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Jamie @late2stuff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I would rather have pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep and elk and purple sage and four wing saltbrush than data centers and so far no one in tech has presented a compelling vision for how to have all of those things, they just seize more resources for the plagiarism engine.

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Press release: news.umich.edu/ai-tool-reve... This was a huge project, requiring imaging of ~15,000 individual skeletons that were collected and deposited in collections such as @ummnh.bsky.social over > 150 years. Museum collections make this type of work possible and must be supported.

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AI tool reveals climate shifts may have fueled bursts of bird evolution

University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid evolutionary bursts and that these bursts frequently coincided with climat...

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1

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Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Whole thread, God this is so fucking enraging, we have absolutely failed this generation of students and as failures go I don’t see how that one can be forgiven

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Macroevolutionary consequences of twin neck innovations in deep-sea dragonfishes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Curator of Vertebrates

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History currently has openings for three early-career Research Curators in Vertebrate Zoology, one each from the disciplines of ornithology, herpetology and ichthyology. The Department of Vertebrate Zoology seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise in, and a commitment to, collections-based research centered on systematics and evolution of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. This includes the ability to pursue an original approach to systematics and comparative analyses using, for example, morphology, development, and/or molecular data, and showing evidence of broader impacts or applications in evolutionary biology and/or collections-based ecology, as demonstrated by a record of peer-reviewed publications.

Candidates must have demonstrated the ability to establish an externally funded research program and to contribute to the growth and curation of the collections. Research in the Department is supported by the Museum’s shared laboratories, including the Laboratory of Analytic Biology and the Scientific Imaging facility, among others. The Department’s scientific collections are the largest in the world for fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, and the third largest for birds.

These federal positions will be filled at the GS-12 level, with a starting salary of $102,415, and excellent benefits. The positions are permanent and require a one-year probationary period.

The official announcement is posted on USAJOBS, where applications must be submitted.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Please be sure to read the announcement and instructions carefully, as the process of applying via USAJOBS is stringent and differs from applying for an academic position. This website offers helpful advice: https://serc.si.edu/careers/tips-applying-federal-jobs

Please contact the Search Committee Chair, Michael McGowen (mcgowenm@si.edu) or the Department Chair, Helen James (jamesh@si.edu) with any questions.

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out at@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 26/06/2026

A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.

THE PATHWAY THAT CONNECTS the
White House residence to the
Oval Office has long been paved in Tennessee flagstone. Every president since
Harry Truman made the 45-second commute, and made it without complaint, until Donald Trump. The dun rock would not do. Instead, Trump wanted polished African granite, carved in Italy, with a flamed-finish stripe-slightly raised, to prevent slips—running down the middle. As workers tore up the flagstone last March, a reporter asked Trump who was paying for the enhancements. "Paid for by me," he replied.

But that wasn't true. Budget documents from the National Park Service that I obtained show that the walkway replacement cost taxpayers $689,232, and is part of a $1.3 million project that included repairing adjacent stone and masonry and providing new hardware for nearby doors. A year earlier, in a separate
"Rush project at request of POTUS," the Park Service spent $347,503 to remove and replace the stucco on the colonnade wall, a project that cleared the way for Trump to affix gold frames and plaques mocking some of his predecessors.

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

The ray-finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic kno...

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I am so proud to see Jack's work out: bringing paleoichthyology into the world of ontological phylogenetics. This work comprises some of the most thorough comparative anatomy I've seen, and is a testament to Jack's dedication to transparent, replicable, and translatable science. Way to go Dr Stack!!

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Ray-finned fishes every million years or so @kacorn.bsky.social

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

A fake snail with a skull for a shell and bony body

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Reid Rumelt @rumeltr.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hello all! For my first post on this platform, I’m excited to share the first chapter of my dissertation, about using eBird and bioacoustics survey data to make species distribution models for Neotropical birds, which was published in @plosone.org today. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🧵(1/8)

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Combining acoustic survey and citizen science data yields enhanced species distribution models for tropical rainforest birds

A key goal in ecology is to develop effective ways to understand species’ distributions in order to facilitate both their study and conservation. Many species distribution modeling analyses have been ...

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So hype for this lab to open up—Mason is so full of exciting ideas to advance evolutionary biology and create a great community in science!!

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So excited to see Jack's new paper out! Rogue taxa are such a challenge...great to see us moving forward on how to resolve these problems.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

NOAA is in the Trump administration's crosshairs. You know the important work they do, but may now know that It's the descendant of the Coast Survey, the nation's first scientific agency, founded in 1807 under Jefferson. I spoke with maritime historians to put NOAA's legacy in context. 🧪🦑🌎🐟

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NOAA carries a two century legacy of America’s first government science agency

NOAA, the US government science and management agency in charge of sustainable fisheries, the national weather service, and ocean exploration, is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and P…

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is a reminder for myself as well as anyone else who needs it: amidst all this chaos and confusion, pick your lane. Find something to do that will provide agency, educate those in your community and push back against what is happening

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Re-upping these stickers because I think we all need the reminder Get one (and hey, some valentines while you’re there) at Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

A shrimp smokes a cigarette and drinks a martini and says the bastards don’t quit but neither do I

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

On a personal note...in summer 2015 I was @fishguy.bsky.social 's NSF REU undergrad at Friday Harbor Labs. I presented that work at SICB & applied to PhDs... In summer 2025 I'm an REU mentor w/ my own lab at @wsupullman.bsky.social. What a trip this last 10 years has been. An NSF REU success story 🥳

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Folks: pls share! Apps are open for WSU's 2025 NSF REU in Resilience & Robustness of Aquatic Biosystems! DUE: Feb. 17 WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3 WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer) WHO: 10 UGs $: 7k each Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility! sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 21/01/2025

