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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have released my most powerful & high-yielding corn yet. It has already escaped my field & invaded three soybean farms. I fear it will soon kill all humans. But rather than quit corn & work to stop the apocalypse, I'm releasing even better corn in 3 months. Meanwhile, please use corn responsibly.

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Congrats on this one, Kory! It looks stellar, and I'm excited to sit down & read it.

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Dan MacGuigan @dmacguig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New paper in Systematic Biology! We show how micro-synteny can help resolve a tricky fish #phylogenetic problem where traditional sequence-based analyses fall short. Genomes archive evolutionary history in more than just their basepairs. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... #fish #genomics #evolution

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/08/2026

Natural Selection Kills 38 Quadrillion Organisms In Bloodiest Day Yet theonion.com/natural-selection-kill…

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ahhhhh, Anya congratulations!!! Another ornithologist landing in Ohio is very exciting. We'd love to see ya if you ever make it down by Cincinnati!

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Congratulations Ethan! It's great to have another museum-based ornithologist in Ohio!

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Karandeep(Singh) @kdpsingh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Statistics aka Likelihoodmaxxing

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/11/2025

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 13/08/2025

The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.

Grade F level diagram of an ostrich skeleton. The pelvis is labelled as a humerus, and sternum appears to be labeled as the pelvis.

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

If you haven't experienced the alpine during peak wildflower season, you should! I've never been so speechless and infatuated with a landscape in my life. The Brown-capped Rosy-Finches and pika were a spectacular cherry on top.

East Maroon Bells Pass in late July, buried beneath a dense field of verdant veg and an artist's palette of wildflowers.

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Lol. Well, that seems like my impetus for catching up with you more frequently! We're getting ready for our move at the end of the month, but I'm teaching a Colorado Flora & Fauna field course right before we leave. Going to be a very fun and very stressful month!

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Shan!!! Congratulations to you! This news is so wonderful to hear.

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I asked ChatGPT? I asked Grok? Well, I asked a Red-breasted Nuthatch and it said yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yen

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Really, absurdly disappointing. I'm teaching a field course focused on environmental threats to Colorado's biodiversity next month and will have students contribute to citizen science projects as impactful coursework. We'll have some lively discussion about this news, I'm sure. Yikes.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thanks Sean! Once I'm back in Ohio and that much closer to Chicago, you should expect a visit from me to the Field Museum. Family and or student collaborators in tow!

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

After five incredible years in Colorado, I’m returning to my home place in August to start as an Assistant Professor of Biology at my alma mater, Xavier University! Stay tuned for more ornithological, museum, and teaching goodness once the Imfeld Lab has flocked back to Cincinnati.

A happy fellow posing at his alma mater on a glorious spring morning. Trees are leafing out, shrubs are flowering, and academic journeys are coming full circle.

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A 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/...

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Brie Ilarde @gacatail.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Reminds me of this enterprising individual I saw the other day. I… I don't think you built that.

Photo of a very large bird nest, perhaps an eagle's, in a tree, with a bird's head looking tiny just poking out of the top

The same photo, cropped and zoomed in to reveal that the bird in the nest is a Canada goose

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Congratulations!!! I am so stoked for you!

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This exchange happened to me in my prelim defense too, and I had to write the calculations for both after surviving the first long pause!

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I can already tell making the move over here was a smart move because I'm seeing loads of cool papers coming through my feed that are perfect to incorporate into my Evolution & Conservation Biology courses next semester. Missed this after the "empty mall" stage on the other place!

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Congrats! What class will you teaching? I'm in total solidarity with you about the registration bedlam.

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Tyler Imfeld @whotooktimfeld.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Following the flocks, I'm making my migration to this platform now too. My name's Tyler, and I'm an Asst. Prof in Biology at Regis University. I teach a breadth of bio & statistics courses and do research with students in bird collections. Excited to rebuild some community here!

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

@whotooktimfeld.bsky.social & @fkbarker.bsky.social compared songbird sister clades across Eastern & Western Hemispheres - individual American clades experienced opportunity, constraint or neutrality following dispersal, independent of the older suboscine clade academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

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