Zoölogica

Hi! My name is Dr. Louie Rombaut. I make videos about new research, fascinating case studies and interesting topics in evolutionary biology over on YouTube.

[Zoölogica @Zoologicall]

@ja_tobias @PLOSBiology Wow, great stuff! Let’s appreciate all the hard work by naturalists that makes big comparative datasets like this possible!

[Ian Henderson @hendersi]

Another question from a student that I don't have a good answer for (chatgpt also struggled) - in the genetic code why do some amino acids have only one codon (eg Met, Trp), whereas others get six (eg Ser)?

[Antonelli Lab @antonelli_lab]

Great to see this Guardian coverage of our recent @NewPhyt paper on global plant diversity darkspots: https://t.co/mcwjFkN0eA Led by
@KewScience
@unepwcmc

[Evolutionary Genomics @evol_genomics]

How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies? https://t.co/DnnF6XTt1N @systbiol

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

Today, I learned about an interesting hypothesis.

Cheetah cubs evolved to look like adult honey badges. Honey badgers are so aggressive that few predators will attack them. Cheetah cubs might thus escape predation by looking like honey badgers.

[Masahito Tsuboi @MasahitoTsuboi]

Our study @JEvBio shows how adaptation overrides constraints in the evolution of #SexualDimorphism in #Cichlids. We highlight that integrating intra-specific variation with comparative methods can advance macroevolutionary research. @ #SpecialIssue with @GaboriauT @Phylogenetrips

[Zoölogica @Zoologicall]

@GrumpyReviewer2 @AcademicChatter Empty desktop, empty mind!

[Zoölogica @Zoologicall]

@Jente_O Do you post on other platform alternatives to Twitter?

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

What is a species?

[Zoölogica @Zoologicall]

@ThePhDPlace The people around you (mentor and colleagues) can make or break a PhD. Intellectual and personal isolation can happen.

[Zoölogica @Zoologicall]

Pushing ancestral state estimation to (beyond?) its limits.

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

A study in @NatureEcoEvo suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion years ago and was a complex prokaryote-grade anaerobic acetogen that was part of an established ecosystem. https://t.co/bzCMs0gREL

[Zoölogica @Zoologicall]

It's good to see science taking more of an introspective look at its own culture and practices.

[Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @PKoppenburg]

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions?

No they don't

https://t.co/2uuGQVCbfy

[Andrew Guttenberg @guttenbirder22]

Life lessons from a baby American Dipper. If you get too excited about lunch and you fall in the creek, get right back up and keep begging.

[Bryce W. Robinson @BW_Robinson]

Why do some raptors have more than one plumage morph? In a new publication in Ornithology, we outline what is currently known, and the rich research potential provided by plumage polymorphism in this group.

https://t.co/VCyEqHvkkp.

@AmOrnith

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

Fun #ornithology fact: Eastern Screech Owls might have "domesticated" blind snakes. Chicks grow faster and healthier in nests kept vermin-free by the snakes.

Source: https://t.co/gS86qx2bXL

[AndyDobson @Andy2Dobson]

Possibly the most important ecology paper published in Science this century?...https://t.co/1AzBWQui4f

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

New from #ProcB: Musculoskeletal morphogenesis supports the convergent evolution of #bat laryngeal echolocation https://t.co/aTBWykrRsc | #Biomechanics #DevelopmentalBiology #Evolution

[Moler @envDNA]

Spider webs capture environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates
#eDNA #environmentalDNA https://t.co/7gJ2dnIpxm

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

Divergence and gene flow history at two large chromosomal inversions underlying ecotype differentiation in the long-snouted seahorse | Molecular Ecology
https://t.co/rjOLJF9mxG

[Evolution Letters @EvolLetters]

@HelenaMFerreir2 @deniseaalves23 @_LloydCool_ @Cin_Oi @ri_caliari @TWenseleers Want the story behind the science? Read more in the accompanying blog post by senior author @TWenseleers!

https://t.co/UoscaipD7W