Linnea Lungstrom

@mennajones.bsky.social is THE person to chat about phylogenetic comparative methods/frogs! Check out her incredible work! 🐸

THRILLED to have won the @sicb-dpcb.bsky.social Wake Award for best student talk at @sicb.bsky.social 2026 alongside my dear friend @mennajones.bsky.social. What an honor not only be recognized but to have been among such supportive scientists conducting incredible research! sicb.org/sicb-news/co...

Honored to have been awarded the Wake Award for best student talk at this year’s SICB meeting (alongside the brilliant @linnealungstrom.bsky.social)! Already looking forward to the 2027 meeting and hearing about more cool research @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-dpcb.bsky.social 🐸🙌
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As they should! Lol!

Happy pączki day!

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Minnesota Schools:

“The 5th graders are signing their names on this card, and asked us if we wanted to sign too. It’s to stop the bad ICE. They might even send it to the president!”

~my first grade daughter last night at dinner; we try to shield our kids, but they know something’s not right 😢

Biomechanics of raptorial dorsiflexion and tensile material properties of the m. tibialis cranialis tendon in the hindlimbs of hawks and owls Summary: Skeletal morphology and tendon tensile properties of raptorial bird hindlimbs yield insight into prey capture capabilities, with surprisingly elastic tendon modulus values compared with mamma...

New @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper alert! The grips of hawks and owls on their often struggling prey are strong! Check out our new paper led by Alex Clark and with @linnealungstrom.bsky.social. Alex with the cover photo 🧪🌿🦉
#Biomechanics #AerialFishes

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YTHDF2 regulates self non-coding RNA metabolism to control inflammation and tumorigenesis - Nature Communications RNA modifications influence gene regulation and disease. Here, the authors show that YTHDF2 recognizes m6A-modified U6 snRNA to prevent aberrant TLR3 activation to inhibit inflammation and skin cancer...

So excited that this paper is out!! Very proud of my molecular biology roots and incredibly thankful for the mentors I share authorship with! This represents some of my very first scientific contributions, and I couldn’t be happier for my younger self and this amazing team! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Our killer team of @mfarjo.bsky.social, Ryan Isdonas, Andrew George, and @mwestneat.bsky.social found:
🐠head/body shapes are related to diet
🐠fishes have pairs of high/low aspect ratio propulsive fins (caudal/pectoral)
🐠caudal fins have the highest evolutionary rates & covary with body/pectoral fins

Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of fin and body shape in the surgeonfishes Patterns of evolutionary change in the fin and body shapes of fishes are strongly related to dietary ecology and locomotor mechanisms, and associations between shapes affects ecomorphological relation...

No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes!

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