I am glad to share our recent Bioinformatic tool. GALEON: A Comprehensive Bioinformatic Tool to Analyse and Visualise Gene Clusters in Complete Genomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Today at MO Botanical Garden a red-shouldered hawk shares meal—perhaps a lizard—with the female, suggesting the presence of a nearby nest. The background cry illustrates the challenge of birdwatching with babies 😬

Look who is doing a great job and who is neglecting it.

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When songs fail to deter the intruder, songbirds turn into ‘fightbirds’ 🥊🥊

Turdus migratorius at Tower Grove Park (St Louis, USA)

Fresh off the press in evoecology: Frog dads 🐸 establish their territories around high-quality reproductive resources 🪴! With James Tumulty and Johana Goyes Vallejos we find that male poison frogs defend territories around #phytotelmata with predictable qualities! (1/n)

I recently did a class on the costs and benefits of gregariousness in animals. I wish I had come across this stunning video back then, it perfectly illustrates the antipredatory advantages of moving in compact and highly synchronized groups!

Thanks to Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales for inviting me to talk about crows, intelligence and global expansions. Returning to one of the country's most longstanding research institutions is always a delightful experience.

Check out our latest paper, in which we explore how Bergmann's (body size variation) and Allen's rules (beak size variation) interact synergically in birds along temperature gradients. Washington University in St. Louis, UT Austin, Complutense, Universitat de Barcelona, IRBioUB.
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Great time in the field, brainstorming on the evolution and ecology of magpies with ⁦Mercedes Molina-Morales⁩ and Juanga Martínez. Time to return to Madrid with good prospects for really cool future collaborations. So long Granada!

La Seine est vivante! A cormorant catching an eel in the heart of #Paris , a few meters away from Tour Eiffel. Life finds always a way 😉

Great visit to the Natural History Museum brainstorming about venom evolution with Ronald Jenner. I go home with Ronald’s latest book, “Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology”, a very refreshing view of how linear thinking is compatible with a branching phylogenetic tree. Cool stuff!

Back to the Cathedral of Evolution.

An empty bootle of wine signals the end of a good brainstorming on genomics and bioinformatics 😉🧬🍷

Saint using smartphone. Toledo, 13th century. ⁦weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !!⁩

Despite of living in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, the roman inhabitants of Toletum missed a lot the sea and its creatures. Toledo, 3rd Century.

Just logging on to Twitter to share this cool #Rstats #phytools cophylo plot by Jonathan Huie et al. comparing a phylogenetic tree to a clustering dendogram based on morphology. Nice!

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Need an up-to-date #TreeofLife for teaching/conferences/wall paper? Talented PhD student Bacille Diderm Beaud drew a schematic consensus ToL from the most recently published phylogenies. Hope this is useful! Downloadable version in the thread👇

I’m sure new species will come out soon! #WomenInScience