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Orlando Schwery

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Research Scientist @Zenil-Ferguson Lab, UKY. Macroevolution, Phylogenetics, Diversification, Model Adequacy, Causal Inference, Dung Beetles, Ericaceae. 🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸 Opinions=own. He/him Mastodon: @oschwery@ecoevo.social, X: orlando_schwery oschwery.github.io

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend the 2027 Evolution meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. Submit your application by November 1st! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
The San Juan coastline. Text: Evolution 2027, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 25-29. Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: November 1.
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faculty curator position in vertebrate paleontology! Great opportunity to work with outstanding colleagues at LSUMNS: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
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Assistant Professor
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🦎*Please share!*🦎 Review begins Oct 5. The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...
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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're submitting a reference letter for a PRFB, I was surprised to not see any option for deleting and reuploading, which contradicts the info provided in the email requesting it. In fact, as soon as you select the file it is uploaded and you can't change it. Was fine for me, but beware.
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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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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Early career faculty in Evolution? I would love to chat with you!
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ukybiology.bsky.social @ukybiology.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New pub by PhD candidate Kimberly Cook! Missing the mammals for the trees: comparative biogeography of southern Appalachian sky island biodiversity academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
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Missing the mammals for the trees: comparative biogeography of southern Appalachian sky island biodiversity
On southern Appalachian mountaintops, pairwise comparisons between SFB forest and 10 small mammal species reveal discongruence between sky island habitat a
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Curator job at the ROM for an athropod specialist!
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Doc Edge @docedge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
Learn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really excited to share our latest paper with you! We examine patterns of skull shape evolution in an awesome group of fishes and show that they rapidly innovated following the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Selection, constraints, and contingency drive mosaic patterns of evolution during the carangarian adaptive radiation
Adaptive radiations generate remarkable morphological diversity, yet traits often diversify at different rates and modes, producing mosaic patterns of evolution. Modularity, the semiautonomous organization of traits, can shape how selection and ...
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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey, it's me
A photo of me smiling. Text says: Meet Our Newest Collection Curator:
Dr. Emily Troyer, Ichthyology
The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is excited to welcome Dr. Emily Troyer as the Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator of Fishes for its extensive ichthyology collection. Dr. Troyer’s research explores broad evolutionary patterns of biological diversity, with an emphasis on the environmental, genomic and morphological factors which constrain or promote the diversification of fishes throughout the history of life on Earth. Outside of museum work, Troyer’s hobbies include fish keeping, reading, exploring nature, horror films and developing an expansive collection of novelty t-shirts.
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Paleobiology Research Group at OU @oupaleobiology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy to welcome @fishfetisher.bsky.social, our new curator of fishes here at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History! 🐟🐠🧬
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2027! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. The application deadline is earlier this year: November 1st! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
The San Juan coastline. Text: Evolution 2027, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 25-29. Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: November 1.
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Susanne Fritz, who is great, is advertising a macroevolution/macroecology/biogeography postdoc at iDiv in Leipzig: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Macroevolution and Macroecology
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Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 I'm recruiting PhD students to join the Akopyan Lab at Rice University! If you're passionate about evolutionary genomics, I'd love to hear from you. Details: akopyanlab.org/opportunities Please share widely! 🙏
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Opportunities
We are recruiting PhD students in Evolutionary Genomics for Fall 2027 at Rice University!  Projects in the lab include investigating the causes and consequences of recombination rate variation, the...
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Tree of Life Web Project is back online! tolweb.org Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.
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Tree of Life Web Project
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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The PROGressive PHYLOgenetics LAB is now officially open and I'm looking to hire at all levels!! If you are interested in phylogenetics and macroevolution, and enjoy any/all of the following: fossils, morphology, genomics, simulations, or method development, please reach out to me :)
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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Applications for the 2027 summer school on Computational Molecular Evolution on Crete are now open at: meetings.embo.org/event/27-com... Strict Application Deadline: November 2
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Do you like snailfishes? lumpsuckers? clingfishes? New phylogeny dropped, and to toot our own horn it's really good! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
new phylogeny including snailfishes, lumpsuckers, rock-climbing gobies, and clingfishes showing forms of pelvic suction disc evolution
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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary Significance #paleobiology #paleobiology #fossils #ecology #evolution #EarthHistory #biodiversity
