Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

My latest paper, Cryptic female choice can maintain reproductive isolation, with @servedio.bsky.social and Suzanne Alonzo is now out in the October issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social ! (1/3)
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

For bounded, the devil’s hole pupfish #SciArtSeptember

Had a great time writing this quick guide on male alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) with Suzanne Alonzo! Was a fun challenge to try and summarize everything that is so fascinating about male ARTs in ~1000 words.

Male-killing! feminization! parthenogenesis induction! cytoplasmic incompatibility! etc.Wolbachia & its friends do all sorts of reproductive manipulations. F Brenninger,
@romanzug.bsky.social
& I ploughed through existing equations for their spread...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70024

Congratulations to this year's Hamilton Award finalists! 🎉 Join us Thursday, May 29 to hear these outstanding student talks. See the full schedule on the meeting website: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program-over... @evolmtg.bsky.social

Check my article contribution for @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social about the Chichancanab pupfish radiation! 🐟😍

Excited to share the preprint of my last PhD chapter, "Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice." We find that warm temperatures relevant to climate change reduce female influence on sperm velocity and expected paternity of preferred, dominant males in the ocellated wrasse.

I'm hiring a postdoc! Searching for a candidate interested in the process of speciation to come join me at Georgia Tech in Atlanta -- an exciting place with a growing core of eco-evolutionary researchers. Various skill sets will be applicable. Please share!

My first ever preprint!
@tylercarrier.bsky.social
and I hypothesized that reproductive manipulating microbes could shape the evolution of marine invertebrate developmental life-history. Using models, we provide insight into the conditions on when it is possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint on how microbial manipulators—the aquatic relatives of Wolbachia—can serve as a mechanism to induce marine invertebrates to undergo transitions in developmental life-history.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new chapter of the CSH perspectives in biology special volume on #Speciation is out!

"Genetics and the Evolution of Prezygotic Isolation"

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I am an evolutionary ecologist that uses marine invertebrates—especially sea urchins and their echinoderm relatives—to study how microbial symbioses are essential to reproduction and development.

I'm finally getting around to doing my intro post. I'm a postdoc interested in the molecular interactions between the ejaculate and the female postmating, and their potential to contribute to reproductive isolation and speciation. 🧪👩‍🔬#HiSciSky #AcademicSky