I would love to give more seminars this year! If your department, lab, or group is looking for a talk on bird colouration, I’d love to chat.

In our newest paper we highlight the similarities and differences in biomineralization patterns of different animals eggshells! pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

New paper in nature led by Patrice Pottier! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? | nature.com/articles/s4158… | See thread🧵

We are very excited to share our new paper in Science! We show that a diverse group of Jurassic and Cretaceous mammals all had darkly-colored fur. Well how did we do this? Let' start at the beginning! 🧵 (1/6) Science Magazine Matthew Shawkey Jess Dobson Julia Clarke and others!

Did you ever wonder what colors Jurassic mammals were? After 10+ years of study, we have the answer: dull and dark! Read the results of this super fun and collaborative project here science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

And here's the blog that outlines the 5-year journey and insights behind our latest article communities.springernature.com/posts/stepping…

🐍 New in Genome Biology! We show #CLCN2 is key to #colorpatterns in corn #snakes. LTR-retrotransposon mutation drives Stripe phenotype. Genomic & transcriptomic analyses reveal insights into trait #diversification! Full study: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Biologie - UNIGE

Two new postdoc positions in Computational/Statistical Genomics and Statistical Population Genetics, respectively, at the University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancies/… employment.ku.dk/all-vacancies/… . Please help us advertise.

Reptile eggs, while less colourful than bird eggs, have more diverse morphologies, including keratin nanofibers thought to enable variable H2O absorption. Here we (led by Yana Maudens) test this hypothesis by making biomimetic eggs of electrospun keratin! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper today about the evolution of the wrist along the dinosaur to bird transition: a bird-like configuration appeared in predatory dinosaurs first, as suggested by new exceptionally preserved hands of oviraptors and troodontids nature.com/articles/s4158…

The talented Jindong Zhang analyzed 74,000+ papers, revealing how #biomimetic research relies on a narrow slice of biodiversity—missing out on nature’s untapped genius. In our paper, we call for broader, species-level, and comparative approaches! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Scientists have been studying these creatures for more than 200 years, but only now did we discover that they wear ‘chainmail’ in their skin. We found these previously unreported skin bone plates in no less than 29 Australo-Papuan monitor lizard species. doi.org/10.1093/zoolin…

What a week for our SHARKSense project - wrapped up our first field work in Costa Rica and Friday I'll share some colorful insights on sharks at UCR. Pura vida 🦈