proof that science mis- and disinformation are effective and have profound consequences for society. This is a shameful milestone.

Now joined by Carrona Jewelry, cast in silver from real (and mostly Chilean) insects

Saw this just before I spotted this post from the great @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social As the cousin of a trans person and the acquaintance and coworker of many others, I thank you.

What do you get when you cross a red-tailed hawk with a turkey vulture? 🪶

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Lophophorata is monophyletic! Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata. A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social! More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...

Saddened for all the students applying to the NSF GRFP who feel they can’t bring their full selves to their personal statements this year. Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems: An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Well, you're in your little room And you're working on something good But if it's really good You're gonna need a bigger room And when you're in the bigger room You might not know what to do You might have to think of how you got started Sitting in your little room - The White Stripes

Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6

A fantastic piece. Fascinating that Watson was another victim of The Bell Curve and became entrenched by his undeserved arrogance and hubris

Glad to have this one out! As some of you might remember, I'd kicked around the idea for some time, but the inestimable @wrightam.bsky.social got it all pulled together properly. It's a first step - we still need to include likelihoods of stasis between first & … www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interested in the biogeography of lizards?🦎 We studied the historical biogeography of Sceloporus lizards and the link between their dispersal and climatic niches 🌎🌦️ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @ndimhypervol.bsky.social @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social Learn more here 👇: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

They're hiding the resegregation of the tech industry. www.wired.com/story/google...

Joshua trees make the cover of @newphyt.bsky.social for the issue with our paper, led by @kheyduk.bsky.social, showing that they use water-saving CAM photosynthesis — but only sometimes 🌿 buff.ly/WnPoRXa

Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)

disappointed that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is implicitly endorsing the use of LLMs to replace scientific thought @richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"data irregularities" and "time-keeping oversights"

I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed. nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...

academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... So exciting to see a new method to model the evolution of G (and P) matrices on phylogenies. Another step in the direction of trying to bridge micro and macroevolution

We somehow live in a world where real politicians are more evil than a literal cartoon villain :/ www.reddit.com/r/futurama/s...

“Assessing phylogenetic confidence at pandemic scales” putting confidence limits on phylogenies with millions of sequences doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Cuckoo eggs match the eggs of their adoptive hosts thanks to (mostly) loci inherited from their mothers, who put them there — impressive multifaceted genomic study buff.ly/r8xpxaR

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

we strive for accuracy in our data labels tyvm

It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)

You have to admire the bloody-minded ambition of a pelican trying to eat a whole capybara (who seems utterly unconcerned). The thing with pelicans is that they have ONE super-power & their brains default to "get it in your mouth & deal with it later." Let's talk about the gular sac of the pelican.

Neat paper: A Guided Tour of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Studying Trait Evolution www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Lineage-specific phylogenetic structure of boreal habitats suggests different assembly processes across phylogenetic and spatial scales vist.ly/4cxrw #Clustering #Phylogeny #Scale #Distance

Heart Mountain xkcd.com/3162/

I am happy to deal with a small number of stragglers but have to close the form at some point... Ok, not happy per se, but in 5 years I haven't not had a straggler... 😑

RStudio Update Available, they said. Would you like to Quit and Download, they said. _Never_ seen this before :? #rstats

Arthur took a deep breath without much enthusiasm.

I've been pretty quiet here lately, trying to cut down on doomscrolling for the sake of my mental health... BUT I have a new story out at @therevelator.org, on how climate change is contributing to bird population declines in multiple biomes around the world. #birds 🪶🌏

I contributed to this a bunch during grad school (Aves, of course). Sad to see it go (μ_μ)

Congratulations to the authors of these contributions recognized as JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology! www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation heading a team that develops habitat measures to benefit priority #bird species in #Switzerland (deadline 8 Dec 2025): buff.ly/Y1bIHr7

What's the best place to deposit a large and valuable dataset from an old paper that has been digitized, so that others can easily access it? Data Dryad? DataOne? Ideally would be citable with a DOI so that the source is clear.

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

Super proud of Daniel Kim, whose paper on coevolutionary cycling and the evolution of virulence has just been published in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Daniel was in high school when he did this research and has just started his undergraduate degree @kebleoxford.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

#TIL Part of @realgdt.bsky.social's #Frankenstein was filmed in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, the city I grew up in! Apparently chosen because the harsh, icy desolation complements the intense mood of the film. Let me tell you, GDT does his research!

College: Good news we have some money to support new innovative programs in STEM education! Me: Cool! What are some examples of things you would support? College: AI! Me: 💀

Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

My university sent out an email at 8 AM this morning asking that we pause all spending of federal grant funds except for payroll due to the government shutdown (with some exceptions). Is this happening elsewhere?