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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Really cool viral phylodynamics work from our postdoc! Check it out!!

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Albert Ch. Soewongsono @albertchristian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I'm excited to share that our latest paper is now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... It was a pleasure working with @landismj.bsky.social and Ammon Thompson on this project, developing a new phylogenetic model for infectious disease transmission with realistic host movement dynamics. #evobio

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Tracy Heath @trayc7.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Our lab has several #Evolution2026 presentations this year! Topics include SSE models, character maps, ancestral states, and deep learning Presenters: Raymond Castillo (@raymondcast.bsky.social), Sean McHugh (@phyllurus.bsky.social), Anna Nagel, Albert Soewongsono (@albertchristian.bsky.social)

List of Evolution 2026 presentations by Landis lab members:

Anna Nagel, Sunday @ 2:45pm, Room 22
Albert Soewongsono, Tuesday @ 10:30am, Room 23
Raymond Castillo, Tuesday @ 4:45pm, Room 25B
Albert Soewongsono, Tuesday @ 6:00pm, Grand Ballroom BC
Sean McHugh, Wednesday @ 9:30am, Room 21

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Had a great post-SSB hackathon with the RevBayes crew! Got tons of work done on both RevBayes and RevGadgets! Special thanks to @trayc7.bsky.social @jembrown.bsky.social for organizing and hosting!

Evolving RevBayes into an Open-Source Ecosystem

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The wonderful Emily Graslie talking to the #SSB2026 crowd about the importance of natural history museums. She has an art background and became enamored with the University of Montana natural history collections and created the #brainscoop series.

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Andy Lee, PhD @andylee.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills! I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

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Andy Lee, PhD @andylee.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Successfully added a few letters to my name last month!!! Truly could not have done this with our villages upon villages 🫶🏼

photo of Andy in front of his defense presentation

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Overheard a conversation from an UG walking on campus. They said "I don't think I could have done my degree without AI". It's somewhat frightening the reliance some have on AI and I'm uncertain of its increased use at universities, but maybe i'm becoming the old man shaking his fist...

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I am so happy to have successfully proposed my dissertation chapters! Despite how nervous I was, it went over so well and all of my committee members are so incredibly helpful!

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

As you are making your schedule for the last day of #Evol2025 don’t forget to add Nicolás Castillo’s talk about Puya character displacement. Puya are the most amazing plant in the Páramo ecosystem and their macroevolution is incredible.

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Last but not least, I will be sharing some work on a model I have been developing for chromosome evolution today! Be there or be square! I'll be presenting at 4:45 in Phylogenetic Theory! #Evol2025

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Also, if you missed their poster last night, Sarah Swiston, will be presenting their work on elipse modeling for biogeographic range evolution! (EMPIRE)

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Alright #Evol2025 folks, we got a ton of talks today! Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Today another postdoc in the Landis lab, @albertchristian.bsky.social, will be giving a talk during the machine learnering and new inference algorithm section at 3:15! If you are particularly partial to island biogeography you definitely dont wanna miss this one! #Evol2025

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Be sure to check out Anna Nagel's talk today in Molecular evolution II! Really cool work on estimating mutation ages and population origins in structured populations! #Evol2025

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Had a fantastic time at the mole 2025 workshop in Woods Hole! I am so grateful to meet such amazing scientists! Although times are difficult and uncertain now, engaging with professors and students who are still working so hard to teach and learn despite recent hardships is truly uplifting.

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program! Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025. Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF... @systbiol.bsky.social

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is bad. Read the updates. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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Updates on NSF Priorities

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Totally forgot to update: I PASSED!!!!!! A small win after a lot of despairing the past few months with the political climate :')

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Qualifying exam in a couple hours! Once it's over with I'll have to figure out a different way to distract myself from the existential dread that is US politics

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Join us on Wednesday, April 2 at 11 AM Pacific Time for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! The last webinar of the 24-25 season will feature @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

A flyer for the next Polyploidy Webinar on Wednesday, April 2, at 11 AM PDT. Featuring Raymond Castillo from Washington University presenting "Phylogenetic methods for modeling chromosome size and count" and Eric Hagen from the University of Toronto on "Using -SSE models to study diversification after neopolyploidy and paleopolyploidy"

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

list comprehensions may never make 100% sense to me but at least the work 💀

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Albert Ch. Soewongsono @albertchristian.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Earlier this year my advisor @landismj.bsky.social and I published this cool work at BMB; looking at applying diffusion in macroevolutionary context for state-dependent diversification models to learn about evolutionary patterns that these models produce. #evobio www.smb.org/news/13402507

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Join us on Wednesday, December 4, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have Pam & Doug Soltis presenting on the Polyploid Integration Institute and @trevorfaske.bsky.social on analyses of mixed-ploidy data! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

time for end of semester despair yippee!

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

One of my peers and I are thinking of teaching a statistics nano-course for people in ecology and evolution, what are some statistical tests that you feel are important to your research?

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

also I am a queer latino whose grandparents immigrated from mexico so if that bothers you, i simply do not care! 😌

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hi to all new mutuals and fellow scientists fleeing twitter! Figure I should have a post about who I am! I am a phd student at WashU in the landis lab, developing phylogenetic methods! I am primarily interested in modeling chromosome evolution using SSE models!

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Join us on Wednesday, November 6, at 11 AM PST for the the next #PolyploidyWebinar! Sylvia Kinosian and Tamsen Dunn will present. The zoom link will be emailed out before the talks - sign up here if you have not signed up before! www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

A flyer for the next Polyploidy Webinar on November 6, 2024, at 11AM Pacific Time. It includes photos of the two presenters and their presentation titles. Sylvia Kinosian from the University of Arizona will speak on "Genomics is modifying our concepts of evolution in homosporous pteridophytes" and Tamsen Dunn from San Diego State University will present "Deciphering the Polyploid Ks Histogram with Forward Time Simulations."

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Join us tomorrow for the first #PolyploidyWebinar of the 2024-2025 series!

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Alright gonna try reading Felsenstein for the first time... wish me luck🫡

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Join us on Wednesday, October 2, at 11AM PDT for the first #PolyploidyWebinar of the season! @shellygaynor.bsky.social and @pairoflogs.bsky.social will lead us off! The zoom link will be emailed out before the talks - sign up here if you have not signed up before! forms.gle/Bp3VUGeP9nAc...

A flyer for the Polyploidy Webinar that will be at 11 AM Pacific Time on October 2, 2024. Shelly Gaynor from the University of Michigan will present "Computationally intensive methods and models to understand mixed-cytotype populations" and Michael McKibben from the University of Arizona will discuss "Species‐tree topology impacts the inference of ancient whole‐genome duplications across the angiosperm phylogeny".

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

"Concepts of a plan" is the perfect way of summing up my past couple months with my research projects

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