Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themTom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I asked ages ago but didn’t get much of a response so I’m taking another swing at it. Does anyone following me either know how to read Cree or know someone who can? 1190165
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes 4458147
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026SOAPMAKER: "Alas, thieves have stolen my supplyes!" NEIGHBOR: "What bitter tidinges! Ys that trewe?" SOAPMAKER: "Aye, wher ys the lye?" 620623
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If someone put me in a bsky starter pack, does that mean I've Arrived? 100
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Datinge app for megalith enthuasistes Henge 1234778
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themKarolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026If you saw our new paper and thought "I didn't know aquatic plants use CAM!" boy do we have a fun project for you! Our lab is developing high throughput methods to screen plants for CAM. Do you work on, or know of, a plant that you think could be using CAM? Let us know! 👉 forms.gle/AyQc5KgzEYoM...forms.gleAre your plants CAM suspicious?Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin... 53732
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I was really not ready to lose Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in the same week. This sucks. 010
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themEvolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Evolution 2027 meeting logo contest! The winner will receive free conference registration and t-shirt! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2027-logo-co...evolutionmeetings.org2027 Logo Contest2027 Evolution Logo Contest! San Juan, Puerto Rico Please submit your original images to be considered. The winner will receive free meeting registration and t-shirt! Due October 1 Submit to... 12823
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The first draft of the response to reviewers should not be the last draft of the response to reviewers. 061
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themNatalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Trying to post positive on here! We just walked past rehearsals of a summer school in the Southbank Centre where the kids were performing London Calling with a big band x steel band x orchestra plus dancers and it was absolutely as chaotic and joyful as it sounds. 🎺 1162
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Okay see I'm from New England and was happy to concede that "Yeah yeah fine old small mountains" but then I moved to Ontario and was legit SO CONFUSED when a lot of it was too flat to hike up. "But I'm from a non-mountainous region! What is wrong with this region?!?! Where do I hike??!?!?" 110
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themAnonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.netecoevojobs.netecoevojobs.net 2026-27 1176210
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The new album from @themountaingoats.bsky.social is out today and I am seeing them a week from Monday and that means I only have 10 days to study and frankly I am worried that is not enough .... 010
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Thrilled to finally have a preprint for this work with @gbaucom.bsky.social, Stephen Johnson, Art Weis, and @stepheniwright.bsky.social. Hesperis is a charming plant with a nifty genome and I really enjoyed taking a deep dive into its repeatome! 151
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Very proud of my employer HudsonAlpha leading a newly awarded NSF ENGINE grant!! I've been seeing updates from the application process for years and the amount of work and thought and dedication that went into this is incredible. www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-awa...nsf.govNSF awards 12 new Regional Innovation Engines to fuel research, jobs and economic growth nationwideThe U.S. National Science Foundation announced it awarded the newest NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awards to 12 U.S. teams across 20 states. These NSF Engines will build and scale… 010
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themDavid Firth @davidfirth.bsky.social · 01/07/202622 years ago today I released Salad Fingers. 1192694711
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The CBC version has a better account of the artist and the imagery she used, which included a raised fist for Black Lives Matter: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Kind of a weird omission on the NYT's part ...cbc.caU.S.-inspired World Cup beaver statue in Toronto destroyed, police investigating | CBC NewsA United States-themed beaver sculpture designed to welcome World Cup tourists to downtown Toronto was destroyed over the weekend, prompting a police investigation and indignation from the U.S. ambass... 100
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This is such a good day for me 🇨🇦🍁🎶🎆🔥❤️🔥 www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...cbc.caCanada will enter the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest | CBC NewsCBC/Radio-Canada and the European Broadcasting Union have announced Canada will participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria. 000
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...them.usDaughters of the American Revolution Live Up to Their Name by Rejecting Ban on Trans Women“Transgender Americans are patriots, family members, volunteers, historians, and descendants of Revolutionary War ancestors just like anyone else.” 7447641204
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Looking forward to #Evolution2026! If you're there, come say hi! Or better yet, come here my talk on Tuesday in collaboration with the phenomenal @avril-m-harder.bsky.social on why pangenome graphs are a lifesaver for evolutionarily important structural variation! 051
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themDr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026@trevormugoya.bsky.social did a quick test on indexing a large plant genome: minibwa: real 8m59.243s user 20m16.834s sys 1m18.394s bwa-mem2: real 30m33.378s user 28m13.661s sys 2m10.261s Well dang! Life changing - thank you, @lh3lh3.bsky.social! 081
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themBenoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Recipe for a Good π. How to Properly Estimate Population Genetics Summary Statistics and Why we Should Systematically Report Them academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...academic.oup.comA Recipe for a Good π. How to Properly Estimate Population Genetics Summary Statistics and Why we Should Systematically Report ThemAbstract. Many long-standing questions in population genomics can now be addressed through comparative analyses and by leveraging the vast amount of genomi 0149
