Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out [email protected]! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Remember at #Evol2026 our code of conduct still applies at the supersocial. Things have gone generally well at the conference — thanks to everyone for this — just remember this as people relax tonight and help keep things safe and fun for all

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

🧵 Excited to share my final PhD paper in Ecology Letters! A classic question in ecology is why some clades contain more species in local assemblages than others. We argue that part of the answer lies in the timing of speciation itself. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Due to scheduling we will be recording our final Q & A/retrospective episode on Weds, so please send over any Qs by then and we’ll do our best to answer them :)

Looking forward to sharing one of my favorite projects of all time, developed with some of my favorite people! (with astonishing illustrations by @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social) Tuesday 12:00 pm Room 21 #Evol2026

The yearly feeling of "Evolution FOMO" is upon me. I really miss attending this conference, but the recent cons of traveling to the US sadly outweigh the pros. I won't be present in person, but I will be present by proxy, so don't forget to check @alencarlrv.bsky.social's talk out! #Evol2026

Did you know seals, sea lions and walruses hear well both above and below water? James Rule told us all about how - with an added interlude from Hoover the talking seal - in our recent lunchtime lecture. James published some of his work on this topic in @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social. buff.ly/X1J1pmv

The yearly feeling of "Evolution FOMO" is upon me. I really miss attending this conference, but the recent cons of traveling to the US sadly outweigh the pros. I won't be present in person, but I will be present by proxy, so don't forget to check @alencarlrv.bsky.social's talk out! #Evol2026

This was so fun, with Winston the swan looming over @joshlukedavis.com in a menacing way. And features two of my absolute favourite stories debunking the "biological sex is simple" myth - trans pheasants and gynandromorphs ❤️. And poetry by @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social! The perfect PRIDE episode. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

~1 billion times the distance from Earth to the Sun. That is approx the total length of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae in topsoils. These microscopic fungal networks form one of Earth’s circulatory systems moving carbon and nutrients. Out now in @science.org : lnkd.in/eKAsVN_Z

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

Mata Atlântica não é só floresta úmida de baixada e tabuleiro. É Bioma bem mais complexo, e essa era uma ótima oportunidade pro órgão federal chamar atenção pra isso nessa notícia mas enfim, divago e sou apenas um ornitonóia.

não pessoal, as araras-vermelhas não estavam extintas há 200 anos na Mata Atlântica. A população icônica do Parque Estadual do Morro do Diabo também discorda. E eu tenho cada vez mais preguiça de sensacionalismo preguiçoso pra gerar clique. www.gov.br/ibama/pt-br/...

And part 2 of the blog post shows how we put these hackathon organisational tips into practice at the BES Data and Code hackathon in Sept 2025! methodsblog.com/2026/04/16/o...

Ever wondered what a hackathon is? I wrote this to accompany our paper on data- and code- sharing where all the data came from a hackathon... methodsblog.com/2026/04/09/t... Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at [email protected]

New study led by S. Llorente-Culebras on drivers of knowledge gaps in global mammal traits databases. 📊 Traits like diet & body mass are known for >97% of species, but reproductive traits for <17%. 🚨 Biggest gaps: data-deficient, recently described, range-restricted species far from major cities.

Can't recommend this position enough! Laura is a great researcher, mentor and friend, I would definitely apply if I were you!

Happy to share that one of my PhD chapters is out now! In this study, we investigated how geographic range size and body size influence abundance in reef fishes 🐠 doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

"We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope" --Stephen Jay Gould (from The Mismeasure of Man)

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📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How does species age influence niche position and specialization across the Neotropics? In a new study published in @ecography.bsky.social with @bruvilela.bsky.social, @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social , and R Dobrovolski: doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Louder for the people w̶h̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶p̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶o̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶l̶i̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ in the back

It's now less than 24 hours until #JurassicOceans opens at the Natural History Museum London, UK, marking it's European debut. - www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi... Come see #ichthyosaurs #plesiosaurs #mosasaurs #Leedsichthys & many more wonderful marine fossil creatures. 🌊🐚🐟🦈 @nhm-london.bsky.social

The AI citation stoush is interesting to me because the people in umbrage correctly identifying that drive-by citations are real (at least in bio, and I suspect in STEM publishing more broadly). It's related to both a style (any statement, no matter how banal, must be supported) and a structure 1/n

I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

🐵 New paper out today 📄 How is hunting distributed across the primate phylogeny and how is this influencing extinction risk? International collaboration w/ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social and many others doi.org/10.1111/acv....

There are days when a double IPA is not enough, so we resort to a Triple IPA.

Bem-vindos ao ultimo mês útil do ano, depois é São João, seguido de Copa do Mundo, e depois já vem eleições. Daí já é Dezembro

2/ fnarr fnarr

Happy April 28 to all who celebrate!

literally letting robots compete while banning trans people 🙃

Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Fantastic seminar from @deboraycb.bsky.social discussing some of the challenges and limitations of detecting balancing selection from genomic data and her ongoing work on developing a new ARG-based approach. See preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....

New episode today is MYTHICAL! m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYux... Featuring Jeff (who just moved to Cardiff Museum 😭). Available on Spotify and Apple too. 🐸 🦎 📕 🌴 No unicorns were harmed in the making of this podcast 🦄

Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually! fapesp.br/18114/chamad...

Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually! fapesp.br/18114/chamad...

Vai ser um looooongo ano....

This is so, so well-articulated.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to [email protected] + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

Based on this, my advice up to now is: Please don't use an LLM to draft your analyses. If you don't know what you're doing, it'll lead you badly astray and be unreadable. If you know what you're doing, you can code the analyses faster and easier yourself.

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ547/r...