Matteo Sebastianelli Arbelaez🇮🇹🇨🇴

Happy to announce the publication of our @natcomms.nature.com article on the evolution of Darwin's finches! A big thanks to @artkokay.bsky.social who made gorgeous illustrations! You can find the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm honoured and proud contributing with my illustrations to a recent article on the evolution of Darwin finches in Nature journal: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @matteoseba.bsky.social

In nice news, we recently published a literature review for swift parrots with @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social read all about everything you ever wanted to know about swift parrots for free 💚 birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Recent and ancient hybridization among sea duck species, including a potential hybrid species avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/r... #ornithology

"The project that was terminated was on this hummingbird, the white-necked jacobin....I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary." Researcher @jjinsing.bsky.social interviewed by @carlzimmer.com #birds #nature #science #fundscience #nonbinary 🧪

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision @nature.com 🧪🎓 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Misconceptions and regressions: The evolution of bird brains avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/m... #ornithology

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

For #NationalHummingbirdDay, 47-million-year-old Parargornis from Germany was a proto-hummingbird with short wing feathers like a modern hummingbird but a short, broad skull like their cousins, the swifts. Perhaps hummingbird ancestors started hovering before they drank nectar. 🪶🧪 (📷Mayr)

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

💻🧬 The Swedish Museum of Natural History is seeking a bioinformatician. Permanent position, 70-80% of the time should be dedicated to supporting day-to-day activities and long-term research of research groups. 20-30% for their own research. Please share widely! arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/...

New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋 The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes. Deadline: September 12, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬ @drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬ ‬ Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052

Our review on the last decade+ of hybrid incompatibility research is now out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Original thread here: bsky.app/profile/moll...

New newer. I think we’ve added four or five since I posted this in June.

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! One list to rule them all: Toward a unified global bird checklist avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/o... Introducing AviList: a collaborative effort to unify avian taxonomy | #ornithology

Day 2 of Popgen is also where I say “Please look at your kinship matrix.”Probably the best summary of pop structure there is, identifies problems or weird stuff in the data, and avoids pitfalls of structure-like plots and PCA.