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Interpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary Significance
Fossil biotic interactions (fBIs) provide a critical but underutilized window into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of life through time. Unlike modern ecological data, the fossil record captu...
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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)
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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book
Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.
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Anya Auerbach @aauerbach.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey paleo friends, looking for paper recs (for my macroevolution senior seminar)! Topic is currently labeled as “deep time, fossils, taphonomy”. I’d ideally like a research paper that will expose my students to some “typical” paleobio research, but include discussion of biases in the fossil record.
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Priscilla Lau @prilau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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An efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model
Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...
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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am looking for potential candidates interested in applying for an external postdoctoral fellowship in my lab at Uppsala University. If you want to work on buzz pollination please get in touch. Reach me by email. More about our current work here: plant-evolution.org/wp/
Buzz pollinating beeThe Gustavianum museum at Uppsala
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Emma-Liina Marjakangas @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Postdoc opportunity in interaction networks under global change @ University of Helsinki! The position includes leading fieldwork & analyses on seed dispersal networks & mentoring junior researchers. Apply by 30 Sept: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #Postdoc #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
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Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🦎*Please share!*🦎 The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. More info and contact details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...
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Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thank you so much who came to watch my Palaeoverse lecture! Here's a link for anyone that's interested and couldn't catch it live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfi... Also, if you'd like to go through the tutorial I worked through during the lecture: brpetrucc.github.io/tutorials/sr...
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Palaeoverse Lecture Series: Bruno do Rosario Petrucci - Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with..
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New paper w/ @astigall.bsky.social! 🧪 "Species-level diversity dynamics during the Great Ordovician biodiversification event: a phylodynamic case study of Laurentian brachiopod lineages" Link to paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ngnZ73N~L...
Manuscript title of a P^3 paper that says: "Species-level diversity dynamics during the Great Ordovician biodiversification event: a phylodynamic case study of Laurentian brachiopod lineages"
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are hiring a #postdoc to work on our NSF funded project on metabolic rate as a driver of individual variation in treefrog acoustic communication. Please spread the word to potentially interested candidates (or apply if you are one of them): jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If 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...
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Are 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...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fun sci-comm opportunity for press releases at AmNat!
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Emilie Ellis @e-ellis1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🦋 I’m recruiting a fully funded PhD student at the University of Helsinki: understanding how butterflies respond to climate change across Europe. Apply by 30 Sept: Full details: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/5... Please share! #ecology #job #phd
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Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe
Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Erika M. Santana @erikamsantana.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
~ New home!! ~ Now I am officially an Assistant Professor of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (DEBE), Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP)- Diadema Campus! #newjob #ecology #evolution #research
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're hiring 🔬🌱🦠 We're looking for someone with confocal microscopy expertise to join our work on plant–microbe interactions @thesainsburylab.bsky.social . A whole new suite of genetically encoded reporters + 3D spatial gene expression tools like PHYTOMap and more. Please share!
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Postdoc opportunity in Copenhagen! Interested in marine bioluminescence, comb jellies & experimental biology? A great 2-year postdoc (possibility of 1-year extension), working with CRISPR, imaging & EM in the labs of Anders Garm & Cornelia Jaspers. Deadline: 16.08 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Postdoc in Marine Bioluminescence - re-advertisement
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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Apply now! The International Committee seeks to foster international relationships between evolution societies with a focus on students and early-career scientists. The committee reviews travel and event grants, and plans events for #Evol2027. Apply by Aug. 21! evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
International Travel Stipend recipient Buddhabhushan Salve with his poster at the Evolution 2026 meeting.
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Anne Kempel @annekempel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🕷️ Gibt es in deinem Bündner Dorf Zecken? Mach mit bei unserer 5-Min Umfrage: wir wollen herausfinden, auf welcher Höhe Zecken in Graubünden heute leben und ob sich dies durch den Klimawandel geändert hat. 👇 limesurvey.wsl.ch/index.php/33... @slfdavos.bsky.social #Klimawandel #Graubünden #TickTrack
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Umfrage zur Verbreitung von Zecken im Kanton Graubünden
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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142
Colorful advertisement for the position that reads:

We’re seeking a new Postdoctoral Scholar to lead the analysis and publication of whole-genome sequencing datasets from the northern flicker hybrid zone.

