The SSB Bulletin just published a detailed monograph about Halichondria sponges written by Thomas Turner and colleagues. See more at ssbbulletin.org/article/id/5.... @systbiol.bsky.social @systassn.bsky.social @journalsysevo.bsky.social

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.

It's great to see Sydney Decker's paper on the highly accessed list over at Frontiers of Biogeography: biogeography.pensoft.net/browse_journ.... Lots of interesting papers published by this journal in the last few years.

Newly published research on Adephaga beetles by Cody Cardenas et al. published in the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... @systbiol.bsky.social @eeob.bsky.social

Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...

All articles in the Species Network Special issue of the SSB Bulletin are available here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Thanks to Claudia Solís-Lemus and George Tiley for their editorial work on this issue. @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social

@ssbbulletin.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social We are happy to announce that all articles in the Species Network special issue edited by Claudia Solís-Lemus George Tiley have now been published. You can view the special issue here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We're happy to announce the publication of a new paper by Danielle Parsons that models hidden species in Salamanders. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... We describe how our predictive model identifies climatic variables as predictive of hidden diversity in Caudata. @systbiol.bsky.social

Hope to see everyone tomorrow at our symposium @peer.Baku.social @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social

David Baum in his SSB presidential address at Evolution 2024 just called attention to the Maddison and Whittington paper published last year on species. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

A new paper by @tfirneno.bsky.social et al. was just published in the Bulletin of the SSB. It explores evolutionary relationships in earless lizards using genomic data. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs... @ssbbulletin.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social

@ssbbulletin.bsky.social announces publication of a really cool paper by @rejectresubmit.bsky.social and @3rdreviewer.bsky.social that uses SML to decipher speciation and introgression: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

The last paper from my PhD is finally out in Bulletin of SSB with @3rdreviewer.bsky.social! We used theory and supervised machine learning to learn how to disentangle uncertain histories of speciation and introgression. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

A new paper with Emanuel Fonseca that uses AI to combine phylogeographic and landscape inference was just published. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new paper by van de Peppel et al. investigates speciation and species boundaries in termite-cultivated basidiomycete fungi. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

@ssbbulletin.bsky.social A new article by Blake Fauskee et al. in the Species Network Special Issue identifies ancient introgression in Mouse Lemurs and demonstrate how this phenomenon was the root cause of phylogenetic uncertainty. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

The Bulletin of the SSB announces publication of our Species Network Special Issue edited by Claudia Solis-Lemus & George Tiley. The first part of this issue is here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Articles from the second part of this issue will be published here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

A new article by DeBiasse et al presents an improved estimate of Cnidarian phylogeny: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Their approach to analysis of phylogenomic data is intriguing and worth a read. @megdaly.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social

A new article in the SSB Bulletin by Joshua Justison and @trayc7.bsky.social explores how reticulation among diverging evolutionary lineages can influence macroevolutionary patterns. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

A new article in the SSB Bulletin by Joshua Justison and @trayc7.bsky.social explores how reticulation among diverging evolutionary lineages can influence macroevolutionary patterns. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs... Submissions open at: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

To practicing species taxonomists using morphology, here's a guide to our new paper on species concepts. A 🧵. @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social (Paper: doi.org/10.18061/bss...; see also: bsky.app/profile/wayn...) #evolbio #philsci 🧪

It’s a gem, for sure! As is the manuscript. Thanks to you and @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social for such a well-framed contribution to the discourse. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it 😊🤓😎

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

The EEOB department at The Ohio State University is searching for an integrative biologist at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. We're particularly interested in someone who is conducting investigations from the genotype to phenotype. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

The number of OA articles was higher than subscription articles in 2022! ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2023... This continues a positive trend in the rise of OA as a proportion of STEM publications. I would love to see data on the costs associated with publishing OA: APCs, read/publish, or something else?

Now that our paper on species concepts is out, time to update an old post (on that other place) on the XCKD paper title meme. @waynemaddison.bsky.social #SpeciesConcepts [https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v2i1.9358]

I'm pretty excited but also have some trepidation about our long-incubated paper being out there. I wrote a bit about my experience, including the struggle here: blogs.ubc.ca/jwhitton/202...

A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC).  doi.org/10.18061/bss...

@ssbbulletin.bsky.social bsky.social @waynemaddison.bsky.social and @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social argue that a retrospective view of species that lets go of a natural meaning for species rank will allow biologists to understand the processes that shape biodiversity. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

A new paper by Drew Duckett compares different sets of data for some common analyses and finds that SNPs collected via GBS or ddRAD give us nearly the same answer as whole genomic data in a montane vole. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The Bulletin of the SSB is looking for editors and reviewers. Find our more information at ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb and email our managing editor to volunteer.

A new article by Bernstein et al. in the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists explores the biogeography and phylogeny of Homalopsidae mud snakes: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

New article in the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists documents untold stories from the California Academy of Science: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...