Feeling really proud of my Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Selena Weathers and Brynne Alcorta-Ordonez! They are learning AI software to generate and clean animal pose movement tracks, R, reviewing papers, and making presentations.

Came back from a lunch break to find my dog doing a peer review for me.

Scientific breakthroughs we might not have had without NSF funding:

The Internet
Smartphones
DNA analysis
MRIs
Doppler radar
Bar codes

And this is just the tiniest tip of the iceburg.

We are having a blast out here in the Florida Keys helping sample sharks with folks from the Hart lab at Macquarie and the Kajiura lab at FAU for a project on shark sensory systems. Being on the water is great, but I'm also loving swapping shark stories over key lime pie at the end of the day.

Due to flight delays we are running on like 3 hours of sleep but we are officially en route to #SICB2025. Can't wait to see my bio buddies. The pups will be at a hotel a mere 2 minute walk from the conference hotel and are happy to provide pre or post presentation therapy.

Can't wait to see you at #SICB2025 my talk is on Saturday at 2:15 in the Evolution and Diversification session.

Just to give everyone a reminder: you should never have to get a loan for a graduate program in ecology, evolution, & organismal biology.

#🧪

A school of fish people! go.bsky.app/LXwgsEZ

Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Incredibly proud (& a bit late) that our paper, led by Mike Burns, is OUT NOW & OA!

We find a trade-off structures the primary axis of div. in reef fish feeding anatomy, & weak integration in the complex system allows div. away from that axis

w/ @diverdarien.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Brand new open access paper alert! "Complexity and weak integration promote the diversity of reef fish oral jaws" led by Dr. Mike Burns and Dr. Dylan Wainwright is out now in Communications Biology.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I am OVER THE MOON that our paper is out at Am Nat today!

We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations.

It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work!

doi.org/10.1086/731477

Join us for our workshop on making your field work more ethical and inclusive! In person for uc davis students, postdocs, faculty/staff. Zoom Option open to all. Register at forms.gle/59fujxzq7j23...

Me finally resting after solving a bug in my code.

I really have to proof read my emails because sometimes my Texas tries to come out haha. I'm gonna have to watch that.

*Movie Preview Voice* In a world where nothing is what it seems *Splash! Splash*

Body Shape and Mode of Locomotion DO NOT constrain routine swimming in Coral Reef Fish

Staring all your favorite reef fish families, now out in Functional Ecology

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...