The killings will continue until morale improves

Hey folks of Minneapolis!! If you need a tow truck, don’t use Cedar Towing & Auction !!!! One of their tow truck drivers attempted to drive his truck through the protest of people today while proudly wearing his MAGA hat

I'm gearing up to teach a non-majors "Evolution and Society" class for the first time. One unit will be on debunking myths and misconceptions about evolution. Which ones do I absolutely have to include?

Nice video explainer to go along with this cool article about spectral tuning of motion vision in butterflies in relation to wing color: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

I am excited to share my new book, California Amphibians and How To Find Them, hot off the press from Heyday Books and ready to help guide your wet winter frog and salamander adventures! It is available now from my website or Feb 3 at bookstores. www.centralcoastsnakeservices.com/shop.html

Soul Asylum played a great show at @firstave.bsky.social last night. They performed a number of older songs that I’ve not seen them play for a while. #MinnesotaMusic 🎶

‘tis the season to celebrate the many animal species that reproduce via parthenogenesis - or reproduction from an unfertilized egg. Pictured here are 3 species of all-female, parthenogenetic gecko: Mourning Gecko; Bynoe's gecko; & Indopacific slender gecko #MerryChristmas #Herpetology 🎄🧪🦎

Me: Who the heck submits a ton of jobs to the High Performance Computing Cluster, completely clogging the queue, just before a holiday? Also me: frantically submitting jobs to the High Performance Computing Cluster, completely clogging the queue, just before a holiday.

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape exhibit was eerily quiet tonight due to extreme cold.

They want banks to be able to go back to openly discriminating against women and POC. They want women to need to have a man to cosign a credit card or a bank loan like before this rule was passed.

Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real. Aeluroscalabotes felinus, Malaysia

What’s your “how can one album have so many bangers” album

Adding a new line to my cv

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

Snowy morning! ❄️

“You will be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits.

Drove up to Green Bay last night to see Mammoth - they performed an amazing rock & roll show! 🤘 @wolfvanhalen.bsky.social

Anyone have a csv of the Kew C-Value database? I want to remake this figure but looks like website won't let me just download all values anymore. cvalues.science.kew.org/search/angio...

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

So excited for the latest edition of “Evolution: Making Sense of Life” by @carlzimmer.com & Doug Emlen. Students in my evolution class regularly tell me it’s the best textbook they’ve had in a college course.

New paper out in @devdynamics.bsky.social on lizard lung development! Project co-led w/ Kaleb Hill and also w/ @tonygamble.bsky.social @shylonatasha.bsky.social @aussiebiologist.bsky.social @bezbez.bsky.social @celestemnelson.bsky.social anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New preprint from my postdoc work! Using fluorescent imaging, scRNA-seq, and ATAC-seq of mouse, anole, and chicken embryos, we provide evidence that birds have co-opted vascular smooth muscle to generate the pulmonary smooth muscle in their lungs. More on this later! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

friendly reminder that socialist mayors governed Milwaukee for nearly half a century from 1910-1960 during this time Milwaukee achieved milestones such as being the healthiest, safest, and best-governed city in America

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

I'm excited to announce that my lab is moving to the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University in January next year! Can't wait to join amazing new colleagues and be able to run outside year round to work with lizards on campus and sea urchins at the FAU Marine Lab!

The November cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features @raularayadonoso.bsky.social @kenrokusumi.bsky.social @anthonygeneva.bsky.social et al., who studied how structural rearrangements and selection promote phenotypic evolution in Anolis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf196 #genome #evolution

Check out the recent publication in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics where the authors explore genomic species delimitation in depth. You'll see a number of #sciart figures I created to help explain some of the concepts! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

A university in Milwaukee is stuck with ICE as its tenant after the agency refused to leave a building the university intended to renovate. Now, the building is being used as an office for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, who lead Trumps deportations. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Discovered Husker Du when I was 16, in the wake of Nevermind, and they were my absolute North Star for years, and remain so close to my heart. Thanks so much to @thequietus.com for letting me write this. It’s quite long. thequietus.com/interviews/h...

New Charlesworth & Charlesworth just dropped!!! 🧪🧬 HJ Muller and the relationship between sex chromosome degeneration and the evolution of dosage compensation url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Not all heroes wear capes. Please support local, independent, and student journalists. “𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘰𝘧 13, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 @loyolachicago.bsky.social 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘹 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘱…” www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

We need more lizards in the @nytimes.com! Super excited to see them feature our research on 3-legged lizards 🦎🦎🦎 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/s...

My big lens is broken, dammit. So here's one from a while back. The Owlet was obviously aware and agitated by the presence of the python. But my goodness, it took a long time to decide to fly away, at which point we began breathing again. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

I’m here at the #NoKingsDay rally in Milwaukee to join my constituents in standing up to tyranny and standing up for our Constitution.

The Trump Administration’s decision to fire the federal workers responsible for supporting children with disabilities is cruel, unlawful, and beneath the dignity of this nation. This decision  will strip essential protections from disabled students and betray decades of civil rights progress. CONT⬇️

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!

All systems GO!

prepping some ~bloodsucking insects~ for a spooky 21+ museum night this Friday, you bet we're going to be playing Jen Zaspel's horrible calpine erebids on repeat youtu.be/ZEZNcLNGMZE?...

Important read by @thomsanger.bsky.social for anyone in science. academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?! Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️ [Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ] (1/n)

ICB "How Republican Support for #Science Led to My Career as a #Biologist" @thomsanger.bsky.social "Publicly funded innovation and the rapid pace of scientific output were points of bipartisan national pride..." integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/h... #biology #editorial

@jblosos.bsky.social and I (and, it turns out, many other lizard biologists!) kept seeing wild lizards with missing legs/hands/feet. How do they survive? Surely natural selection would weed out these unfortunate individuals? Perhaps not...🦎🦵 theconversation.com/3-legged-liz...

Now out in the September issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social! - Pop-level thresholds between male/female development (Tpiv) correlate with mean incubation temps among species, but temp variability within species - Threshold variation within pops (TRT) is more complex and confounded by study design