🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution 🧪 "Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data"

"Spherical cows and bipedal goats: perspectives on mathematical models in biology". 13 and 14/11/2025 (Salle Jaurès, ENS-PSL, rue d'Ulm, Paris). More info about the event: montevil.org/talks/2025--...

Detecting Introgression in Shallow Phylogenies: How Minor Molecular Clock Deviations Lead to Major Inference Errors academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.

#PCM folks: What tools are out there for forward-in-time simulation under historical biogeography models (e.g., DEC) that include simulation of both range and lineage dynamics?

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Each generation seems to rediscover the riddle of organismal agency: are organisms agents that pursue intrinsic goals—and how could we know? Our 📕 gathers historians, philosophers & scientists to explore this debate—now available in paperback!👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsky #HPS #evobio

Why is the U.S. targeting boats in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela?

The US has criminally murdered several latin americans, including Colombians. Most remain in silent complicity, those few who denounce it are called narco-terrorists.

As tensions escalate between Colombia and the United States, Colombia has recalled its ambassador from the U.S. back to Bogotá. Democracy Now! speaks to Ambassador Daniel García-Peña about the decision.

Did a new one

« La dette est le lieu d’un conflit de classes : l’État emprunte aux riches plutôt que de les taxer » : les explications du sociologue Benjamin Lemoine ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/o5q

L'ex-futur prix Nobel de la paix, Donald Trump, menace à présent la Colombie après le Venezuela sous le même prétexte du narcotrafic. Les menaces directes contre le Président Gustavo Petro n'ont qu'un sens : punir son engagement ferme et avancé contre le génocide à Gaza.

so "testing" means violating, got it

and my perspective piece on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioq.bsky.social et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Legend! @johncusack.bsky.social

Report from Gaza: Despite Ceasefire, Humanitarian Crisis Continues as Israel Severely Restricts Aid

How anyone can watch footage from Palestine without bursting into tears, I will never know.

Well done Liam for speaking up for Palestine.

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

On Friday, we will host a discussion with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor. The topic will be Debt, Empire and the Future. It will be streamed on our Youtube channel. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLAT...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

The right (yes, “center” too) has become so utterly cynic (and, as usual, unimaginative) that they assume fulfilling the basic rights of people is not possible (nor desirable) and thus that anyone interested in providing just that must be lying or share their hidden intentions.

La France, pays qui reconnaît l’État de Palestine ET en même temps interdit illégalement les manifestations de soutien à la Palestine et les gaze si elles ont lieu.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Journalists are being massacred in Gaza and the U.S. is doing nothing to stop the bloodbath it’s bankrolling. Use our easy, new tool to tell Congress you’re fed up with the government’s inaction.

The problem is that anyone working towards justice is slowly being labeled a "terrorist." This is happening in Israel. It's happening in the US. And it's even happening in the UK and Germany. Don't you all see it?

Today I learned (on the Nazi site) that the first attempt to break Israel's siege on Gaza via a flotilla took place 15 yrs ago, in 2010. Israeli forces boarded the Mavi Marmara & killed 10 people. The youngest, 19 yr old Furkan Dogan, was shot five times from close range. He was an American citizen.

Tsunami of People in support of the Palestine!🇮🇹🇵🇸🔥I love Italy

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media. The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters. They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters. Israel is once again breaking international law

Part of the massive rallies for Palestine in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 3, 2025 Israel may be preparing for large-scale massacres in Gaza City, UNRWA warns; Trump tells Congress the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels www.dropsitenews.com/p/unrwa-warn...

⚡️NEW from Drop Site: “Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents Abdel Qader Sabbah tracks Israel’s latest attacks on tent encampments and Al-Aqsa hospital, as tens of thousands flee the north. www.dropsitenews.com/p/deir-al-ba...

Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall was one of the world's leading voices on climate change. Democracy Now! spoke with Goodall in Paris during the 2015 U.N. climate summit.

In David Graeber's book, The Democracy Project, he mentioned ]Liberal-Centrists were not the most reliable allies in political movements. This history is worth taking into account for those active in any political movement.

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

Israel is on high alert as Global Sumud Flotilla broke through Israeli blockade and entered Gaza's territorial waters carrying weapons such as bread, milk and medicine.

The starvation of Gaza's population is not a byproduct of war but a calculated policy, a live autopsy of an entire community that constitutes a crime in plain sight of the world. Available in EN, ES and AR.

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

Emmanuel Macron’s governments keep failing because of their unpopular austerity plans. The one move they’ve refused to consider: a wealth tax on the superrich who’ve most benefited from Macron’s agenda.

“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days” It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

'out of the three mass shootings today'

On Oct 17th, we will host a talk with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor. They will discuss Debt, Empire, and the Future. It will also be streamed on our Youtube channel. davidgraeber.institute/debt-empire-...

Two countries attacked boats in international waters and admitted that they are above international law. The United States and Israel.