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Safdi's co-authors are graduate student Yujin Park and postdoctoral fellows Claudio Andrea Manzari and Inbar Savoray.

For my SCOTUSblog author page, I had a friend take my picture in front of the brick facade at the old National Capital YMCA, because I was a 22-year-old recent college graduate during the Great Recession, and needed the several hundred dollars it would have cost to get a professional headshot for rent.

A recent study led by Professor Shiki Yagai and Mr. Ryo Kudo from the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University in Japan, along with a team of researchers, demonstrated how modifying chlorophyll-like molecules can direct them to form distinct structural arrangements, offering insights that could transform synthetic light-harvesting materials.

"Our method provides a clearer picture of how and when certain traits were selected for, especially when those signals have been lost in modern genomes," said Devansh Pandey, a graduate student in cell and molecular biology and co-first author on the paper.

"The cryptic ecology as nocturnal, solitary forest dwellers makes it difficult to discern the mechanism by which these four closely related species coexist. Observational studies indicate that fruits dominate their diets, while faunivory, or eating both other animals and insects, is rare. We suspected that faunivory was a larger part of their diets and investigated by applying stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses," said Miyabi Nakabayashi, an associate professor at Hiroshima University's Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life in Hiroshima, Japan.