I’m so proud of my grad student @evoyeyo.bsky.social for defending his @lsubiosci.bsky.social PhD thesis on macroevolution of #Brachyotum and the broader Andean flora today. Felicidades, Dr. Paredes-Burneo!! ⛰️🧬🌻🥳👨🏽‍🎓🇵🇪

Poll. 61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes, 40% say Israel is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians. That's not antisemitism. That's moral and ethical responsibility. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

have been having a terrible time focusing on work lately and it's amazing what the combo of bluegrass instrumental music, a double monitor, and putting your phone on DND can do

what dummy thought it was a good idea to move cross country away from all her friends and community and her beloved city of the past 5 years (me, it's me)

Today’s winning data label goes to this flea I’ve no idea who collected it but I’d love to met them, sounds like they are my sort of person 🤓 #collections @nhm-london.bsky.social #fleas #databasing

as a former recipient, I'm happy to review anyone's materials and/or share my own!

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Hannah Einbinder at the Emmys backstage: "It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

from first to last day of grad school! on Monday I successfully defended and became Dr. Lauren Frankel :)

alright, t-24hrs until my phd defense... any last minute advice besides do the damn thing?

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

soon approaching brief (f)unemployment, 2.5 wk trip to Italy, followed by cross country move before starting new job is ... expensive

hi friends, let me know if you'd like a zoom link for my defense next week!

sent my dissertation to my committee after much agonizing that I was taking too long!! ... only to get auto away responses from 4/5 committee members lmfao

today's the day. i WILL finish writing my dingdang dissertation. it's gonna happen!!! (trying my best at using a combo of manifestation + iced coffee to will it so)

Wait a minute… (Cedar Waxwing, aka @trixiemattel.bsky.social bird)

went on a run to ""clear my mind"" from writing my dissertation, spent the whole run thinking of more colleagues, friends, relatives I've yet to invite to my defense. smh

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...

Happy to share our latest paper in which we use a new big phylogeny of birds to analyze the relationships between dispersal, geographic range size and diversification rates across all birds. See also post by ‪@sheardcat.bsky.social‬ and @josephtobias.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com

A University of Colorado, Boulder research team found a new lichen species and they named them after the Indigo Girls. @indigogirlsmusic.bsky.social Check out this great work from American Bryological Society members Erin Manzitto-Tripp, Jacob Watts, & Seth Raynor! www.cpr.org/2025/07/24/c...

wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy: moving across town after living in the same apt. for 5 years, while writing dissertation and planning post-phd european jaunt 🙃

update: new version of our preprint "Low accuracy of complex admixture graph inference from f-statistics" available! based on very helpful reviewer suggestions, we added many more simulations to dig into what drives poor accuracy of complex network inference. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Meet Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, who fell in love with plants during childhood camping trips in California's redwood forests. Her passion for plant-pollinator relationships began with a magical moment watching hummingbirds visit curved flowers in Costa Rica's cloud forests. #Botany 🧪 wp.me/pdRZhH-m9q

submitted revisions back to the journal for my second dissertation chapter!!!!!!!!!

they tried to "un-woke a robot and it went full nazi" is something out of a 30 Rock TV show

Happy 432nd Birthday to Artemesia Gentilleschi!

ok lmao which one of you did this mamdanitimes.com

After years of litigation, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the state's 176-year-old law does not ban abortion.

This is a concentration camp

Holy shit...I applied for a job with The Onion back in April and this was literally one of my 30 sports headline submissions. @davidjroth.bsky.social @robertsilverman.bsky.social

One feature of eucalyptus species is the cap (or operculum) that covers developing flower buds (L). As the flower develops the cap is popped off revealing numerous fluffy stamens (R) #ozflora #wildoz #eucalyptus #nativeplants

Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

god it’s kinda hilarious watching folks dropping it low wearing headlamps and binoculars #biologistsonthedancefloor

really loving this Sex & Gender Pedagogy symposium, thanks to SSE for fostering this space. #evol2025

earlier today @laymonstera.bsky.social gave a real ball-er talk (pardon the pun) on Hillia, integrating niche data, pollinator syndromes, and biogeography! check out her recent paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #evol2025 #lagolab

amazing talk by SSB prez Corrie @corriemoreau.bsky.social this morning! it was her videos on the Brain Scoop with @ehmee.bsky.social 10yrs ago that first introduced me to the field of evolutionary biology, so I don't know if I'd be here without her! such inspiring work! 🐜

can we talk about how awesome it is we have all female leadership of our society???

Bluesky you deserve some fireflies in a cornfield. Not pictured-the young hawk chased away by robins, the enormous kale after the rain, the smell of the tomato plant leaves.

Just an excellent, superb, wonderful evening with #LagoLab members, past and present, tonight at #evol2025 🥰. @laymonstera.bsky.social @justkathe.bsky.social @laufran.bsky.social @evoyeyo.bsky.social @lcorleto08.bsky.social

let's run it back!! giving this talk at #Evol2025 in person as well :) catch me in Hybridization I, Athena IJ at 9:30am on Sunday. if you're curious about the pitfalls of inferring admixture graphs (aka phylogenetic networks), come listen!

trans people will always exist (laudatory) trans people will always exist (threatening) trans people will always exist (factual)

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

beyond the sadness of moving on from your home and community of 5 years when finishing your PhD, it's so sad having lots of friends graduate and move on before you one by one