please google Lesser Florican Sypheotides indicus

old godwit photo from one of my favorite field techin times. Look at that feather wear!! great birds up there but job did give me legitimate phobia of bears.

The more I engage with academia, the more I think about myself. My ambition, my legacy, my nemeses and papers and hopes and plans and ideas. It's exhausting and miserable and cowardly

I am very excited to share our new paper with my amazing co-authors and mentors @dmacguig.bsky.social @fishgenomes.bsky.social @tjnear.bsky.social . We investigate a secondary contact zone in #darters. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

sex is about as essential as Richard Dawkins is to evolutionary biology - which is to say, not essential 💜

i have 150 days to figure out how to wear fieldwork gear all non-binary like. constraints - cannot scare gulls or tenured coworkers

close observations of my most traditionally successful peers suggests much academic productivity is driven by a desire to be seen as really smart this has put me at a profound career disadvantage, because, more like a normal person, I just want people to think I'm hot and a good cook

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

"Most top achievers (cartoonists, stand-ups, skateboard video producers) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Indeed, across the highest adult performance, peak performance is highly correlated with complete and ongoing mental breakdown."

Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼 📆 Fri 12 December 🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK) 📍 Online Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀

fyi if you manually assign factor levels dimnames for a custom discrete model in R package ape it will internally refactor them before rate estimates - the model it SHOWS from ace.print is right but the $index.matrix will not match with the dimnames from the model you put in! #phylogenetics

New special issue in Molecular Ecology on Conservation Genomics #popGen #evolution 🧪🧬🖥️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x...

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to tag and track #seabirds on Rathlin Island: buff.ly/YXOCMiU

I hope every single trans kid survives this misery until the day they get the care they've always deserved, and I hope everyone I know does everything they can to help these kids survive

Anyone who supports this is my Enemy

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

"Skua[s] held the carcass without shaking when waiting for the collaborator, and then repeatedly pulled in unison. By contrast, they shook or pecked the carcass when alone. Experimental studies are now needed to determine the extent to which skua[s] understand the causal role of their partner"...

damn, outbid

PITCH: we all do more work, BUT we do it all the time, AND it's worse than ever

PITCH: anonymous beer review

PITCH: like peer review, BUT instead of spending months contorting something you ultimately don't care about for nameless figures who have never seen your study species for the ultimate glory of a paying $4,000 to a German publishing conglomerate you get to

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

as winter conference season approaches, I resolve to get better at emotionally dealing with people quietly googling on their phones to decide whether chitchatting with me will boost their h-index

"reviewers finish reading a paragraph before commenting" challenge (impossible) Very seriously, my adventures as an author recently suggest that none of you should be complaining about the low reading skills of students. Fix your attention span.

one thing I've found so curious - not bad or good, just legit interesting and odd - is that evolutionary biologists who study adults hear "development" and think "plasticity" rather than organisms changing over the course of their life

Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky

On scientific "style" for @undark.org: "[Style] is a positive feature of science that facilitates different routes to solving problems.....We can embrace differences in our approaches while still promoting rigor and clarity." undark.org/2025/12/04/o...

as another spotify wrapped comes around, a reminder that the album of the year is Caroline Rose Year of the Slug carolinerosemusic.bandcamp.com/album/year-o...

white coat hypertension but for haircuts

Protect the House Sparrow!

New species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans): mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Luis A. Morais)

concept: local realtime ai transcription as a diary entry but only when u leave it running for 2 hours by accident when ur playing on the computer and only after asking it to only report non-verbal human sounds

"Population modelling of five UK-breeding gull species to inform NatureScot licensing assessments" www.nature.scot/doc/populati...

there's no good football stats on off the ball impact, it's some weird epistasis model that people haven't hit on yet

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

grateful for fuzzballs

Reviewer didn't understand and/or didn't like my use of the term "natural history". I came up with a simple definition to add to the revised manuscript, but before I post I'm curious as to how all y'all 21st century natural historians would define it. Drop your take in the replies!

Really thrilled to have an advance copy of HOMESICK FOR A WORLD UNKNOWN, a biography of one of our most important and iconic field biologists and environmentalists, George Schaller. He never seemed to have much use for the limelight, so a little underrated and hopefully this book will help. 1/2

We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...

Herring gulls respond to the acoustic properties of non-binary person's voice

circling p-values right below .05 to infer something about the invalidity of inferences (or even research misconduct) is conceptually no different from calling p-values right above the threshold marginally significant. makes no sense to deride one of these practices while upholding the other.

hot take (?): the role of LLMs / genAI in peer reviewing definitely depends on what we think the role of peer review actually is. current peer review (in eco/evo?) is often focused on smoothness, broadness, etc. for readers unfamiliar with topic. This seems like a great use for LLMs...

@themountaingoats.bsky.social question regarding ttf x f Petey B that would really help me settle an argument (sorry if this is already answered somewhere!) Is Rocks in my Pockets set earlier in the tracklist than it is in the plot, so to speak?

biology is so rad www.science.org/content/blog...

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊

when you think about it, it's a bit odd there are like hundreds of white haired biologists wandering around who spent years obsessed with the idea that a family is not a group 🤣

The ASN (American Society of Naturalists) is seeking Diversity Committee members! Are you an ASN member? Want to make the EEB community a better place? Like being in Zoom meetings with people who have cute dogs? Consider applying! www.amnat.org/announcement...

Can anyone direct me to any theory or studies about how abundance varies on the edge of an expanding species range ? Does abundance "build up" and then overflow? Smooth across the range? Always a low abundance edge? Etc. #biogeography #invasivespecies #ecology