No such thing as a free lunch: a note on what 'natural' means in the Phylogenetic Minimum Description Length optimality criterion and how PMDL relocates substantive assumptions into the chosen description language onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

🧵 (2/3) To resolve the history of these large-sized #mammals, we integrate a dependency-coded matrix of 54 discrete characters and 42 morphogeometric and 5 continuous characters, across a sample of 37 taxa. ✅ 5 major lineages recovered ✅ Character weight ranking ✅ Ancestral reconstructions

🧵 (1/3) What makes South American Ungulates so unique?🦏🍃 #FossilFriday Check out our new comprehensive combined-evidence #phylogeny of #Toxodontidae!!! #Paleontology #Evolution #Fossils #Argentina #CONICET doi.org/10.1111/cla....

AI perpetuates knowledge artefacts. Mind you, a look at PubMed will tell you that humans are pretty good at perpetuating these too.. theconversation.com/a-weird-phra... ht @cyrilpedia.bsky.social

A new morphological phylogeny of Malacostraca comparing the application of character dependencies and implied weighting - Grams - Cladistics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Pol & Ezcurra present a fully scripted (TNT & R, incl. publication-ready graphics) #parsimony based workflow for estimating rates. It deals with ambiguous optimizations and multiple MPTs and can use different calibration approaches. Nice work! #phylogeny

If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery. We can all use some beauty right now (Quercus robur L., pedunculate oak, in Belgium; www.plantsystematics.org/imgs/jdelaet...)

Wheeler (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) recently proposed to deal with inapplicable characters in #morphology and #phylogeny by concatenating morphological characters into morphological sequences that are, in a next step, to be analyzed using #phylogenetic tree alignment algorithms.

Our new paper on the #phylogeny of Osmundales is out. We reviewed the phylogeny of the group by taking into account character dependence and found that most of the recognised groups are hardly when dependencies are ignored. Check it out #ferns #fossilfriday onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...