April Wright

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Do you love evolutionary biology AND art? Good news - we're having a logo contest!

I'm seeking grad students this round of admissions: see more at https://brianomeara.info/opportunities.html#grad-students .

Like other good ecology and evolutionary biology programs, students making adequate progress are fully funded (through TA lines), we practice holistic admissions, and students are in a community.

Some of the topics folks in my lab have worked on:

#Phylogenetics
#Evolution
#Conservation
#Systematics
#TraitEvolution
#Diversification
#Dating
#Fish, #Birds, #Insects, #Plants, and more

Brian O’Meara - Opportunities

Photo of the Day: Magical mini mushroom spotted in Taipei

Fantastic fungus emerged after three months of watering

Taiwan News
Office froggo!

The new NSF ecological synthesis center, ESIIL, is now accepting proposals for working groups and applications for post-doctoral positions!

- https://esiil.org/working-groups
- https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=50469

🌏 🏔️ 🌲 🛰️

Working Groups | ESIIL

Now accepting applications for working groups!

Cancer can afflict most multicellular life, and clams are no exception. Bivalves are in a more rarified club in being vulnerable to *contagious* forms of cancer. Soft-shell clams, warty venus clams, mussels and others can be infected by a leukemia-like disease which spreads through the water, and even between species. Research in this field is proceeding quickly, and it could be that this is common across bivalve species! #clamFacts https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/664e1cb7/how-a-contagious-cancer-spread-among-clams
How a contagious cancer spread among clams

Researchers have confirmed that contagious blood cancers can spread between different species of clams, raising concerns about the potential ecological threat posed by these diseases.

eLife
Tidbits:

@oschwery is available for seminars, workshops, and HINT HINT job talks. I'm biased (I was his PhD advisor) but *I* would take him up on this....

#Evol2023

Good Morning #Evol2023 Interested how to improve inferences of trait dependent #diversification (BiSSE et al.)? Come see my talk on "Causality in SSE Models" in the Symposium "Paving the way to the Phenome" in the Kiva Auditorium from 10:15-10:44 today!

#evolution2023 #RevBayes #macroevolution