New paper sharing our findings on the mandible morphology of South American coatis. Available at the Journal of Mammalogy: doi.org/10.1093/jmam... @lcarneiro.bsky.social @carolliafreak.bsky.social @mammalogists.bsky.social

🦇🌿 Why are most species in nature rare?🌐 Our new study on Neotropical bats 🌎reveals a key insight: Rare species are not less successful, they are more functionally different. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @funecology.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social #Bats #Ecology

Just wrote a post about something that many method developers have been grappling with for a while now: "Citing software and crediting original methods in the age of install.packages()" nso-journals.org/all-news/vie...

Fluctuating asymmetry(FA) is a common estimator of developmental stability. A genome-wide screen of deficiency lines that induce developmental instability in #Drosophila identifies new deficiencies that either enhance or reduce FA. @vincentdebat.bsky.social More in #GENETICS: buff.ly/mnUFexr (5/7)

📘 New book out soon ! I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners #StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

One of the top struggles I hear from researchers is keeping your word count down while writing papers. 📉 Here's how to write short and concisely: https://annaclemens.com/blog/reduce-word-count-scientific-paper-grant-proposal/ #AcWri #phd #Postdoc

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

We need to focus on academia-friendly journals! I will definitely use this as a guide to my next submissions. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Everything you know about vampire bats is a lie! Okay, well they do drink blood, but who hasn’t? Let’s look at their good qualities. 🩸 cute 🩸 great friends 🩸 wonderful mothers 🩸 regurgitate blood for each other

Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!

Agro AMEAÇA derrubar 50 vetos ao pacote da destruição. Não é "bancada ruralista", temos q chamar de BANCADA DO ATRASO BANCADA DO AGROTÓXICO BANCADA DA CORRUPÇÃO BANCADA DA DESTRUIÇÃO. A FPA é a síntese de tudo de ruim q existe no país, um tumor maligno. www.uol.com.br/ecoa/ultimas...

Starting the II Latin American Evolution Congress in Tucuman.

Great paper by the amazing @priscilarothier.bsky.social Check it out!

A very interesting off-piste trek at the Reserva Biológica União in the Atlantic Rainforest, led by Prof. Leandro Monteiro, to set some camera traps. #UniversityOfHull #FieldStudies #Brazil #UENF

Seasonal Fattening Among Bat Populations Globally: Storing Energy for Survival in a Changing World - Wu - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2) dafnee.isem-evolution.fr 🧪 #science

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.

AI might be making shitty art, blatantly wrong a decent amount of the time, being used for propaganda and reducing our ability to think critically but at least it’s also helping make our planet unlivable. So there’s that. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Por que a nova versão da legislação, a ser votada no Senado esta semana, ameaça implodir a regulação para a concessão de licenças no Brasil Por Suely Araújo sumauma.com/a-farsa-da-n...

Precisamos falar da MAIOR BOIADA DE TODOS OS TEMPOS que os bandidos do SENADO querem aprovar nesse mês. A DESTRUIÇÃO DO LICENCIAMENTO AMBIENTAL. Neste fio, vamos analisar os pontos mais BIZARROS e mostrar como o SENADO quer destruir com o meio ambiente do Brasil:

Cool story about the importance of dermestid beetles at the AMNH. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/n...

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

Do @oeco.org.br oeco.org.br/noticias/dep...

How to Define, Use, and Interpret Pagel's (Lambda) in Ecology and Evolution Pearse et al., GEB onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Processo seletivo para Mestrado e Doutorado 2025-2, no Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais da UENF. Temos vagas para nosso projeto de longa duração em ecologia e evolução de morcegos. ppgern.uenf.br/informativos...

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long-Term Studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌐🧪🌾

ICB's How Do We Measure the Cost of Whole-Organism Performance Traits? Jerry F. Husak, Simon P. Lailvaux doi.org/10.1093/icb/... "We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of several potential #phenotypic measures of dynamic whole-#organism performance that may be used in life-history studies..."

Long-term studies have transformed our understanding of evolution by tracking real-time dynamics, revealing trends, and exposing rare events. Despite funding challenges, they remain vital in a rapidly changing world. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy 37th birthday to the LTEE! the-ltee.org/history/

Happy Birthday C Darwin. Thanks for pointing out the "grandeur in this view of life".

Foraging partition of rainforest in bats and correspondent wings shapes. Illustration for the book "Bat Island" by Page, Dechmann O'Mara and Tschapka. Details in ALT text. @teagueo.bsky.social #SciArt #mammals 🦇

Amazing to me how useful looking at data in 2D PCA continues to be, even though the approach sounds crazy on paper—"p-dimensional ellipsoid", rantings of a madman. PCA is the cockroach of dimension reduction. I expect it to be present in any advanced galactic civilization.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Intermittent reminder in this darkest of timelines that there's a feed composed entirely of bat-stuff and bats are great

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

The Holy Grail of Evolutionary Biology? We are ramping up to start a new series of posts on @ecoevoevoeco - so I want to share again one of my favorite posts - which was also the last post. ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-25...

led by #loloyohe we use #GJAM to show bat🦇traits influence interactions with pepper plants in a megadiverse system (La Selva, 🇨🇷); while bats partition resources by body size and the largest ones avoid fruits the smallest ones eat 👉🏼 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The problem today is people get rewarded merely for the act of publishing, not the advance made. In the Strain paper (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...), we saw how bad things have become. And let's be clear: this isn't AI. Humans are plenty capable of en-masse bullshit by themselves 💩 #SciPub #FoSci

🦇 New paper alert! We are always interested in talking to prospective students and collaborators.

Gatti, R., Mounier, P., & Rooryck, J. (2024). Beyond 'no fee': why Diamond Open Access is much more than a business model (Preprint). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.