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seananderson.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Georgia Tech. Computational biology 🤝 field biology. Evolutionary ecology 🤝 evolutionary genetics. Thinking about how one species splits into two. https://seanasanderson.github.io/
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Sam Neill is a guy who can convincingly act with a great sense of arrogance and pretension and cruelty and in real life is the world’s chillest nicest guy who spends every day drinking wine with his pigs

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Anecdote from an English lake country farmer

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Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

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I'm reviewing applicants later this week and will continue to accept new applications until the position is filled

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you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer but you would be wrong new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Wonderful cover, and amazing research by Zhang et al. - they used classic Chinese poetry that mentions the Yangtze finless porpoise (724 poems in total!) to estimate the range contraction of the species over the last 1400 years. Such a creative approach to generate truly novel data!

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More good news this month! 🎉 I'm excited to share my PhD colleague Filip Thörn's fantastic study on hybridisation in lek-mating Birds-of-Paradise, which I had the privilege to be part of. 🐦 doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #museomics #genomics #hybridisation

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“Does mommy disappear forever when she leaves the room?” our tech columnist asks.

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Movie night 🍿

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A lot of blood sweat and tears put into this one: we revisit Robert MacArthur's classic warbler study—with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and colleagues—using, among other techniques, fecal metabarcoding. 🧪🦉 📸 Ronnie d'Entremont royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @psubiodept.bsky.social

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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!

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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!

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Excited to see my third thesis chapter published! We used #museomics to investigate hybridisation in New Guinean honeyeaters 🐦 and found that two lineages likely fused back into one after initial divergence. 🔎🧬 Huge thanks to all collaborators who made this possible! doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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A text box from our Ecology Letters paper on character displacement as a process or pattern Spoiler: it's explicitly defined as both in the literature, so all we can do is be clear about the particular definition we're using

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New paper out in Ecology Letters (open access): I and Daniel Matute consider 'species sorting' -- a bias in the outcome of secondary contact following the allopatric stage of speciation -- as a reason for the much-observed pattern of elevated trait differences in sympatric close relatives

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With @hybridzones.bsky.social & @jenncoughlan.bsky.social, we have been working on an update to Daven Presgraves' influential 2010 review on hybrid incompatibilities (shorturl.at/cJndf). The preprint is available here (shorturl.at/DTC48) with an updated table of almost 100 incompatibilities!

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One week left for applications! (just a simple questionnaire).

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For the first time in over 100 years we have an up-to-date checklist of Canadian Diptera. Really proud to have been a part of this effort!

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Cool to see my colleagues @jameststroud.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social take a deep dive on long-term experiments and their importance to our understanding of evolution in this week’s Nature! Well worth a read

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This paper was a long time coming! Exploring the interaction between two convergent lizards who evolved separately on different Caribbean islands and were introduced to south Florida. Read all about how character displacement could play out in real time in the wild! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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species are on the move in many places due to climate change we wrote a paper arguing that we need to focus more on the *types* of movements we are seeing, as true range shifts have really different consequences from say range expansions led by Jed Brodie; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Our special feature/passion project at AmNat, "Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology", co-organized with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social is out now 🤩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/2025/...

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As a regular listener of Big Biology, I was very happily surprised tonight to hear our AmNat paper get a shout-out in the intro of this great interview with Trevor Price (whose work has profoundly affected my thinking). Have a listen!

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