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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 4h

Paleobotanists, come be our colleague at the wonderful Yale Peabody Museum! apply.interfolio.com/194803

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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 7h

Version 1.3.2 of PearTree released: github.com/artic-networ... Fixes many of the remaining niggling bugs. WebApp updated at peartree.live

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 9h

New research in #RESSystematicEnt #Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary relationships between nesting and brooding behaviours and morphological structures in vespid #wasps doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Vespidae #Morphology #Behaviour @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

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Jeff Wilson Mantilla @diapophysis.bsky.social · 7h

Just a reminder that certain colors cannot be discriminated by around 5% of the population. Especially in the run-up to the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting, think about choosing colorblind-friendly colors for display. There are many resources for this, but colorbrewer2.org is great.

graph showing principal components analysis of landmark data from neck vertebrae of birds discriminating different diving styles.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 9h

Anything set in Europe or the US prior to 1900 where the characters correspond using 8 1/2 x 11 paper, and more annoying still when the letters are written in contemporary trifold style, and worse yet when they’re supposed to be women’s letters.

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Joseph W. BRRRAAAIIINNNSSS @josephwb.bsky.social · 9h

In grade 2 I went out for Halloween dressed as a detective: trench coat, fedora, sunglasses, magnifying glass. For weeks afterwards I continued to wear the fedora...

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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 12h

Student or recent graduate working on any aspect of taxonomy/systematics/phylogenetics? Want to present at a friendly, FREE online conference? Then send us your abstracts by Saturday, October 24!!! REGISTER: tinyurl.com/bdzxt2ht (Psst, the earlier you send abstracts, the less we pester for them!)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

I don't use GenAI because I want to be capable of doing my work. I want my work to be my work. I want my successes to be *my* successes. And I want to do the work that I can only do if I don't have GenAI getting in my way. Each author and intellectual should have this conversation with themselves.

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Joseph W. BRRRAAAIIINNNSSS @josephwb.bsky.social · 10h

Although restricted to carbon dating, this video by @tomlumperson.bsky.social is one of my all-time favourite pieces of sci-com: funny, entertaining, and informative. youtu.be/XN758QmTus0?...

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How Did We Even Figure Out Carbon Dating?

YouTube video by Tom Lum

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 11h

Reminder to graduating PhD students looking for postdocs in the US: this is the fallow period when: 1) NSF historically does not release many awards 2) Universities are starting to look at faculty applications but not making offers (so no new startups) It should look better in a few months. 🧪

Line plot of NSF grants awarded per day, two week rolling average, for this year (red line), last year (blue line) and previous years (grays). The year starts out low (January) but increases to have a pulse of activity July through September

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Alexa Robles-Gil @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Scientists have long wanted to understand the neural basis for camouflage in cephalopods. How does the cuttlefish, which studies suggest is colorblind, take in the visual world and project it on its skin in as little as a second? My latest for the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/s... #marinelife

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How Do Cuttlefish Hide? Scientists Search for the Secret to Camouflage. (Gift Article)

Cephalopods are masters of camouflage. Scientists want to decipher how the process works in the brain.

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Genomicist: Once you include an outgroup, you'll see that it's actually an insertion in the career of other candidates

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The offense getting BayesTreePrior banned? Apparently, not changing the previously approved Maintainer field to an Authors@R field. So no one can install it from CRAN in the usual way any more, and links to its PDF of functions are broken. #Rstats Pkg info: ajolicoeur.wordpress.com/bayesiantrees/

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Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Final version of Gabby Coffing’s last chapter! Reviewer’s made some good suggestions. Nice paper I’m proud to have played a role on! 🐙 academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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Diversity and divergence of two sympatric, sibling octopus species

Abstract. Coleoid cephalopods have convergently evolved many traits shared with vertebrates, including camera-type eyes, large brain-to-body size ratios, a

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We really need to make Meng's Big Data Paradox central to teaching, don't we? Researchers don't know this stuff bc they have never been exposed to it. But it is fundamental. (Link to paper PDF statistics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...)

3. Compensating for quality with quantity is a doomed game.
3.1. A law of large populations? Under a probabilistic sampling, a central
driving force for the stochastic behaviors of the sample mean (and alike) is the
sample size n. This is the case for the Law of Large Numbers (LLN) and for the
Central Limit Theorem (CLT), two pillars of theoretical statistics, and of much of
applied statistics because we rely on LLN and CLT to build intuitions, heuristic
arguments, or even models. However, identity (2.3) implies that once we lose control of probabilistic sampling, then the driving force behind the estimation error is
no longer the sample size n, but rather the population size N. Specifically, (2.3)
and (2.5) together imply that
(3.1) Zn,N ≡ Gn − GN

VSRS(Gn)
= ρR,G1−f
f σG
1−f
n S2
G
= √
N − 1ρR,G.

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Rachel Slote-Brown @rachelsb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s Halloween Knits for #showmeyourknits this week! Here I am wearing my Arachne sweater to the pumpkin patch last year. #knitsky #ArachneSweater #knitting #SweaterKnitting

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Carl rothfels @crothfels.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

USU is hiring a microbiologist and an avian biologist! Both positions tenure-track, starting in 2027. These will be great positions in a great department--please reach out if you have any questions!

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Assistant Professor of Biology - Microbiology in Logan, Utah | Careers at Logan Campus

The Department of Biology (www.biology.usu.edu) is seeking to fill a tenure-track (1.0 FTE, 9-month, 50% research, 40% teaching, 10% service) position in the area of microbiology to start in the Fall ...

