Morgan Kelly

Lots of new grad students starting in research labs this month, including many who have been taught (in subtle or overt ways) that they need to fight to prove they belong. It’s an exhausting way to spend your career. So I’m re-upping this for anyone who needs to hear it today:

Pulled the numbers for the purposes of haranguing the youth during lecture tomorrow. Guess which of these age groups will be living on this planet the longest?

The @evo_lagniappe postbacc crew had a perfectly Louisiana day retreat: zydeco breakfast + dancing, hike on a Nature Conservancy trail full of herps and birds, and a swamp boat tour. Laissez les bin temps rouler! #RaMP #NSFfunded

Mood, heading into election week. Let’s do this.

If you’re a current or aspiring grad student, this episode is packed with must-hear advice! 🎧 Spotify : open.spotify.com/episode/21DJIz… YouTube : youtu.be/EGP-dCZVtXs?si…

Six GRFP letters to finish today! I'm gonna be busy, but it's also a good day when you can spend it bragging on some really great people.

Wissam is a fantastic scientist, and has followed his love of natural history and an intuition about behavior to design an experiment showing something important about how climate change will affect predator-prey dynamics in marsh ecosystems. Keep an eye on this one folks 🐌💜

Check out @_Wissam_J 's first chapter -- showing that heat waves force choices between behavioral thermoregulation and predator avoidance in marsh snails. With @ana_salgado22 authors.elsevier.com/c/1junU51aUrCtn @LSUNews @LSU_BioSci @lsuscience

Congrats!! @JanetMansaray gave a really beautiful talk yesterday.

Congrats to @JanetMansaray, the first #LagoLab @LSU_BioSci grad student to defend her PhD dissertation! She gave an excellent public defense on #Centropogon phylogenomics, macroevolution, and as a system for CURE course inquiry. The finish line is in sight!

Congratulations @fla_montano! This is a well-deserved honor.

Full instructions are now available for the 2024 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants, part of our Graduate Research Excellence Grants, provide up to $3500 US in funding for PhD candidates. Submit your research proposal by October 15! evolutionsociety.org/content/societ…

This is such an awesome lab photo!

Two lab manuscripts accepted in 48 hours! Congrats to @Jamie_Phelps123, @saltyecoevo, @vaidya_ruj Heather Rodriguez and Emma Crable. And stay tuned from some exciting results re. hypoxia tolerance in oysters and pupal color polymorphism in butterflies!

Excited to read this!

Here's our full Fall seminar list for any regional folks who want to join us. It's going to be a great Seminar Series! docs.google.com/document/d/1Ok…

I give my promotion talk next week. Last night I dreamt that as I was being introduced, I realized that my talk was only half done, so that I was frantically adding slides while walking to the podium. Those 'not ready for class' dreams never die!