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Lan-Nhi /ˈlanniː/ 🐦🇻🇳
@lannhiphung.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ U of Rochester | Ph.D. Penn State Biology | biogeography, genomics, evolution, sexual selection, bird songs | tweets mine, about birds or otherwise | int’l student advocate

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Super last minute as I’m on my flight to #AOS25 — I will be talking about my work on bowerbirds on Wednesday morning in Genomics 2. Looking forward to seeing everyone and sharing this incredible dataset 🐦‍⬛
Comparative genomics reveal positive selection underlying mating signal diversification across bowerbirds Lan-Nhi Phung, Gerald Borgia, J. Albert C. Uy University of Rochester, Rochester, NY University of Maryland, College Park, MD
August 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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As a comic relief I present to you the worst name ever for an R package
March 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I passed my defense! Officially a bird doctor 🧪🐦🎓
May 8, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Hi friends (or foe, idk how y’all feel about me)! I’m defending my dissertation in exactly three weeks!! There’s gonna be a whole lot of big talk about vocalization—check the word cloud for deeds.

DM me if you wanted a zoom link 🐦
May 6, 2024 @ 1PM EDT
A powerpoint title slide in blue and white, with a Penn State shield on top right. Text: May 6th, 2024 Dissertation Defense The Biogeography and Genomics of Vocalizations in North American Passerines Lan-Nhi Phung The Pennsylvania State University Department of Biology Advisor: David Toews, Ph.D. A word cloud. Some of the words are: significant learning phenotype comparative admixture townsendi speciation Leiothlypis samples individual cultural genome association geographic acoustic allopatric counterparts Pleistocene magnitude hybrid genomic important individuals variation calls spectrum vocalization frequency distance recordings
April 15, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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Does a tufted puffin work at @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...
Text: Tufted puffins are cool. Unlike their familiar brethren—Horned (Fratecula corniculata) and Atlantic (F. arctica) puffins, whose appearances convey comic charm and innocence—Tufted puffins exude stern confidence. With all-black body plumage, striking white robber’s mask, chunky orange bill, and streaming golden head-plumes, this is one member of the auk family whose appearance—like that of a bike in leather regalia—says, “Don’t mess with me!” Their status as seabird tough-guys is not unwarranted…
January 31, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Had a grand time at my first SICB 🥳 Thanks to the Broadening Participation Committee for the travel award that enabled me to attend. See everyone again next year!
January 8, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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I’m presenting at #SICB2024 on my most recent work on yellow-rumped warbler hybrids! Come to find out if which call the hybrids sing, and a surprise about potential genetic underpinnings of calls 🧪🎶🐤

Session: Speciation and species delineation
Time: 9:15AM
Room: 608
December 25, 2023 at 7:30 AM
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Isn’t this basically “how would a sea star wears jeans” 😭🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A scientific figure detailing color-coded highly conserved gene regions, and 4 different scenarios of how might a species of sea star organize & express these gene networks on their body plan.
November 13, 2023 at 4:57 PM
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Time for a (re)introduction: I’m an evolutionary biologist and I currently study the evolution of avian vocalization across space using bioacoustics & genomics.
More broadly, I’m curious about pop gen, sexual selection, and speciation🐦🎶🧬
Lan-Nhi getting a Common Yellowthroat out of a mist net. She is wearing a blue windbreaker and brown overalls. In the background is a tall grass meadow and another person standing close by. Lan-Nhi is sitting at a portable chair and desk, on the desk are blood-collecting tubes and equipment. Lan-Nhi is holding a bird in her hand to collect sample; she’s wearing a blue windbreaker and brown overalls. The background is a meadow scattering with pine trees, and the mountain and cloudy sky are far in the back. A photo of Dave holding a yellow and grey bird, with Lan-Nhi pointing a microphone at the bird as if to interview it. The background is a pine forest with some young pines on dusty soil towards the front. Lan-Nhi is an Asian woman, has blue hair and is wearing a navy corduroy jacket. Dave is a white man and he’s wearing a brown jacket and beanie. A selfie of Lan-Nhi holding a male Black-throated Green Warbler in photo hold. She is wearing a red sweatshirt, and the background is an open trunk of a car with many bird banding items visible.
August 21, 2023 at 5:02 AM