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A quick post to note that I noticed that I haven't been posting and it's been great, so back to not posting now

Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!

Very bad start to the day. I got Jeff Samardzija and Jake Arrieta confused on @immaculategrid.com. These two now join Jon Lester and John Lackey as commonly confused former Cubs pitchers with J names.

Reading this with my class today. I love this paper. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Eight manuscripts in my editorial queue. Deep breaths.

Regretting not using this answer yesterday for a shot at @learnedleague.com best-wrong-answer glory: After a series of high-profile incidents, in 2001 a table replaced a horse for future competitions in what Olympic event, per the broader sport's international rules federation? HORSE TENNIS

If he had stayed healthy, this might have been right. What a game he had the other day.

If the wizards at Microsoft could make PowerPoint stop doing that thing where all of a sudden all your pictures disappear and you can't save your file and you lose three hours of work that would be great

Just found that the title of one my papers has been wrong on my CV for 18 years. The reviewers requested that we shorten it in the final revision and I forgot to change it on my CV when the paper went to press.

75% of academia is writing reports and then writing other reports that report on the reports

I have been writing my statement for my promotion packet, and I think I now have managed to convince myself that I should be promoted.

Proposal: A Tex-Mex/Italian fusion restaurant called Fajitaboudit

#1: The Fourth of July is a holiday about opposition to monarchy, and as a nation, we should probably get back to that

AI is everywhere. Why can't it read my email backlog and make me a priority list of which ones to deal with first? I would prefer this to the distracting auto-suggestions of words I don't actually want to type.

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

My @asn-amnat.bsky.social Presidents Address for #Evol2025 is now available on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=soPd...

#Evol2025 was for me maybe the most important meeting I have ever been to. My science will be drastically improved by my interactions over the past week. It was bittersweet due to the current situation and the people who weren't there, but I'm optimistic that we are strong enough to overcome this.

Incensed

New nickname alert #Evol2025

St. Patrick's speciation #Evol2025 #FunnySubtitles

Remember tweetups?

Not quite 8 and it is already 1,000 degrees #Evol2025

Had dinner with a friend from grad school days. She said "haven't seen you in forever" and I said "didn't we see each other at an Evolution meeting not that long ago?" We figured out it was at the Raleigh meeting. In 2014. 👴 #Evol2025

When you forget to book a hotel and end up in an AirBnB #Evol2025

PowerPoint voice recognition technology is a weird combination of very good and very bad. Why doesn't it use the words on the slides to help it come up with the right spellings of uncommon words (species names, etc.)? Why does it get stuck and miss whole sentences sometimes? #Evol2025

I remember being anxious as a junior scientist trying to introduce myself to senior people at meetings. Now I'm one of the senior people, I guess. Consider this your invitation to come introduce yourself if we haven't met. #Evol2025

One new collaboration hatched, a recent one intensified, a couple of old ones rekindled. Good week so far at #Evol2025

Congrats to @emilyroycroft.bsky.social on receiving this year's Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize. Fantastic work! #Evol2025

Australian mammals have the best names #Evol2025

@danielbolnick.bsky.social: "Keep doing science: the pursuit of knowledge is an act of resistance." #Evol2025

@jbyoder.org coming out strong for "data" as a singular noun #Evol2025

Al Foster was the drummer on so many of my favorite records. The State of the Tenor with Joe Henderson and Ron Carter stands out as a big one. RIP, Maestro. www.npr.org/2025/05/29/n...

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

It's been a wild week for my editorial queue

My primary role on dissertation committees is to correct punctuation errors.

Does anyone remember singing a song in chemistry class that went: Wasting away again in Moles-per-liter-ville Calculating my concentration of salt Some people claim that Mendeleev's to blame But I know it's Avogadro's fault I swear there was a recording of this with other molarity-themed lyrics.

About NSF’s new(est) bulletin - 15% indirect cost rates will kill universities. Apparently that’s the point. I am sick.

I enjoy being on PhD student committees, and I love seeing students' work come together. However, I have three dissertations to read this week!

Chubby Checker should not be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I love the White Stripes, but should they be in there? I'll allow it, I guess.

This is certainly a strategy. No, I did not agree to review.

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

@adarowski.bsky.social Finally got my new phone! 👍

Who's getting rich off this engineered volatility?

China is ripping us off how exactly? By manufacturing stuff we want to buy and selling it to us?

Hunter Greene is going to win the NL Cy Young Award

I cannot afford to buy lunch at Logan in this economy

According to this post, I will be teaching at this thing. Apply today!

Talking today at Tufts University on stop #2 on my Spring Seminar Tour. This will be the same talk I gave at UNC recently except for the one slide I said was probably wrong (it was). Apologies to the UNC folks. DM me if you want the right answer. I guess we will also write a paper at some point.