Michael Hickerson
@hickerlab.bsky.social
professor at CCNY/CUNY/EEB (population genetics+community ecology) 🍄foraging 🪕
Very happy this one is finally out. Laura Bertola wrangled genomic data from 27 taxa, frogs to conifers, across one biodiversity hotspot, and kept a couple dozen of us pointed in the same direction over a long haul. Great explainer thread
📣 We have a new paper out! 📣
Multi-Taxa Genome-Environment Associations With Contemporary and Historical Climate in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A brief explainer 🧵
Multi-Taxa Genome-Environment Associations With Contemporary and Historical Climate in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A brief explainer 🧵
Multi‐Taxa Genome‐Environment Associations With Contemporary and Historical Climate in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Multi-taxa genomic data offer valuable opportunities to assess the extent to which co-distributed taxa exhibit parallel responses to shared environmental regimes and climatic history. In this study, ....
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October 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Very happy this one is finally out. Laura Bertola wrangled genomic data from 27 taxa, frogs to conifers, across one biodiversity hotspot, and kept a couple dozen of us pointed in the same direction over a long haul. Great explainer thread
How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵
mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
October 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM
How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵
mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
Congratulations @ariadnamorales.bsky.social! New bat tree of life from 103 genomes and 44 fossils: laryngeal echolocation predates crown bats and powered flight arose in Europe in the late Palaeocene. Nature and the NYT in one week. The Morales Lab launches at CCNY and CUNY in 2027. We are thrilled
Very happy to see our paper out in Nature! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
A huge collaborative effort to revisit the evolutionary history of bats using 103 reference-quality genomes and an extensive fossil dataset, and to build a genomic resource for many questions still to come.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A huge collaborative effort to revisit the evolutionary history of bats using 103 reference-quality genomes and an extensive fossil dataset, and to build a genomic resource for many questions still to come.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
www.nature.com
October 1, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Congratulations @ariadnamorales.bsky.social! New bat tree of life from 103 genomes and 44 fossils: laryngeal echolocation predates crown bats and powered flight arose in Europe in the late Palaeocene. Nature and the NYT in one week. The Morales Lab launches at CCNY and CUNY in 2027. We are thrilled
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Very happy to see our paper out in Nature! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
A huge collaborative effort to revisit the evolutionary history of bats using 103 reference-quality genomes and an extensive fossil dataset, and to build a genomic resource for many questions still to come.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A huge collaborative effort to revisit the evolutionary history of bats using 103 reference-quality genomes and an extensive fossil dataset, and to build a genomic resource for many questions still to come.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
www.nature.com
September 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Very happy to see our paper out in Nature! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
A huge collaborative effort to revisit the evolutionary history of bats using 103 reference-quality genomes and an extensive fossil dataset, and to build a genomic resource for many questions still to come.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A huge collaborative effort to revisit the evolutionary history of bats using 103 reference-quality genomes and an extensive fossil dataset, and to build a genomic resource for many questions still to come.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Michael Hickerson
Here's a fun thing! Prof. Mike Hickerson @hickerlab.bsky.social has created Phylodiet, an app that reveals "How Much of the Tree of Life is on your plate": mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/ap... Enter your meal, and see how the ingredients are related. #phylogeny #TreeOfLife #Evolution
Phylodiet
mjhickerson.github.io
September 30, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Here's a fun thing! Prof. Mike Hickerson @hickerlab.bsky.social has created Phylodiet, an app that reveals "How Much of the Tree of Life is on your plate": mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/ap... Enter your meal, and see how the ingredients are related. #phylogeny #TreeOfLife #Evolution
We are seeking an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Comparative Genomics (loosely defined). I'd be happy to answer any questions (like teaching load etc) - feel free to DM me. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We are seeking an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Comparative Genomics (loosely defined). I'd be happy to answer any questions (like teaching load etc) - feel free to DM me. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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super excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now in Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy: doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
Estimating waiting distances between genealogy changes under a Multi-Species Extension of the Sequentially Markov Coalescent
Abstract. Genomes are composed of a mosaic of segments inherited from different ancestors, each separated by past recombination events. Consequently, genea
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September 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
super excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now in Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy: doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
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I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇
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August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
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The third chapter of my dissertation is out now in the Journal of Biogeography!
For this work, we examined the implications of using range maps to extract species richness for use in macroecological models.
DM me if you don't have access & want a copy! :)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
For this work, we examined the implications of using range maps to extract species richness for use in macroecological models.
DM me if you don't have access & want a copy! :)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Perils of Using Range Maps in Macroecological Models of Species Richness
Aim As range maps do not imply the continuous presence of species across their extents—and are commonly developed with species conservation in mind—their underlying assumptions unsurprisingly lead t...
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December 16, 2024 at 5:47 PM
The third chapter of my dissertation is out now in the Journal of Biogeography!
For this work, we examined the implications of using range maps to extract species richness for use in macroecological models.
DM me if you don't have access & want a copy! :)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
For this work, we examined the implications of using range maps to extract species richness for use in macroecological models.
DM me if you don't have access & want a copy! :)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Netzelia corona is an amoeba with teeth. Can a model proposed by Kenneth Dumack and colleagues explain that? A brief blog post.
www.itcamefromthepond.com/2024/12/16/a...
#Protists #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky @dumack.bsky.social
www.itcamefromthepond.com/2024/12/16/a...
#Protists #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky @dumack.bsky.social
A new way of looking at the shells of arcellinid amoebae – It Came from the Pond
www.itcamefromthepond.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Netzelia corona is an amoeba with teeth. Can a model proposed by Kenneth Dumack and colleagues explain that? A brief blog post.
www.itcamefromthepond.com/2024/12/16/a...
#Protists #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky @dumack.bsky.social
www.itcamefromthepond.com/2024/12/16/a...
#Protists #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky @dumack.bsky.social
We are seeking a Quantitative Ecologist (tenure-track). I'd be happy to answer any questions (like teaching load etc) - feel free to DM me.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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November 21, 2024 at 8:05 PM
We are seeking a Quantitative Ecologist (tenure-track). I'd be happy to answer any questions (like teaching load etc) - feel free to DM me.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...