Our #evol2026 cheatsheet is live, coinciding with the program release. Your one-stop shop for all the Society events during the meeting. Bookmark it and check back often in case of updates! www.systbio.org/evolution-20...

SSB members should have received an email on this today Don't forget to attend the Members Meeting June 21 at 12:45 PM in Room 25B at #evol2026. Tell the Society what activities, initiatives, and work are important to you.

#evol2026 starting up tomorrow! We’ve got your cheat sheet of Society events here: www.systbio.org/evolution-20... The app and online program have all the on-site information, including registration desk hours, safety officer, and speaker ready room info.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Don't miss the virtual Research Synthesis Working Group's symposium at #Evol2026 this week! The symposium is in two sessions across Thursday and Friday. Topic: "Cross disciplinary approaches for understanding budding speciation"

Make sure to come support student and recent student researchers in the Mayr sessions 1:30-5 PM US EST Thursday, May 21!

Official artwork for the 2026 SACNAS Annual Conference is here! 🎨✨ Created by SF Bay Area illustrator Cecelia Perez (she/her), her mural-like style highlights Chicano culture, #STEM, and Southern California symbols in a single stunning piece. #SACNAS2026 #ChicanoArt

Yellow Warblers are so back

Its hard to overstate just how urgent this is, we need to get vaccinating BEFORE we have lots of sad wildlife documentaries of mass deaths in penguin colonies...

Registration continues this morning in the Hilton lobby for #SSB2026! We've got name tags, lanyards, meeting stickers, and buttons for everyone. Be sure to let us know if you're a first time speaker at a scientific conference!

#SSB26 kick-off this morning with the Primer on Phylogenomics workshop at full capacity! Led by Edgardo Ortiz, PhD. Organized by the @systbiol.bsky.social’s GraSP committee.

A thread worth reading!

If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs. Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them! cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...

Registration for the SSB breakout meeting in Baton Rouge, LA in Jan. 2026 will be opening soon! Registrants need to be SSB members, so make sure to check on your membership today and join/renew if needed: www.systbio.org Check here regularly for updates: ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

1/13 Time to talk about dogs and fossilized birth-death models! Here is a quick run-down of my #Evol2025 talk. 🧵

Just created my Bluesky! Let's hope I use it more than twitter. Hope you follow me if you want to hear about Bayesian phylogenetics with fossils, state-dependent diversification, and canids!!