Ayush Parag

I was honoured to receive the academic excellence medal for the best thesis in biological sciences by the President of India @rashtrapatibhvn herself! Something I'll remember for a lifetime. @raxitdaves, @skinkomaniac, we did it! 🕸️🕷️ @niser_official Also, GRADUATED!!!! 🎓

Feel blessed to have played a small part in this amazing project led by Subhasmita! Happy to see it out finally!! Kudos to all co-authors 🎉🦎🌈

I am looking forward to taking at least one PhD student to join us in the BioGeoSys lab (biogeosys.in). The online portal for application opens from tomorrow till the 30th of April. (niser.ac.in/storage/notice…). Interested candidates, please get in touch with me if you see yourself fitting into our lab group! Do speak to the current (@pranoy_kishore @A__Panda__ @PraptiSatpathy)and former lab members (@avrajjal @madhura_agashe @maitreyasil @aparag49 @orthopterizzt)

My two cents on evolution, academia and everything in between.

HEADS UP! Tomorrow @avrajjal will be defending his PhD thesis! If you are around at NISER, feel free to drop in at the SBS seminar room at 3PM for a dose of skink biogeography! Avrajjal will be my first PhD student defending his thesis. Onwards and upwards! @niser_official @oorna_niser @SBSNISER Date: 28-02-2025 (Friday) Venue: SBS Seminar Room Time: 3 PM

This summer , I am looking forward to taking at least one PhD candidate at biogeosys.in. If you are interested in Macroevolution, phylo-genetics/genomics, biogeography, population genetics and reptiles (especially skinks) feel free to get in touch with me or any of my lab members directly. I would love to discuss ideas! Feel free to reach out to me at datta.roy@niser.ac.in #biogeography #indiansubcontinent #phylogenetics #phylogenomics #reptiles #skinks @herp_club @SquaMatesPod @herpetALLogy @HerpResearch @niser_official

My lab is keen on recruiting grad students for 2025 (fully funded positions! Living wage!) on topics related to plant phylogenomics, macroevolution, and adaptation to dry environments: See: edelinegagnon.wixsite.com/gagnon-lab-1..… Job Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Symposium alert! Do join us at @Behaviour2025 If you are interested DM or mail us. You can also mention your interest while submitting your abstract for the conference. Please check the conference website for deadlines. Organizers @diptarupNandi @Torsay @raxitdaves

This dodo is mysterious. And there's a lot we don't know about it. A short thread 🧵

@shubhampsoni @frog_tracker @VU_LT @biobiiana @VetmeduniVienna This is great news! Congratulations Shubham!

Tweet long overdue: FINALLY, I started as the first PhD student at @frog_tracker 's lab at @VU_LT, jointly with @biobiiana at @VetmeduniVienna !! Exciting frogs and science coming up from the Amazons!!🥳🥳 #PhD #Amazon #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

Dear @GermanyinMumbai @GermanyinIndia @GermanyDiplo, my Schengen visa application has been in German consulate Mumbai since past 30 days (15 days usual). Repeated calls and mails gone unanswered. Flight on 19th Jan. Application ref: DEU/MHL/161224/0073/01. @meaindia1 #VisaDelay

The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in @Nature, @MathiThiru95 and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/n

🧵1/5: Excited to share our new open access paper in Journal of Biogeography! We explored the systematics and historical biogeography of scincine lizards (Subfamily Scincinae) to understand what shaped their global distribution. @maitreyasil @kanishkauku @brandley_matt @Salvicarranza onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@Jeeban02 @cacee2024 Congratulations!!!

Enjoyed presenting my work at @cacee2024, TIFR, Mumbai and honored to have received the best poster award.

Check out our new study where we investigated color polymorphism in European adders across their entire distribution: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Call for abstracts for #behaviour2025 is open now. Get substantial opportunity to share your research with the ethology community. behaviourindia2025.in/Registration-a… #Animalbehavior #ScienceConference #ECRChat #CollaborationInScience #GlobalScience #Conference #Announcement

Excited about our new paper showing that spider webs of all geometries are adjusted to capture precisely the amount of energy per unit mass spiders require (B), including creating in some (D) a hollow space within the web to grow the web's surface area without producing more silk

Registration & abstract submission open for #behaviour2025. Hurry and avail the early bird rates: behaviourindia2025.in/Registration-a… #AnimalBehavior #ScienceConference #ECRChat #CollaborationInScience #GlobalScience #conference #Announcement #RegistrationOpen

New preprint alert! Have you ever wondered how complex traits have evolved repeatedly across the tree of life? May be we have some answers biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #evolution #genomics #supergenes

I'm sure this is gonna be a fabulous course!