'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/...

Read this and sign it!

Excuse me, what?

This looks super interesting!

💙 I'm SO doing this! 💙 🧠🪱🐤 SHARE, SHARE, SHARE 🧠🪱🐤 🦋 @standupforscience.bsky.social 🦋 act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

As most science PhD programs are at least 5 years this is going to be a massive problem.

It was great to collaborate with you Joao on making some justice to the memory of the Elisabeth "The Great" Vrba and contextualizing her contributions as one of the "three musketeers" of the macroevolution! link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology #Geology #EvoBio

My whole lab is going - who else will be there?

I’m excited to finally be able to attend one of these SSB breakout meetings!

Hey @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com @maddow.msnbc.com @rbreich.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @atrupar.com @motherjones.com @clarajeffery.bsky.social We are up to some good trouble! Can you help us reach 100k signatures to IMPEACH THE QUACK???

Nice find on our dog walk this evening! North American luna moth.

Introducing the 1,000 Flower Collection 🧬🌹 I’m creating 1,000 genetically designed flowers each crafted with new colors, patterns, and shapes. Here’s how I’m making it happen… and how you can join me on this journey 🧵(1/7)

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

I am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access! doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

Devastated to see the NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in biology archives. This is a transformative creative opportunity and a path to the professorship for many (including myself). Postdocs are highly trained and often in the newest techniques which spur innovation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Well, fuck.

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