So I recently found out I went thru a challenging in-person interview. I ❌ know it at the time bc I have no idea how chairs are supposed to behave during searches (hidden curriculum). I had a chair spend a solid 10 minutes looking at their computer/typing, not looking at me during conversation

PLoS is holding up our paper because they are expecting the Dryad DOI to be live, although we are not required to make our dataset live until publication 😣. We provided the DOI ahead of time because they asked for it and we already supplied the private link for peer review

Advocating for yourself is so damn hard sometimes y'all It's not difficult exactly, but the mental aspect after all the years just starts to take a toll

New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social

After last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...

#sicb2026 attendees: I’m a Portland-based science journalist at the meeting. Do you have a story to share? If so, let’s chat.

Brazil has now signed agreements with Springer-Nature and Elsevier for Brazilian researchers to read AND PUBLISH for free for 3y. Rest of the world, take note: THIS is how you support and promote open science. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Today I learned from multiple talks that leaf footed bug males will fight each other. What weapon do they bring to the fight? Their spiky thighs! #SICB2026

#sicb2026 If you’re at SICB this year come check out my talk. 🧬🪸@sicb.bsky.social

Always use the mic at a conference even if you’re loud. People who can’t hear you *can’t hear you * when you ask if you can hear them in the back. Some of us went to one too many hardcore shows in our youth without ear plugs and our hearing ain’t what it used to be 🥺 #SICB2026

Tomorrow at 11am is my #SICB2026 talk on early ray-finned fishes! Come by and see all the cool fossils we've CT scanned. Track me down during the rest of the conference to see some 3D printed jaws.....

#SICB2026 For years I've talked w/ therapists about being +confident +honest. I'm ready. I'm done w/ fitting the academic mold, it's exhausting. Follow me 2 learn science from the perspective of a wannabe know-it-all hood rat from San Bernardino. Let's learn some shit and casually share our ideas

Just FYI, the conflict in Venezuela is not black or white. There are potential legal issues I'm no expert on. But consider this: There are lot of people from and living in Latin America, including those in Venezuela, who are happy a tyrant drug lord masked as a President is no longer in power.

#SICB2026 For those of you interested in thermoregulation, I have an important presentation for you this year 🐍🦎🐸!! Talk: Mon @ 2:15PM, B117. EJ Gangloff and I discovered the potential for MAJOR statistical issues in the classic methodology for estimating thermoregulatory effectivess ("E").

I would rather give up my dream than work somewhere where I'm not respected too.

A quantified explanation for why women make up more than 50% of biomedical graduate student cohorts but occupy only about 1/3 of faculty positions 🧪

academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... So exciting to see a new method to model the evolution of G (and P) matrices on phylogenies. Another step in the direction of trying to bridge micro and macroevolution

"Productivity, I’ve come to see, is not measured only by research papers and grants. It is also sustained by presence, rest, and the relationships that give meaning to the work." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/3KNJ1Bm

I’m honored to share that my dissertation was selected as Second Place for the (highly competitive and nationwide) 2026 AAHHE Outstanding Dissertation Award! 🥳🎉

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Cool research!

Applications open for SFI’s 2026 UCR program. Are you fascinated by transdisciplinary questions that transcend or combine disciplines? UCR is a fully funded, 10-week summer research experience for undergraduates curious about complexity science. Apply by Jan 14, 2026 santafe.edu/ucr

A lot of OWU students giving oral presentations at SICB this year!!!

Winters are warming faster than summers, which could affect hibernating ectotherms, but it turns out that wall lizards cope well with warm winters & mini winter heatwaves, although they suffer more DNA damage, so the effects of warm winters may be concealed journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

10,000% checkmate R2

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Hispanic Heritage Month is over, but I am still Chicano. I've finally managed to put into words why I do not use accents in my name. I offer you a very personal story in the form of an excerpt from the Teaching Statement I am using on faculty applications. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Anyone know if any good apps for estimating surface area? (Or maybe manual/imageJ are the best alternatives?) We're measuring surface area of bird wings tomorrow with grid paper but I'm hoping to improve the class in the future!

Who wore it better? FANGED FROG 🧛🏻🐸!! Limnonectes, from SE Asia, use their fangs to defend their territories! 😬🦷

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc

Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style

My niece Natalie is fundraising for her school's orchestra/band 🎼🎺🎷 Natalie is a talented violinist 🎻who has been recognized as one of the county's stars. She also lives in the biggest county in the USA (San Bernardino)!! Please consider donating 🎉 Message me for the link so I can thank you 🙏🏽

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

👋🏽 it's Latino Heritage Month, Mis first-gen college grads hermanos y hermanas. First of all, y'all are badass. Second, how old were you when you realized you could attend college? For me, I don't think the idea really settled until I was about 14 in 10th grade.

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students! caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

I genuinely do not mean to be controversial but please we don't need taxonomic authorities in the TITLES of papers that aren't about systematics

Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 🍁 #SciArt #invertebrates

An official website of the United States government.

New postdocs, if you haven't already, consider investing in a pair of noise cancelling headphones. They are a game changer!! Some labs might have funds for this.

GRFP call is out: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Deadlines pushed back to Nov.

Do you expect minorities to reframe their struggles as strengths to give the impression of resilience or adaptability? That is bias. We are inherently resilient and adaptable, we did not struggle out of choice and we did not live through our struggles to impress anyone.

I feel silly writing the tired lines "i am low income" "i am a minority" "i am first gen". It's like that is all we are to academics and if we do not make those facts perfectly explicit, we will be deemed as lesser than.

We should stop using metrics based solely on publications in English to evaluate the performance of researchers. Instead we should focus on *what* is published, not just *where*, as advocated by DORA: sfdora.org 4/5

For those interested to see the productivity gap for men, here are the figures using the same # years in research as female counterparts. Based on English papers: -50% for English non-native -58% for English non-native from low-income countries compared to English native from a high-income country.

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers