🐵 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...

Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Entrevista com o vampiro, que só acontece se você passa na prova escrita com o vampiro (junto da leitura oral com o vampiro). Daí tem também a prova didática com o vampiro. (versão concurso para professor universitário)

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Pessoal, papo sério: Está aberta a Consulta Pública para incorporação de um novo tratamento para ELA no SUS. O relato de pessoas que convivem com a doença ajuda a tornar o processo decisório mais transparente e democrático. Aqui mais informações para participar: falesobreela.com.br/engaje-com-a...

Conference idea, burning science man, where we gathered in a remote place, preferably a desert, debate and present our work, and burn all the posters at the end

There's no "gain in productivity" (a topic that would be debatable enough on its own) that justifies for me all the downsides of the use of generative AI in academia. But you do you, I guess...

There's no "gain in productivity" (a topic that would be debatable enough on its own) that justifies for me all the downsides of the use of generative AI in academia. But you do you, I guess...

An under-discussed consequence of generative AI: to prove *your* scientific text is human-authored and should be taken seriously, you'll have to show your credentials, which benefits people with privilege and harms people without it. Harvard gets a pass; U of Nairobi, maybe less often.

"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. +

"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. +

We are published! We quantifying the spatiotemporal dynamics of the first two major waves of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA is online now! By mapping the infections we were able to quantify the spread of SARS-CoV-2 over the contiguous US and we also estimated the speed of spread! tinyurl.com/y87tjnmd

I am now an Executive Editor at Palaeontologia Electronica :D Still feeling kinda lost in this new role... anyways, send your manuscript to us! :)

Ultra niche post. Me like it.

Delighted to share new work with a great bunch of collaborators using ancient DNA to study melon domestication www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What a time to be alive

New pronoun labeler to replace the one that went down! Subscribe to it to see others’ labeled pronouns when you interact with them (rather than having to search their profile) Choose your own pronoun label by liking the correct post in the labelers’ pinned thread (instruction thread here):

Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.

Interested in being an Associate Editor on any of the BES journals? Apply now! 👇

Two 💩🪲 talks this week in Goiania (Brasil)! Don't miss it if you are in the area!

Stony Brook E&E has just posted a postdoc-bridge-to-tenure-track-faculty focused on ecological and/or evolutionary responses to global change. Spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/178040

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

Excited to share that a chapter of my PhD is now out, just two weeks before my defense. Our study shows that agricultural expansion into native forests and grasslands drives strong biodiversity loss in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across the Andes. Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

OpenAccess science sounds great! But what if authors have to pay (Gold OA)? Well, clear biases appear: less participation from low and middle-income countries. Find all about it in our new study led by Pablo Huais and Javi Nori 👇@oikosjournal.bsky.social shorturl.at/bheb6 @peeer.bsky.social

How to assess the plasticity of a given species across environmental conditions when you've measured tons of variables? We introduced a simple method that led to a provocative ecophysiological hypothesis about photosynthetic plasticity & leaf resource investment: academic.oup.com/treephys/art...

We know that marine fishes 🐠 have an inverse gradient of speciation compared to that of spp richness, with higher speciation at higher latitudes. But, what about freshwater 🐟? Find out in the new PhD paper by Juliana Herrera-Pérez and friends (not just colleagues) 🤿 👇 shorturl.at/zgKfA

Balancing selection maintains some remarkable biological diversity, but detecting it from genomic data alone can be tricky. This may bias our view of its true prevalence. We investigated what makes balancing selection more or less detectable in genomic scans. + in thread & preprint!

Happy to share that this paper has just been published in Ecology Letters! We hope that our framework can be useful for theoreticians and empiricists working on different systems. Let me know if you hit a paywall and would like a pdf. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity (Barcelona, Spain) I am seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate (any nationality) to apply for the Sara Borrell Fellowship, 3 years postdoc funding, in the 2026 upcoming call (starts on Jan 2027 if funded). The project is on environmental health 👇

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

📢 Hello! Slightly unusual request from me, buttt we're likely to need a freelance writer to produce some content in Feb & Mar for the NHM's 'Find Your Climate Action' tool. If you've experience writing about the climate and inspiring action, please send me a message! www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/fi...