Zach Emberts
@ZachEmberts
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Assistant Professor – Behavioral Ecologist – Evolutionary Ecologist – 🏳️🌈
Stillwater, OK
Joined August 2012
RT @NEIDirector: From @uarizona: color vision evolved millions of years before genetic color traits in plants & animals. Later, use of colo….
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RT @BehavEcol: Are weapon allometries steeper in major or minor males? A meta-analysis.#SexualSelection #Competition #Dimorphism. https://t….
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RT @PLOSBiology: How and why does #SexualSelection vary geographically? @ra_barber @ja_tobias &co study 10,671 #bird species, revealing tha….
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RT @sridharhalali: Excited to share our new paper on the macroevolution diapause in butterflies, now published in @evolution_letters! There….
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I am looking for a postdoc to join the lab!. Come study the evolution of sexually selected weapons and shields with us!. $60,000 annual salary, plus benefits. Start date will ideally be between January and May, but the exact start date is flexible.
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RT @ShawnMWilder: I’m searching for 2 new grad students: .1) a PhD student to study quail diets and .2) a MS or PhD student to study nutrit….
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Some aposematic highlights include:.(1) We found that aposematic coloration is far more phylogenetically widespread than colorful sexual signals are.(2) We estimate that there were >200 origins of aposematism with a vast majority of these origins occurring within the last 100 Myr
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Excited to finally see this out!. Lots of great information about how life became colorful.
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Plants and animals are often adorned with potentially conspicuous colours (e.g. red, yellow, orange, blue, purple). These include the dazzling colours of fruits and flowers, the brilliant warning...
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RT @phylieu: I'm hiring a post-doc to work on a new NSF-funded project. This is funded up to two-years and is in collaboration with Andrew….
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RT @SinlanPoo: #Amphibian field/lab tech position at @MemphisZoo opened for applications! 🐸👩🔬🔬☀️.Come work with @Dr_Anne_Sabol & me! . @ss….
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RT @n_a_gilbert: New paper out today in @AnimalEcology 😍. Can internal range structure predict range shifts?. we find limited support with….
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The end of an era! Dr. Cirino (@lacirino2 ) is leaving the lab to start a tenure track position at the University of Mary Washington. I am bummed that she is leaving, but I am also so incredibly excited for her! Next stop, Virginia.
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RT @FABBLab: Exciting news here at CSUF. We are currently searching for an Assistant Professor in Terrestrial Arthropod Biology. Please sha….
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RT @HavirdLab: Excited to be co-organizing a symposium @SICB 2025 w/@ummat_s on sexual selection and energetics. If you're interested in th….
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RT @FrogListener: We are searching for a program coordinator for the ON-RaMP postdoc research program @okstate Apply here: .
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RT @ummat_s: Jousting weevils made the cover. Work with @SalAnzaldo and beautiful cover photo by @AztecaCecropia. Also with @cpaintingnz….
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RT @I_M_Buggin: Super excited to share my second manuscript published with the Emberts lab! . Sexually selected weapons can wear out, decre….
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RT @ncellinese: We are looking for grad students to join our new 4 yrs NSF supported project, an interdisciplinary collaboration between ev….
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RT @moore_evo_eco: New paper out about dragonfly ornamentation and extinction risk in @Ecology_Letters with @NoahLeith @KFowlerFinn and @Ki….
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Here, the authors show that ornamented dragonflies are less vulnerable to extinction across local, regional, and continental scales. These results support the theoretical prediction that sexual...
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RT @KLVoje: Our paper in @ScienceMagazine demonstrates that microevolutionary evolvability can predict evolutionary divergence across times….
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Heritable variation is a prerequisite for evolutionary change, but the relevance of genetic constraints on macroevolutionary timescales is debated. By using two datasets on fossil and contemporary...
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