Michael Hickerson

Michael Hickerson

@hickerlab.bsky.social

professor at CCNY/CUNY/EEB (population genetics+community ecology) 🍄foraging 🪕

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Michael Hickerson
@hickerlab.bsky.social

Very happy this one is finally out. Laura Bertola wrangled genomic data from 27 taxa, frogs to conifers, across one biodiversity hotspot, and kept a couple dozen of us pointed in the same direction over a long haul. Great explainer thread

Laura Bertola@lauradbertola.bsky.social

📣 We have a new paper out! 📣 Multi-Taxa Genome-Environment Associations With Contemporary and Historical Climate in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A brief explainer 🧵

onlinelibrary.wiley.comMulti‐Taxa Genome‐Environment Associations With Contemporary and Historical Climate in the Brazilian Atlantic ForestMulti-taxa genomic data offer valuable opportunities to assess the extent to which co-distributed taxa exhibit parallel responses to shared environmental regimes and climatic history. In this study, ....
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Michael Hickerson
@hickerlab.bsky.social

A cheeseburger is a cow, wheat, yeast and some garden plants, mostly shallow branches. Add kelp, a sea urchin and a mushroom and the score jumps, because those lineages split from ours over a billion years ago. Variety within a species adds nothing

Michael Hickerson
@hickerlab.bsky.social

Congratulations @ariadnamorales.bsky.social! New bat tree of life from 103 genomes and 44 fossils: laryngeal echolocation predates crown bats and powered flight arose in Europe in the late Palaeocene. Nature and the NYT in one week. The Morales Lab launches at CCNY and CUNY in 2027. We are thrilled

Ariadna Morales@ariadnamorales.bsky.social

Very happy to see our paper out in Nature! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇 A huge collaborative effort to revisit the evolutionary history of bats using 103 reference-quality genomes and an extensive fossil dataset, and to build a genomic resource for many questions still to come. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comReference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - NatureAn updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Ariadna Morales
@ariadnamorales.bsky.social

Very happy to see our paper out in Nature! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇 A huge collaborative effort to revisit the evolutionary history of bats using 103 reference-quality genomes and an extensive fossil dataset, and to build a genomic resource for many questions still to come. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comReference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - NatureAn updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Patrick McKenzie
@patrickmckenzie.bsky.social

super excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now in Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy: doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

doi.orgEstimating waiting distances between genealogy changes under a Multi-Species Extension of the Sequentially Markov CoalescentAbstract. Genomes are composed of a mosaic of segments inherited from different ancestors, each separated by past recombination events. Consequently, genea

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Ana Bedoya
@botana-bedoya.bsky.social

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇 www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

nybg.orgEmployment | New York Botanical GardenFind out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎
@annainthefield.bsky.social

The third chapter of my dissertation is out now in the Journal of Biogeography! For this work, we examined the implications of using range maps to extract species richness for use in macroecological models. DM me if you don't have access & want a copy! :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comPerils of Using Range Maps in Macroecological Models of Species RichnessAim As range maps do not imply the continuous presence of species across their extents—and are commonly developed with species conservation in mind—their underlying assumptions unsurprisingly lead t...

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