Wowzers. A _ton_ of cool talks by amazing people available on @palaeoverse.bsky.social palaeoverse.org/lectures 🧪

Something you might note about this Nobel Prize article is there's a side bar on women and the Nobel Prize: www.snexplores.org/article/nobe... Noting how few women have won science prizes. My editor asked me hey: what are the stats for Black scientists? There is no sidebar....

My department is searching for TT faculty in Arthropod Systematics evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... The museum community is vibrant with excellent training opportunities for graduate students and postdocs. And we have 500+ smart and ambitious biology majors at OSU looking for research opportunities.

Belly buddies, from Buni www.bunicomic.com/comic/buni-1...

If you missed this fantastic talk from Drs Mongiardino Koch and Garwood yesterday, you can now catch up on the recording (and for our other previous talks) on our website! #FossilFriday palaeoverse.org/lectures

k-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant species. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

In the Lord's Year 2025 we're still doing this!?!?! C'mon EPSL. What happened to FAIR publishing principles....

Really cool, conceptually simple approach here: cross-referencing grant proposal scores with literature citations and explicit acknowledgments in drug patents to identify patents linked to projects that wouldn't have been funded given a smaller budget

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

There is a Crested Caracara in Northern Ontario?!? (◎ ◎)ゞ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Is #icanhazpdf a thing here? I'm looking for "La base de données GICIM: Gestion informatisée des collections ichthyologiques du Muséum". FishBase cites the book's 3-page appendix II for size data, but there's no data at all in there. I suspect they're throughout the whole book...?

New from Sandy Carlson and co-authors... includes parsimony and Bayesian with FBD methods.

2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in @uniexecec.bsky.social - Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... - RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Pls share!

New phytools. blog.phytools.org/2025/09/new-... #rstats

When I first got this album I listened to it _continuously_ for 2 weeks straight; even had headphones on as I slept. I know we all eschew Lamarkism, but this album is _part of my DNA_. I'll restrain myself from posting links to every song :P (b~_^)b tidal.com/track/762535...

I miss him :/

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

we were just in Big Sur, my 12yo saw the full-on Milky Way for the first time and it was so beautiful he started crying

They've lost the 9yos

#PhyKIT now supports Python 3.12 and 3.13. #Optimizations are also included in the latest release -- more details to come :)

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a HUGE effort, taking years of diligent work. Hongfei was a true leader, and I'm really proud of this cool piece. We'd love any feedback y'all might have. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

hope someone notices

re: the elephants drawn by people who had never seen elephants, it is ESSENTIAL to click through to the master interactive, where you can enlarge each successively worse elephant (and link to the original source!!)

Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

I actually meant "muteable", but I would also welcome "mutable" :/

Don't forget to apply to our position in Evolutionary Genetics at U of South Carolina! In my experience it is a fantastic place to start a new lab, with friendly and supportive colleagues and many junior faculty in EEB! Review starts in 1 week (Oct 1)!

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

Getting sick of this non-settable non-mutable alarm clock ( ╯°□°)╯ ┻━━┻ ┻━┻ ︵╰(°□°╰) ( ╯˚Õ˚)╯ ~~~~╚╩╩╝ ┻━┻ ︵╰(ಠ_ಠ╰) (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

"Anti-depressants," said Roosta.

Here is the explanatory video for all species cited in the list! I added timecodes so that you can skip to the lifeform you’re curious about :) Don’t hesitate to ask questions! youtu.be/sYTtARAP5uo

Code is here: binstobins.com/v1/projects/...

I had an idea yesterday about making a word search that, when solved, would be a data visualization. So, I coded it up... and it worked! This shows abundance of three bird species in Brooklyn Bridge Park over a year. It feels like there are some fun possibilities here. 📊🪶

Our department is adopting a 2-semester core course for entering grad students, 1 semester of grad evolution, 1 semester of ecology. I'd love to see what other depts are doing with equivalent EEB grad core courses, so if you teach one & are willing to share a syllabus & reading list please LMK

Fossilized plant-pollinator interaction!

It’s here! Such a thrill to hold the book in my hands: “The Communicating Scientist” with my illustrations inside. It’s the kind of book I wish I had when I was a PhD student, and I’m glad to have it as a reference as a communications professional #SciComm 🧪 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@sarperotto.bsky.social and I are back for the @smtpb.bsky.social, interviewing Warren Ewens. "Get out of that ivory tower and do something useful" might seem unlikely advice for a mathematical population geneticist, but this was key for Warren. Full interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_K_...

hell yeah dude

In honor of GWAR hilariously pissing off MAGA, here’s a video from my birthday in 2019 when I was hanging backstage at the Regency Ballroom and their gimp fed me into the meat grinder.

Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Today at WashU’s EEB seminar, I presented a new species diversification model that incorporates regional species diversity into rates of evolution through time (a joint work w/ @landismj.bsky.social). Slides here: sites.google.com/view/albert-... Preprint hopefully will be here this month #evobio

#PlantScience and #TESky!

Chills. Thousands of Alberta high school students walked out of class to the legislature. They’re fighting back against UCP attacks on education. They’re standing up for teachers. They’re our future and I couldn’t be prouder. ✊🩷

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com 130 bryophyte genomes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/n)

Hey #pollen people! @theobrominated.bsky.social would like to know which species these mixed pollen grains are from, and I admit except for pine and lily, I'm not sure. Would anyone be able to help? #botany #plantscience #bioimaging #microscopy

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️ Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...