This is a two-year appointment based in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Start date is flexible and can begin as early as October 2026.

Basic Qualifications:
• PhD in evolutionary biology, ecology, genomics, or a related field by appointment start date
• Demonstrated ability to work with sequencing datasets
• Strong writing skills with a record of peer-reviewed publications
• Ability to lead independent projects and work collaboratively
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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Latest from the lab: @ruolinwu.bsky.social integrates fossil and molecular evidence to estimate the timing of origin of flowering plants. Thanks to @sabifo4.bsky.social @jameswclark.bsky.social Yue Tong, Shan Wan, Davide Pisani, Harald Schneider and Daniele Silvestro for helping to make this happen
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Sandra Álvarez @sabifo4.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Registrations are open to attend the Computational Molecular Evolution course next year (May 9th - 20th) in wonderful Crete! ☀️ Do not miss the deadline, follow the link below for more info and registration details! 🔽 meetings.embo.org/event/27-com...
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Computational molecular evolution
The need for effective and informed analysis of biological data is increasing with the explosive growth of genomic data. A phylogenetic framework is central to many molecular evolutionary approaches …
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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Tribble Lab & University of Washington Herbarium crew at #Botany2026!
A grid of six portraits of researchers from the Tribble Lab, each with their name and presentation topics, with floral graphics above the title "TRIBBLE LAB."

Poster Session
Grand Ballroom
M 5:30–7:00 

Elizabeth Kenny
The morphology and systematics of Allium crenulatum (P254)

Emily Humphreys
Which came first? A modeling approach for examining the role of preadaptation in plant evolution onto harsh soils (P158)

Hayden Wright
The Columbia River Basin: an under-recognized hotspot for vascular plant endemism in central Washington State (P20)

Makoa de Almeida
Habitat heterogeneity and insularity affect fern reproduction strategies (P210)

Fanya Yuan
Investigating the optimal herbarium plant tissue storage protocol (P232)

Cooley Awards
M 8:45, Tucson C-D

Lauren Frankel
Introgression and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae)

Macroevolution
W 9:30, San Xavier

Carrie Tribble
Umbels mediate faster diversification rates and radiation in a Neotropical radiation
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.
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Anya Auerbach @aauerbach.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hey Bluesky! Emerging from my dissertation-formatting cave to share that I defended my PhD last week! So many incredible people helped me reach this point, especially over the last few months as I scrambled to finish in time. I’m lucky to be surrounded by such good friends.
The cover slide from my dissertation defense talk. The background image is of a river flowing through rainforest in Ranomafana National Park, and along the sides are photos of various birds I studied in-hand. The title text reads: “Ecological diversification across taxonomic scale in three adaptive radiations of Malagasy birds”. Below that are listed my name (Anya Auerbach), my advisor Sushma Reddy, and my committee: Sharon Jansa, Keith Barker, Kieran McNulty, and David Fox.
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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
There’s still time to apply!!
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Alexei Drummond @alexeidrummond.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Get excited :) PhyloSpec is coming! A shared standard + modelling language for phylogenetic models. Write a model once, run it across engines like BEAST X, BEAST 2.8 & RevBayes. Easy and reproducible. Built by @tochsner.bsky.social & collaborators (ETH Zürich, Auckland, LMU). phylospec.com
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PhyloSpec
A standardized way to describe phylogenetic model components, common assumptions, and best practices in the field of phylogenetics.
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