Evolution of manakin plumage maturation now out early look @sse-evolution.bsky.social

(Phylo-)Devo-evo, plumage, and social signaling

Bonkers system that reshaped how I think about both development and evolution.

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

I'm officially coining the term "cell type natural history" where the goal is to describe what cell types are out there, what they're up to, and how did they evolve

Come see me talk about feather coloration tomorrow at 11:30 at #SICB2026 Plus, you might learn the punchline to this joke!

It’s happening!!

#SICB2026 Tomorrow, from 8AM to 3:30PM come to C120/121/122 for ✨Sex Across Origins: Questioning animal-centric assumptions and developing integrative frameworks.✨

Also! 3 fantastic complimentary sessions Tuesday in B113, with a special focus on education in the morning.

If you're bored and use iNaturalist, here's a link to a tool that displays which of your observations were the first recorded for a taxon. I apparently have 16 (out of 3,395). I need to get out more. 🌿 #inaturalist #nature #insects #spiders glauberramos.github.io/inat/first-o...

I posed recently about my recent obsession with Hooke's Micrographia (1665) and the incredible feather drawings it has. I really wanted to see an original copy and luckily, Yale has two! So, earlier this week, I headed down to the Beinecke Library with @mylestogo.bsky.social to check it out

I bumped into a very cool reference today! Micrographia by Robert Hooke was published in 1665 and is basically a bunch of descriptions of things seen while looking through a microscope

One of my favorite parts of writing is remembering that the perfect citation exists and even remembering what one of the figures looks like but not remembering any of the key words that make finding the paper possible

My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!

🪶 Feathers are complex, each one an elegant structure crafted through millions of years of evolution. As habitats shrink and climates continue to warm, understanding the why and how of colorful bird feathers could help us better protect them into the future: go.nhm.org/feathers-work

Presenting tomorrow at #Evol2025, swing by to hear about feathers, cell types, and a little teaser about pigmentation patterns!

I hope to take a PhD student in the coming application cycle. Please reach out if you are interested in joining our lab in EEB at Yale, especially if interested in working on the natural history/ phylogenetics/ morphology/ population biology/ development/ genomics of siphonophores. dunnlab.org