Simon Baeckens
@simonbaeckens
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Incoming professor at UCLouvain // evolutionary ecologist // currently: postdoc @ugent + @UAntwerpen 🇧🇪 rapid adaptation, and functional ecology of lizards🦎
UGent & UAntwerp (Belgium)
Joined March 2014
Excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Earth & Life Institute at UCLouvain (🇧🇪) as an Assistant Professor this September. Watch this space for upcoming opportunities for PhDs and postdocs!
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Happy World Lizard Day! Here a Maynard’s anole from Cayman Brac!
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RT @PriscilaRothier: Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, a part of my postdoc at @cornellvet! 🐘🐀.We found that larger mammals evolv….
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RT @SimonClulow: Our latest paper, out now in @PNASNews. We show that thermal tolerance mismatch models, derived from occurrence data, can….
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Emerging infectious diseases increasingly threaten many wildlife populations, yet the impacts of pathogens vary considerably both within and among ...
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The talented Jindong Zhang analyzed 74,000+ papers, revealing how #biomimetic research relies on a narrow slice of biodiversity—missing out on nature’s untapped genius. In our paper, we call for broader, species-level, and comparative approaches!.
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RT @UAFunMorph: A lizard in sight whets the appetite? 🦎 Read how conspecifics influence island and mainland lizards’ foraging decisions in….
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Another PhD chapter published by Ioanna Gavriilidi (@UAFunMorph ), now out in Journal of Zoology (@OfficialZSL).She finds that island-dwelling lizards tend to rely less on chemosensory cues compared to their mainland counterparts.
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RT @jamesTstroud: Exciting news! @wc_ratcliff and I published an essay last week in @Nature reviewing the substantial contributions of 'lon….
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RT @UAFunMorph: Final week of the @UAFunMorph #Galápagos expedition! 🎥 Capturing high-speed footage of #Darwinsfinches while they feed and….
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RT @GerbenDebruyn: We are very excited to share our new paper in Science! We show that a diverse group of Jurassic and Cretaceous mammals a….
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RT @GerbenDebruyn: In our newest paper we highlight the similarities and differences in biomineralization patterns of different animals egg….
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Thinking about E.S. Vrba —one of the 'Three Musketeers' of evolutionary biology— on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.
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RT @LizardProf: Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards | Science
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Climate warming can induce a cost-of-living “squeeze” in ectotherms by increasing energetic expenditures while reducing foraging gains. We used biophysical models (validated by 2685 field observati...
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RT @NatureComms: Some bivalves have evolved photosynthetic symbioses. McCoy et al. show that heart cockles transmit light through their upp….
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Nature Communications - Some bivalves have evolved photosynthetic symbioses. Here, the authors show that heart cockles transmit light through their upper shell to internal photosynthetic symbionts,...
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After almost eight rewarding years as Assistant Editor for Acta Herpetologica, I'm stepping down to make way for new members joining the team. Special thanks to Marco Mangiacotti (@unipv) , our outgoing Editor-in-Chief, for an incredible journey together!.
AH News: A message from the President of the Societas Herpetogica Italica ✉️🐸. We are happy to announce our new Assistant Editors!. 🔗 Find out more here: AH News:
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RT @AHerpetologica: AH News: A message from the President of the Societas Herpetogica Italica ✉️🐸. We are happy to announce our new Assista….
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We tracked lizard chemical signals over time in five experimental populations on natural islands in the Greek Cyclades 🦎🏝️! Read our findings, now published in @FunEcology
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RT @MichalNicola1: ´50 procent besparen op federaal wetenschapsbeleid´ Yikes. Was België geen kenniseconomie?.
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