Katrina Derieg

Curator of Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (@UMZMuseum) @umontana | mammals 🐀 | deserts 🏜️ | museums 🏛️ | #CollectionsAreEssential 🦉🐢🐿️🧬

[paola cerrito @cerrito_paola]

Fully funded PhD position on Hominin Life History Evolution available in my new lab @UZH_en
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Link: https://t.co/iZqnFnweDj

[IUCN SSC Small Mammal SG @IUCN_SMSG]

𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 & 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝
Study highlights rodents are underfunded, compared to larger charismatic mammals
https://t.co/WmcfE90bjT

[Katrina Derieg @katderieg]

Trying to get off this icky app. Follow me on bluesky: https://t.co/DdA9IPl369

[University of Utah School of Biological Sciences @UofUBiology]

Duplications of a detoxification gene(s), a good thing when it comes to a diet that includes toxic food items. Clues for new #pharmaceuticals and informing food sources for free-range livestock. @DearingLab
Research featured in science, Jan 9:

https://t.co/RGmr60AIqE

[Bryan McLean @sousliks]

PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE #squirrel TREE OF LIFE:

Urocitellus idahoensis
Snake River Plains ground squirrel

[Katrina Derieg @katderieg]

@fieldomics @DenverMuseumNS Congratulations! Glad to hear this amazing collection is in good hands 🦇

[Holly L. Lutz @fieldomics]

Now that I have keys+office, I guess I can share that I have officially begun my role as Curator of Mammals @DenverMuseumNS. I am honored to join this institution and could not be more thrilled to be part of such an innovative and forward-thinking group of people (and specimens).

[Nate Upham @n8_upham]

Want to detect reticulate evolutionary signals in phylogenomic data? We have a new review on that -- gratefully co-authored with @jlsteenwyk and crew. Amazingly, this collaboration grew out of the @systbiol early career mentoring program!!

[John McCormack @LAevolving]

One month left to apply to these positions! Others perks include: (1) faculty rental houses right next to the college; (2) post-tenure eligibility for a no-interest loan for housing, forgiven over time; (3) eligibility for sabbatical every 4th year; (4) PI-friendly overhead rates

[LSU Museum of NatSci @LSU_MNS]

Exciting news! Toni Androski has joined us as the new Mammalogy collections manager! Welcome to the LSU MNS, Toni!

[Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Tarvin 🐸 ☠️ 🐍 💚🪰 @frogsicles]

We're looking for a new staff curator of ornithology at the @MVZUCB -- please RT
https://t.co/TOU6GZqwSS

Applications close on Wed 28 August.

[Katrina Derieg @katderieg]

@DeadBovids Congrats, Professor O'Brien!!

[Hҽɾυ Hαɳԃιƙα🦦 @heru_hdk]

All the finalists’ presentations and research were fantastic. Never thought I would win this SSB premier award. I am truly honored. It really means a lot. I had to grow and sell catfish to get my first computer. It took a ton of them to get a $500 DIY-built PC in 2007. #Evol2024

[Guillermo D'Elía @GuillermoDElia]

Dieta de ratones del género Phyllotis de distintas elevaciones del norte de Chile 🌋🐀 🧄

https://t.co/SlrreFK8By

Spoiler: el animal de la cumbre del Llullaillaco quizás no pase el antidoping y estaría protegido de los vampiros.

#sigmodontinae
#metabarcoding
#metagenómica

[Verity Mathis @mammalgirl]

Spotted skunks are the definitive crowd pleaser!

[Katrina Derieg @katderieg]

Terrible video, but did anybody else know that turkey chicks just... Tumble down hills? They were so cute but so clumsy!

[Florida Museum @FloridaMuseum]

Welcome Jonathan Nations, our new curator of mammals! Like many scientists, the path from curiosity to profession was a winding journey—one filled with marmots, voles, shrews and rats. 🐀

More about Jonathan:
https://t.co/0kD0zFu4qJ

[Andrés Cuervo | amcuervo.bsky.social @amcuervo]

Celebrating #IMD2024 doing museum stuff today: installing new material, cataloging a legacy series from a late ornithologist, double-checking subspecies IDs in woodcreepers/tanagers, and realizing of a new species for 🇨🇴 based a 2005 skin (wrong ID). Have a nice museum day y’all!

[Katrina Derieg @katderieg]

Love this idea. Let's take it a step farther and pick a color for de novo reference genomes from specimens. Purple?

Y'all sequencing genomes best be doing it from vouchers! 🧐

[Prosanta Chakrabarty @PREAUX_FISH]

Museum folks know that blue and red ribbons are often designated for type specimens used in the description of new species (e.g holotype in blue; paratypes in red). I think we should use green ribbon for the vouchers of specimens whose whole genomes have been sequenced. Thoughts?