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My daughter, Hope, tricked me into doing the most extreme ride at the Minnesota State Fair.

It was a loonnnnnng time coming but our paper on path dependent evolution of visual systems is out in Science! Rebecca Varney Joie Cannon Morris A. Aguilar Dan Speiser Doug Eernisse. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Also, nice Perspective piece by @lauren_hsr ! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Deadline for applications for the summer fish biomechanics course is just 3 days away. If 5 weeks, 9 graduate credits, the San Juan Islands, 100's of fishes and many great instructors sounds like your thing...apply now. Financial aid and it is 1st come 1st served. pls r/t

For the first time Chase Brownstein et al finds an intrinsic mechanism for low species diversity and relatively slow phenotypic evolution in a lineage of living fossils. Darwin highlighted gars when introducing this concept in On the Origin of Species (1859).

Things have been hard lately, but Neil Gaiman somehow managed to make it so much better. AGAIN.

An update on our MS about the #nonsidentifiability of trait-dependent #diversification models (#SSE). Bad news: SSEs are non-identifiable. Good news: it's not problematic. Even better news: it can improve inference! :) With @pseudacris biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am extremely happy to share with all of you that I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Phylogenetics at Colorado State University 1/6 Colorado State University CSU Department of Biology

So proud and delighted to see this exciting study out! Paralleling studies of lineage diversification, we find that high latitudes have elevated rates of body shape diversification across all marine fishes. Amazing work by Ed, first author Mike Burns, & the rest of the fab team!

Cold temperate seas, not tropical reefs, are hot spots of body shape diversification for marine fishes. doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Now in Evolution Letters by MD Burns, @sarahtfried, Katherine Corn, PhD, Olivier Larouche, Sam Price, PC Wainwright, and Edward Burress.

We show that functional diversity in African Great Lake radiations is age-dependent, where trait diversity in younger lakes is nested within older lakes. In contrast, a continental Neotropical radiation expands into novel functional spaces not found in African lake radiations. 2/

An early burst in trait evolution is an expectation of adaptive radiation, and while analyses within individual radiations did not support such a pattern, comparison across them showed that rates decline rapidly with radiation age in a manner consistent with an early burst. 3/

Lastly, we found a mismatch between morphological and functional diversity. Neotropical cichlids displayed large variation in cranial morphology but were bested by the much younger Lake Tanganyika radiation in variance for several functional traits. 4/

This work, co-led by Katherine Corn, PhD and I, could not have been done without an awesome team of co-authors, including Sarah Williamson, Dr. Darien Satterfield, @Alexuss_Symone, Anthony Barley, Sam Borstein, Matt McGee and Peter Wainwright. 5/5

🚨Incredibly excited to share my new pub in collab w/ Christopher Martinez, Katherine Corn, PhD, + Peter Wainwright in Evolution Letters! Opposite of long-held predictions, we find that a pharyngeal jaw novelty restricts diversification of feeding motions + morphology! doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

So proud and delighted to see our paper out--years of work by a wonderful team of people!