biologist | postdoc | evo devo | morphology | genomes | geckos | loud music & hot sauce enthusiast | he/him
https://aarongriffing.weebly.com/
#GeckoEvoDevo
Aaron Griffing
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✨Rare model organisms can teach us how to build a body differently. In snail embryos blastomeres can be as big as the rest of the embryo! 🐌Phrontis vibex blastula stained for tubulin (gray), phalloidin (blue) and histone (magenta). 🔬
#ModelMonday #DevBio
📸: Clemens Cabernard
Very happy to announce that I will be continuing my #snake research as an Assistant Professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania Fall 2026! This is the start of the SERPNT Lab! 🐍 Thank you to the huge number of individuals that have made this possible!
The Pacific spiny lumpsucker, an inefficient swimmer but a highly efficient suction cup. The pelvic fins have evolved into a strong suction disk on the belly, giving it the ability to anchor itself to substrates. Plate-like structures called "tubercles" provide defense against predators.
Society for Developmental Biology
If you are around Chicago on June 16th, come have a beer and learn about the evolution and development of sexual diversity.
recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
New paper! Evolution of barriers to gene flow in rattlesnake speciation. Congrats to Keaka, Drew, and a big list of awesome collaborators!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity?
I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University).
I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat!
Link below
Don't miss the May issue of Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/issue...
On the cover:
"Embryology reveals a morphological signature of ancestral diurnality maintained in a nocturnal lineage" by Aaron H Griffing et al.
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
Justin M. Bernstein
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
Evolution, the official journal of the Society for the Study of EvolutionÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâ, publishes articles in all areas of evolutionary biology focused on broadening...
Ever wondered what impact climate may have had on dinosaur body size? Us too! 🧵
Check out our new paper that tries to answer just that—out today in Palaeontology! @thepalass.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Neil Gilbert
Thom Sanger
Evolution
Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎
this review topic is so metal. and also very @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🤘
one thing i didn't appreciate is that one advantage of "ballistic tongues" is that they operate over a broader temperature range than muscle shortening action.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Body size evolution is commonly associated with climate change. For example, birds and mammals have been found to decrease in size with anthropogenic global warming. Recent studies have inferred dist...
Zeng and Deban provide an overview of ballistic tongues in three vertebrates, highlighting
similarities and differences in launch and retraction mechanisms, ecological advantages,
evolutionary history...
