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Joel Nitta

@joelnitta.com
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Associate Prof. at Chiba University, Japan. Father. Pteridologist. Outdoor Activist. Nikkei Yonsei. Posts mine. www.joelnitta.com

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 19h
I'm using this text in my upper level general plant biology course. I assign readings in a very different order than presented in the book, but overall it's pretty good on most topics. It's shorter, like a primer, but that's fine for prep before a more detailed lecture. Students like it. #botany 🧪
A book titled "Botany for Gardeners: An Introduction to the Science of Plants", Fourth Edition, by Brian Capon. They both has a green cover and a drawing of the cross section of a flower.
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 12h
Heya I put together a bunch of things that i have been thinking about over the past a few years into this insight piece and look forward to any discussion this may lead to 🌸💚
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Jhan C. Salazar, PhD @jhancsalazar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy to share that the last chapter of my dissertation is finally out in Evolution! 🦎⛰️ I'll share a longer thread soon about what we did and found. Huge thanks to all my coauthors: @jblosos.bsky.social, @juvelas.bsky.social, Steven Poe and Adam Algar doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Repeated evolution of high-elevation occupation in tropical lizards
Abstract. Since Darwin and Humboldt, researchers have sought to understand how species adapt to elevation. Although tropical reptiles are typically most di
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/10/2026
“Upon careful analysis, it’s clear our organization is going to bungle messaging in late October, costing us many key races across the nation.” — Ken Martin, DNC chair
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DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
WASHINGTON—In an effort to get ahead of the forthcoming criticisms of how they squandered such a commanding lead in the polls, the Democratic National Committee released a preemptive autopsy Tuesday i...
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Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
T is a programming language for reproducible data analysis in which software-engineering best practices are enforced by construction. T projects are reproducible Nix environments, T programs are pipelines, and computational nodes are explicit, isolated and cacheable. 1/3
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T Programming Language - index
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
A recent analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: scim.ag/3SziyeL
A phylogenetic distribution and trait correlates of acoustic motifs in passerine birds. Hedline reads: The global biogeography of passerine songs
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Petal to the metal: The slow road to automating large-scale #phenology labeling for #herbarium specimens New in #AppsPlantSci by @er1ngrady.bsky.social, @djli.bsky.social, @rdinnager.bsky.social, Rob Guralnick, et al. doi.org/10.1002/aps3... @floridamuseum.bsky.social @usa-npn.bsky.social #botany
The heading reads: "Historical flowering data unlocked for over 2.9M herbarium specimens". The background image is a digitized herbarium specimen. In the center of the image is a bar chart showing the number of flowering records across the decades, from 1800 to 2020. The text at the bottom of the image reads: "Integrated in Phenobase", with the URL phenobase.org
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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs for Phylogenomics: The Impact of Paralogy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Garden Club of America’s Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany is now taking applications and provides at least one grant award of $4,500 annually to support a one-year research project related to medicinal plants. Deadline: January 31, 2027 Learn more here: botany.org/news/display...
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Anne S. Chatham Fellowship
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Barret Schloerke @schloerke.com · 30/09/2026
📦 Introducing shinyreact for R & Python Write your UI natively in React. Shrink your Shiny server to data-only logic. Agent Skills write the React for you. ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09... This is the start! Tell us what you build and what breaks. #RStats #Python #Shiny #React
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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · 30/09/2026
Will this be included in the next version of R?
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna
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rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026
September news 🗞️ #RStats ✍️ Champions Program update including a comm call announcement Monday Oct 12, 2026 15:00 UTC! 📆 Yani and Mark at the Openscapes comm call “Open Communities in the age of AI” 📦️️ New packages {ciecl}, {brapiR2} 🎂 Quinceañera (celebrating 15 years together): Yi-Chin […]
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every year we make the case for keeping leaves, branches, & plant stems in your yard. Bugs need them for shelter! That’s not to say you can’t tidy up: rake leaves into garden beds, around trees, or just in a pile out of the way. All we ask is that you #LeaveTheLeaves! 🍂🐝 xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
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Leave the Leaves!
One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.
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Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Early-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestors academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... From @phylieu.bsky.social @sinkingdiatom.bsky.social @omearabrian.bsky.social
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Early-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestors
Abstract. Large phylogenetic trees are often unbalanced near the root, with a species-depauperate lineage sister to a far more species-rich clade. The spec
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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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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The monkeyflowers, including all those things we call Mimulus, have now been collapsed (along with some other small families) into the Orobanchaceae. This lumper couldn’t be happier. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Large‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG V
We present here a revision of the APG classification that considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of t...
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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Artists! The state of Hawaii is looking for people to make a set of artwork for a campaign celebrating our trails and their connection to nature and culture. It does require being a registered vendor, but that's not hard, lmk if you need help. RFP here: hiepro.ehawaii.gov/public-displ... #sciart
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State of Hawaii eProcurement - HIePROHawaii eProcurement
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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yay my university president invited us all to a wellness seminar! "This workshop will help us better understand those reactions and explore practical tools for moving through change with greater intention, agency, and adaptability." #AcademicSky #Skystorians
Meme. Robin says "My workload is unmanageable," Batman slaps him saying "Here's a wellbeing seminar."
