I was honoured to receive the academic excellence medal for the best thesis in biological sciences by the President of India @rashtrapatibhvn herself! Something I'll remember for a lifetime. @raxitdaves, @skinkomaniac, we did it! 🕸️🕷️ @niser_official
Also, GRADUATED!!!! 🎓
How do lizards talk? Using flashy colours and sexy moves, of course. But why have so many signals - especially when they're costly and attract predators? We explore the how and why in our latest paper:
https://t.co/Hcyvzl77Sd
#ColSci#Lizards@MacrophysLab@iiscbangalore
I am looking forward to taking at least one PhD student to join us in the BioGeoSys lab (https://t.co/w1svlBpAq3). The online portal for application opens from tomorrow till the 30th of April. (https://t.co/uXa9sargEh).
Interested candidates, please get in touch with me if you see yourself fitting into our lab group! Do speak to the current (@pranoy_kishore@A__Panda__@PraptiSatpathy)and former lab members (@avrajjal@madhura_agashe@maitreyasil@aparag49@orthopterizzt)
HEADS UP! Tomorrow @avrajjal will be defending his PhD thesis! If you are around at NISER, feel free to drop in at the SBS seminar room at 3PM for a dose of skink biogeography!
Avrajjal will be my first PhD student defending his thesis. Onwards and upwards! @niser_official@oorna_niser@SBSNISER
Date: 28-02-2025 (Friday)
Venue: SBS Seminar Room
Time: 3 PM
This summer , I am looking forward to taking at least one PhD candidate at https://t.co/w1svlBp2Av.
If you are interested in Macroevolution, phylo-genetics/genomics, biogeography, population genetics and reptiles (especially skinks) feel free to get in touch with me or any of my lab members directly. I would love to discuss ideas! Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]
#biogeography #indiansubcontinent #phylogenetics #phylogenomics #reptiles #skinks @herp_club@SquaMatesPod@herpetALLogy@HerpResearch@niser_official
My lab is keen on recruiting grad students for 2025 (fully funded positions! Living wage!) on topics related to plant phylogenomics, macroevolution, and adaptation to dry environments:
See: https://t.co/JdvzgO9Ryx Job Details: https://t.co/toXGnAozGc...
Symposium alert! Do join us at @Behaviour2025 If you are interested DM or mail us. You can also mention your interest while submitting your abstract for the conference. Please check the conference website for deadlines. Organizers @diptarupNandi@Torsay@raxitdaves
Dear @GermanyinMumbai@GermanyinIndia@GermanyDiplo, my Schengen visa application has been in German consulate Mumbai since past 30 days (15 days usual). Repeated calls and mails gone unanswered. Flight on 19th Jan. Application ref: DEU/MHL/161224/0073/01. @meaindia1#VisaDelay
The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in @Nature, @MathiThiru95 and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. https://t.co/i05me2SXI4
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🧵1/5: Excited to share our new open access paper in Journal of Biogeography! We explored the systematics and historical biogeography of scincine lizards (Subfamily Scincinae) to understand what shaped their global distribution. @maitreyasil@kanishkauku@brandley_matt@Salvicarranza
https://t.co/CpNiXqhF7P
Excited about our new paper showing that spider webs of all geometries are adjusted to capture precisely the amount of energy per unit mass spiders require (B), including creating in some (D) a hollow space within the web to grow the web's surface area without producing more silk
New preprint alert! Have you ever wondered how complex traits have evolved repeatedly across the tree of life? May be we have some answers https://t.co/n0HoWi36T7
#evolution#genomics#supergenes
Several faculty of Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc have put together an online course on Fundamentals of Ecology, to be offerred via NPTEL platform from Jan 2025.
Check here for more details:
https://t.co/TqmaMFWbDL