iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stratigraphers, evolutionary biologists and software engineers aim to advance the joint modeling of stratigraphic and phylogenetic processes to bridge this knowledge gap between earth sciences and biology. bit.ly/4dbfDjH @lauramulvey.bsky.social @rachelwarnock.bsky.social @niklashohmann.bsky.social

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

i wish the astronomy community would go back to using "machine learning" to talk about machine learning instead of saying "AI" all the time to try and suck up to the feds

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Our results highlight the limits of using extant, species-depauperate lineages to infer deep ancestors and the importance of fossils and other evidence that more directly sample early evolutionary history."

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice who posted memes on a website called Twitter, before the dark times, before the Empire"

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My thoughts today are with the >19 million specimens held by the Academy of Natural Sciences and the dedicated staff who care for them. This ANSP holotype specimen is special to me, as I named it for my advisor, John Lundberg, a former ANSP Curator and authority on all catfishes, living, and fossil.

Composite image of the holotype specimen of Pseudobunocephalus lundbergi housed at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The highlighted quote is fantastic. There’s a real desire among admin to capitalize on something that is fundamentally very difficult to predict: a future job market Fundamental skills - critical thinking, strong oral and written communication, and ability to learn - are always in style

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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Phylogenetic parallelograms: visual comparison of discordant phylogenetic trees www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.

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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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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.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It may be a fairy tale but I believe that someday my prince* will come *manuscript acceptance notification

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've always thought it would be cool to have my name associated with the idea that large scale trends in morphological evolution are driven by the selective sorting of species rather than solely by continuous, directional evolution of individuals within a population. Call it "Wright's Rule" 🤷

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"What we know about the past record relied heavily on museum collections—the cumulation of centuries of investigation of the fossil record. The sample of past biodiversity will accumulate only with continued exploration of the fossil record...and restudy of existing collections." -J. Sepkoski (1992)

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Lizzy Steell @lizzysteell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 New bird paper! 🚨 Take a look at our review paper that Juan Benito and I put together about avian systematics and the bird fossil record along with what we think are important future directions in the field 🐦 🦴 🦜🦅🦤 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A bird’s eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematics

Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in avian fossil discoveries that directly inform our understanding of bird origins and evolution, the stepwise assemblage of the avian body plan,...

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In particular, I find stepping through writing my own code, in R, helps me understand the data I analyze in a way that I’ll never get from a vibe-coded script. It’s fine for toys, but for real science, I want a human’s direct understanding. Nothing else will - or should - do.

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

all of this is exactly correct, and what i would add is: no person has ever spent 100 hours writing a scientific paper hoping, hoping with all their heart, that potential readers will skip that step to go straight to some mangled summary you didn't even write

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

when you meet someone and immediately become best friends

Photo of me next to a large blue fish (in an aquarium)

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The new Resident Evil movie is really good and somehow very funny, especially if you've played the games. I can't stop thinking about it

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

you can ask a paleontologist their thoughts about the future but you can't stop them from living in the past

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I found this MacClade instruction manual from 1992 when I arrived at the OMNH. I keep it in my office and treat it like a beloved fossil in our collections

Book titled "MacClade: analysis of phylogeny and character evolution" by Wayne Maddison and David Maddison. The cover has a pixilated image of a phylogenetic tree

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my favorite office mugs. A treasure for any systematic biologist

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

The Venn diagram of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ”white moderate“ and today‘s “we gotta compromise on trans rights moderate“ is a circle

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Curator job at the ROM for an athropod specialist!

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"One of the tactics that fascism revels in is depressing people"

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my favorite office mugs. A treasure for any systematic biologist

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't want interactive AI "enhanced" pdfs. I want search tools that actually work

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Biodiversity is an incredibly rich and fascinating subject at all scales, levels, and quantities of measurement

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Boosting this MS position in @ugaecology.bsky.social part of a USFS collaboration - pre-application required, due October 1!

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"High-quality revisionary taxonomy must be grounded in experienced character evaluation and homology assessment, concept delimitation, and contingent analytical judgment, skills that are developed over years of immersive engagement with natural history collections" 👏👏👏

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has anyone tried inventing a search tool that actually works? Seems like that could be useful

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Jurassic Park still feels relevant because its central narrative revolves around someone with enormous wealth pushing Big Tech ("de-extinction", etc.) to exploit & make money instead of funding real science (fossil excavations, museums) and it ultimately places people in danger

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF Leadership in a New Golden Age of Science: Last Thursday NSF published this letter. Specific things to call out: -remain committed to foundational research. --GEO Core is this. -consolidating funding. --Geo Core is that. -AI AI AI AI AI --AI AI AI --AI AI AI -You may have questions.

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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...

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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers

New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ah, I see the session schedule website for the upcoming GSA meeting is even more difficult to navigate and search than it's ever been before

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The loss of an absolute giant in the fields of ecology & evolution. "His life’s work combined an acute command of natural history with refined skills as an experimentalist, statistician and theoretician." 🧪

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Making upgrades to the lab

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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ever wondered which characters support individual clades in a tree? My new method maps phylogenetic support across a dataset. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... Try it in R: pak::pkg_install("ms609/TreeSearch@cpp-search") ?TreeSearch::ClusteringConcordance

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This, generally.

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now? Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead" Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Figure 1 from our paper, highlighting turtle ecology across phylogeny

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We must break conceptual bonds, not only rocks, if we wish to understand the history of life. -Steven Jay Gould

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man’s eyes aloft to that heaven

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tragically cursed by the gods: once the NY Mets reach the point in the season where they're eliminated from making the playoffs, they immediately begin playing like they're the greatest team in MLB history. Love to see 'em absolutely destroy the Yankees though

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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Some tips on how to use AI for scientific writing that I am going to give to my students.” Nope.

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