Check out this new paper on the inter-species admixture 🧬 within an extinct and yummy-sounding avian species 🦜 - the honeycreeper! 🍯
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0265
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #museumscience #avian #honeycreeper
Population structure and inter-species admixture within a likely extinct yet formerly widespread Hawaiian honeycreeper

Abstract. The Hawaiian honeycreepers simultaneously represent one of the most spectacular avian adaptive radiations and are one of the most endangered avia

The Royal Society
Today in #MuseumScience:
-Bearded vultures (x2)
-ostriches (x2)
-white-eyes
-[redacted]
-some very positive news
-strawberries

Just migrated from another Mastodon server, so professional re-#introduction time. Personal one up next.
➡️ Fields: #paleontology #MuseumScience
➡️ Job: #paleontology and #zooarchaeology collections manager at #IndianaUniversity
➡️ Research: #alligators #Lystrosaurus
➡️ Image: #paleoart parody of #Twitter death as a skeletal silhouette

#paleontologist #palaeontology #TwitterMigration #MuseumScientist
#science #scientist #museum #museums #alligator #NaturalHistory #zoology

Hello, Fediverse.
Poking my head in as part of the #TwitterMigration. Here's my professional #introduction. Personal one up next.
➡️ Fields: #paleontology #MuseumScience
➡️ Job: #paleontology and #zooarchaeology collections manager at #IndianaUniversity
➡️ Research: #alligators #Lystrosaurus
➡️ See image alt-text for Twitter #paleoart joke

➡️ More hashtags: #paleontologist #palaeontology #TwitterMigration #MuseumScientist
#science #scientist #museum #museums #alligator #NaturalHistory #zoology