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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy! Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27... with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social

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Quantifying the Impact of Fossil Age on Reconstructing Trait Evolution Using Phylogenetic Comparative Methods

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Johnathan Lemay @fankuan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Who really lives fast and dies young? In Drosophila, females show faster ageing and reproductive senescence than males across social environments, overturning sexual selection predictions and highlighting social effects on ageing. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... @laurenmharrison.bsky.social

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Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments

Abstract. Females and males typically differ in lifespan, patterns of ageing, and reproduction. General explanations for variation in the magnitude of this

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

How do genetic variances and covariances evolve over deep time? This paper unifies quantitative genetics and macroevolution with analytical models for G-matrix evolution on phylogenies, enabling new tests of multivariate trait evolution. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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Multivariate trait evolution: models for the evolution of the quantitative genetic G-matrix on phylogenies

Abstract. Genetic covariance matrices (G-matrices) are a key focus for research and predictions from quantitative genetic evolutionary models of multiple t

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Natalie Cooper, Senior Editor for MEE, has written a blog post for #InternationalWomensDay 2025. Read the full post here 👇 buff.ly/SGGUlPU

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Orlin S Todorov @orlinst.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Our latest rant w/ Simone Blomberg in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social - The fallacy of single imputation. We make a convincing case that single imputation is misleading and should not be (mis)used especially for trait datasets (also confirmed by simulations) doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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