthepier.bsky.social · 7d

Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate, from the Jurassic of Scotland www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate - Nature

Breugnathair elgolensis gen. et sp. nov., an early squamate identified from a newly discovered Middle Jurassic skeleton on the Isle of Skye, provides new evidence on the origins of snakes.

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall. There's of course no better way to understand Goodall than in her own words, of which there are volumes to explore. But I also love Stephen Jay Gould's introduction to her "In the Shadow of Man": archive.org/details/insh.... As Gould notes, and Goodall embodied, "Nature IS context"

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Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 9d

Wass(P)up (fish)?

Adaptive radiations are striking examples of rapid speciation, where lineage diversification often pairs with rapid changes in morphology. But what is the role of intrinsic structural constraints? Here, Pupfish from San Salvador Island were studied...what did they find?

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 9d

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 9d

The best type of geckos

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 9d

Amazingly successful Lab night out on campus....38 green anoles in just over an hour!

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@gtsciences.bsky.social @gtresearch.bsky.social

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 9d

Lizard drawings are the best drawings. Can't beat coming in to the lab to see this

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 10d

I didn't tag @lindseyswierk.bsky.social !! I should have - amazing work! 🦎🦎🦎

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 10d

Wowza! Super cool findings!

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 28d

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A submerged water anole (Anolis aquaticus) with a bubble of air held on its head. Photo credit: Lindsey Swierk.

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Jon Velotta @jpvelotta.bsky.social · 14d

Check out our new deer mouse paper @sse-evolution.bsky.social! A truly collaborative effort with @drgodwit.bsky.social, @mstager.bsky.social, and Zac Cheviron. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Incomplete genetic compensation and countergradient variation of blood-oxygen transport in deer mice

Abstract. Novel environments can induce fitness-reducing responses (i.e., maladaptive plasticity) that should be eliminated by selection via genetic compen

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Mark!! Hope you're well

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!!

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Tony!! 🦎

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 14d

São Tomé here we come 🏝️

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks, Julia!! Hope you're well! 🌱

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 15d

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So excited and honoured to receive this! A win for field studies!

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James Stroud Receives Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Field Biology

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 19d

We published a database of plant heat tolerances to catalyze research that advances plant ecology.
@kjfeeley.bsky.social @alyssakullberg.bsky.social

Link to the paper with embedded link to database here:
tinyurl.com/mu2kj7s9

🌐🧪🌡️🌴🍂🍁🌳🌲 #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #Ecophysiology #ClimateChange

A database of plant heat tolerances and methodological matters

Motivation Plant heat tolerance data are increasingly valued for their potential to help increase our understanding of species’ responses to extreme temperatures, but these efforts are hindered by met...

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 19d

Hopefully, this database disambiguates some of the different ways to measure (and interpret) PHTs. Look at panel A in the figure below - 70 distinct methods even after trying to simplify and categorize them.

a multi-paneled figure summarizing the methodological, geographical, and taxonomic data in this database.

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 16d

Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!

The Anderson Lab at Georgia Tech

my academic website

seanasanderson.github.io

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Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 17d

Magic traits may assist sympatric #Ecological speciation, but few examples exist & evidence for their role is rare. Yet, this study found #pleiotropy affected soil preference & flowering time in #Hawea, consistent with speciation!

Check out the full paper 🌍🧪👇

Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 5. Evidence for pleiotropic speciation genes using gene knockout and high-throughput phenotyping

Abstract. Theoretical models predict that sympatric, ecological speciation may be facilitated more readily when so-called ‘magic traits’ are present, linki

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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · 17d

Green anole, Asclepias and More (www.asclepiasandmore.com), Groveton, Georgia
#reptiles #wildlifephotography

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 17d

Yes! Great lizard

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 22d

Interested in measuring trees and branches from Lidar data? Don't want to use Matlab? (who does).

Take a look at our new Python package for reconstructing trees from point cloud data using quantitative structure models (QSM's).

Fun with @jefferybcannon.bsky.social!

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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