Last week I gave my promotion seminar. Today, I have to give a 20 minute presentation about what I do to my 11 year old son's science class. Guess which one gives me the most anxiety?

Fantastic meeting! I had a great time and honored to have been able to give a talk.

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it! youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...

New paper on diatom phylogenomics from our lab. Ten years in the making, but it always took a backseat to student and postdoc papers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to share a new paper with Sandra Guerrero-Rubio and @docbroc.bsky.social on the convergent evolution of betalains, now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... A 🧵

Deadline tomorrow, April 4th at 5:00pm! Apply & share!

@phylojennatics.bsky.social and @rlsavage.bsky.social, botanists and PhD students with the @maribethlatvis.bsky.social Lab in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at the @uarkansas.bsky.social recently taught students about botany, plant collecting, and biodiversity at the Holcomb Elementary STEM Night!

In recognizing that lots of students (undergrads and grads) are unaware of the dire situation created by the recent executive / DOGE actions, I am trying to compile a list of how these will impact folks so I can make materials and spread the word and get more advocates. 1/2

Hey! We’re looking for a woman in science who is actively promoted and supported women in biology to give a talk or lead a workshop. Let me know if you have any recommendations! #womeninstem

Does someone have a formal source on pauses on panels or funding for NSF?

I guess I hadn't posted this yet and didn't even know it had come out-- I was interviewed for (and co-wrote w/Daniel Rabosky) a Trends in Ecology & Evolution "TrendsTalk" article on "Disability in ecology and evolution" -- www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #DisabledInSTEM #academicchatter #academia

The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

We begin reviewing applications on Monday!!!

Fantastic news!!! Congrats @tvasconcelos.bsky.social

Some Thoughts on the Dylan Biopic talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/some-...

New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social❗ You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction! This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Semester is officially over. Drinking a beer and listening to records for the first time in like forever. First up: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)

As I look back on another semester of teaching Evolutionary Biology with @phylieu.bsky.social, I think what stands out the most was the student who, in earnest, told us he had a question about Harvey-Weinstein Equilibrium.

Looks like we're not beating those nerd allegations for the 17th straight year.

@sinkingdiatom.bsky.social and I started doing "Album" Recommendation Friday" a few years ago as a way for students to sort of know us outside the context of our Evolutionary Biology course. Today was our final rec and so I decided to share the list here: 1/3

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

Very cool stuff!

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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