Reflections on the evolving practice of systematic biology, a joy to write with Michael Donoghue for the upcoming 75th volume of Systematic Biology! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

New preprint modeling pathogen phylogeography, where infected hosts spread disease through short "trips" between locations. Very fun collaboration with the brilliant @albertchristian.bsky.social and Ammon Thompson. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋 w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722

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

What a blast attending my first in-person Evolution meetings! Had the opportunity to present our work on: 1. A new biogeographic model of species diversification that accounts for species richness. 2. Phylogeography model for infectious disease transmission with visitor dynamics. #Evol2025

EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open! This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too! eebmentormatch.com

Today is the last day to register for the SSB Mentorship Program! We're looking for a few more mentors to volunteer. Mentoring only takes one hour each month, and is a great way to support the next generation of biodiversity researchers! #evobio 🧪 @systbiol.bsky.social

Our members will find this morning’s phylogenetic methods session interesting. Phenomenal talks across all career stages of researchers: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr...

Please share! We need a few more folks (esp. mentors) to join the SSB Mentorship Program for 2025. Help the next generation of systematists take flight! Past mentors say: "really satisfying", "extremely gratifying", "optimism-inspiring", "just do it!" www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... #evobio 🧪

Prez-Elect and council election season may be over, but student rep elections are just around the corner! Get your application in by May 31. Details in the link.

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io

Hey folks going to #evol2025 in Athens. The SSE #DEI committee is sponsoring a workshop on how to avoid bias in writing T&P letters. Registration is required and the workshop is open to all career stages! Please share and help spread the word @sse-evolution.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program! Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025. Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF... @systbiol.bsky.social

A few spots more for this workshop if you didn't get to register. Notice that there are some participant support costs that will go to attendees! @tropicalbotany.bsky.social

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program! Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025. Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF... @systbiol.bsky.social

Join us July 27th the day before #Botany2025 for a free phylogenetic biogeography workshop in RevBayes! Taught by @landismj.bsky.social +Sarah Swiston (WUSTL), Felipe Zapata (UCLA), and myself, with surprise guests! Details: www.botanyconference.org/workshops/wo...

NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)

Familiar expression from whiteboard, earlier. Seems about right.

Applications are now open for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in *beautiful* Woods Hole, MA! More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad... Application deadline: Jan. 29th Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st

Do you know these three Russian agronomists? If you're interested, you're in for a real #ScienceDrama in four acts! 🧪🎭 Their story is the central piece of my Short History of Vernalization, but let me tell you about them here: 👇🧵🧵🧵🧵 #PlantScience #ScienceHistory

The result of that 2 months work was a 71 (single-spaced) page paper that I thought could fill the Bayesian phylogenetics primer niche. For years I hosted it on my website at various institutions (yeah, I was an OA hipster). It (dated & naive) is now on @figshare.com figshare.com/articles/jou... 18/

Do you work with equids, camelids, or aardvarks? We need lice from them for a research project. Please reach out if you might have access to those lice, I would love to tell you more about our project & collaboration guidelines! #mammals #lice 🧪

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Missed connections: that coy RNG seed who sent me debugging last night, call me

#Botany help needed A raceme of spikes is shown this way in this book Simpson, M. G. (2010). 9 - Plant Morphology. In Plant Systematics (pp. 451–513). Elsevier. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.... 🧵

Done teaching #bioinformatics for the semester! Every year it's a joy to watch students learn to write regex, assemble genomes, and exit vim.

Looking for it but didn't find anything. A starter for #biogeography to easily connect biogeographers in bsky! Link go.bsky.app/FjrZgr6 Ask with a comment to be included or suggest other profiles!

Earlier this year my advisor @landismj.bsky.social and I published this cool work at BMB; looking at applying diffusion in macroevolutionary context for state-dependent diversification models to learn about evolutionary patterns that these models produce. #evobio www.smb.org/news/13402507

Just recently joined Bluesky to connect with phylo community here. So, here is my first trace on this platform :) I am a postdoc in Landis lab at WashU and a mathematician by training with interests in models of species diversification and phylodynamics. #evobio sites.google.com/view/albert-...

Here's the second starter pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists: go.bsky.app/j5DX3f Link to first starter pack: go.bsky.app/MzND7nX Follow these inspirational folks to support the next generation of evolutionary biologists #evobio Out of time for now! Will add more names this weekend

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I want to follow more Asian EEB scientists but I’m drawing blanks. I know there are so many more us out there. Please repost (re-skeet?), make suggestions, or proudly ask to be added!! 🧪 🐟 🦎 go.bsky.app/E1ppJra

Our paper testing the coordination hypothesis is now out in Evolution Letters: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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:...

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!

Enjoyed these two preprints on the lasting importance of Yule (1925): arxiv.org/abs/2409.14536 arxiv.org/abs/2410.11661 Yule (1925): royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1... #evolution #phylogenetics

Decided to make my class on Nov 6th a free day for students (no quiz, no lab, come if you want, etc.)

I am currently searching for a new postdoc to conduct research using amazing data sets that we have accumulated over years through research on a continental-scale array of field experiments with switchgrass genetic mapping/GWAS populations. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/52...

Hennig's answer to Seuss

Gnu #phyx release for those who celebrate. A slew of tiny fixes since the last release github.com/FePhyFoFum/p... #phylogenetics 🧪

One more time, for all the new folks on #academicsky: review of applications starts today! (For clarification, Recent Invertebrates means extant taxa, so #entomology #arachnology #mussels and other cool living #invertebrates, as opposed to paleontology!)

The first phylogeny I ever published was for fossil brachiopods. However, the first I ever inferred involved a total-evidence dataset of fossil & extant penguin species that I assembled from literature sources. I was an undergrad learning on my own & did it for a class project. Never published it

What main taxa were in the first #phylogeny you ever built? Mine was for Chlamydia trachomatis #evolsky

Reminder we have TWO EEOB positions at Clemson University we expect one Assistant and one Associate/Full hire. Apply by Nov 8th 🧪 #evolution #ecology please share!

New research: We show that #islands host 1/3 of the world’s #plant species. With 63,280 endemic species, islands are #biodiversity hotspots. Yet only 6% meet global #conservation goals @patrickweigelt.bsky.social @lrcai.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social #Nature #Botany #Ecology #evolution

Phylogenetics featured in caller feedback for Savage Love podcast. Is this what it means to be a mature field? #evolution