Christopher R. Hemingson
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Christopher R. Hemingson
@chemingson.bsky.social
Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Scholar at UT Austin Marine Science Institute working under Simon Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social. Fascinated with fishes 🐠, coral reefs 🪸, and colors 🎨. Incoming faculty at TAMU Galveston 2026.
a few important updates:

1) Im happy to announce I'll be starting as an Assisstant Professor in Marine Biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston next March! So fortunate to have landed a position in these uncertain times, at my undergrad alma mater nonetheless
August 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Applications for the Stengl-Wyer Scholars program through the Univeristy of Texas are now open! This has been such a wonderful postdoc program with incredible support. Please reach out if you have any questions, more than happy to share my experience!
Applications for the 2026 Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program are open! The program provides up to 3 years of support for talented postdoctoral researchers in the broad area of the diversity of life and/or organisms in their natural environments. Learn more here: utexas.infoready4.com/CompetitionS...
August 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reposted by Christopher R. Hemingson
Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.
May 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just a couple days left to apply! Come join us in South Texas. We have a wonderful lab group and look forward gaining new expertise!
🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗

fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
February 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The CABRA lab Christmas cookie party was a great time! Keeping the tradition going of baking a single, crypto themed cookie each year 🐠 Merry Crypto-mas
Such a fun evening with the 2nd CABRA lab cookie competition 🍪and of course @chemingson.bsky.social won as the most decorative! Who wants to guess which fish species he’s representing? 🐠🤣
December 13, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Christopher R. Hemingson
We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2
December 11, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Excited to finally have this paper out after multiple years in the making.

"Analysing biological colour patterns from digital images: An introduction to the current toolbox"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Analysing biological colour patterns from digital images: An introduction to the current toolbox
Ecology & Evolution is a broad open access journal welcoming research in ecology, evolution, and conservation science, and providing a forum for evidence-based views.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM