Shrimp glow, did ya know?!!! So proud of Stormie Collins for this review of bioluminescence in deep-sea decapods! We increase previous accounts by 65% and found most common form of GLOW is NOT what we expected. FIU Marine Biology FIU Institute of Environment FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thrilled to share this study by Jacob Suissa, Fay-Wei Li 李飛葦, and me published today in Nature Communications "Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants" nature.com/articles/s4146…

New paper in early view at The Anatomical Record detailing #toepad morphology of the miniaturized #gecko, Chatogekko amazonicus, and comparing setal morphology with other geckos! Collab w/: geckolab, @StuartVNielsen, Fernanda Werneck, PF Viana, and @tony_gamble1 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🐌 I guess National Snail Day is a good time to share the overwhelming diversity of pelagic gastropods we saw in the Gulf of California, Mexico, last month. We used scuba and trawls on the R/V Sally Ride, supported by NSF grants and expertise of Brad Seibel and Amy Maas.

Super fun article by Elizabeth Anne Brown spotlights our deep-sea research led by Jacob Winnikoff and Itay Budin Itay Budin scientificamerican.com/article/how-de…

Thrilled to share this preprint from my postdoc w/ Joanna Kelley Studying Zoarcoidei, we detected gradients in antifreeze protein (AFP) copy number across habitat temperature and pressure driven by homologs translocated out of an ancestral AFP array biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Postdoc opportunity for coral reef scientists, $90k salary! The University of Chicago's Climate Systems Engineering Iniative fellowship apps are due Oct 15, and I'd be delighted to serve as your research mentor in UChicago Biological Sciences. How does geongineering the ocean affect calcifying organisms?

Anyone going to SICB 2025 who has interfaced with policy at any organizational/government level and is willing to sit on a panel? The Public Affairs Committee is seeking volunteers! Help your fellow scientists navigate how research and policy can combine. SICB Student-Postdoc

our second session of the q&a panel series is in a few weeks! this one will focus on the technicalities and tacit rules of applying to phd programs. open to anyone, but focus will be on biology programs. please share widely with your networks of potentially interested folks ✨

New preprint w/ Dr. Marie Strader and Gretchen Hofmann! We show that parental environments alter the fitness consequences and genetic architecture of offspring plasticity and associated gene expression pathways in purple urchins. Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Online now: Dollo’s law of irreversibility in the post-genomic age dlvr.it/TFh1Hd

If you have ever wondered whether the PAML documentation could be more interactive... We have good news for you! The PAML GitHub repository has been updated and a fresh PAML Wiki is now available for you to navigate the PAML documentation! 📄💻 (1/n) github.com/abacus-gene/pa…

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More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝 annualreviews.org/content/journa…