Reading Reviewer 2's comments

What a week for our SHARKSense project - wrapped up our first field work in Costa Rica and Friday I'll share some colorful insights on sharks at UCR. Pura vida 🦈 @biovitenskap.bsky.social

5/ This study emphasizes the complexity of color evolution, driven by multiple ecological and evolutionary pressures across species. Leveraging our database and understanding these dynamics can help predict how species may respond to future climate shifts

4/ But it gets more interesting: we found that color brightness evolution rates are shaped not only by current environments, but also likely by major climate shifts

3/ Squamates in open habitats tend to be brighter, suggesting that thermoregulation has an important role in shaping color brightness variation

2/ Our research shows that the influence of habitat openness is stronger than other factors like body size or other eco-environmental variables

🧵 1/ New study on squamate color evolution hits the press: we show that brightness variation in lizards & snakes is strongly linked to habitat openness 🌞 This reveals how ecological pressures drive color evolution in one of the most diverse groups of tetrapods www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi Bluesky! Excited to share a new project I’ve just kicked off: SHARKSense 🦈. We’re exploring how heavy metals impact melanin deposition and evolution in sharks. Can the darkness of shark integument indicate pollution? 🤔 This is just the beginning - stay tuned for shark color tales from the field 🌊