Our warmest and wildest 100th birthday wishes to Sir David Attenborough, vice-patron of our Society. Today, we are celebrating Priam's Birdwing, which he said he would include in his "ark" to protect from extinction. This illustration is from E Donovan's "An Epitome of...Insects of India" (1800).

It is an absolute honor to see our work recognized by my peers and by SSE! Huge thanks to Jennifer Auler, Andressa Viol, and to Dan Rabosky for helping me to build this ed. software! Soon I will upload more content on our website, stay tuned! mjanuario.github.io/evolved

Trump just fired much of the National Science Board that guides the National Science Foundation - another blow to the NSF. #savetheNSF

This looks interesting!

This is a great idea! I can’t go to #Evol2026 as I will be doing museum “fieldwork” but others should take note.

New report of experimental evidence from Grace Liu & collaborators showing that AI assistance improves immediate performance - but after just ∼10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving people who lose access to the AI perform worse and give up more frequently than those who never used it.

New barracudina just dropped 🎉 We see a LOT of these long, toothy deep sea fishes in our swordfish stomachs - exciting to be able to ID them more accurately in the future! www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

I’m finishing my tenure as Chief Meeting Organizer for the Evolution Meetings. Apply to replace me! Without a doubt, this is my favorite service I’ve ever done. In trying times, it was a real balm to get together weekly with a group devoted to making the best meetings we can for students.

We present TaxonMatch, a tool designed to align taxonomic names, resolve synonymy, and correct typographical and structural inconsistencies across species name databases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #biodiversity #taxonomy #bioinformatics

If you love visiting our islands, then please give us some aloha in return. 🫶🏼 #hawaii #oahu #storm #flooding #hiwx givebutter.com/support-the-...

Went to Devil’s Fork State Park to see one of our local endemics today - oconee bells (Shortia galacifolia). They are found only in a few counties in southern Appalachia SC, NC and GA and flower only for a couple of weeks in March/april.

Are you an early career biologist seeking a position (Masters up to faculty)? I have talked to so many people who feel alone, like they don't have resources, or who are seeking community during this difficult time in the job market. I created a Discord community to help. discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

Registration is now open! Early-bird closes April 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

Upcoming book on ecology and evolution of Amazonian fishes, edited by @gymnotus.bsky.social and Roberto Reis. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Plain language summary: fesummaries.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/p...

I thought I may have been given gummy gymnotiform fishes or perhaps gummy early vertebrate Haikouichthys based on the package illustrations. Sadly what was inside didn’t live up to the expectations - still tasty though!

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

📣 Welcome to DPCB! We’re SICB’s Division of Phylogenetics & Comparative Biology — the home for tree-thinking, evolutionary relationships, and comparative approaches across organisms. #DPCB #SICB2026 #Phylogenetics

Very excited for this incredible lineup of talks at #SSB2026! ssb2026.github.io/talks.html For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly. @systbiol.bsky.social

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

Thank you to ICB journals for highlighting @keifferwilliams.bsky.social’s 1st PhD paper - it’s especially apt as he is coming back to Clemson for his hooding ceremony on Wednesday!

My newest paper and 1st chapter from the PhD is also officially out! I test how random encounter models work on reef fish 🐠Also great for anyone with a healthy dose of scepticism about reef fish survey methods *Contains one of the most painful tables I've ever written. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

NSF policy changes - some updates that PIs should be aware of. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Congratulations to UMMP Associate Research Scientist Miriam Zelditch on the release of the third edition of the indispensable "Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists" (a.k.a. the green book)! #FossilFriday

"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg

Another nice Oreosomatidae on the way back to the surface. They're hoping for 2 more dives before the expedition ends. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Platypus Blue whale Andean condor Yellow-eyed penguin Archer fish

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

Very excited to share my exploration of the phylogenetics of early ray-finned fishes, out today in the Anatomical Record! Really busy day but I’ll have more info shortly. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal!

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

IOB's author & poet interview : Brandon Kilbourne, a Pushcart-nominated, Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. prize winning #poet & #biologist carved out a little time to talk about his latest #poetry #book via iobopen.com/2025/10/31/n... & watch the interview via youtu.be/NmHkZ0iHn_o?... #science

New phylogeny and family-level classification of Stomiiformes (viperfishes, hatchetfishes, bristlemouths) bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New paper on deep-sea fish diversity out now in @sse-evolution.bsky.social, with @cmartinez.bsky.social and @sarahtfried.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

Attending SACNAS conference? Sign up -> 10th Annual SACNAS 1-on-1 Mentoring Workshop. Need 100+ mentors. Oct. 30th, 5:30 - 7:00 PM, N. Short Ballroom Mentors Link (Faculty/Postdocs/Staff): 1 min to fill out forms.gle/daTSoT8yniJ8... Each mentor is assigned 1-2 students.

I am one of a growing number of voices encouraging the scientific community to engage with people and policymakers outside of our typical professional circles. Our professional organizations, including @sicb.bsky.social, also need to engage with new audiences by making their science accessible.

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

This was such a fascinating talk at #SICB25 so excited to see it published www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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