Alexus Roberts Hugghis, PhD

🚨Incredibly excited to share my new pub in collab w/ @cmart_fishmorph, @damalichthys, + @PeterWainwrig15 in @EvolLetters! Opposite of long-held predictions, we find that a pharyngeal jaw novelty restricts diversification of feeding motions + morphology! doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

Guys! Meet our guest “Pambana” from New York City 🇬🇭

Beyond excited to say my first PhD paper (and first first-author) is out today in @Nature 🤯. Taking a new approach to key innovations, we show rapidly gaining/losing complex teeth accelerates speciation in fishes. Look out for a longer thread soon…

Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

Americans have no idea how difficult legal immigration is for "high-skilled immigrants". I have 4 degrees incl a PhD. Einstein visa. 250K salary at FAANG. Lived in this country since I was a teenager. I won't be able to obtain citizenship until middle age Guide for Intl PhDs🧵

Since we're talking about funding of absurd research by NIH and other federal agencies, the funded scientists: - watching flies fuck - giving rats massages - spending years digging into why jellyfish glow - tracking penguin poop from space - using horseshoe crab blood

New OA paper on the roles of complexity and integration in the morphological diversification of reef fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s42003… This was a BIG collaborative effort led by Profs Mike D. Burns + @fishwright3! Thankful to have been a part of this incredible team!

I knocked a lot of doors this past year on my campaign and asked people what issues were most important to them. Here are some of the key takeaways from my time spent talking to people here in Texas:

My message to my students this morning... hyperlinks below.

For those who need it today 🫶🏾

Just seems appropriate today.

@MikeMihalitsis @cmart_fishmorph @damalichthys @PeterWainwrig15 @EvolLetters Thank you so much Mike!!! Hope you are doing well!

@Alexuss_Symone @cmart_fishmorph @damalichthys @PeterWainwrig15 @EvolLetters Great work @Alexuss_Symone !!!

🚨Incredibly excited to share my new pub in collab w/ @cmart_fishmorph, @damalichthys, + @PeterWainwrig15 in @EvolLetters! Opposite of long-held predictions, we find that a pharyngeal jaw novelty restricts diversification of feeding motions + morphology! doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

It's so cool how everything from prescription drugs to McDonald's to frozen waffles is contaminated now. It's almost like government regulations were the only thing keeping manufacturers from cutting costs and poisoning us.

If you missed the biggest horror party of the year, you can watch the @ScareUptheVote webcast on Youtube Live anytime, and you can still donate to the #HarrisWalz2024 campaign using the featured QR code! (Wolfie art by @JIJennings🐺) youtube.com/live/-CgHmnXRK…

🚨🚨College Students in Wisconsin are being sent automated texts that they will face legal action for filling out their mail-in ballots in university housing. This is 100% VOTER INTIMIDATION. It’s perfectly LEGAL to vote on campus! Don’t let them fool you!

@nainosidam @cmart_fishmorph @damalichthys @PeterWainwrig15 @EvolLetters Thanks Madison!

@Alexuss_Symone @cmart_fishmorph @damalichthys @PeterWainwrig15 @EvolLetters Love to see it!!!

A classic key innovation constrains oral jaw functional diversification in fishes doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Now in @EvolLetters by @Alexuss_Symone, @cmart_fishmorph, @damalichthys, and @PeterWainwrig15

@RogersLabUCD @cmart_fishmorph @damalichthys @PeterWainwrig15 @EvolLetters Thank you so much Crystal! Hope you are doing well!!

@Alexuss_Symone @cmart_fishmorph @damalichthys @PeterWainwrig15 @EvolLetters Congratulations! This is awesome and I can’t wait to read it! 🤩

@arpeggio_jay @cmart_fishmorph @damalichthys @PeterWainwrig15 @EvolLetters Thanks Jay!

With this publication, all of my dissertation work is out!!!! Very thankful to all my mentors, collaborators, + peers who helped me get to this point! Stay tuned for more fish fun as I continue my research as a postdoc @unibern in @OleSeehausen's group! linkedin.com/in/alexus-rh/

So while the MPJ facilitates transitions to durophagy & herbivory, it limits diversification in other ways! Thus, we emphasize the importance of examining the consequences of specialized traits within a comparative framework, as their presence may not be uniformly advantageous!