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I'm confused ... I thought we were doing "speedrun the 20th century" but this feels more "speedrun the 19th"?? 020
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I wish @themountaingoats.bsky.social would come back to Canada one of these days. 000
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themJasmin🌸 @theboobtaster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026this might be the best headline i’ve ever read 13682992480
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026For a period of a couple of years during the 2010s I was employed regularly by cattle to shoot the covers for the albums they had recorded. It was always wonderfully inspiring to witness the love, hard work and passion they had put into their music and I think that comes through in the photos. 26803199
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026It's legitimately hard and unfair and preserves a legacy of colonialism that a lot of biological nomenclature and taxonomy is in Greek and Latin. However as a former Classics major it is so much FUN. Like, I am always seeing these paper titles in journal TOCs with "Swordbearer!" and "Tiny spear!" 130
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themCasey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Oof, this is a tough onebbc.comAnthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia. 061
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Immigrant from the US to Canada here, and I'm not sure any US state hates its biggest city as much as Ontario hates Toronto ... 010
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/05/2026It’s going great.techcrunch.comYou can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunchAfter Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface. 942190624
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The existence of this subgenus (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsilo...) reeeally makes me think taxonomists hate people with dyslexia ...en.wikipedia.orgDorsilopha - Wikipedia 130
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026My public research university literally has a cattle ranch 1132276253
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themKy @ky.fyi · 14/05/2026obsessed with this US department of agriculture zine about snail farming from 1986 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c... 401280406
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themTom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Some insects will go to great lengths to avoid answering email. (Blue death-feigning beetle, Asbolus verrucosus, very much alive but trying to convince me it's not; Mojave Desert, California.) 🐙🌿 #bugsky 1745994
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themPopular Science @popsci.com · 06/05/2026It's Puppy Cam season! www.popsci.com/environment/...popsci.comDenali’s adorable Sled Dog Puppy Cam is back for 2026This year’s five freight-style Alaskan husky puppies carry on a 104-year-old tradition at Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve. 36316
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themAlicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026today when I walked into class a student bounced up to me to tell me an article she found for her final piece cited me in it. “I was like, that’s my professor!” I’ve never felt so famous in my life. 3852
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Well, those boots were not made for walking 20342251113
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themJeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Texted a colleague using voice to text while walking today and only later saw it wrote “colon lessons” instead of coalescence. How’s your day going? 2172
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themMike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 14/04/2026A reminder to all that Early Bird Registration for the Evolution conference (SSE, ASN, SSB societies) is still an option today or tomorrow. Prices go up after Apr 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration... I hope to see a number of you in Cleveland this year.evolutionmeetings.orgEvolution 2025 RegistrationEvolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB 197
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themGina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 14/04/2026😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱 4928530
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The health minister's workout routine is clearly working!! 020
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themLinda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free. 10241105
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themMary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Fasciated dandelion, Taraxacum officinale. The inflorescence meristem flattens into a flat "strap" meristem and the florets form along a pair of lines. It always looks a bit sinister to me, like a hungry mouth. #WildflowerHour 1294
Joanna Rifkin they/them @joannarifkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Full version available now of our new pennycress paper at @newphyt.bsky.social - great working with @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, et al. Come for the pretty pictures, stay for the cool science! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.comStructure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenomeReader environment loaded 184
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themJoshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 10/04/2026i cannot stress how helpful it is to have separate words for the two language that in english we call biblical/traditional hebrew (in yiddish, "loshn-koydesh" לשון־קודש) and modern hebrew (in yiddish, "ivrit" עבֿריתּ) 49416
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 10709362
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themSociety for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 09/04/2026💬 Don’t miss the latest Evolution Exchange, in which SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with Evolution Letters EIC Dr. Judith Mank about the use of AI and LLMs in scientific publishing: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio... @gbaucom.bsky.social @judithmank.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social 0158
Reposted by Joanna Rifkin they/themVictoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 09/04/2026'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done! 15061161812