Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153 410554
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 28/09/2026É tipo ENEM, eles procuram o lugar mais longe possível da sua casa e te mandam pra lá hahaha 010
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 28/09/2026Pois é, exatamente o meu ponto. Eu vou ter que sair daqui pra ir votar em Estocolmo sendo que tem local aqui 100
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 28/09/2026Eu moro em Gotemburgo e me puseram pra votar em Estocolmo 🤡 100
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Ana Serra Silva @anaserrasilva.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Want to learn more about 'mysterious' limbless amphibians? Did you miss Mark's outgoing President's Lecture in (counts fingers) 2019 but are still dying to know more about caecilians? Then join us at the Linnean Society, 6PM on October 8th! (It's free! But do please register.) 013
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️ 03828
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 21/09/2026Enshittification. Enshittification everywhere.static.klipy.comWoody and Buzz: Pips EverywhereAlt: Two animated characters, one is a cowboy, the other an astronaut. The second leaks into the first and gesticulates showing the horizon broadly 010
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 19/09/2026there is no ethical use of LLMs/genAI. 26418
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Leo Bastos @leosbastos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am pleased to share that our nowcasting R package {nowcaster} is finally on CRAN! The package wraps statistical models to estimate not yet reported data using an empirical delay distribution, either from individual-level data or from the differences of aggregated time series of cases. 163
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 18/09/2026Hear this wild idea out: what if we started blaming a system that forces researchers to publish a lot in little time? What if we stopped rewarding the number of papers when hiring new PIs? Do you really think researchers would still give up on doing what they love the most and hand it to AI? 183
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 18/09/2026Don't get me wrong, I dislike (to put it mildly) AI more and more everyday, but if we don't stop blaming the tool and start rethinking the academic system, we are bound to a lost battle. Have a good weekend 031
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 18/09/2026Hear this wild idea out: what if we started blaming a system that forces researchers to publish a lot in little time? What if we stopped rewarding the number of papers when hiring new PIs? Do you really think researchers would still give up on doing what they love the most and hand it to AI? 183
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 16/09/2026Maybe one day I'll be one, but today is not the day (and each day I feel less and less hopeful, but I digress). You should definitely join if you can, though. The path towards a better academia is always easier when shared with the right people 040
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Life Saving Tip: If people go out of their way to warn you against a lab. Listen. Numerous people can't independently make up the same story. What happened to them WILL happen to you. The university won't protect you. "I can stand my ground" You can't. Your reputation & mental health aren't worth it 113528
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Dr James Rule @palaeo-jrule.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New paper lead by Siobhan Pearson, exploring morphological differences between fur seal and sea lion crania 🦭 We found that allometry explains most differences between the two groups. This project originated as Siobhan's Masters project at @nhm-london.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/mms....doi.orgQuantifying the Morphological Differences Between Fur Seals and Sea LionsThe eared seals (family Otariidae) are divided into fur seals and sea lions, despite a lack of cladistic support for these groups. The division is primarily based on hair morphology, and it is unknow... 079
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Yes contributing to environmental catastrophes and extinction is scary, but what else are we going to do? Write our own emails? Learn math? Create art? Speak to other humans?!" 0187
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 05/09/2026Shameless plug: if you want to know what happened to these guys' body size right after they went back into the sea (and through their evolutionary history too), check out our paper from 2024 😉 www.cell.com/current-biol...cell.comThe dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body sizeBurin, Park, et al. estimate the adaptive landscape of cetacean body size over 50 million years. The landscape is quite flat, with few new peaks arising after cetaceans entered the oceans. However, tr... 0193
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Nat Walker-Hale @phylonatworks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Now online at PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 0126
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New paper w/ @astigall.bsky.social! 🧪 "Species-level diversity dynamics during the Great Ordovician biodiversification event: a phylodynamic case study of Laurentian brachiopod lineages" Link to paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ngnZ73N~L... 0199
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)apply.workable.comAssociate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological SocietyVolunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST Location... 12926
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 22/08/2026I think we finally reached the day when we can say Sir David is starting to get slightly senile 😕 120
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Dear fellow scientists If you agree to review a paper but then you're unable to, no problem. Please just let the editors know, we understand, we'll find someone else, no problem. *Please* don't just ghost us: if you do then don't complain about how long your next paper takes in review. Thanks! 🧪 1226
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 14/08/2026Tell me about it. I'm trying to see the glass half full and to think about how I got to be part of more than one good paper in a single year haha 010
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 14/08/2026Question to my colleagues: a hat-trick is when you get three desk rejections with different papers in the same journal or is it when you get the same paper desk rejected in three different journals? Anyway, I got both this year \o/static.klipy.comKristen Bell Laughing and CryingAlt: Kristen Bell, a blonde woman staring at the camera wearing a pink shirt and a white blazer, starts Laughing and it gradually turns into Crying 151
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I will always stand with you 🏳️⚧️ 3181442671
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 06/08/2026Eu sou grande fã da goodr. Ótimo custo benefício, super confortáveis e tem modelos pra cabeças tamanho jaca como a minha 120
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Daniela Abade @danielaabade.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Trump raised import tariffs on Brazilian products based on the claim - never proven - that Brazil uses unregulated forced labor. 06917
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game: 572256765
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Priscilla Lau @prilau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comAn efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck modelMacroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere... 27841
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Third edition of my course on understanding phylogenetic comparative models and their inference! From finding the MaxLik, building an MCMC sampler to Markov processes, complex birth-death models and more. All welcome! 032
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 26/07/2026Apesar de a lapiseira ser de uma das cores mais feias já concebidas pela indústria, team 0.9 all the way 010
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026New paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)science.orgEmergent patterns of island biodiversity in the AnthropoceneHuman impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns. 26333
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 23/07/2026One of my favorite pieces. I've watched it live so many times and it never gets boring. It's still on my to do list to go watch the proper ballet as intended originally 120
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 22/07/2026Na real já tem vários, só não tiveram cojones o suficiente pra dar esse título 010
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Our work is out! Meet Tametara mirim, a new fossil snake 🐍 from Brazil that has challenged our views on early snake evolution! A jewel 💎 from the Cretaceous brought to you by an amazing team of colleagues among which @trsimoes.bsky.social and @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comExceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - NatureA well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape disparity in the group. 04016
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Lady Galabriela @gabirela.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Olha aí a amiguinha de vocês* www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comExceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - NatureA well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape disparity in the group. 229811
Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 22/07/2026"Closing the gap between micro- and Macroevolution, pero no mucho" 1152
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Want a summary of the recently published paper of @semifossorial.bsky.social and colleagues on @currentbiology.bsky.social and understand the implications for reptile and turtle evolution? Here it is! I hope you have as much fun reading as I had writing it :) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 183
Reposted by Gustavo Burin 🍉Lady Galabriela @gabirela.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Gente eu escrevi um negócio… mês passado saiu um artigo sobre a origem de tartarugas e eu fui convidada a escrever um editorial sobre isso. Tentei fazer uma revisão do histórico do tema e um resumo do artigo publicado. A quem interessar possa :) kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.mePlease wait whilst we redirect youAll content on this site: Copyright © 2026 Elsevier B.V., its licensors, and contributors. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply. 0122