Anshuman Swain
@anshumans.bsky.social
Loves networks, ecology & fossils || Asst. Prof. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Asst. Curator of Paleontology at University of Michigan || Else can be found cooking or reading || Alum: IISc-UMD-Harvard|| Odia 🇮🇳
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🚨Research alert! Two new studies, led by Museum scientists, suggest that biofluorescence in fish dates back ~112 million years & has evolved independently 100+ times, with the majority of that activity happening among species that live on coral reefs. Learn more ⬇️ amnh.link/4nlyBrk
Studies Reveal Fish Biofluorescence Dates Back 112 Million Years | AMNH
Fish biofluorescence evolved more than 100 times, has ties to coral reefs, and involves more colors than previously thought.
amnh.link
June 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨Research alert! Two new studies, led by Museum scientists, suggest that biofluorescence in fish dates back ~112 million years & has evolved independently 100+ times, with the majority of that activity happening among species that live on coral reefs. Learn more ⬇️ amnh.link/4nlyBrk
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It's been a pretty strange week.
I was interviewed a bit ago for an article about Foraminifera and a recent spate of papers.
Sadly, but predictably, @chrislowery.bsky.social got the best quote in.
@seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
I was interviewed a bit ago for an article about Foraminifera and a recent spate of papers.
Sadly, but predictably, @chrislowery.bsky.social got the best quote in.
@seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
knowablemagazine.org
May 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It's been a pretty strange week.
I was interviewed a bit ago for an article about Foraminifera and a recent spate of papers.
Sadly, but predictably, @chrislowery.bsky.social got the best quote in.
@seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
I was interviewed a bit ago for an article about Foraminifera and a recent spate of papers.
Sadly, but predictably, @chrislowery.bsky.social got the best quote in.
@seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
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Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I don’t think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Regional restructuring in planktic foraminifera communities through Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate variability
Nature Communications - The Pliocene–early Pleistocene interval was characterized by climatic fluctuations. Here, the authors apply a bipartite network analysis to a database of planktic...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I don’t think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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April 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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New online! Temporal dynamics and global flows of insect invasions in an era of globalization
Temporal dynamics and global flows of insect invasions in an era of globalization
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 03 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00016-1Global insect invasions are increasing, driven by advances in globalization and technology. This Review discusses the effects of increasing trade and transport…
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February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
New online! Temporal dynamics and global flows of insect invasions in an era of globalization
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When an international group of empiricists and theorists go to sea, good things happen...
New manuscript showing how recurring zones of elevated oxygen that harbor dense populations of phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria are connected to viral activity - a 🧵.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New manuscript showing how recurring zones of elevated oxygen that harbor dense populations of phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria are connected to viral activity - a 🧵.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
When an international group of empiricists and theorists go to sea, good things happen...
New manuscript showing how recurring zones of elevated oxygen that harbor dense populations of phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria are connected to viral activity - a 🧵.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New manuscript showing how recurring zones of elevated oxygen that harbor dense populations of phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria are connected to viral activity - a 🧵.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lots of good ecologists here!
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January 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Lots of good ecologists here!
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Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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January 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New Contribution from recent UMMP PhDs James, Ethan, and Rodrigo! New Mississippian vertebrates from the Blue Ridge Esker near Jackson, Michigan. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social @james-v-andrews.bsky.social
Interested in Carboniferous vertebrates from the North American continent? Check out our new publication in the Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan series. dx.doi.org/10.7302/25119
January 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
New Contribution from recent UMMP PhDs James, Ethan, and Rodrigo! New Mississippian vertebrates from the Blue Ridge Esker near Jackson, Michigan. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social @james-v-andrews.bsky.social
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In transit to #SICB2025 on #FossilFriday, but here are snapshots of three famous European marine Lagerstätten from a New Year's Day visit to USNM: Holzmaden (Early Jurassic), Solnhofen (Late Jurassic), Bolca (Eocene).
January 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In transit to #SICB2025 on #FossilFriday, but here are snapshots of three famous European marine Lagerstätten from a New Year's Day visit to USNM: Holzmaden (Early Jurassic), Solnhofen (Late Jurassic), Bolca (Eocene).
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I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.
Klausmeier-Litchman Lab
Welcome to the Klausmeier-Litchman lab! We study empirical and theoretical community ecology, biodiversity and climate change, focusing on phytoplankton, other microbes and general theory. We use obse...
www.kl-lab.group
November 26, 2024 at 6:48 PM
I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.
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Amazing fossil alert.
Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach…
🧪 #evolution #paleontology
Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach…
🧪 #evolution #paleontology
November 26, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Amazing fossil alert.
Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach…
🧪 #evolution #paleontology
Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach…
🧪 #evolution #paleontology
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Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday
Paleontologists named the insect "Attenborough's Beauty," after Sir David Attenborough.
www.livescience.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪
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Some cool insect fossils we've got at @ummnh.bsky.social for #FossilFriday
November 23, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Some cool insect fossils we've got at @ummnh.bsky.social for #FossilFriday
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Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w
November 20, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w