Maria Servedio

A new integration of genetic and ecological constraints on speciation with gene flow, led by Brian Lerch! @LerchEcoEvo @ASNAmNat

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New paper out in @ASNAmNat with @servedio1 on the evolution of mate attachment! We study the conditions under which it is advantageous to become attached to one's mate. 1/7 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

Congratulations to our 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Dr. Ruth Shaw! Tune in to the virtual portion of #Evol2024 on June 28 to hear her award talk. evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2… @evol_mtg

In the bird kingdom, foster parenting relies on deceit, but what happens when the deceived catch on? Read @cowbirdlab (ASRC's ED) and colleagues' recent paper in @EvolLetters to learn how their findings could predict related evolutionary changes. @GC_CUNY ow.ly/It9u50Q4Ez7

@BFKLab @EmilyHDuVal @Eliz_Hobson @clynfitzpatrick There's a lot of nice work on mate choice copying by this and other labs. The IA hypothesis points out that the observer female doesn't know what feature of a male the demonstrator finds attractive, and shows the evolutionary consequences of a likely form of mistaken inference.

@servedio1 @EmilyHDuVal @Eliz_Hobson @clynfitzpatrick Does it echo the work of Guillaume Isabel on social learning and mating preference? academic.oup.com/beheco/article…

So happy to be a part of this work with @EmilyHDuVal @Eliz_Hobson and @clynfitzpatrick! We show that mistakes that females make when trying to infer what others find attractive can lead to the maintenance of variation in preferences and traits, among other cool patterns!

Check out @LerchEcoEvo and I's contribution to the @HumBehEvoSoc August newsletter, where we break down our recent EHB publication, The influence of language on the evolution of cooperation. hbes.com/language-and-c…

Sexual displays often increase predation risk, but the eco-evolutionary consequences of this pattern are largely unexplored. @servedio1 and I show novel evolutionary dynamics of displays can result from predation in our new paper in @PLOSBiology 1/7 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

@ASNAmNat @lukenweaver Congratulations on an excellent paper, that stood out from among many other amazing choices!!!

@evornithology @cowbirdlab The credit goes to Brian Lerch! @LerchEcoEvo

@cowbirdlab She’s incredible

Maria’s team does it again!

We show that different predictions arise depending on whether selection (viability + sexual) is generally directional or stabilizing.

New paper online @journal_evo with @LerchEcoEvo and @KuangyiXu! We provide baseline models for the evolution of preference strength during the Fisher process: academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…

New paper out in @ASNAmNat with @servedio1! We extend a previous model on the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) to allow coevolution with signals of sex identification. 1/9 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

@joelmcglothlin Gotta love the pocket clip

@servedio1 Oooh! Ordering ASAP

What do you do with tiny chalk?

@joelmcglothlin Haven’t tried it! Let us know if you like it.

@joelmcglothlin ?? Maybe this ??

@servedio1 Right! I don't want to waste it. But I can't write with the tiny ones very well.

Happy Halloween!

@MWersebe @sunyesf @BingUBio Thanks!!

@servedio1 Maybe @sunyesf, also @BingUBio is a great UG program with lots of cross pollination between biology and environmental studies.

Science twitter - I'm gathering advice for a high schooler who wants to go into conservation biology. What do you think are the best undergrad programs for this? (General searches pull up programs with more of a wildlife management flavor, not quite the same thing).