I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Here are my top picks: Maynard Smith (1966) - Sympatric speciation Felsenstein (1981) - How recombination impedes speciation Fowler & Levin (1984) - Polyploid speciation What other classics would you add?

New from Sandy Carlson and co-authors... includes parsimony and Bayesian with FBD methods.

Why do some palm clades in Madagascar thrive while others stagnate? Why do some have 1 species, and others 180+? Turns out it's less about that Island Magic & more about inherited traits and timing (when is it not?)! 🌍🧪👇 doi.org/10.1093/evol... @linneansociety.bsky.social

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Paleogene’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Nicolas Gentis and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6) 👉 doi.org/p6mt @nicolasgentis.bsky.social @alexislicht.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @cerege.bsky.social

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Biodiversity modulates the cross-community scaling relationship in changing environments #allometry #scaling 🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Monjaraz-Ruedas et al. on genetic diversity of several mygalomorph species. Body size and ecological niche do not predict genetic diversity or structure, because ALL species are highly structured and isolated by distance. Mygals don't like moving... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our podcast is out! Check out our research @urochester.bsky.social that is decoding how true biohackers called twisted-winged insects control social wasps! #teamwasp #strepsiptera #zombiewasps 🐝🧟‍♀️ Please check out this fantastic initiative by @bugsneedheroes.bsky.social. Thank you for having me!

this is very fun. check out the convergent evolution with Haidomyrmex

This is just amazing. I'm flabbergasted. I have lectured about Huntington's for years. I first heard about it as a student 30+ years ago. I never thought we would see progress like this. Science works!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🌊🔬 Grad Student Opportunity! I’m recruiting PhD students to explore marine biodiversity, body size, and bioenergetics with flexibility to design your own project! PDF of ad link below. #PhDPosition #MarineBiology #Macroecology #Biodiversity #GradSchool #Ecology #OceanScience tinyurl.com/5n9434wk

Using gene-order information to infer phylogenetic relationship seems super interesting. Yet to read!

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

I'm short on rent for this upcoming month, and my phone is 🤏🏼 this close to breaking, which will cut me off from all sources of income (besides my disability assistance). I spent the last two days basically sleeping. If anyone can help, I could really use it. Mîkwêc. PayPal.me/beadsagainst...

Hi folks we got all the items uploaded to the auction for Palestine which opens tomorrow morning at 8am (ET) and closes at 8pm. Signing up is easy: just sign up using your email, then they send you a link to log in. link: mobilbid.co/o/1169/en/au... You can use your mobile phone to make bids.

I love a magic trait! I feel like @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social instilled the joy of these in me.

In an NYT Op-Ed essay that steers close to fan fiction, Schulman writes: "Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of Health, has inherited an agency in crisis. Everyone knows it." Everyone is a lot of people. Depends on who you ask. a 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

A reminder that @biogeography.bsky.social will host Dr. Brian McGill for Funk lecture this Wednesday! Be there or be square!

A groundbreaking discovery from the Hollín formation in the province of Napo- Ecuador, gives an insight into Amazonian plant and arthropods biodiversity during the Cretaceous #Biodiversity #Ecuador www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Cool... a global focus on three core traits of ectotherms: metabolic rate, development time and fecundity. ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait-based data in ectotherms #OpenTraits #FunctionalTraits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪🌐

So excited for the @blackinnhms.bsky.social #exhibit to open at my work on Monday! The panels were hung today and what an amazing feeling it was to see them on the walls! #BINHMs #BlackInNaturalHistory

Why do female spiders eat their mates, and how do males fight back? 🕷️ Our new review unpacks the evolutionary dynamics of sexual cannibalism and the astonishing male strategies it has shaped — from nuptial gifts to remote copulation. Open access in Integrative Zoology 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1749...

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

New blog post - The Making Of my first geometric watercolor pencils drawing on stretched canvas: elkement.art/2025/09/17/l... I am constructing the curve described by x=sin(t), y=sin(2t), z=sin(3t) from its 2D projections using traditional descriptive geometry. #SciArt #MathArt

Here's the most cursed recent addition to our collection: a bottle of Lysol disinfectant, circa early 1960s, from Canada. The label contains instructions for using the product to clean toilets, floors, dirty diapers... and vaginal douching.

Great to see our new paper "Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change" out in print today in @natclimate.nature.com, which builds on our landscaping project on climate-health attribution a couple of years ago, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

🧨 The Naturhistoriska riksmuseet has a position open for a Tenure-Track group Leader position (DDLS fellow). 17 M SEK start-up (1.6 million euros, which will account for your salary / 2 PhDs / 2 Postdocs / plenty of money for starting projects and sending peoeple to conferences). lnkd.in/d5jNr_Ti

Interested in measuring trees and branches from Lidar data? Don't want to use Matlab? (who does). Take a look at our new Python package for reconstructing trees from point cloud data using quantitative structure models (QSM's). Fun with @jefferybcannon.bsky.social! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

On-line Auction Tuesday September 23, 2025 from 8am - 8pm (EST) Advance viewing of art Saturday Sept 20th, between 1-4pm in Ottawa. Online auction site will also be up on Saturday for advance viewing. Sept 23rd Ottawa, please join us at my studio shop for a casual drop in 6pm - 8pm.

fantastic take as usual from from Ta-Nehisi Coates. And thanks to Vanity Fair for making better editorial decisions than the Washington Post

Archive link to non-paywalled version of the article: archive.is/7uhwf

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin. It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Ta-Nehisi calling it like it is

Boston and Camberville! See you Thursday! I am 99% done with this epic book and so excited to blather with @peterbrannen.bsky.social about it at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social

Excited to release TEK Stories 2025, a podcast series made by the undergraduate students who took the "Catching up with Traditional Ecological Knowledge" class in Winter 2025 at Stanford University soundcloud.com/user-1741316...

Very exciting to see my first edited submission for @openpalaeo.bsky.social finally published! Check out this excellent contribution to experimental paleontology:

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University #Archaeology

Do you have collections experience & want to work w/ amazing invertebrates? Join us! @entcollnet.bsky.social @entsocamerica.bsky.social @odonataamericas.bsky.social @coleopsoc.bsky.social @blackinnhms.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @entsocbc.bsky.social @canentomologist.bsky.social

My 2013 essay "HOW LONG 'TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks on December 2nd. You can preorder the collection now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...!

🎉 Registration for the 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference is now OPEN 🎉 Early bird registration is open until December 15th ,2025 🦜 Registration page 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/registration/

Scientists often use models to study how species evolved, but these models are not always perfect. Here, Ziheng Yang (Darwin Wallace Medal winner) looks at how small changes in data or assumptions can affect the results of these studies. Check it out below 👇🌍🧪

Right after the Pacific Island forum leaders meeting and Albanese’s visit to Vanuatu where a planned pact was not signed - Vanuatu literally got the ICJ to rule rich countries have legal responsible to reduce their climate impacts two months ago www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

#bryozoa bryozoologists! It’s official!! We are hosting Larwood 2026 in Oslo!! 1-3 June: mark and save on your calendars and spread the news!! @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social

Okay my fern people, you know what to do! @avascog.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @afs1893.bsky.social @fernway.bsky.social @ebsessa.bsky.social

🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...