brhopkins92.bsky.social
🏴 Assistant Professor at University of Florida. Functional, developmental, and evolutionary genetics of organs. https://hopkins-lab.com/
👤 Joined on 25 December 2023
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@brhopkins92.bsky.socialFollowing up on our recent paper, I wrote a post for @animalecology.bsky.social’s Animal Ecology in Focus blog on how albatrosses coordinate in differing environments 🌍Check it out for an accessible breakdown of the study (or just to look at some cute albatross chicks)! 🐣 tinyurl.com/JAEalbatross 🔗
Show PostI am excited to announce that I will start the Brain Origins Lab at the Crick in March 2027! Using acoels as a model system, the lab will study how animal brains evolve, and how innovations in brain organisation enable new computational abilities and the evolution of complex behaviour.
Show Postadjacent factoid, i grew up in the Keweenaw, aka "copper country". the only place in the world with large deposits of pure copper. though mining days were over, we could still sometimes find copper in the ground, which is a pretty amazing thing for a kid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keweena...
Show PostVery cool! Any information on how quickly the virus clears from subsequent generations?
Show PostVery cool 🧵 and findings 🧪
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