Posting this for the umpteenth time.

A perfect day: a glacial lake swim, stone skimming, spider photoshoot.

Maybe the best* part of coming home after the best vacation of my life is uploading all my 🪲🕷️🦜🐦‍⬛🦎🦋 observations to iNaturalist! *only good 🥲

Sometimes it feels like you're stranded, just going in circles, but then some strange but benevolent hyperintelligent creature might come along, photograph you, and bring you home down past the low tide line.

The lab is delighted to release the first genome for the giant American vinegaroon! The slowly-evolving order Uropygi captures the strongest signature yet of the arachnopulmonate whole genome duplication. #biodiversity #genomics academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...

Ecology & evolutionary biology (EEB) has long had issues of inclusivity & representation. @mallorymrice.bsky.social &co show that people from marginalized groups were more likely to be harmed by EEB terminology, with >200 terms perceived by participants as harmful 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/425aTaE

Read my new paper! 🕷️🧬

til Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Spongebob Squarepants was a marine biology instructor at the Orange County Marine Institute before becoming an animator. He created an educational comic called The Intertidal Zone, which is preserved in the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/The-...

An ant crosses your carpet. A spider weaves a pattern older than mammals beneath your stairs. Just nod, breathe, and think, “Good. It’s all still here. The forest, the mountains, the desert. At home in my home.” The sterile white box is the stranger. Not the ant. Not the spider.

A pleasure to talk to a new crowd at PopGroup – I will be back for sure!

And finally (today) at #PGG57 Madda Aase-Remedios on #Hox genes and #Genome duplications