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Gustavo A. Bravo
@thamnobravo.bsky.social
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Ornitólogo | biólogo evolutivo | Curador de Aves
Instituto Humboldt | Asociado a MCZ Harvard & @harvardoeb | IG: @thamnobravo | Opiniones personales
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albertonykus.bsky.social Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 4d
Efficient inference of large phylogenetic trees as applied to birds: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🧪🪶 (📷Zhao et al.)
Diagram showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among major bird groups. A grid to the right shows whether certain major groupings were supported by different analytical approaches.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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waynemaddison.bsky.social
The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…
subulatepalpomere.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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nurse.fish
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October 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
Song complexity in suboscine birds: evolutionary drivers and ecological constraints https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682597v1
October 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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thelabandfield.bsky.social
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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jdmanthey.bsky.social
Our paper on the temporal genomics of Ethiopian birds
has been highlighted (and gotten the cover) in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Article: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163
Highlight: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf175

w/ @bourgeoisyann.bsky.social, @lcampillo.bsky.social, and others not on bsky
Genome Biology and Evolution October 2025 cover image with a photo of an Ethiopian White-eye.
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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mmlopezu.bsky.social
🌼 New paper showing that it's not just pollinators shaping flowers—abiotic factors like humidity and temperature also influence floral form and function. Check out this new paper on a more complex picture of floral evolution. 🌬️🐝
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Photo by Nash Turley
October 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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jrossibarra.bsky.social
Your regular reminder that plant genomes are messy. Good luck getting your shortbread data to recapitulate this:
October 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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3rdreviewer.bsky.social
The most important paper in evolutionary biology I'd never heard of:

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
thamnobravo.bsky.social
What if NIH had been 40% smaller? | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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genomebiolevol.bsky.social
In a new Review article in GBE, @scientific-arlie.bsky.social et al delve into the growing field of phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping (PhyloG2P), discussing advances and future directions for using phylogenomic data to map traits to genomes

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf150

#genome #evolution
GBE | From Trees to Traits: A Review of Advances in PhyloG2P Methods and Future Directions
September 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️

1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
A black vulture sits on a sign that says "black vulture notice."
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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vicensvc.bsky.social
Big news for everyone who makes use of museum collections, VertNet is back online!

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September 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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baym.lol
What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years?

Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Genomic resistance in historical clinical isolates increased in frequency and mobility after the age of antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance is frequently observed shortly after the clinical introduction of an antibiotic. Whether and how frequently that resistance occurred before the introduction is harder to determin...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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evolutionvu.bsky.social
Museums aren’t just collections — they’re classrooms. 🦋🏛️
@corriemoreau.bsky.social's #Scopes100 talk shows how exhibits make #evolution accessible & engaging.
https://loom.ly/vFnwcRo

@ncse.bsky.social
Promotional graphic for Corrie Moreau’s Scopes Symposium lecture titled Teaching Evolution through Museum Exhibits. On the left, Moreau is shown speaking at a podium, wearing glasses and a patterned jacket, gesturing with her hands. On the right, text reads “Corrie Moreau – Teaching Evolution through Museum Exhibits.” Logos for Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies and the National Center for Science Education appear at the bottom, along with a small photo of framed butterfly specimens in a museum display.
August 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
thamnobravo.bsky.social
india.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...
Old maps and dead birds reveal the story of grassland and bird decline in the Nilgiris
Since the mid-1800s, the Nilgiris have lost 80% of their grasslands, a new study finds by comparing a colonial-era map with satellite images.
india.mongabay.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
How sex shapes transcriptome evolution in the songbird brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671601v1
August 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
Determinants of mutation load in birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.18.670172v1
August 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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danielbolnick.bsky.social
When populations evolve different strategies to defend against a recently acquired parasite (e.g., tolerance, resistance), what sets of gene expression responses are conserved, or diverge? Using a vaccination experiment with #stickleback @laurenfuess.bsky.social reports some fun results...
August 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
History of divergence and gene flow shaping geographic variation in Andean warblers (Myioborus) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.667688v1
August 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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evobioclio.bsky.social
Our latest preprint explores the evolution of the primate amylase locus, uncovering structural innovations, regulatory shifts and molecular convergence.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Convergent evolution through independent rearrangements in the primate amylase locus
Structurally complex regions of the genome are increasingly recognized as engines of evolutionary convergence due to their propensity to generate recurrent gene duplications that give rise to similar ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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jrossibarra.bsky.social
Music to my ears. This is brilliant. Either 90% of us can claim to be better musicians than Beethoven or… maybe just maybe polygenic scores aren’t perfect?
profsimonfisher.bsky.social Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Aug 7
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
thamnobravo.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Prevalence and implications of sex reversal in free-living birds | Biology Letters
The ability to unequivocally identify the sex and reproductive status of individuals is crucial across many fields of study. Recent evidence indicates that avian sex determination is more flexible tha...
royalsocietypublishing.org
August 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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avesbrasil.bsky.social
🇧🇷Saudade
🌎Lipaugus ater
Conservação:Quase Ameaçada

A saudade é uma ave passeriforme da família Cotingidae, monotípica

📷 Cal Martins
Um pássaro preto com uma faixa amarela brilhante em suas asas está sentado em um galho de árvore. O pássaro está olhando para a direita e seu bico está aberto. O fundo é desfocado, mas parece ser um céu nublado. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.
August 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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sclaramunt.bsky.social
Happy to share our latest paper in which we use a new big phylogeny of birds to analyze the relationships between dispersal, geographic range size and diversification rates across all birds. See also post by
‪@sheardcat.bsky.social‬ and @josephtobias.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification
Flight may affect the dispersal and evolution of birds. Using a new evolutionary tree, Claramunt et al. find that efficient fliers have broader geographic ranges, and speciation reduces range size, bu...
www.cell.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM