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Alexus Roberts Hugghis, PhD @AlexusRH

Postdoc @unibern • morphology macroevolution of 🐠 • #BlackAFinSTEM ✊🏾 • @PurdueScience @ucdavisbiology grad • Philippians 2 • she/her • views mine

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Alexus Roberts Hugghis, PhD@AlexusRH
21 Oct 2024
🚨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/qrae0…
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@buzstopboys
5 May 2025
Guys! Meet our guest “Pambana” from New York City 🇬🇭
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Nick Peoples@cichlidnick
26 Feb 2025
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…
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Dr. Darien Satterfield@DiverDarien
25 Nov 2024
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/qpae1…
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Kaidi Wu, Ph.D.@kaidi_wu
19 Nov 2024
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🧵
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Ubadah Sabbagh
@neubadah
20 Nov 2024
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
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New OA paper on the roles of complexity and integration in the morphological diversification of reef fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0… This was a BIG collaborative effort led by Profs Mike D. Burns @fishwright3! Thankful to have been a part of this incredible team!

Dr. Darien Satterfield@DiverDarien
4 Nov 2024
Brand new open access paper alert! We are thrilled to introduce our findings on how "Complexity and weak integration promote the diversity of reef fish oral jaws" out now in Communications Biology led by Dr. Mike Burns nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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Dr. Kristin Hook for Congress@Kristin_Hook
7 Nov 2024
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:
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@DrBritWilliams on 🦋sky@DrBritWilliams
6 Nov 2024
My message to my students this morning... hyperlinks below.
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VanguardSTEM@VanguardSTEM
6 Nov 2024
For those who need it today 🫶🏾
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne
@PeteUK7
6 Nov 2024
Just seems appropriate today.
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abby@abby4thepeople
23 Oct 2024
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.
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Greg Greene@iGregGreene
22 Oct 2024
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/-CgHmnXRKdg…
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Sohali Vaddula@SohaliV
22 Oct 2024
🚨🚨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!

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Evolution Letters@EvolLetters
21 Oct 2024
A classic key innovation constrains oral jaw functional diversification in fishes doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae0… Now in @EvolLetters by @Alexuss_Symone, @cmart_fishmorph, @damalichthys, and @PeterWainwrig15
Figure 1 from the paper. Illustrations of the the oral (lateral view; shaded in black) and pharyngeal (lateral view; shaded in gold) jaw structures involved in prey capture and processing function are shown at the top. Photos show closed mouth (left) and maximum gape (right) stages of feeding motions for a subset of 12 species. There is a phylogeny on the right hand side plotting a stochastic character map shows the relatedness of the 228 study species across 43 acanthomorph families and the evolutionary character history of the MPJ

ALT Figure 1 from the paper. Illustrations of the the oral (lateral view; shaded in black) and pharyngeal (lateral view; shaded in gold) jaw structures involved in prey capture and processing function are shown at the top. Photos show closed mouth (left) and maximum gape (right) stages of feeding motions for a subset of 12 species. There is a phylogeny on the right hand side plotting a stochastic character map shows the relatedness of the 228 study species across 43 acanthomorph families and the evolutionary character history of the MPJ
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🚨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/qrae0…
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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!
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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/
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him)@TomHoltzPaleo
13 Oct 2024
classic key innovation constrains oral jaw functional diversification in fishes academic.oup.com/evlett/arti…

A classic key innovation constrains oral jaw functional diversification in fishes

Modifications to the pharyngeal jaws—a prey processing system located posterior to the mouth cavity—are widely considered a key innovation that enhanced di

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Katherine Corn, PhD@damalichthys
17 Oct 2024
I am SO PROUD to say that the indomitable @Alexuss_Symone 's 3rd ch. is OUT NOW at Evolution Letters! With me, @cmart_fishmorph , & Peter Wainwright, we find that a famous key innovation in feeding apparatus LIMITS functional diversification! doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae0…
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