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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In fact, a whole county not to mention state park :)

Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I loved this movie as a kid… the stomach acid scene gave me nightmares but it was worth it. Just passed it along to my 10 year old last year and it was a huge hit once again!

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Are they endothermic? ectothermic? Do they subsist on anthropogenically subsidized resources like sheep? Or naturally occurring Oliphaunts? Or did I just cross into a different multiverse? Maybe sheep are key... buoyed by anthropogenic crops and maintained by humans, >> Draco feasibility?

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

w/ co-conspirators @jacquelyngill.bsky.social, Matt Hutchinson, Chris Kempes, Paul Koch, Pedro Ugarte, and Mathias Pires!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New paper just dropped! In a collaboration led by @jdyeakel.bsky.social, we explored how body size and the bioenergetics of trophic interactions constrain coexistence and shapes the evolution of body size and diets in mammalian carnivores. 🐺🦊🐅🐆🐻🦁

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Bioenergetic trophic trade‐offs determine mass‐dependent extinction thresholds across the Cenozoic

Body size constrains trophic interactions, shaping the feasibility of species' populations. Over macroevolutionary timescales, these constraints feed back to shape selection on body size and diet. We...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Good to hear the news of LTER's death has been exaggerated!

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

That would be great! Maybe I'm just normalized to bad news and assuming the worst...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm lucky enough to be part of the Sevilleta LTER in New Mexico... I don't know what happens now... there is so much to rebuild once we are able to rebuild. If.

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hmmm - after looking past the cover art, this is my jam. Purchased!

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Without knowing anything else about this book, I love the cover art... it's got that '60s Lost in Space vibe

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It's also had me thinking that Apollo 8 in '68 and Apollo 11 in '69 occurred during a particularly tumultuous time in the US and around the world, and maybe this moonshot will remind us of the better angels of our nature.

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

And with the diverse (gender! color!) Artemis team being international (Canada!), this feels particularly relevant and something to celebrate.

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I've always loved reading about the moon landings (and early NASA missions generally), and I'm thankful/excited to have something in the news that's exciting and that captivates the imagination...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Check out this very cool new paper by Stephen Hoover, @akfbio.bsky.social , and I’m serving drinks in the back - it’s wild!

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s truly insane in the best way XD

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I’ve gotta credit Robin Traylor for this line of argument :P

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Here’s the test - dire wolves have the largest baculum of any canid. Why? If they reconstructed its ecological function, they should know, but they don’t

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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

If you like matrices + microbes, have I got the paper for you. Work with @janamassing.bsky.social, @jdyeakel.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We study dynamics of cooperative bacteria without specifying a conventional model: doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

*when art is as valued as the science

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Probably right - yet nothing in there is that unbelievable, which is a wild place to be

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Hahaha - we were thinking it might be an embargoed story broken by this outlet… seems like a made up story would be less conservative in the details, but yea gotta be fake if nothing else comes out in the next few days

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Very excited to share this new exploration of motifs and their impacts on the dynamics of the entire network in PNAS! I learned a lot working with this crew (as usual)... with @mhab.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social !

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Got vaccinated today, mate… I’m an all-in-the-left-arm guy… now I’m walking in circles.

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

New paper where we explore how the dynamics of food webs can be explored when populations are ‘distilled’ to high and low states, or Boolean switches… Somehow this leads to a discussion involving Otodus megalodon :D nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Distilling food web dynamics: top–down and bottom–up drivers of extinction and trophic cascades

Quantifying population dynamics is a fundamental challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology, particularly for species that are cryptic, microscopic, or extinct. Traditional approaches rely on cont...

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Mark Novak, @kecoblentz.bsky.social, John DeLong FTW - a very cool paper I need to dig carefully through!

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Okay Open Nature… are you *trying* to make me eat cat food?

A can of Open Nature cat food and human food (tuna) looking remarkably similar…

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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution" Our new article is out in @science.org today www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New paper in Science! Luke Fannin and Nate Dominy on the bridge; I'm some kind of assistant science officer or asking the chief engineer where the bathroom is, but hey I'm part of the fleet -- Also, it's just a really awesome project, so check it out... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution

Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Same (4 days ago), but I couldn't figure out how to take a screenshot without my iPad blacking out the image.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My book drops in 2 months! “This is an essential, long-overdue guide, and a wonderful read.” -Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter @sgj.bsky.social Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/7576/97988... Barnes: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feral-and-...

FERAL
AND
HYSTERICAL
MOTHER HORROR'S ULTIMATE
READING GUIDE TO DARK AND DISTURBING
FICTION BY WOMEN

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Exciting opportunity for prospective grad students wanting to study the science of science w/ @culturologies.co … check it out! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

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Career Opportunities: PhD in Social Networks and Information (14282)

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Looks like Elon flew too close to a bloated orange giant ☀️

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Ahhh - your book Song of the Dodo changed my life and prompted me to go to grad school. Excited to hear more about this one!

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

How is your day going? for k in 1:length(ksdvec) ksd = ksdvec[k]; ksdname = ksdstrs[k]; ksd = 1.5; ....(long simulation).... end

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Jim Estes was one of my PhD advisors at UCSC… a generator of great ideas and discussions, always angling positive when others tried to tear down, a rockstar who didn’t act like a rockstar. This was my slide for Jim in my dissertation seminar… thanks for the good conversations and caribou sausage

Was Jim Estes Indiana Jones? Pretty much, but with sea otters 🦦

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

New paper on food-cleaning monkeys showing some true grit. Led by Jessica Rosien, Nate Dominy, Luke Fannin, Suchinda Malaivijitnond and Amanda Tan - this was a fun collaboration :D 🐒 elifesciences.org/articles/98520

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Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returns

Monkeys are sensitive to foods coated with tooth-damaging sand and will invest time and energy to eliminate sand, but dominance rank affects the effort allocated to cleaning behaviors.

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