Anshuman Swain
@anshuswain
Loves everything with networks, ecology & fossils || Asst Prof and Curator at University of Michigan || Else can be found cooking or reading || Odia 🇮🇳
Thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor and Curator at the University of Michigan in Jan 2025. My time will be split between @UMichEEB and @UMichPaleo I will soon be looking for graduate students and postdocs. Please spread the word! 📣📣
Does stability matter in biology? My article on the cover of this month’s @PLOSCompBiol explores how large ecosystems develop supertransients, a manifestation of computational hardness (1/N) doi.org/10.1371/journa…
🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4146…
Fossils as fireworks? Streptelasma superba has features that evoke that explosive, radiating beauty! While you won't find one that literally blew up, the intricate and sometimes branching patterns of these ancient marine invertebrates do give off a "fireworks" vibe! #FossilFriday
New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @MapasLab PhD student @sofiaGA96 and out now in @GEB_macro: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… "Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"
Our article about the adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants is now out in Cell! We analyze 163 ant genomes to explore the evolution of these amazing social insects 🐜 Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 I’m thrilled to share that my postdoctoral research is now published in @NatureComms! 🥳 We investigated how planktic foraminifera responded to climate fluctuations from the Pliocene to early Pleistocene using bipartite network analysis. 🌍🧬
1/12 🚨🚨🚨 New paper in @ScienceMagazine @ScienceAdvances! We demonstrate the hidden, recent origins of reef fish diversity in the Miocene by leveraging genome-wide data to reveal the evolutionary history of wrasses, parrotfishes, and relatives! #science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Nice review of the FBD model and its application using fossil data: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Nitrogen isotopes are a promising tool to reconstruct symbiosis in planktic foraminifera! Check out our latest paper: bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/18…
🚨New publication in @iScience_CP 🚨 Peñalver et al. describe diverse Mesozoic thrips carrying pollen during the gymnosperm to angiosperm plant-host ecological shift doi.org/10.1016/j.isci… @IBB_botanic @AmberiaResearch #LabPaleoecology
StoichLife — the first global dataset for biogeographical and macroevolutionary patterns in organismal stoichiometry, developed within the sBIOMAPS working group at @idiv. @agonzalezLAB @IoES_JU nature.com/articles/s4159…
New paper out ✍️ in @CommsBio: Diversification and extinction of Hemiptera in deep time with my friends Mathieu Boderau and André Nel doi.org/10.1038/s42003… @ISYEBsp @Le_Museum @morethanadodo
APPLY & Share: Join our community @UMBS in the spring/summer term. We are hiring instructors for ecology & microbiology & a leader for our 10-week research program. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/257…
My PhD work on foraminiferal acclimation was published in @Nature. Our study shows that modern warming is threatening planktic foraminifera differently than before. URL: nature.com/articles/s4158…
Don't miss out working with one of the best and kindest scientists I know!! Neil Rosser’s lab at the University of Miami is currently recruiting graduate students interested in the evolution of tropical biodiversity rosserlab.github.io/people.html#re…
Neat parasitic isopod #fossil preserved in a coprolite: palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5…
Check out our review on the Evolution of Sensory Receptors, the incredible molecular machines that decode the outside sensory world! 🪲🐭🦎🐙🐓🦠🦗🐌💃
How do organisms evolve new traits and behaviors? In @AnnualReviews, @wendyssae surveys major sensory receptor families to uncover evolutionary patterns of sensation driving diversification and speciation. annualreviews.org/content/journa…
Our “deeper but smaller” paper is finally out! Wondering how higher-order interactions change the dynamic landscape? Check out the delightful thread from @maximelca 👇
Your higher-order interactions stabilize sync but you never reach it? "Deeper but smaller: Higher-order interactions increase linear stability but shrink basins" Out in @ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Always fun w/ @YuanzhaoZhang P.S. Skardal @fede7j @lordgrilo 1/
🚨Please share/RT: I am looking for prospective PhD students to join my forthcoming lab at @UMichEEB @UMichPaleo for Fall 2025. Students interested in network ecology, paleobiology, and theoretical and systems biology or related, please fill: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…