Hello all! For my first post on this platform, I’m excited to share the first chapter of my dissertation, about using eBird and bioacoustics survey data to make species distribution models for Neotropical birds, which was published in @plosone.org today. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🧵(1/8)

So hype for this lab to open up—Mason is so full of exciting ideas to advance evolutionary biology and create a great community in science!!

So excited to see Jack's new paper out! Rogue taxa are such a challenge...great to see us moving forward on how to resolve these problems.

NOAA is in the Trump administration's crosshairs. You know the important work they do, but may now know that It's the descendant of the Coast Survey, the nation's first scientific agency, founded in 1807 under Jefferson. I spoke with maritime historians to put NOAA's legacy in context. 🧪🦑🌎🐟

This is a reminder for myself as well as anyone else who needs it: amidst all this chaos and confusion, pick your lane. Find something to do that will provide agency, educate those in your community and push back against what is happening

Re-upping these stickers because I think we all need the reminder Get one (and hey, some valentines while you’re there) at Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

On a personal note...in summer 2015 I was @fishguy.bsky.social 's NSF REU undergrad at Friday Harbor Labs. I presented that work at SICB & applied to PhDs... In summer 2025 I'm an REU mentor w/ my own lab at @wsupullman.bsky.social. What a trip this last 10 years has been. An NSF REU success story 🥳

Folks: pls share! Apps are open for WSU's 2025 NSF REU in Resilience & Robustness of Aquatic Biosystems! DUE: Feb. 17 WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3 WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer) WHO: 10 UGs $: 7k each Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility! sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪

I've gone from "Wikipedia is not a real source, students" to "I will defend Wikipedia with my life" in a short span of time. I don't know what we should do, I'll be looking to others for guidance on that, but I do know we have to defend every remotely democratic or open source tool we have now.

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Trans, intersex, and queer people will always exist because humans are biological creatures and biology - inevitably and always - creates variability and diversity. If there is any “biological truth,” it’s that a biological system will never conform to the strictures of human machinations.

But he doesn’t! He has repeatedly shown that he doesn’t! Don’t wish for something different, remind listeners that he’s actually done this, and ask them to imagine him doing it to them. Play fucking hardball. Christ, this isn’t hard.

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

I am part of “shark people” and this is my favorite post of the week 🦈

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” George Orwell, 1984

Every night, some crustaceans migrate upwards, up to 1000m from the twilight zone, to feed. They poop on the way down, transferring nutrients to deeper waters. Other species or larval stages maintain depth in the water column by riding gelatinous zooplankton! #Crustmas 🧪🦑

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

Continuing the peer review discussion: @katherine-brown.bsky.social on principles for effective peer review: 1) Be respectful to authors 2) Request reasonable revisions 3) Focus on whether data support the conclusions 4) Be transparent about expertise limits thenode.biologists.com/peer-review-...

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt for deep sea month is abyssal - the lightless, extreme pressure and low oxygen zone 4 to 6 km below the surface. 🧪🐡 So I made a lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods 🧵

The Natural History Museum collections in London are so, so amazing 😍 🧪🔬🐠🐟 Here’s Luciocephalus pulcher:

New pre-print from recent Slater lab graduate Dr David Černý and me, from David's dissertation work - a bayesian least squares supertree method for inference of time-calibrated phylogenies. Feedback much appreciated but here's the motivation.... 🧵

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

what do you mean "did I commit the script while it was working and before it broke again". of course not. what kind of good version control user do you think I am

#Education resource! Over the years I created this collection of colored skull #3Dmodels for teaching. They're available to download on MorphoSource & to view on Sketchfab. Because of recent changes to Sketchfab, I migrated them to my website: www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/work/colorso... (1/3)

Rally delighted to see this paper out! Such exciting work by a stellar team

Just to give everyone a reminder: you should never have to get a loan for a graduate program in ecology, evolution, & organismal biology. #🧪

A nudibranch circus from #FridayHarborLabs Conservation Biology Class with Jon Allen. Anyone guess how many families he had? 🦑 #nudivember #marinelife #Inverts

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Template for writing your reps, how to find your reps, bill explainer in ASL, Senator press release, and full text of bull available here. open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...

Revisiting fast-slow diversification rates with Rosana Zenil-Ferguson besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... published @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social Plea to present uncertainty estimate and sources! and a tribute to GG Simpson

Oh my god. I had no idea: Medicaid: 73 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making SNAP: 42 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making Social Security disability benefits: About 13.8 million people are exposed to AI-related decision-making

One fish: "fish" 🐟 Multiple fish of the same species: "fish" 🐟🐟🐟🐟 Fish of multiple species: "fishes" 🐡🐟🐠 🧪🦑🐡

Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w

Brand new open access paper alert! "Complexity and weak integration promote the diversity of reef fish oral jaws" led by Dr. Mike Burns and Dr. Dylan Wainwright is out now in Communications Biology. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Incredibly proud (& a bit late) that our paper, led by Mike Burns, is OUT NOW & OA! We find a trade-off structures the primary axis of div. in reef fish feeding anatomy, & weak integration in the complex system allows div. away from that axis w/ @diverdarien.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Newly discovered feeding kinematics may be a key innovation that allows surgeonfishes to efficiently feed on algae across the world's coral reefs. Great new paper by Mike Mihalitsis in Communications Biology 🧪🦑 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Can't think of a more deserving Asst Prof for the Gans Award...this talk is going to be kick-wrasse 🐠

Interested in evolutionary biology? 🧑‍🦳🦇🪰🍄🌳🦠🧬 Visit this feed and click the Pin to Home button to track posts tagged with #evobio (+several others): bsky.app/profile/did:...

Love, love, love Dynamic Ecology's long search for patterns in the opaque faculty job market This time: Biden vote share is the dominant geo. pred. of # apps to EEB jobs How does this cycle (blue politics ->$ for schools ->educated workers) shape us? dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/t... #🧪

Getting prepared for RFK at HHS

The staggering success of vaccines. At least 154 million lives saved. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Being a fish biologist is truly living the dream 🤩

This is extraordinary—well done NSF for prioritizing students in states that may have less state support for academic institutions!

I am SO PROUD to say that the indomitable Alexus Roberts Hugghis (not yet on bsky)'s 3rd ch. is OUT NOW at Evolution Letters! With me, @cmartinez.bsky.social , & Peter Wainwright, we find that a famous key innovation in feeding apparatus LIMITS functional diversification! doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Moo Deng, yet again a hero of the people

Bluesky has VIDEO now?! Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍

Knowing matters for timing the 💉. "there’s an extra reason for every American to test this second if they’re feeling under the weather: Our current COVID wave is crashing right into vaccine season, & knowing when your most recent infection was is crucial for planning your autumn shot." #GiftLink 🎁