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Joel McGlothlin

@joelmcglothlin.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist. Professor at Virginia Tech.

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Thanks for the shoutout! I would not be doing what I do today without the mentorship of Dave McCauley. He was my freshman advisor, my researcher advisor, and my professor for Evolution and Biostatistics. He was brilliant, kind, and generous, and was a perfect example of how to be a great scientist.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Every time I teach Evolutionary Genetics, I assign the students to write a Digest in the style of the journal Evolution and encourage them to submit it if they are eligible. This past spring, an undergraduate student, Henry Ayers, decided to submit his, and it just got published. Way to go, Henry!
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Digest: Longitudinal striping in rodents
Abstract. Why do some rodents exhibit longitudinal dorsal stripes rather than the much more common monochromatic pelage coloration? Caro et al. (2026) inve
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I was working on two overdue manuscript reviews for different journals but both in the same review system. I had the windows open in adjacent tabs. I finished my review for MS #1 and confidently hit submit. Guess what?
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#Evol2026 #DNA
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If you're at #Evol2026 and want to talk about publishing a review in Proc B, come find me. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/pages/r...
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Reviews | Proceedings B | The Royal Society
Reviews | Proceedings B | The Royal Society Review Articles   Associate Professor Joel McGlothlin is the Proceedings B Reviews Editor. Proceedings B welcomes unsolicited review prop...
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#Evol2026 is my 19th Evolution meeting (I count 2021), and my 16th in a row. I feel really lucky to be part of this community. I also feel old!
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hey, #Evol2026 people. It's a small meeting. Let's talk.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@adarowski.bsky.social This was fun. I left yesterday's @immaculategrid.com open in a tab, started playing it this morning, and then refreshed the window. Who knew Mario Soto was such a great hitter?
Impossible Immaculate Grid results
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Happy to share this new preprint, the first submitted chapter from Kait Malewicz's dissertation and a collaboration with Chris Feldman's lab at UNR. Pick your poison: Tetrodotoxin variants give Pacific newts a potential leg up in the coevolutionary arms race with resistant garter snake predators
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
What are people using to make their lab webpages now? Mine (made on WordPress) is horribly out of date and I'm thinking about just starting over.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In August, I will no longer merely associate with professors
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Check out Kait's work as highlighted by the ACS!
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A quick post to note that I noticed that I haven't been posting and it's been great, so back to not posting now
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EEID 2026 at Virginia Tech @eeid2026.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Very bad start to the day. I got Jeff Samardzija and Jake Arrieta confused on @immaculategrid.com. These two now join Jon Lester and John Lackey as commonly confused former Cubs pitchers with J names.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Reading this with my class today. I love this paper. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A stabilizing eco-evolutionary feedback loop in the wild
Reciprocal interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes are a central tenet of eco-evolutionary dynamics but have rarely been demonstrated. Zamorano et al. demonstrate that changes in th...
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Eight manuscripts in my editorial queue. Deep breaths.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Regretting not using this answer yesterday for a shot at @learnedleague.com best-wrong-answer glory: After a series of high-profile incidents, in 2001 a table replaced a horse for future competitions in what Olympic event, per the broader sport's international rules federation? HORSE TENNIS
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If he had stayed healthy, this might have been right. What a game he had the other day.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If the wizards at Microsoft could make PowerPoint stop doing that thing where all of a sudden all your pictures disappear and you can't save your file and you lose three hours of work that would be great
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Just found that the title of one my papers has been wrong on my CV for 18 years. The reviewers requested that we shorten it in the final revision and I forgot to change it on my CV when the paper went to press.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
75% of academia is writing reports and then writing other reports that report on the reports
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I have been writing my statement for my promotion packet, and I think I now have managed to convince myself that I should be promoted.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Proposal: A Tex-Mex/Italian fusion restaurant called Fajitaboudit
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
#1: The Fourth of July is a holiday about opposition to monarchy, and as a nation, we should probably get back to that
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
AI is everywhere. Why can't it read my email backlog and make me a priority list of which ones to deal with first? I would prefer this to the distracting auto-suggestions of words I don't actually want to type.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 21/06/2025
The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...
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A bibliography for the 2025 IDEA plenary
The recording of my talk for the 2025 IDEA plenary is now posted over on the Evolution meeting YouTube channel (there’s a bunch of dead air at the start of the recording; the action starts a …
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My @asn-amnat.bsky.social Presidents Address for #Evol2025 is now available on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=soPd...
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ASN Presidential Address - EVOLUTION 2025
YouTube video by Evolution Meetings
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#Evol2025 was for me maybe the most important meeting I have ever been to. My science will be drastically improved by my interactions over the past week. It was bittersweet due to the current situation and the people who weren't there, but I'm optimistic that we are strong enough to overcome this.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Incensed
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New nickname alert #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
St. Patrick's speciation #Evol2025 #FunnySubtitles
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Remember tweetups?
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Not quite 8 and it is already 1,000 degrees #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Had dinner with a friend from grad school days. She said "haven't seen you in forever" and I said "didn't we see each other at an Evolution meeting not that long ago?" We figured out it was at the Raleigh meeting. In 2014. 👴 #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
When you forget to book a hotel and end up in an AirBnB #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
PowerPoint voice recognition technology is a weird combination of very good and very bad. Why doesn't it use the words on the slides to help it come up with the right spellings of uncommon words (species names, etc.)? Why does it get stuck and miss whole sentences sometimes? #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I remember being anxious as a junior scientist trying to introduce myself to senior people at meetings. Now I'm one of the senior people, I guess. Consider this your invitation to come introduce yourself if we haven't met. #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
One new collaboration hatched, a recent one intensified, a couple of old ones rekindled. Good week so far at #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Congrats to @emilyroycroft.bsky.social on receiving this year's Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize. Fantastic work! #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Australian mammals have the best names #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
@danielbolnick.bsky.social: "Keep doing science: the pursuit of knowledge is an act of resistance." #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
@jbyoder.org coming out strong for "data" as a singular noun #Evol2025
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Al Foster was the drummer on so many of my favorite records. The State of the Tenor with Joe Henderson and Ron Carter stands out as a big one. RIP, Maestro. www.npr.org/2025/05/29/n...
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Al Foster, drummer for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, has died
The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's been a wild week for my editorial queue
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My primary role on dissertation committees is to correct punctuation errors.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Does anyone remember singing a song in chemistry class that went: Wasting away again in Moles-per-liter-ville Calculating my concentration of salt Some people claim that Mendeleev's to blame But I know it's Avogadro's fault I swear there was a recording of this with other molarity-themed lyrics.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
About NSF’s new(est) bulletin - 15% indirect cost rates will kill universities. Apparently that’s the point. I am sick.
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I enjoy being on PhD student committees, and I love seeing students' work come together. However, I have three dissertations to read this week!
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