🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.

A brief thread on alt-text. Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

Speaking of which, does anyone have any advice on how i may highlight research skills in my CV that i haven't had the privilege of publishing on? Especially if i don't have a preprint. Maybe a simple "other research skills" section?

"Many factors other than one’s own abilities can affect the performance, recognition, and representation of scientists..." Thoughtful, data rich paper exploring language and gender as factors impacting metrics used in hiring, promotion and awards for scientists.

Yet another reason why publication count is a poor indicator of ability

I just realized I've become *that* teacher. I'm teaching vertebrate anatomy and I wear skulls around my wrist. They're from the pyramids in Tenochtitlán, México

Math people have been dealing with "AI" (Wolfram alpha and the like) for a LONG TIME. In retrospect it's weird how none of the AI dialogue focused on this. I think I know, but if you're in math, how did you handle the shift to software listing steps and "showing their work"?

I just came up with what's possibly the best potential lab name ever. The QuIP Lab. The Lab of Quantitative and Integrative Physiology.

License, desiccation, and occurrence

New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #OpenScience #FAIRdata

And this, my friends, is why I'm Chicano. My experiences align with the first born children of immigrants and I straddle the line between 2 increasingly different and opposing worlds. I may also be Latino, which is a fine descriptor. But I don't associate with the US's naive descriptor "Hispanic"

Been to the herp collections: highly recommend, I had an amazing time at the LACM

As a San Bernardino native who has been to the SB train station, this is important history I didn't know about! If we know how they treat us now, imagine the atrocities of then. One of the things that upsets me the most is that Mexicans are VERY OFTEN and unjustifiably used as the scapegoat.

Also, an obligatory reminder that (last time I checked) BioRxiv ridiculously does NOT allow abstracts in languages other than English. For this reason, we included an abstract in Spanish and submitted to EcoEvoRxiv!!!

🚨First preprint from my 2nd postdoc!!🚨 Introduced urban lizards (Podarcis muralis) exhibit environmentally plastic activity patterns and precise behavioral thermoregulation 🦎🏙️ By G Plunkett et al., including 11 trainees and a HUGE behavior/env dataset totaling 72 hours!! doi.org/10.32942/X2T...

My goodness i love leaf hoppers

Cutest larval anglerfish EVER!

“HSIs enroll over 5.6 million students nationwide, including two-thirds of all Latino undergraduates in the country.” hacu.net/cutting-350m...

I'm 3 application cycles in (this will be my 4th time applying), and I think I just discovered another part of the hidden curriculum. Apparently when places say "include 3 representative publications" it's okay to include preprints? Why not just say that? From general discussion on ecoevojobs:

I’ll never get over how difficult it is to find some faculty’s emails

'Overall, the message from this survey is positive– evolutionary biologists are readily employable outside of academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic careers.' #Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is Enrique. Who knows what kind of sallie this is? There's a chance i can look it up from the id at OWU, but i also wanted to show it off :)

Lazarus #lizard - Podarcis muralis (Shot in Cincinnati 8-28-25) 🦎 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animal #nature #urbanwildlife #herps #reptile #walllizard

People like me need to fake it till we make it during interviews because we will be perceived as not being excited if we don't exaggerate our emotions 😊 It's bias. Against introverted people. Who are often better leaders.

One of the most awkward things about interviews is that you're expected to be super expressive and extroverted but the people interviewing you are mostly just like 😶 Also, please give your candidates interview questions ahead of time, you'll get real and well thought out answers

Hoping to see y'all at SICB 2026! Reminder that today is the abstract deadline!! @sicb.bsky.social This year, if accepted, I will be presenting a big one 🌡️🦎🐸: "Generalizing thermoregulatory effectiveness metrics across space and time". Abstract below!!

interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky

Global diversity patterns in anurans are determined by terrestrial and arboreal species. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Maybe i don't understand exactly what's happening but r-sig-phylo is wild right now

@mollycwomack.bsky.social is visiting us at OWU!! 🐸🔥

ICB When to Go Against the Flow: Examining Patterns of Performance Over Multiday Migration Events in the Hawaiian Stream #Fish, ‘O‘opu Nōpili (Sicyopterus stimpsoni) Kelly M Diamond , Lance Nishiura , Troy Sakihara , Heiko L Schoenfuss , Richard W Blob doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #science

Nori et al. (2025) investigates a Anuran Data Deficit: tadpole descriptions. Their analyses suggest strategically focusing on 0.25% of Earth’s terrestrial surface could reveal more than half of the undescribed tadpoles. Read more of this #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org

Not LLM. But, in my Vert Anatomy class we have a lab where students design their own neural network to predict movement speed from morphology. This is so students can see how the AI black box actually works and the differences in results based on training datasets/user decisions!

This thread is amazing. This was pretty much my experience moving to Ohio as a new resident when trying to buy a car there AND when trying to register it under my name. And i thought California's DMV was bad.

In my talks to Biology depts since 2015, my recommendation of a several month career shadowing requirement for all PhD students has never been warmly received. 6 years and y’all can’t find 3 months for a non tenure track career exploration that ~85% of PhDs will end up in.

Rivas-Santisteban, Yubero & Hurst analysed gene expression in E. coli and S. cerevisiae to revisit the extended complexity hypothesis on protein rate of evolution; results contradict models supporting slower evolution of cytoplasmic proteins. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf126 #genome #evolution

While everything in science is up in the air, we can (re)build a better community by changing tenure criteria. scienceforeveryone.science/p/tenure-cri... 🧪

ICB Be sure you haven’t missed out on Water Availability and Temperature as Modifiers of Evaporative Water Loss in #Tropical #Frogs @bhjuarez.bsky.social , Isaac Quintanilla-Salinas , Madison P Lacey , Lauren A O'Connell Integrative and Comparative #Biology, doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

I'll be attending @sicbjournals.bsky.social this year! I'll likely talk about expanding our statistical toolkit used to study Thermoregulatory Effectiveness (E) in ectotherms 🦎🐸🐜🦀 Sadly, there's a not-small chance this will be my last academic conference ever, but I'm in it till the bitter end.

Why do people still review for for-profit journals?

Fresh off the presses in @currentbiology.bsky.social : Is the deuterostome clade an artefact? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We (yours truly, Paschalis Natsidis, Laura Piovani and co-leads Paschalia Kapli and @maxjtelford.bsky.social) set out to try to answer this question. Why? (1/12)

I wrote my first blog about why I felt that writing about my family's experiences with the mass deportation of people of Mexican descent during the Great Depression was more important than the National Science Foundation grant I was writing last summer. communities.springernature.com/posts/i-m-a-...

NIH Director say journals "bully scientists into paying large fees". No. Academia is a prestige economy in which scientific leadership chose to make journals the currency & Gold OA was deemed 'the way'. Publishers just cashed in; you don't have to pay $10K www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

My favorite color is blue but this red lizzy is cool too! Meet a red male Podarcis muralis (common wall lizard) from Cincinnati, USA

universities have not yet been hit hard by the budget cuts because we're still running on grants awarded during the last administration. this really shows how badly universities will be hurt, starting next year, when grants start ending and there's nothing to replace them.

Managed to lasso this stunning Puerto Rican blue-tailed ameiva (Pholidoscelis wetmorei) yesterday! 🦎💙