Jhan C. Salazar, PhD

Complex range expansion and selective regime in the introduced Florida cane toad - Heredity Heredity - Complex range expansion and selective regime in the introduced Florida cane toad

New paper led by my former student Cinnamon Mittan... find out what those cane toads have been doing once they got established down there in Florida... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Special Issue: #GenomeArchitecture and #Evolution, organised by @eseb.bsky.social STN "STRiVE":

Find out more here: tinyurl.com/2uza525c

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Molecular Biology and Evolution | February 2026

The February cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Ward et al. on the evolution of SERPINA snake venom inhibitors in rodents.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf290

🖌️ Rajani Arora

#evobio #molbio

Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R Dates 15-19 June 2026

Interested in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods?

Registrations are now open for our next edition of the course with Alex Dornburg & Amandine Gillet in June!

If interested: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#Rstats #Phylogenomics #ComparativeMethods

New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We'll be collecting images and stories from our members soon so that we can showcase any ongoing or past anole conservation efforts going on worldwide!

@jhancsalazar.bsky.social and I just created the official Instagram account for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Anoline Lizard Specialist Group! If you're on Instagram, please give it a follow!

Username: iucn_anolis

www.instagram.com/iucn_anolis?...

Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website:

palass.org/phd-opportun...

⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

(If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )

Introduction to Macroevolutionary Analyses Using Phylogenies

📅 January 26th–February 4th, 2026
💻 Online

http://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/introduction-macroevolutionary-analyses-using-phylogenies/

#TScourses #KeepLearning #Evolution #Phylogenetics  📈

Whole-Genome Duplication Reshapes Adaptation: Autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa Leverages its High Genetic Variation to Compensate for Selection Constraints Abstract. Whole-genome duplication (WGD), a widespread macromutation across eukaryotes, is predicted to affect the tempo and modes of evolutionary processe

@soniacelestini.bsky.social @lipanovaveronika.bsky.social J. Vlček & F. Kolář combined soil data with genomes of 76 populations of diploid–autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa to test adaptation to distinct soil types between ploidies.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf298

#evobio #molbio

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al:

"Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited"

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

Some screenshots from this year's Phylomania - great to see familiar faces and names, even through a virtual screen :)

Also, my talk can be accessed here: sites.google.com/view/albert-...
(preprint is hopefully out soon) #evobio

Andean Herpetofauna This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Andean herpetofauna, combining qualitative and quantitative information and insights.

Overall, lizards and snakes have repeatedly adapted to colder environments as they colonized high elevations. (3/3).

Our chapter: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Full book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

We found that high-elevation species evolved faster in cold-tolerance traits, while heat-tolerance remained largely conserved. We also found repeated shifts between lowlands and mountains, with movements back to lowlands occurring even more often. (2/3)

I'm happy to share that, together with @juvelas.bsky.social and Daniel Vásquez-Restrepo to examine how Andean uplift influenced the evolution of South American squamates as part of the book Andean Herpetofauna: Explorations of Diversity, Ecology and Conservation by @springernature.com (1/3)

Climate and parasite pressure jointly shape traits mediating the coevolution between an ant social parasite and its host Abstract. Host–parasite relationships are often shaped by coevolutionary arms races. While abiotic influences on these dynamics are well documented, a comb

#Climate and parasite pressure jointly shape traits mediating the #coevolution between an #ant social parasite and its #host:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Erwann et al. 2025

Feline: Photographs Amazon.com: Feline: Photographs: 9781419773648: Flach, Tim, Losos, Jonathan: Books

Feline 40% off!!! www.amazon.com/Feline-Photo...

We explore how machine learning frameworks can be applied to address biological questions across diverse fields. We outline the foundations and recent applications of machine learning approaches and discuss their advantages and limitations in biological research.

Machine learning in biological research: key algorithms, applications, and future directions - BMC Biology Machine learning is a robust framework to analyze questions using complex data in a variety of fields. We present definitions and recent applications of four key machine learning methods and discuss t...

Happy to share the final product of an internship I did during my PhD in the DD lab with Dr @cromanpa.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1186/s129...

brightfield images of three lizard embryos of approximately the same developmental stage. Below each embryo image is an immunofluorescence image labeling E-cadherin (green) and alpha-smooth muscle actin (magenta) of their developing lungs

New paper out in @devdynamics.bsky.social on lizard lung development!

Project co-led w/ Kaleb Hill and also w/ @tonygamble.bsky.social @shylonatasha.bsky.social @aussiebiologist.bsky.social @bezbez.bsky.social @celestemnelson.bsky.social

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Immunofluorescence of mouse, anole, and chicken lungs showing epithelium in green and smooth muscle actin in magenta

New preprint from my postdoc work! Using fluorescent imaging, scRNA-seq, and ATAC-seq of mouse, anole, and chicken embryos, we provide evidence that birds have co-opted vascular smooth muscle to generate the pulmonary smooth muscle in their lungs. More on this later!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sea #otters have undergone distinctive evolutionary changes in the offspring size–number trade-off within the #Mustelidae. The changes involve larger and fewer offspring and more investment in offspring size than expected:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Harano and Kutsukake 2025

Parental age effects on offspring fitness in a wild population of a short-lived reptile Abstract. As organisms age, the fitness of the offspring they produce can decline, which is often attributed to parental senescence. However, few studies h

By combining mark-recapture and genetic parentage data from wild #lizards, we show that the offspring of older parents do not have lower survival or reproductive success than the offspring of younger parents:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Crain et al. 2025

Phylogenetic comparative methods for studying adaptation: the adaptation-inertia framework Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods are a major tool for evaluating macroevolutionary hypotheses. Methods based on the mean-reverting stochastic Orn

How to use and interpret the #adaptationinertia framework of #phylogenetic comparative methods based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to study adaptation:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Pienaar et al. 2025

The genetical evolution of social preferences: where the categorical imperatives of Hamilton, Kant, and Nash meet Abstract. This paper models the genetical evolution of individual behaviour rules that guide the choice of strategies in pairwise assortative interactions

The genetical evolution of social preferences: where the categorical imperatives of Hamilton, Kant, and Nash meet:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Convergent evolution of a conserved molecular network underlies parenting and sociality - Nature Reviews Genetics Kay et al. review evidence that parental care, and more complex social behaviour based on parental care, evolved in multiple species through the repeated co-option of members of a pleiotropic molecula...

Parental care, and more complex cooperative systems of care, have independently evolved in hundreds of animal lineages. In an article published today, we explore how these behaviors evolve 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭l shorturl.at/g5OPw /1

Gannet entangled in a fishing line. Photo: Beneharo Rodríguez More info at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.07.003

Are you looking for a #postdoc? with #seabirds or #raptors? at the @mncn-csic.bsky.social & @csic.es? Please send me an email and consider applying for a #JldC fellowship
#ornithology
Requirements: completed PhD within the last 2 years & competitive CV.
www.infosubvenciones.es/bdnstrans/GE...

How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.

A feature in Nature examines what journals are doing to confirm that the authors of a research paper are legitimate, and the downsides of more intense identity checks. #Academicsky 🧪

Spoil Islands in Florida: an Opportunity for Anole Experiments in the Wild Invasive species are a growing problem across our increasingly globalized planet. They are often adept at establishing stable population sizes very quickly, which allows them to outcompete native s…

Spoil Islands in Florida: an Opportunity for Anole Experiments in the Wild www.anoleannals.org/2025/10/30/s...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!

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