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Thrilled to announce that the @VanderbiltU Evolutionary Studies Initiative is now official! Look out for a variety of exciting events, including a truly trans-disciplinary seminar series with outstanding internal & external speakers! #EvolutionVU news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/08/14/rok…

Copenhagen, here we come! 🇩🇰 Find us at #SMBE2026 June 28 - July 2 — stop by the ESI booth for swag and a spin on the prize wheel! 🎡 @officialsmbe #Evolution #Vanderbilt

In 1925, a TN teacher was put on trial for teaching #evolution. Just a mile from where that law was signed, VU's Chancellor said "the answer...is the building of new labs for the teaching of science." 100 years later, we're still at it. 🏛️ #ThrowbackThursday #ScopesTrial

When it gets too hot, even the dayshift clocks out. Vanderbilt's Dr. Malu Jorge found that white-lipped peccaries in Brazil are shifting to nighttime activity as temperatures rise — and as keystone species, that affects the whole ecosystem. #Evolution

Fungi are more closely related to you than they are to plants. Yes, really. We share a common ancestor with fungi — and more genes with them than plants do. Oh, and the largest organism on Earth is a single honey fungus in Oregon! #FunFact #Fungi #Evolution

Heading to #Evol2026 in Cleveland June 20-24! Stop by the ESI booth for swag and a spin on the prize wheel. 🎡 @Evol_mtg #Evolution #Vanderbilt

Happy Graduation, Commodores 🎓⚓️ Class of ’26 — keep evolving. From late nights to big breakthroughs, you did the work. Proud of you, Vandy 💛🖤 #VandyGrad #ClassOf2026

Charlie Wilson spent his summers camping alone in mountain ranges, cooking his own meals, working ten hours a day mapping TNs geology. "My vacation is the fullest part of my year." Oh, and NASA gave him a grant to investigate a meteor crater. #ThrowbackThursday #Geology

New research from the Lea Lab shows female rhesus macaques exposed to early adversity faced steeper life-history trade-offs. "The quality of our early-life environment is obviously important, and can contribute to our physiology even decades later." @PNASNews 🐒 #Evolution

Heading to PEQG 2026 in Pacific Grove next month! Vanderbilt's own Dr. Megan Behringer (@megbehri) is a session chair. 🎉 Stop by the ESI booth for swag and a spin on the prize wheel. 🎡 #PEQG26 #Evolution #Vanderbilt @GeneticsGSA

🌸 Hired to fill in while the men went to war. Never left. Elsie Quarterman became Vanderbilt's first female department chair, rediscovered a plant thought to be extinct, and lived to 103. Some people are irreplaceable. #ThrowbackThursday #WomenInScience #Botany #Vanderbilt

🐗 Meet Archaeotherium. #HellPigs. These extinct Eocene & Oligocene mammals had enormous heads, relatively small brains & were actually more closely related to whales than pigs. Vandy PhD student Brynn Wooten is using their fossilized teeth to learn what they ate #Evolution

Last chance — early-bird registration for ISEMPH 2026 closes in two days on May 1st! Register now: isemph.org

Talk registration for in-person closes May 3! Don't forget to register your talk. evolutionmeetings.org/instructions-f…

We had a blast celebrating Earth Day this year! We had Greg Wilson Mantilla tell us about life at the edge of the K-Pg boundary and then we were at Nashville Earth Day meeting 1000s of locals to talk #evolution from #paleontology to bird beaks to microbes! What a week!!

We had a blast at @PredsNHL Family Day this past Saturday 🏒🦴 Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by our table to explore fossils, ask great questions, and get hands-on with evolutionary science. Always fun bringing #evolution into the community 💛 #Smashville #Fossils

Early registration for ISEMPH 2026 is closing soon! Join us in Kiel, Germany, 28–31 July for the leading conference on evolutionary medicine and public health. Register by April 15th for the early bird discount. Don't miss it!

Trainee curling night = success 🥌 Great food, questionable technique, and a lot of laughs. Always good to get out of the lab and spend time together. Already taking requests for a rematch. @rosseirys @owenmicro @DanisThodoris

One week out 🌍 Join us for the ESI Earth Day Lecture with Greg Wilson Mantilla (University of Washington) on mass extinction & ecosystem recovery. 📅 April 15 ⏰ 2:30–3:30 PM 📍 MRBIII 1220 🎟️ Free & open to the public #EarthDay #Paleontology #Evolution @DialogueVU

Looking ahead to July! Our 11th annual meeting in Kiel, Germany (July 28-31) will bring together the ISEMPH community for presentations, discussions, and connections. Keep in mind the deadlines. We can't wait to see everyone there! isemph.org

Mark your calendars for Earth Day at Centennial Park on April 18th! #NashvilleEarthDay #SustainableNashville #LoveYourPlanet