daniel cadena

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Don’t black box your research: Patterns www.cell.com/patterns/ful... . An editorial about our paper on reproducibility of LLM facilitated research.

If anyone looking for a postdoc with fantastic genomics/bioinformatics skills + strong intellect + great energy, please let me know! Preferably West Coast or remote/hybrid options & the candidate is open to a short (1 year) or longer term appointment

New paper with @jacobmusser.bsky.social @dts.bsky.social on reproducibility of LLM assisted research. Much of what we learned about engineering reproducible work in past decades still applies. Central organizing principle is whether the LLM sits on data path or off it. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

our in memoriam piece, celebrating the academic life and multifaceted, seminal scientific contributions of the great bob ricklefs is now out in the american naturalist www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!

Here's the first chromosome-level genome of the Tourmaline Sunangel (Heliangelus exortis), a high-elevation hummingbird endemic to the Northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador & shaped by Pleistocene climate cycles. Photos by Charles J. Sharp & Dick Daniels 1/2

Online now: Fix—do not ditch—the fundamental niche

You do not want to miss our August Funk lecture from @biogeography.bsky.social featuring Dr. Daniel Cadena. Sign up below!

Carlos Daniel Cadena will be August's Funk Biogeography Seminar speaker! Join us to hear about the origin and fate of megadiversity: how did today's biogeographical patterns originate? How and why has it changed over time? Learn more here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/au...

I'm looking for PhD student to join my lab at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Fall 2027)! If you're interested in evolutionary genomics, conservation genetics, or biogeography, please reach out. I'll also be at #AOS2026 this week talking about sexual selection in small populations.

I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com

"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

There’s still time to apply!!

Wow! A fourth class of transmissible cancers. CONTAGIOUS FISH MELANOMA, discovered in Lake Memphremagog (Vermont / Quebec) 🎣 🧬 😷 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @uvmvermont.bsky.social

new paper out, part of Juan Camilo´s PhD research - Balancing mechanics and metabolism: Elevational variation in the microanatomy of hummingbird flight muscle anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do you study female birds? What field approaches have you used to target females? Join our conversation about considerations and methods for field work on female birds! americanornithology.org/studying-fem...

Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1

Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...

Florida scrub-jay genomes across space and time reveal impacts of population decline and reduced gene flow: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Society of Systematic Biologists is looking for a new editor for the Bulletin! The Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists is the Society’s diamond OA journal. Are you interested? Or know someone who might be? See 👇 www.systbio.org/eicbssb.htm

I’m deeply honored to be President of the National Academy of Science at this critical time. Looking forward to our work together. All of us. Check out my video. m.youtube.com/watch?v=AM_B... 🧪

A mouse that lives higher than any other mammal has evolved unexpected adaptations that allow it to thrive from sea level to Andean summits, researchers report in a new Science study. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4bzjqWY

🧵1/11 New paper alert! One of 2 out today from #NearLab. Tunas are basically the superheroes of the ocean — warm-blooded, massive, and blazing fast. But HOW did they get that way? A new study just cracked open 50+ million years of evolutionary history. Let's dive in. 🐟⬇️

Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142

Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵

I am happy to share one of the most exciting collaborative papers co-authored with scientists and artists around the world about the coral reef crisis and how to help address it 🌊🌎🧪🪸🌐🐡🧬🦠🌿🦑 @coralartscience.bsky.social shorturl.at/IaN1H

❗New paper alert❗ in @natureportfolio.nature.com Comm compares alpine biodiversity across mountain systems and taxonomic groups worldwide. Led by PhD @lottaschultz.bsky.social Biodiversity patterns differs among mountains, and plants, birds, mammals, and reptiles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Arriving in the Cordillera Blanca, our latest paper is out. The tropical American mountains are Earth's most diverse alpine regions, but history shapes biodiversity more than latitude in these habitats. Tomorrow I'll be running above 4,400 m, hoping to spot remarkable birds. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

My paper with @davetoews.bsky.social was featured in the cover story for the latest issue of Living Bird magazine @cornellbirds.bsky.social. Check out the lovely accompanying artwork, too. Well-told by @rheisman.bsky.social.

📢New warbler research!📢 A phylogeny of Myioborus (the youngest genus of warblers) plus a hypothesis for how they diversified in South America and a gene causing a color difference between hybridizing species. It was great co-leading this with Laura Céspedes Arias. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Excited that the first genome assembly of a Lonomia spp. moth has been published @genetics-gsa.bsky.social by first authors @diler.bsky.social + @samridhi.bsky.social w/our wonderful colleagues at Universidad de los Andes led by Dr. Camila Gonzalez (thanks @cdanielcadena for introducing us!). 1

Want to learn the ins and outs of diversification, trait and biogeographic evolution models? I will be giving another edition of "Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods" in Oct! @tscourses.bsky.social www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evol...

Por si están en Bogotá y les interesa asistir a una charla en español sobre uno de mis trabajos de investigación.

Lizards have evolved their own version of rock-paper-scissors. Here's my story on the genetics behind nature's games. Gift link: nyti.ms/493KGMI

LSU Museum of Natural Sciences is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: 🐀🦜🦎🐸🐠 Review begins February 15th, please share! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119...

New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋 w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

🚨Great to be part of this paper led by Natalia Pérez-Amaya quantifying a century of morphological change in lowland rainforest birds! @birdmapper.bsky.social @cdanielcadena.bsky.social @julisoto.bsky.social @amcuervo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I hope to take a PhD student in the coming application cycle. Please reach out if you are interested in joining our lab in EEB at Yale, especially if interested in working on the natural history/ phylogenetics/ morphology/ population biology/ development/ genomics of siphonophores. dunnlab.org

Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella 📷 David Irving, eBird

Nest location and architecture as primary drivers of variation in UV reflectance in avian eggs: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @cdanielcadena.bsky.social‬ #ProcB #evolution

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

our latest, led by undergrad maria elisa mendiwelso! Nest location and architecture as primary drivers of variation in UV reflectance in avian eggs royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

In this issue @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social and colleagues use a community-science dataset from iNaturalist and a flexible computer vision model to show that red and orange flowers bloom later than other colors in eastern North America. Find out more here: www.cell.com/current-biol...