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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is great! I am also techning basic folder structure because it is surprisingly not something students know😅
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Corey Callaghan @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do? We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios... #ecology
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
✳️ Check out this new #AJB commentary by Jacob S. Suissa! ✳️ "Ferns, marsupials, and Darwin's Wedge: Does competitive displacement really explain macroevolutionary patterns in #ferns?" doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
Unfurling fronds of Struthiopteris spicant in Northern California. Many lineages of ferns went extinct in the Paleozoic, but as a whole ferns have persisted for nearly 400 million years, and extant ferns have expanded into nearly all terrestrial ecosystems. Does competitive displacement really explain their Paleozoic evolutionary patterns? (Credit: Jacob Suissa.)
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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...
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Systems Ecology
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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · 22/09/2026
Congrats Sarah!!
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌿 Congratulations to Sarah K. Morris (University of Vermont), recipient of the 2026 Edgar T. Wherry Award from the BSA Pteridological Section, for her research presented at Botany 2026! 🎉 #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW
A portrait of Sarah K. Morris standing in a mossy forest, holding a fern frond. The text reads: "Botanical Society of America 2026 Edgar T. Wherry Award, Pteridological Section. Sarah K. Morris, University of Vermont." A QR code and the text "Learn more about the Edgar T. Wherry Award from the BSA Pteridological Section here!" appear at the bottom, along with the Botanical Society of America logo. The graphic has a border of green leaves.
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Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New release (v4.3) of Ben Redelings' BAli-Phy is available: bali-phy.org
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BAli-Phy: Welcome!
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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
Coffee mug with PAUP logo Coffee mug with PAUP logo that says "SSB 2026" above
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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am amazed that I still see "data available from the authors upon request" in high profile publications today. That's just another way of saying, "You're eventually going to have to use a Ouija board to confirm or build upon these results."
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It had been theoretically predicted that the expansion of the Nature family of journals would inevitably lead to oxymoronic titles in the long run if left unchecked. This prediction has just been experimentally confirmed
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm giving my talk at posit::conf(2026) in about 20 minutes! Talking about how we can make better slides for the data poeple emilhvitfeldt.github.io/talk-quarto-... I'm also releasing then quarto extension i used for the fragments used in the talk here github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #positconf
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Martin R. Smith @palaeosmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fast and innovative methods for building consensus trees: package ConsTree is now on CRAN constree.github.io
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ConsTree: Fast Algorithms for Phylogenetic Consensus Trees
Efficient construction of phylogenetic consensus trees. Methods include strict, majority-rule, majority-rule (+), loose (combinable component / semi-strict), greedy, Adams, frequency difference, R*, a...
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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 15/09/2026
We're excited to share commons, an R and Python package that helps data scientists build trustworthy data agents for their organizations! Read more on the @posit.co open source blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...
A screenshot of the blog post announcing commons. The hero image shows the hex sticker, a common kingfisher on a park bench.
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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 11/09/2026
📦 {tibblify} 0.4.2 is updated on CRAN! It's mostly to prep for an upcoming {stbl} release, but it also is nicer about length-0 vectors for optional fields. #RStats tibblify.wrangle.zone
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Rectangle Nested Lists
A tool to rectangle a nested list, that is to convert it into a tibble. This is done automatically or according to a given specification. A common use case is for nested lists coming from parsing JSON...
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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
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RAxML-NG 2: Automatic model selection, novel tree search heuristics, and fast branch support metrics
RAxML-NG is a widely used tool for maximum likelihood based phylogenetic inference. In the seven years since the last RAxML-NG publication, we have continuously improved and extended the code. Here, w...
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 12/09/2026
I don't fuckin know; sometimes you just need to look at a jellyfish.
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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
TreeFlow: Probabilistic Modelling and Automatic Differentiation for Phylogenetics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42727064
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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · 11/09/2026
Constantly!
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
✨A fun little reminder for everyone✨: Future You is not magically less busy. Future You is actually just as busy as Current You + also hates Past You for all the extra stuff you signed them up for.
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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've been revisiting a mapping I created between plant type specimens in @jstor.bsky.social Global Plants website and records in @gbif.org (see my blog post doi.org/10.59350/m59... for details). I've now released a crude website to explore the mappings iphylo.org/jstor-plant-...
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Where are the plant type specimens? Mapping JSTOR Global Plants to GBIF
Blog by Rod Page on biodiversity informatics, taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs, and other topics.
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Karthik Ram @karthik.io · 06/09/2026
Today's vibe
A cartoon character tired of Zoom calls, ready to go recharge in nature
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Dwayne Tuck 🫐🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dwaynetuck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yes, hello, how does one get added to this list?
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Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client
Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes delays or blocks some users from opening the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows systems.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Always RT aposematic drinkware
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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @usrbinr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i love #rstats. that is all. that is the post.
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Hannah Owens @hannahoish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#occCite version 0.6.3 is now on CRAN, ready for the #rgbif changeover to Catalog of Life Extended release taxonomy. #Rstats #RopenSci docs.ropensci.org/occCite/news...
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Changelog
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Joel Nitta @joelnitta.com · 02/09/2026
How did you find my grandma’s house?
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
WE DID IT! A Day for BSA didn't just reach our $15,000 goal, together we raised $16,972! Every gift & journey shared made this happen. That's YOUR Journey — OUR Story. Enjoy the journeys of your community via this video or at day-for-bsa.botany.org/2026 #DayforBSA #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 01/09/2026
UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke to combine herbaria, creating the third-largest university plant collection in the United States ncbg.unc.edu/2026/08/31/u...
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UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke to combine herbaria, creating the third-largest university plant collection in the United States - North Carolina Botanical Garden
The combined herbaria will create an unmatched archive for studying plant diversity in the southeastern United States (Chapel Hill, N.C.— Aug. 31, 2026) UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University will unite....
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Don't forget to come along to our talk today - 15:00 UTC!
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