There are lots of evolutionists posting on the #Istudyevolution Twitter site. Here’s some pictures of evolutionists I know—friends and colleagues I speak to:
Neil is in the next building:
Happy Darwin’s Birthday. This from Ray Troll #Istudyevolution pic.twitter.com/Oz7mZlUHes
— Neil Shubin (@NeilShubin) February 12, 2018
Everyone calls her “Sally”, she’s multifarious and fiercely smart:
#Istudyevolution using mathematical models and experimental evolution to predict evolutionary trajectories and test these predictions in real time. Happy Birthday, Darwin! @sse_evolution pic.twitter.com/z72WvwPkrJ
— Sarah Otto (@sarperotto) February 12, 2018
Graham took my graduate speciation course, and now he’s a fancy-shmancy professor and a big contributer to the study of human migration via genetics:
#Istudyevolution using genomics & mathematical models to understand how humans spread across the world & adapted to the many environs they encountered#DarwinDay2018 @sse_evolution pic.twitter.com/FX6EfoEtUN
— Graham Coop (@Graham_Coop) February 12, 2018
Mohamed: my second student and now a professor at Duke and former chair of biology
Happy Darwin's birthday! I love working with my laboratory team to research the genetic changes that cause new species to form and to persist. #IStudyEvolution pic.twitter.com/jtjkb7MiBE
— Mohamed Noor (@mafnoor) February 12, 2018
And Daniel was a “grandstudent”—a student of Mohamed who also studies speciation:
#IStudyEvolution! In my laboratory, we investigate the ecological and genetic links between adaptation and speciation. pic.twitter.com/gTBUf1qlLl
— D. Ortiz-Barrientos (@dortizba) February 12, 2018
Hopi’s a Harvard professor, but we wrote two papers together before she moved to Cambridge from San Diego:
Happy 209th birthday Darwin! Like you, #Istudyevolution, but that missing piece of your theory — the genetic mechanisms by which “endless forms most beautiful” evolved. #DarwinDay2018 @sse_evolution pic.twitter.com/OsBmNcCxYH
— Hopi Hoekstra (@hopihoekstra) February 12, 2018
Leonie studies speciation in plants, and was here for CoyneFest:
Happy #DarwinDay2018! My talented lab and #Istudyevolution of adaptations and new species, and the genetic changes responsible. (In plants and flies!) pic.twitter.com/77v0D66rRE
— Leonie Moyle (@SpeciationLab) February 12, 2018
Jon Losos, who I saw a few weeks ago. He’s just left Harvard to run an institute in St. Louis:
Happy Birthday, Charlie-D. 209 years later, and we're still drawing inspiration from the natural world! #Istudyevolution pic.twitter.com/UBxIqR86Ps
— Jonathan B. Losos (@JLosos) February 12, 2018
I don’t really know Sally, but we’ve featured her on this site twice (here and here), and I like to see young people studying flies!
#Istudyevolution by watching fruit flies and seeing if they behave nicer to their relatives, something we might see because of kin selection. #phdlife #drosophila pic.twitter.com/S6cSaEjxFx
— Dr Sally Le Page (@sallylepage) February 12, 2018
I know Jake because he married my former technician, Susannah:
Happy #DarwinDay2018. #IStudyEvolution by examining how symbionts shape rapid adaptation in aphids, and how they have influenced the long-term evolution of ants at trophic extremes. pic.twitter.com/5iuLwNXn40
— Jacob Russell (@symbiontjr) February 12, 2018
And I added one too, from a while back when we collected flies in the mist forest of São Tomé. Of course I misspelled “hybrid zone”!
#Istudyevolution Not that long ago: pooting flies on the volcano of Sao Tome. Sardines and cold spaghetti for breakfast every day! But we found a bizarre huybrid zone. pic.twitter.com/zXnWptifU7
— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) February 12, 2018
With all those enthusiastic people turning out great work, I have no worries about the future of the field. (Well, except for those who try to claim it’s woefully deficient because epigenetics!)
I have fully and completely internalized my inner fish.
It is my outer fish that disturbs me.
Glen Davidson
Wow! Really? Send pictures(good ones, of course).
Studying evolutionary trajectories sounds absolutely fascinating.
I get nothing but blank frames. Anyone else having the same problem? I’m using the latest version of Safari. The other tweet pics in today’s update displayed perfectly.
PCC(e), yours was the only one of those tw*ts that showed up as an empty box and the dire warning “This media may contain sensitive material”! With great trepidation I clicked it anyway and it turns out to be a picture of you engaged in fly trafficking. Perhaps someone at Tw**ter has an inordinate fondness of flies.
For some reason (i.e., someone complained about me beefing about religion), some people get that warning with every picture I tweet. It’s annoying but you can still see them by clicking.
So you are officially a Disturber Of The Peace? Congratulations!
Pea green with envy. I love science, alas a distant unfulfilled desire.
I had the pleasure of taking an online Genetic and Evolution course from Dr. Noor. Loved every second of it and learned tons.
Yes, that course has an excellent reputation; Mohamed’s a great teacher.
I loved Noor’s intro genetics and evolution class too. Now I have at least a small grasp of some of the terms and concepts that come up, like hitch-hikers and selective sweeps! I am particularly interested in plant evolution and speciation.
About 30 ant, mollusk, beetle, spider, and millipede enthusiast, emerti, curators, students, and dedicated volunteers (e.g., imaging spider genitalia) celebrated Darwin’s birthday today at a joyful lunch at my favorite museum.
But none of these photos show them sacrificing babies or celebrating black masses. Are you sure they are evilutionists?
Could “huybrid zone” be described as a mutation? 🙂
Sardines and cold spaghetti? How was *that* menu chosen? 😉