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My favourite part of this poster design is that is a “myriorama” (inspired by @tomgauld.bsky.social’s “Endless Journey” cards), meaning the sections can be cut out and re-arranged in 10! (i.e. 3,628,000) different combinations! #SciArt

One of over 3 million different permutations of the 10 myriorama cards

Another of the over 3 million different permutations of the 10 myriorama cards

yet another combination of the 10 myriorama cards

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Are you interested in supporting scientific research and teaching focused on living things and the natural world? My department, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology is hiring two full-time Lab Coordinators (faculty assistants). Union jobs with good benefits. careers.harvard.edu/job/laborato...

Telephoto shot of four meerkats standing with yellow grass and blue sky in the background

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social in an old mansion on Long Island is starting to book up! Registration is open until Nov 1 OR until we hit 200 registrants, so grab your spot before it's gone! www.amnat2027.org

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ASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027

Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here!

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fall 2026 Martine Lab, heading into Fall Break. #plantpeopleFTW #raybucknell

Current 8 members of the Martine Lab at Bucknell

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Jhan C. Salazar, PhD @jhancsalazar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In our latest manuscript, my coauthors and I wanted to test two ideas: (1) anoles colonized mountains repeatedly and independently, and (2) highland lineages evolve faster than lowland ones. (1/6) 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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Joseph W. BRRRAAAIIINNNSSS @josephwb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apologies to @sidney-davies.bsky.social et al. for my crotchety post last night. _Not_ cool. :/ Paper looks solid.

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This afternoon join us for brief research proposal talks by our newest #LaurierBiology Integrative Biology MSc students! All welcome!

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Could bacterial biofilms have something in common with embryos? As disease-causing E. coli grows into a biofilm, it switches on increasingly young genes, following patterns surprisingly similar to those seen in developing organisms. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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Evolutionary expression patterns in developing biofilms of uropathogenic Escherichia coli reveal embryo-like features

Do bacterial biofilms show developmental evolutionary imprints similar to those of eukaryotic embryos? Using the uropathogenic Escherichia coli UTI89 strai

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Academia distilled.

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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tenure track assistant/associate professor positions open in my university. Within life sciences, INCLUDING PLANT SCIENCES. Please RT jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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Three tenure track assistant/associate professors in life science, HiLIFE

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm definitely observing this. A lot of my friendships from university began as study groups. Now students just study with notebookLM or another chatbot. These students will come out of university more socially isolated, less open-minded, and lacking critical communication and collaboration skills.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Selection shapes the evolution of genome size in a globally invasive plant Nongthongbam et al. @byonkeshn.bsky.social @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Abundance, genomic distribution and structural characteristics of transposable elements and ribosomal RNA genes across the common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) reference genome.

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's official: no more Phrymaceae, monkeyflowers are now in Orobanchaceae!

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After 55 days on crutches I can finally “walk” and teach using the board 😭 I really missed it: slides are not the same!!!

A whiteboard filled with red, black, and green math equations and graphs. Before today I had to resort to showing material on slides because it was too burdensome to do whiteboard work on crutches.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Evopsych guy: “Am I out of touch with the genetics? No, it’s the geneticists who are woke left ideologues.”

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Dan Warren @danlwarren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reading Statistical Rethinking by @rmcelreath.bsky.social and “If you are confused, it is only because you are trying to understand” is such a great line that I am definitely going to have to quote it when I’m teaching.

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Pravrutha Raman @pravrutharaman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now that we have moved coasts, I am thrilled to share that the ChromEvo (Raman) lab is officially open at UMass Boston 🎉 We ask how CHROMatin EVOlution leads to functional innovation and we are hiring at multiple levels. Read on and share with folks who maybe interested chromevoramanlab.github.io

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now that it's officially out, I have to say I'm quite proud of this work🙂 I got involved in it after a bit of a failure in another proj. Took way longer than it could. Started pregnant, published close to baby's 3rd bday😅 Very grateful for my patient mentors and collaborators doi.org/10.1093/molb...

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Characterizing the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection

Abstract. Balancing selection refers to scenarios where selection maintains genetic polymorphisms affecting fitness and its components. Empirical studies h

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Kathryn R Elmer @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we have a PhD studentship open in the NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Programme. This is a "CASE" Studentship, meaning it is academics together with a charity partner and involves an internship. Currently open for international applicants; home UK applicants from 2 Nov. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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Joseph W. BRRRAAAIIINNNSSS @josephwb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can spot a incorrectly-rotating globe or a left-handed helix from 500 yards :P

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Douglas Adams's 1987 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency featured robot monks to which people had outsourced their faith and philosophy and ethics.

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Joseph W. BRRRAAAIIINNNSSS @josephwb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Looks great; love the watercolour aesthetic. Only nitpick: at 5:05 the Earth is rotating in the wrong direction :/

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Laura Russo and I have a chapter on "The coevolution of flowering plants and pollinators" in this new book on "Threats to Pollinator Abundance and Diversity" www.sciencedirect.com/book/edited-... 🐝🌸🦋🌺

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Threats to Pollinator Abundance and Diversity

Threats to Pollinator Abundance and Diversity, the first release in the Pollinators in Peril series, covers the latest research on insect...

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Gal Ofir @galofir.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A new plant-bacteria immunological connection in the first preprint of our group at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social! Straight from the top of Mt. Olympus ⛰️🦅 Led by Eirik @eiriklag.bsky.social, in collaboration with @geminiteamlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our preprint with the view from the top of the Olympus in the background

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Recruiting students to your Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD program? Make sure your stipend information is up-to-date in the Biology PhD Stipend database: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

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Biology PhD Stipends

Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Congratulations to Nelsy Niño! She has just received a Best Student Presentation Award from the Society of Canadian Ornithologists for her talk "Vocal mimicry is widespread in tropical seedeaters" at the SCO 2026 Annual Meeting. Way to go Nelsy! @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @nelsyninor.bsky.social

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