Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishEliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026If you thought regular bird listing was for nerds, wait til you get a load of phylolisting. @snacktavish.bsky.social 1184
Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I've always been impressed with @carpentries.carpentries.org and it is great to see their integrity in standing up for their principles, even when there are significant costs to doing so.👏 024
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishAndrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Super impressed by the integrity shown by this NGO. May we all have similar courage to stand up for our principles when pushed against a wall by this admin. 032
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishDr. Kari L. Jordan @handle.invalid · 24/06/2025I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: We refuse to reinforce systems of oppression and exclusion. If you agree, take my grandmother’s advice. Put your money where your mouth is 🫶🏾 Donate: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...zeffy.comSupport The CarpentriesThe Carpentries encompasses the lesson programs Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry. The Carpentries operates globally to bring researchers the skills they need to transform data... 01212
Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · 22/07/2025My colleague at UC Merced Josh Garcia is hiring for a position in Sustainable Agriculture. Check it out and apply if it's a good fit for you! aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02001aprecruit.ucmerced.eduJr. Specialist in Sustainable AgricultureUniversity of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now! 000
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishEliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Great commentary on the new global bird phylogeny, if I do say so myself www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 052
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishMichael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025It'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 04444
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 24/05/2025More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io 49958
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishCasey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025The CSUN Faculty Senate just passed a resolution opposing the CSU adoption of ChatGPT Edu without faculty consultation at a cost of ~$1 million per month. Thanks to @jbyoder.org for organizing! 2325
Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Thanks @nautil.us for the cool blog post on our bird tree! @eliotmiller.bsky.social nautil.us/all-birds-ro...nautil.usAll Birds Roost in a Single TreeThe first evolutionary tree that includes every avian species 011
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishJoseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 29/04/2025The new era of global bird phylogenies begins – this one built over several years by @snacktavish.bsky.social and team massively increases sample size and will be a fantastic resource for macroevolution and macroecology. 🪶 🌐 🧪 1306
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishEliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 313453
Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · 29/04/2025A complete and dynamic tree of birds - out today in PNAS! Teamwork with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others at @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social and Open Tree of Life to put together current relationships across all birds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 211042
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishEliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Then. Now! @snacktavish.bsky.social 0101
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishJeremy M. Brown @jembrown.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Applications are now open for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in *beautiful* Woods Hole, MA! More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad... Application deadline: Jan. 29th Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1stmbl.eduWorkshop on Molecular Evolution | Marine Biological LaboratoryThe workshop serves graduate students, postdocs, and established faculty from around the world seeking to apply the principles of molecular evolution to questions of anthropology, conservation genetic... 54847
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishBryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · 09/07/2024The Bulletin of the SSB announces publication of our Species Network Special Issue edited by Claudia Solis-Lemus & George Tiley. The first part of this issue is here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Articles from the second part of this issue will be published here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...ssbbulletin.org Vol. 2 No. 3 (2023): Species Networks Special Issue | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 033
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishMichael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 24/05/2024‘The Tree of All Birds’ is an excellent name for a medieval fable. But also an extraordinary accomplishment in evolutionary mapping and visualisation for around 11,000 bird species. 🧪🦅🦆🦜🦢🦉🐓🦩🐦⬛🦚 172
Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · 23/05/2024We made a tree of all birds! Preprint is up, comments are welcome.biorxiv.orgA complete and dynamic tree of birdsbioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution 12819
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishbioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 22/05/2024A complete and dynamic tree of birds www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… biorxiv.orgA complete and dynamic tree of birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.20.595017v1 We present a complete, time-scaled, evolutionary tree of the world's bird species. This tree unites 095
Reposted by Emily Jane McTavishRob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · 23/05/2024If you have thoughts on how you would like ModelFinder & PartitionFinder to work in IQ-TREE, I am interested in hearing them. We are re-building this now. Particularly interested in pain points for users! Please repost if you have phylo followers... 12226
Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · 21/11/2023We did a fun live phylogeny guessing game in evolution today! What's an animal more closely related to manatee than it is to human or cat? Students yelled out ideas, and we added them to the tree as we went! labs.minutelabs.io/Tree-of-Life...labs.minutelabs.ioTree of Life Explorer | MinuteLabs.ioExplore Earth's species and the relationships between them easily. 060