I've gone from "Wikipedia is not a real source, students" to "I will defend Wikipedia with my life" in a short span of time. I don't know what we should do, I'll be looking to others for guidance on that, but I do know we have to defend every remotely democratic or open source tool we have now.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trans, intersex, and queer people will always exist because humans are biological creatures and biology - inevitably and always - creates variability and diversity. If there is any “biological truth,” it’s that a biological system will never conform to the strictures of human machinations.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

But he doesn’t! He has repeatedly shown that he doesn’t! Don’t wish for something different, remind listeners that he’s actually done this, and ask them to imagine him doing it to them. Play fucking hardball. Christ, this isn’t hard.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

screenshot from the article:

Other disciplines that have experienced male flight include:

Biology. While most STEM professions remain male dominated, 10 years ago biology became a 50/50 male/female split. By 2022, 62% of biology majors were women. Biology is now often considered the “easiest” of the STEM majors.

Interior Design. William Morris is considered the father of interior design. After finishing his education at Oxford, he began an architectural design school called “the Firm”— just for men. Many universities had interior design programs. Until women began to enter the design space, at which point it was relegated to a mere “hobby.” Since the influx of women, interior design programs have been pulled from almost all universities.

Teaching. In the 18th century, schooling in colonial America was reserved for the white and the wealthy. Most tutors were men who taught boys. By the middle of the 19th century, girls started becoming students and women became teachers. Consequently, men swiftly left the profession, the pay dropped and teaching was no longer considered a prestigious occupation.

Similar patterns of male flight have occurred in nursing, cheerleading, social work, architecture, gymnastics, library sciences and psychology.

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I am part of “shark people” and this is my favorite post of the week 🦈

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” George Orwell, 1984

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Every night, some crustaceans migrate upwards, up to 1000m from the twilight zone, to feed. They poop on the way down, transferring nutrients to deeper waters. Other species or larval stages maintain depth in the water column by riding gelatinous zooplankton! #Crustmas 🧪🦑

Phyllosoma (larval stage of a spiny or slipper lobster) riding a jellyfish in Kona, Hawaii. It is transparent with a broad flat head shield, and long long limbs (neither of which are so extreme in the adult). Photo by Steven Kovacs
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Copepod Calanus finmarchicus, seen in lateral view. It's a bit blobby and transparent, with long antennulae posed under the body. The abdomen (urosome) is pointed upwards and looks red.
https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2019/04/09/Norwegian-plankton-developer-braced-for-growth

Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. In natural hovering position - the red organs produce the bioluminescence - the hepatopancreas is filled with green phytoplankton, the food of krill, the straight gut in the back is filled with the empty shells of phytoplankton - in the front you see the compound eyes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_krill#/media/File:Antarctic_krill_(Euphausia_superba).jpg

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 19/12/2024

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Continuing the peer review discussion: @katherine-brown.bsky.social on principles for effective peer review: 1) Be respectful to authors 2) Request reasonable revisions 3) Focus on whether data support the conclusions 4) Be transparent about expertise limits thenode.biologists.com/peer-review-...

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Peer review - why we need it and what we need - the Node

Hopefully some of you will have seen the recent editorial in Development on our approach to peer review. If you haven't read it yet, please do take a

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt for deep sea month is abyssal - the lightless, extreme pressure and low oxygen zone 4 to 6 km below the surface. 🧪🐡 So I made a lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods 🧵

My lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The fins reminded scientists of ears on the elephant in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo. Hence their common name dumbo octopuses. The print is 9.25” by 12.5” on delicate ivory Japanese washi paper with visible margin, number, title and signature. The background is black. The octopus is reddish on top, then dark blue, with brown legs are spiralled up and drawn in close to its body.

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The Natural History Museum collections in London are so, so amazing 😍 🧪🔬🐠🐟 Here’s Luciocephalus pulcher:

An image of a fish whose muscle tissue has been digested and is transparent; the bones of the fish have been dyed red. The fish is just 5 cm long.

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Graham Slater @gjslater.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New pre-print from recent Slater lab graduate Dr David Černý and me, from David's dissertation work - a bayesian least squares supertree method for inference of time-calibrated phylogenies. Feedback much appreciated but here's the motivation.... 🧵

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews

Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

what do you mean "did I commit the script while it was working and before it broke again". of course not. what kind of good version control user do you think I am

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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#Education resource! Over the years I created this collection of colored skull #3Dmodels for teaching. They're available to download on MorphoSource & to view on Sketchfab. Because of recent changes to Sketchfab, I migrated them to my website: www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/work/colorso... (1/3)

A screenshot of a website displaying 8 colored skull models of amphibians and reptiles, along with buttons that will allow the user to navigate to 3D models for each skull.

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Rally delighted to see this paper out! Such exciting work by a stellar team

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Just to give everyone a reminder: you should never have to get a loan for a graduate program in ecology, evolution, & organismal biology. #🧪

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Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A nudibranch circus from #FridayHarborLabs Conservation Biology Class with Jon Allen. Anyone guess how many families he had? 🦑 #nudivember #marinelife #Inverts

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Template for writing your reps, how to find your reps, bill explainer in ASL, Senator press release, and full text of bull available here. open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...

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Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Revisiting fast-slow diversification rates with Rosana Zenil-Ferguson besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... published @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social Plea to present uncertainty estimate and sources! and a tribute to GG Simpson

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Oh my god. I had no idea: Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

One fish: "fish" 🐟 Multiple fish of the same species: "fish" 🐟🐟🐟🐟 Fish of multiple species: "fishes" 🐡🐟🐠 🧪🦑🐡

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