Todd Oakley at UCSB studies the evolutionary origins of complexity - esp visual systems and bioluminescence in invertebrates. mastodon: @ostratodd@ecoevo.social
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Joined January 2011
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Excited to co-organize this @APSphysics MM session with @maziyarj & invited speakers @ShengqiangCai + @UCSB_OakleyLab ⚡️
… to explore how light shapes life and how life creates & uses light to sustain itself!
If this sounds like your research, submit your abstract & join us!
With @oritpeleg we are organising an @ApsDbio focus session “On Light & Life”
from energy capture and light production to bio-inspired metamaterial design and more.
Submission deadline is Oct 25
Please help us spread the word and join us in California next March :)
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New preprint with @UCSB_OakleyLab @niko_hensley @JeroDelr et al. on the molecular evolution of bioluminescence in brittle stars!
Functional characterization of luciferase in a brittle star indicates parallel evolution influenced by genomic availability of ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new preprint addressing these questions in collaboration with @RokasLab, @HittingerLab, and @mwpen (link at the end)
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"Instead of measuring the number of papers and the impact factor of the journals in which they are published, scientists should be judged on the basis of data sharing, transparency, reproducibility, collaboration, mentorship, and communication." 1/3
#NextGenSci asked: Describe one change to scientific policy or culture that would substantially decrease incidents of scientific misconduct or other unethical behavior.
Here's how you answered: scim.ag/7z0
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Very excited to share my first paper is out! 🎉 We explore the evolution of the multiple eye pairs in spiders🕷️(cell.com/current-biology/ful…)
Couldn’t have done it without to the mentorship of the brilliant @Lauren_hSR!
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A week late but hello science twitter! My name is Dario and this last week I graduated from UCSB with a BS in Biology. My interests lie in evolutionary and marine biology, with a focus in how toxin acquisition occurs in venomous animals… (pt 1)
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Thank you to organisers Eleanor Caves @EleanorCaves, Sonke Johnsen @sonkelab & Lorian Schweikert @LoriSchweikert and all who attended this week's Workshop 'Vision 2024: Building Bridges in Visual Ecology'.
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#BiologistsWorkshops
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On the multiscale dynamics of punctuated evolution: Trends in Ecology & Evolution cell.com/trends/ecology-evol…
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New perspective published in @PNASNews about fluorescence in tetrapods. Briefly: Fluorescence is probably usually not a visual signal, but that doesn't mean it isn't interesting!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
w/ @MichalNicola1 @abalosaurus Liliana D'Alba @mdshawkey & @JGoldenbergEvo
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Such an amazing community!
Thanks to all attendees, discussion leaders, and speakers for making the 2024 Visual System Development GRC a fantastic experience. I loved working with Valerie Wallace and @jnk_lab this year. Can't wait to organize the 2026 GRC with @jnk_lab @BobbyJEyeGuy and @BlockInTheBack!
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🚨New paper!!🚨
Ectotherms with high thermal tolerance are often less thermally plastic, potentially due to a fitness tradeoff
Just out in @FunEcology, we find that reproductive costs of thermal plasticity are greater in more thermally tolerant families
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I field a lot of questions about ancestral state reconstruction of discrete traits so I posted a new tutorial to my blog that contains a number of useful #Rstats #phytools demos. 😀
Check it out here: blog.phytools.org/2024/04/a-….
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Evolutionary biologists inducted into the National Academy of Sciences this evening in the beautiful NAS auditorium include Doug Emlen, Naomi Pierce, Katie Peichel, Susana Magallon, Jonathan Wendel, Anne Yoder, Bruce Tabashnik, Barbara Block, and Tyrone Hayes! #NAS161
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Check out our updated single cell atlas of Nematostella, by @AlisonCole: doi.org/10.1186/s12983-024-0…
It was completely remapped on the new chromosome scale genome and gene annotation (PMID: 38092765), but also contains new data and analyses. Great work, Alison!
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How does computation in the brain evolve? In a new review I argue that studying retinal circuits across species may just hold some key answers: shorturl.at/wFMT9
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🎉Ehab Abouheif named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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@ehab_abouheif @aaas #aaasfellows
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A fully funded PhD fellowship is available in my lab to work on the evolution of visual systems in mosquitos (sc-genomics + comparative genomics). The application deadline is Thursday, 23rd of May. For details and to apply, visit warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/… Please apply and RT.