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Why are some species expanding their range while others aren’t? Check out my new preprint with Nancy Chen 陳嵐欣, Corinⓐ Logan (she/her), & Dieter Lukas on the causes of one of the largest range expansions of a native species in the Americas! ecoevorxiv.org/879pe/ #TheGrackleProject

After multiple years of no travel, it was really special to finally introduce the lab to the Florida Scrub-Jays & the unique scrub ecosystem and meet with our collaborators in person at ABS! Thank you Reed Bowman @DrAngelaT & the Avian Ecology lab for a great week!

More Chen lab presentations to come on Tuesday! Also I'm looking to expand the lab, so if you're interested in working on popgen with pedigrees, contemporary evolution, or conservation genomics please get in touch! I'd love to chat! #Evol2022

Super excited for my first conference talk!!

Excited to share an awesome project I was part of as an undergrad at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) (and my #firstpaper!) Thanks to Nick Mason and @eco_physiology for being great mentors through the whole process.

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded the NSF GRFP!! I’m so grateful to the mentors and colleagues who helped me along the way; huge shout out to my advisor Nancy Chen 陳嵐欣 and the whole Chen lab. Super excited for what comes next! 🧬🐦

Fun lab birding trip to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary before the annual Florida Scrub-Jay meeting at ABS tomorrow

Amazing two days of sciencing with Nancy Chen 陳嵐欣's lab at ABS #Archbold_birdlab. Fun talks, ideas, conversations and synergy!!

My Science Corps fellowship at the Central Visayan Institute Foundation in Bohol 🇵🇭 has been a life changing experience. It brings me great joy to share that together we are launching the Science-Corps #Filipinas in #STEM series on May 30!

Leveled up to a PhD candidate in the Nancy Chen 陳嵐欣 lab! Now it’s time to sleep for a year 🙃

Honored to be featured here and to share my story! There aren’t many Filipinos and Fil-Ams in #EEB, and we often go unseen (like so many others) due to being lumped under the monolith of “Asian”. We’re here, we exist, and we’re doing some cool stuff! #WOCinSTEM #AAPI 🇵🇭🇺🇸

Thank you SSE!! Let’s get to work 🧬🐦

How do microchromosomes vary between bird species? Come find out at Faye Romero's comparative genomics poster tonight! #AOS_SCO23 poster #126

Join us Monday at noon Eastern for our final GREG Seminar of the semester! R. C. Lewontin Early Award recipient Faye Romero will present "The genetic architecture of inbreeding depression in a wild population of Florida Scrub-Jays." Details at rb.gy/n3aj5

How do populations stay stable in a changing world? Check out my preprint with Nancy Chen 陳嵐欣 where we use the Florida Scrub-Jay life cycle to see how a population ABS has remained stable despite increasing isolation! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our pre-print for a shiny new Florida-Scrub Jay genome assembly and annotation! Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mb of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies. Nancy Chen 陳嵐欣 ✨🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT In #G3journal, Faye Romero et al. report a chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the federally Threatened Florida Scrub-Jay, facilitating future conservation research. 🐦 Read more: bit.ly/3C1fDCS

My first foray into podcasting! Is there such a thing as “good” inbreeding? Find out below… 👀

The beaks of Anna’s hummingbirds have grown longer and larger, and their ranges have expanded to follow the feeders. scim.ag/4k38Qd0

I started photographing these bills as a junior undergrad, and now I’m deep into a PhD in EEB (largely thanks to how fun I found this project and my inspiring grad student mentor Dr. Nicolas M Alexandre). Huge props to all who helped drive this amazing work forward!