Sean McHugh

WUSTL PhD student interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, biogeography, niche evolution, and natural history. Huge herp nerd. he/him.

[Jake Berv @jakeberv]

Back from a fantastic #Evol2024 meeting in Montreal, and I’m very pleased to officially talk about this project again, now published in @ScienceAdvances

[Joan Garcia-Porta @JoanGarciaPorta]

Check out our latest paper, in which we explore how Bergmann's (body size variation) and Allen's rules (beak size variation) interact synergically in birds along temperature gradients. @WUSTL, @UTAustin, @unicomplutense, @UniBarcelona, @IRBioUB.
https://t.co/ySXGi4o0eB

[Jake Berv @jakeberv]

Happy to share a new pre-print with Sonal Singhal, @fieldpalaeo @phylonatworks @sean_w_mchugh J. R. Shipley @EliotITMiller @RKimball_UF @EdwardLBraun1 Alex Dornburg, @tomopfuku Richard Prum @Friedman_Lab and @evoblackrim
🧵 @UMichEEB @UMichPaleo
https://t.co/5anC4NogLi

[Biogeography.News @JBiogeography]

Species distribution models (SDMs) require many complex decisions which often lack best practices. @BLeroyEcology establishes new best practices for presence-only SDMs

https://t.co/Nn5WHUvLGh

[@EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv]

"Jointly Modeling the Evolution of Discrete and Continuous Traits" https://t.co/AEwMakGxct

[Sean McHugh @sean_w_mchugh]

BePhyNE is currently available on github as an R package https://t.co/p4jpbZPNC1 to install and use please follow the available vignette on how to install the package and use the method. Comments welcome. 3/3

[Sean McHugh @sean_w_mchugh]

New preprint on my Master's work with @pseudacris, @Analyssi, and Emma White! https://t.co/ZNhBaLRzEK on jointly estimating species niches and multivariate BM underlying niche evolution directly from occurrence data. 1/3

[Sean McHugh @sean_w_mchugh]

By analyzing jointly, evolution can inform niche and niche can inform the evolutionary model, rather than being a two step process. This means that we can estimate niche and uncertainty, even for species that are data deficient, or even have no occurrence data! 2/3

[Sean McHugh @sean_w_mchugh]

@J_Grismer @AnzaBResearch @lasierranews Wow this is beautiful, thanks for making it open access!

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Assessing Bayesian Phylogenetic Information Content of Morphological Data Using Knowledge from Anatomy Ontologies https://t.co/NhqbnYB3IT #biorxiv_evobio