Using my Spring Break to play arachnologist & collect some Habronattus jumping spiders 🕷️ from Hidalgo. Maybe @waynemaddison.bsky.social will take a gander.

🔍 Curious about what’s new in our scientific training catalogue?
Every month our course list changes—new courses, new teachers, new collaborations. From palaeontology to programming, from ecology to statistics, we cover 12 different thematic areas.

Ha! Spoke too soon 😣 The TICR Perl scripts for #SNaQ and #PhyloNetworks broke down with my own data, so I had to modified them for the new ARM64 architecture. Make sure to install an appropriate Perl version and use Rosetta2. Also, deleting the server portion and saving MB log files don’t hurt 🙃💻

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in Fall 2025. Research topics will focus on building and using phylogenies to study the diversification of birds, with an emphasis on Neotropical bird radiations. Contact me if interested.

#PhyloNetworks #SNaQ tutorial ready for Systematics class at #UNAM! However, teaching Julia+a little Perl+a little Bash on top of our mid-level R background would be too much for one session… Should I just turn this into a week-long post summer-break workshop?

According to my institute and the department of parking and general services at UNAM, I’m a trans woman and an ichthyologist. So be it #lgbt #teamfish 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐠

That’s right! Hennig was pro-Coalescent even before Kingman published his theory ~30 yrs after.

It’s high time for me to get a copy of @prosanta.bsky.social’s book, highlighted at IBUNAM’s 2025 Science Book Fair. 🐠🐟🦈

Nothing like the arrival of new stickers to motivate students into completing a series of daunting #Bayesian phylogenetic challenges in R at #UNAM Obvs they’re holographic.

Congratulations to Claudia Solís-Lemus! The Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award recognizes one University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty member and one academic staff member for excellence in engaging the public with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) research.

That’s right! We got some new murals (phase 1) in the National Bird Collection at Instituto de Biología #UNAM. How neat is that? I’d say pretty neat

My dear friends and colleagues at Instituto de Biología #UNAM led by Santiago Ramirez Barahona and Angela Cuervo just published this super paper in @sci.org on #ClimateChange and tropical could forests of Mesoamérica www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Convergent floral scent loss following transition to hummingbird pollination in spiral gingers (Costus).
I had so much fun on this project with @kathleenmkay.bsky.social and Santiago Ramirez and am thrilled to see it published now in @MolBioEvol! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Who’s ready for some Bayesian Inference teaching? #phylogenetics #UNAM

Plant #evol/#phylo peeps, come join us at UNAM! tinyurl.com/27jwrzne

Male Black-crested Coquette from this morning at Tapir Valley, Costa Rica.

#birds #hummingbirds

About a month ago in our undergrad elective #SistematicaUNAM we taught the kids how to visualize alignments, calculate substitution model probabilities, and to visualize said models, all in #Rstats with ape, Phangorn and seqinr

Ready to crank up our #SistematicaUNAM undergrad class a lot with the latest in #phylogenetics

Gettin’ ready to do some science outreach. And nothing tops purdy hummingbirdos (we need a hummingbird emoji asap @apple)