@Dev_Der

Postdoc at UCLA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology https://xitter.cf/t.co/3inpnVok9U

 Kansas, USA
Joined November 2012
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UCLA will be hosting the upcoming Southern California Evolutionary Genetics (SCalE) conference on November 1! Registration & abstract submission is here: scalemeeting.org/home Deadline is October 13! Hope to see you at UCLA!

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The SCalE Meeting is a free, one day regional academic meeting focused on evolutionary genetics and genomics. This year's SCalE Meeting is hosted by UCLA, sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative...

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✍️New story on the #AvianHybrids blog! Why are there only three species of Emerald Doves? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2… Based on the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution paper by @Dev_Der et al. | #ornithology

Why are there only three species of Emerald Doves?

Their dispersal ability might play a role.

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The first chapter of my dissertation is available on @biorxivpreprint. We resequenced genomes of all species (& subspecies) of rapidly radiating genus of Indo-pacific kingfishers. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Island chains offer a laboratory for observing changes over time as species adapt to environmental differences ... great read on dwarf kingfishers from @Dev_Der and the ornithology team at @kunhm, viewable for free thanks to #OpenAccess deals.
Devon DeRaad@Dev_Der31 Jul 2024
New paper in @EvolLetters (open access: academic.oup.com/evlett/adva…). Using dwarf kingfishers as a model, we believe we've constructed the most complete and explicit published framework explaining the underlying mechanistic causes of the classic "paradox of the great speciators".

Genomic patterns in the dwarf kingfishers of northern Melanesia reveal a mechanistic framework...

Abstract. The paradox of the great speciators describes a contradictory biogeographic pattern exhibited by numerous avian lineages in Oceania. Specifically

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I agree with every word Brian McGill writes. Academic publishing is a mess, we are publishing too much, and letting for-profit publishers drive us into the ground. And we’re all complicit in this! – at Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Jeff Ollerton - @[email protected]@JeffOllerton29 Apr 2024
The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts dynamicecology.wordpress.com… via @DynamicEcology

The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts

Eleven years ago I shared a fairly heavily researched summary of the state of academic publishing. I mostly argued that OA (aka author pays) was a red herring and that we should really pay attentio…

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Congrats to former KU postdoctoral researcher Tyrone Lavery and members of the KU Ornithology Division - Robert Moyle, Devon DeRaad, & Lucas DeCicco, on releasing a journal article about a rare evolutionary phenomenon occurring in bats.🦇 phys.org/news/2024-04-specie… via @physorg_com

Same species, different sizes: Rare evolution in action spotted in island bats

A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands.

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A genomic basis of vocal rhythm in birds | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

A genomic basis of vocal rhythm in birds

Nature Communications - Little is known about the genetic basis of the rhythmic component of bird song, an important trait in sexual selection and species recognition. By studying a system with...

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Faye Romero@fayegromero9 Apr 2024
Excited to share our pre-print for a shiny new Florida-Scrub Jay genome assembly and annotation! Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mb of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies. @popgenchen ✨🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

A new high-quality genome assembly and annotation for the threatened Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma...

The Florida Scrub-Jay ( Aphelocoma coerulescens ), a Federally Threatened, cooperatively-breeding bird, is an emerging model system in evolutionary biology and ecology. Extensive individual-based...

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Reduced hybrid survival in a migratory divide between songbirds | Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #ornithology

Reduced hybrid survival in a migratory divide between songbirds

Predicted survival of migrating Swainson's thrushes depends on their subspecies ancestry (coastal, inland or hybrid), with coastal backcrosses and intermediate hybrids showing reduced survival...

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Ben Wiens@omys_omics1 Apr 2024
Check out triangulaR, my new R package for building triangle plots! I explore how sample size of parental pops and allele frequency difference thresholds influence hybrid index and interclass heterozygosity estimates, see more here: github.com/omys-omics/triang… biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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And here it is! Our study identifies both inland tectonic and environmental factors that were the likely drivers of diversification in rice paddy #snakes. Now in @SciReports nature.com/articles/s41598-0… 1/4

Integrative methods reveal multiple drivers of diversification in rice paddy snakes

Scientific Reports - Integrative methods reveal multiple drivers of diversification in rice paddy snakes

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Pleased to share our paper on the wild parrots of Los Angeles. Turns out they've made quite a niche shift from their native ranges in Mexico, which makes their thriving in Southern California all the more remarkable. Here's the story 1/x onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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The rat that broke the internet is back! Giant coconut-cracking rat (Uromys vika) survives at Zaira, Solomon Islands #RatThatBrokeTheInternet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika) survives in the Zaira Community Resource Management Area, Solomon...

Described in 2017 and known only from the holotype, Uromys vika is one of the world's most data-poor rodent species. However, a deep traditional ecological knowledge of U. vika is held by Vangunu's...

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6/n Genome Resource ‘De novo assembly of a chromosome-level reference genome for the California Scrub-Jay, Aphelocoma californica’ doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad0… corresponding author @Dev_Der
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New story on the #AvianHybrids blog! Mitonuclear discordance in a rapid radiation of Kingfishers avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2… Based on the @molecology paper by @Dev_Der, @Jenna_Merle, @LHDeCicco, @paul_hime, Leo Joseph, @mjandersen43 & Robert Moyle | #ornithology
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We are hiring a tenure-track professor in avian ecology @UofNH! Beautiful location, supportive department, brilliant colleagues, enthusiastic wildlife students...and blackburnians in the university woodlands! Apply: jobs.usnh.edu/postings/58195 📸: Patrice Bouchard
a blackburnian warbler in a tree, photo by Patrice Bouchard provided via unsplash.com

ALT a blackburnian warbler in a tree, photo by Patrice Bouchard provided via unsplash.com

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One of the best color blind pallette guides I've seen nceas.ucsb.edu/sites/default…
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Do you work on #phylogeography, #phylogenomics, #introgression, or #Amazon #biogeography? I am excited to report that our paper is now out in early view at @systbiol. academic.oup.com/sysbio/adva… 1/5

Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History:...

Abstract. Can knowledge about genome architecture inform biogeographic and phylogenetic inference? Selection, drift, recombination, and gene flow interact

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Happy to share our new monograph on redlining, birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles just out in @AmOrnith. Please see the infographic below, put together by @KAPdesign, for details If you're unable to access the paper (see link) please DM me academic.oup.com/condor/adva…
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So happy to see this press release on our new article in BSSB! Much more homalopsid work and snake research to come 🐍Check the research out of @ResearchAtKU @KU_EEB @GenomicsKU @Rutgers_Newark here! news.ku.edu/2023/09/20/spotl… And a big thanks to Brendan Lynch for the beautiful PR!

Evolutionary history of mud snakes rewritten

KU research appearing in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

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