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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 17h

Just listened to this great piece on @scifri.bsky.social about the importance of collections. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/are... Consider making a donation at any level to support your local natural history collection. Support @utkherbarium.bsky.social here herbarium.utk.edu/give/

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Are natural history museums in trouble?

The country’s oldest natural history museum, in Philadelphia, has closed its doors to visitors. Will other museums follow?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

Such a weird way to learn about how little people understand Rage Against the Machine lol

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 16h

"You did not spend time writing it, so I am not going to spend time reading it" has been my general approach for all text produced by genAI

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‘The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Albert Ch. Soewongsono @albertchristian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new preprint w/ @landismj.bsky.social that I’m excited to share! We develop a theoretical framework linking evolutionary scenarios to mathematical constraints on parameters that produce given stationary frequencies in state-dependent speciation-extinction models. We call these “rulesets.” #EvoBio

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

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Assistant Professor

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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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 · 28/09/2026

I've referred to that phenomenon (a timeslice where a taxon was still monophyletic and cohesive) as "paleophyly" lol

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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

Not sure how widely the "rule" is known but I know @peterjwagner3.bsky.social will understand the reference...

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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

FYI the position says it's NOT tied to any particular invert phylum BUT the curator would be responsible for overseeing the echinoderm collection regardless of their specific research specialty

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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 now with 100% more 🎃 @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 · 19/09/2026

Good. I loved and obsessed over this movie so much but I haven't thought about it in years

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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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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

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

absolutely incredible. I would definitely put that in my office and cherish it forever

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

I saw this post yesterday and can't stop thinking about it 😅

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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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