Jonathan Drury

Like macroevolution *and* living animals? Want to do a PhD in avian morphology? Want to live in Newcastle, a very cool city surrounded by beautiful landscapes? Shoko Sugasawa, Sue Healy, and I are advertising an IAPETUS PhD studentship. International enquiries welcome! iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Excited to share a game I've been working on with my friend @jasonjoby.bsky.social - presenting BirdGuessr (ch3rryblossom.github.io/birdguessr), a daily game where you're given 5 real checklists from eBird, and you guess where they came from! Can you narrow down a location based on its birds?

I'm pleased to announce version 1.0 of `tact`, an app for stochastic polytomy resolution on phylogenies using taxonomy. A decade after the first line of code, scientists are still using `tact` to build complete trees of fish, termites, magnoliids, and more. Thank you! (🧵1/3)

1 woman out of 86 at gcse, 3 out of 181 at a-level - what a failure www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Ellie Bath, one of my all-time favourite scientists, is advertising a PhD at Durham on the evolution of aggression. This looks like a kickass project combining a bunch of approaches and skills -- and, bonus, Durham is gorgeous. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Why do animals fight? I’m recruiting a PhD student at Durham University to investigate the ecology, evolution and genes underlying aggression in fruit flies Funded PhD (UK students only). Details & how to apply 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please share! #PhD #Evolution #BehaviouralEcology

Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

Now that it's officially out, I have to say I'm quite proud of this work🙂 I got involved in it after a bit of a failure in another proj. Took way longer than it could. Started pregnant, published close to baby's 3rd bday😅 Very grateful for my patient mentors and collaborators doi.org/10.1093/molb...

I absolutely love this paper -- Menezes & Podos in Evolution demonstrate that loudness is linked to body size and gap width, but apparently not to habitat or mating system, across 123 Brazilian & US species. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

TIL! This is a lovely, clear explanation of the difference between Equinox and Equilux.

Another successful Durham field course in the books! #belize #🇧🇿

Excited to share our new paper on Fundamental and Realised Behaviours - a new way to think about assemblage-level behavioural variation through space (+time) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

NSF PRFB RFP is out. If you have interests in AI approaches to studying bird color across big phylogenies, let me know! I have some ideas... And, if you don't, that's cool too, but please apply to do something with someone else if you can! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Hi #ECBB2026 @ecbb2026.bsky.social 👋 I have 3 UKRI-funded Senior Research Associate positions live at the intersection of behaviour, conservation + AI (coral reefs/UK waters) 2x2yr9mth; 1x2yrs. More info here sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html Wish I was there!

Dear colleagues, parton me if you hear banjo music and some off-key bluegrass singing when you walk by my office today.

Working with minimal genomic samples from two species? I’ve put together DemogFit, a small R package for fitting IM models and estimating gene flow parameters from a single whole-genome sample per species, plus a Snakemake pipeline to generate the input files. github.com/LeebanY/Demo...

Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!

We have a new preprint up looking at how much variation there is in aggression in male and female fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excellent mini-field season with Jordy—who will be joining the lab in September—and Yesenia here in Mexico! Hasta pronto! #teamrubyspot

Hetaerina making an appearance in @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social ‘s amazing plenary at #evol2026 #teamrubyspot

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at sclaramu@uno.edu

Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Very excited to announce the publication of our new article on evolutionary biology, cognitive sciences and beauty, with @tamramendelson.bsky.social Dave Shuker and @gilrosenthal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looks like a very informative seminar on the historical phylogenetic biogeography 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Macroecology #Paleobio

You have just over 48 hours left to register for in-person #BESMacro2026 attendance! Come join us in Reading for an excellent line-up of talks, posters, and workshops! 🤓🌍🐗🦜🌳 (Online-only registration will remain open until July 3.) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

Research from the lab on the evolution of size and plumage dimorphism in birds! Grad student Catherine Alverson examined how species move between size and plumage dimorphism categories. While those results largely recapitulated previous work, there was an intriguing new finding [1/3]

Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs! (It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

Are you (or something you know) looking for a PhD? Like trait macroevolution but also yearn for an applied topic? Think plants are neat? Want to live in beautiful northeast Scotland?! 🌊🐬⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I'm advertising a PhD in my lab! Deadline April 22, email me any questions. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please share this PhD position in my group - guaranteed funding for a home/UK resident student. (i.e., non competition). Damselfly genetics, plus travel opportunities, fieldwork, and policy internship. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We're hiring a post doc! Looking for a global change ecologist to work with Jenny McGuire & a multidisciplinary team including me and @jameststroud.bsky.social on the ecology side of things please share widely!

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...

🦋 New preprint showing the convergent evolution of iridescence, a conspicuous colouration that likely participates in the ability of Morpho butterflies to escape their predators! We bring evidence supporting evasive mimicry, i.e. the evolution of similar confusing patterns in hard-to-catch prey.

Why is there such variation in the birds encountered as you go up or down a mountain? New paper in #ScienceAdvances examines how climate and ecological interactions drive bird distributions in mountains throughout the year: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/10 ⬇️

New paper out: “allopatric” Drosophila species aren’t so allopatric after all. We show that most currently allopatric species pairs probably overlapped in the past and exchanged genes at levels similar to sympatric pairs. @evolletters.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... [1/6]

Like traits? Plants? Interactions between humans and the natural world? Are you looking for a PhD? There's still time left to apply for a fully-funded PhD in my lab, on macroevolutionary approaches to the ornamental plant trade! Deadline Jan. 14th. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution! It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

It was a pleasure to show some of my later PhD's work on developing new phylogenetic comparative methods to detect the effect of inter-specific competition on long-term trait evolution at #2025SVP 🦕 The models I showed should be available soon in the RPANDA Package, stay tunned !

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

Check out the recent publication in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics where the authors explore genomic species delimitation in depth. You'll see a number of #sciart figures I created to help explain some of the concepts! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...