I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

2nd year grad students are no longer eligible to apply. Currently enrolled grad students must be in their first year, whether in a MS, BS-MS, or Ph.D.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

I am recruiting a PhD student this application cycle to explore questions on the evolution of morphological variation and phylogenetics. I'm especially seeking folks interested in fossil marine inverts. Please reach out to me if interested! Portal opens Nov. 1 eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Well that seems useful!

Analyses of a new genomes for garden asparagus and a Mediterranean basin congener reveal independent origins of dioecy and XY sex chromosomes. The work led by Phil Bentz @pbentz.bsky.social finds no overlap in the two Y-linked sex-determination genes - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... .

Well that's some of the coolest wildlife footage I've seen in a while

Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Prototyping #rshiny apps to native #electron desktop apps: shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive conversion → .dmg → Native Mac app Zero #rstats dependencies for end users! Early days but promising 👀

Looks like a goodie!

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Excited to have this paper out! Ecological models of geographic range limits, thoughts on testing them, and sorting out some ideas that might have actually been confusing us for a while. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

I _love_ the use of analogies in scientific papers to frame questions (Saint Rosalia, Spandrels, Red Queen, etc.). I came upon this (an urban legend) today, which screams to be used as an analogy. I have nothing applicable in the works, so: JWB, his arms wide en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%27s...

Thank fucking god

Just saw this--stay away from the Main Library area I guess!!! Looks like this is just breaking

UGA has entered the narrative of shooters on campus I guess. Fuck this country’s love of guns and power.

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀 We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Gill, @lemeylab.bsky.social et al. develop Bayesian infinite mixture models for phylogenetic inference, finding that infinite hidden Markov models best capture complex patterns in large datasets; they implement this framework in BEAST X. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf199 #evobio #molbio

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo

There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

What a sad day for Michigan. UMich administrators continue to disappoint. The University's talented students and scholars--along with the greater Ann Arbor community and beyond--deserve so much better.

So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards

The ideas on the passive and active trends in the macroevolution of traits and complexity developed by S. Stanley, S. J. Gould and D. McShea become ever more mathematically operationalized. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

EXCLUSIVE: In response to threats of criminal prosecution from the Department of Justice for performing gender-affirming care, the University of Michigan hospital system will tomorrow announce they are ending gender-affirming care in the UM hospital system. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...

Kemp has always been a sinister gov. www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/s...

They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.

He's a litmus test because this administration knows they'll never meet their quotas by only deporting the tiny minority of immigrants who are genuinely dangerous criminals.

My very first post on here. I am stoked to share lab's latest paper led by @ethantolman.bsky.social. Ethan developed a highly scalable pipeline to differentiate between various gene flow models, including ghost introgression in phylogenomic datasets. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You know, it really is crazy that we've accepted this state of affairs. Maybe a really good way to solve these issues would be expanding programs providing housing and mental health/addiction treatment for low-income folks? You know, because they're fellow Americans and the streets are *theirs* too?

Great Herbarium, great department, and Lansing is delightfully quirky (at least in my humble opinion). What's not to love?

These decisions are being made by people that simply do not understand the first thing about the systems/communities they're impacting.

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

This is infuriating on several levels. So much ignorance and stupidity. DON’T ****ING DRINK RAW MILK. Mother sues Florida dairy farm, claims she lost fetus after raw milk led to bacterial infection www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...

This articulates my feelings as of late so well...folks expending so much time/energy lately debunking bs claims only to have this admin respond, "nuh-uh we feel this way". Then this whole fucking media ecosystem comes around and adds legitimacy to the bullshit anyways!

The elite mainstream media likes Trump and wants to help him. By contrast, they do not like Mamdani and want to hurt him. Very easy to observe in how both candidates are covered!

Not that anyone is still on this topic, but I worked (it was not insignificant work) w/ my uni’s general counsel to appeal cancellation of my NSF grant. The appeal has been denied. Not a surprise and I’m sure 1000s of others are in the same boat but, hey, we all really wanted to do just do the work.

Respect. And an exemplary response. Attending a training to become a certified Carpentries instructor has been on my radar for some time. Not that I ever really hesitated, but damn this makes me want to go for it even more.

'Left to rot': Farmer reeling over decaying crops as workforce flees ICE raids open.substack.com/pub/vilniuss...

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

Israeli forces bulldozed Palestinian seed bank in Al-Khalil/Hebron, home to 22 years of seed collection efforts to preserve heritage varieties and plants with valuable traits: e360.yale.edu/digest/hebro...

University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology in the "news" again 🤣

"Honey, I shrunk the kids" Dark humor, but wonderfully lampoons how far gone Netanyahu and his cronies are. It is just...cartoonish levels of villainous cruelty at this point.