New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋 w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722

Desert lily flowering on a dune at sunrise on Sunday (Photo: Sicco Rood).

I covered this in my premium last week, it’s laughable! www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...

ahhhh, nothing like the excitement of setting up your bash (or I guess zsh now) profile & prompt on a new work laptop

More journals should do this! Art is inherently a part of science and this helps to normalize that. Also... IT LOOKS SO COOL.

it's official: UW-Madison will no longer have a department of Botany as of summer 2026, and will be in a new department of Biology. ls.wisc.edu/news/science...

Should ecologists be worried about the carbon footprint of their own use of “AI” and LLMs? esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Zohran is cool and awesome and I’m thrilled for him and all of us but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

i fear coffee may not be as effective for increasing my productivity as compared to a Bruce Springsteen live album... i am a living, breathing raised in New Jersey stereotype

that abstract

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

excited to announce I'll soon be starting as a postdoctoral scholar with Carrie Tribble @tribblelab.bsky.social at the University of Washington! Seattle here I come! 🎉🥳

Starting day 2: Laymon Ball speaking about her work on #Herbaria! #BINHMS

Ran into these AMAZING Stapelia grandiflora in our conservatory today. The patterns, colors, hairs, and the smell - carrion mimic to perfection. #Stapelia #plantjoy #iamabotanist

🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...

"Figure 3" - @bembidion.bsky.social (1991) #art #phylogenetics

now that I've shipped all my belongings across the country, I'm moving onto the next stage of moving... the mass texting of all my acquaintances and fallen-out-of-touch friends in my new home city asking to grab coffee™️

One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇

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...