Final conference as a postdoc featured lots of bird anatomy with Casey Holliday, Emma Schachner, and Dominique Homberger; green chile everything; and a detour to the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. Thanks to @crocholliday.bsky.social for the symposium invitation!
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Excited to visit UToronto this week for the famous Atwood Symposium!
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we did 3177 playback experiments on 264 species of birds to learn why males alone defend territories in some species while pairs team up to cooperatively defend home turf in others.
and now you can read about it with writing that is fun
theconversation.com/its-a-sing-o...
I think a lot about how mountain species are responding to warming temperatures
so it was great to team up with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social @kjfeeley.bsky.social Christi McCain & Jenny McGuire to write a review of sp responses to both modern AND Quaternary warming
www.nature.com/articles/doi...
Males aren’t the only angry birds defending their territory. A clever test finds which songbirds step up to fight off intruders and the role monogamy plays.
Very proud of my incoming PhD student, Joanna Baker, for receiving the NSF GRFP! She worked extremely hard on her application and I'm very much looking forward to her joining my lab @gtsciences.bsky.social this year.
PhD candidate!! Congratulations to Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma 🤩🐟🐍 working with her has been the best part of my four years at Yale.
Our special issue of the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social (co-edited by Virginia Abdala and me) on the evolution of joints in vertebrates is out now — check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...
Benjamin Freeman
Our work on mammalian hallucal grasping, led by Irene Montañez-Rivera during her time in the @johnnyakatura.bsky.social group, is out now in iScience. A true team effort; thanks to the whole crew for inviting me to contribute a small piece! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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James T. Stroud
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So glad to have been interviewed for this story! I stand by it ⚰️🔨
See the article below and the original paper by Ned Snelling and colleagues for more info on the increasingly dubious connection between high oxygen and griffenfly size 😎
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𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐡𝐲𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬? Well, we’ve always assumed they did (and for good reason), but there’s been surprisingly little direct evidence to support this assumption.
In a new paper, we describe an unassuming little Jurassic fossil that directly confirms it: doi.org/10.3374/014....
2 days left! ✨
Meet Dr. James Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social, the #Atwood2026 Rising Star in Evolution! 🦎🌡️🌎
Learn more about their work here: sites.gatech.edu/stroudlab/
Atwood schedule: eeb.utoronto.ca/events/atwoo...
ALT: a whale is swimming in the ocean and has white spots on its back
“This study places what may be the final nail in the coffin for the prevailing view that more oxygen made ancient insects bigger.”
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4vcqqS8
Flying insect respiratory systems suggest abundant oxygen can’t explain ancient gigantism
