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Orlando Schwery
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Research Scientist @Zenil-Ferguson Lab, UKY. Macroevolution, Phylogenetics, Diversification, Model Adequacy, Causal Inference, Dung Beetles, Ericaceae. 🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸 Opinions=own. He/him Mastodon: @[email protected], X: orlando_schwery oschwery.github.io .. more

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 4d
Oops…“Principal components (PC) axes
identified by a PCA are not necessarily the most informative biologically. Nevertheless, paleoanthropologists frequently interpret proximity in PC space as indicative of morphological and thus evolutionary affinity or relatedness”

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Principal Components Analysis fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominins
Objectives Paleoanthropologists often utilize geometric morphometrics and principal components analysis (PCA) to interpret shape variation within the hominin fossil record. It is common practice to in...
www.biorxiv.org

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Matt Haber @profmatthaber.bsky.social · 6d
If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab.

Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...
The Philosophy of Biology Lab: Entangled Lineages, Classification, and Individuality - Office of Undergraduate Research
tinyurl.com

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 6d
How to use and interpret the #adaptationinertia framework of #phylogenetic comparative methods based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to study adaptation:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Pienaar et al. 2025
Phylogenetic comparative methods for studying adaptation: the adaptation-inertia framework
Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods are a major tool for evaluating macroevolutionary hypotheses. Methods based on the mean-reverting stochastic Orn
doi.org

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Else Mikkelsen @elsemikkelsen.bsky.social · 6d
Almost PhDone! I'll be giving my PhD exit seminar in the morning (Thursday), and defending on Friday.
A poster for Else's exit seminar titled "The Role of Hybridization in the Speciation of Birds". The poster shows illustrations of several bird species (skuas and manakins) above a background of a subarctic coastline and a tropical rainforest river.

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 8d
New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum
An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.
www.nhm.ac.uk

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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 9d
@nedlazaruswolfe.bsky.social and my book—Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau—comes out tomorrow!! 🤿🐟🌟

I plan to wake up, go vote in my local election, and maybe do an unboxing??
A page from my upcoming book. Jacques emerges from snorkeling and asks Philippe: "When does the new graphic novel about me, Jacques Cousteau, come out?" "The one by Ned Wolfe and Caroline Hu?" "Oui." "Tomorrow! 11/4"

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 13d
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 16d
🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution 🧪

"Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data"
Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data
Understanding the evolution and phylogenetic distribution of morphologic traits is fundamental to macroevolutionary research. Despite decades of major advances and key insights from molecular systema...
dx.doi.org

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 16d
#CallForApplications
Offering up to three positions in our “First Research Article” Fellowship Program!

🌐 For PhD students at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions
🚀 Research in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, or #STS

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4oygRbJ

#HistSci
The image consists of a collage of three images. The first one displays a graphic with the description: “Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We’re hiring.“ The image on the top right shows a group of people at the Institute’s courtyard. Several flowers are depicted in the foreground. Photography by MPIWG, 2021. The image on the bottom left shows two women sitting on a bench in the library. Photography by Setform, 2017.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 18d
Hot take:

Analytic philosophy is *not* obsessed with word meaning. Correct word meaning is crucial to any discussion! 90% of pointless argument is because nobody defined the meaning of a word or the purpose of an endeavor.

It's like claiming mathematicians are obsessed with symbol meaning. Fah!

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 19d
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...
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io

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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 19d
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙

Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Lake Agnes in State Forest State Park

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Shen Tian 田申 @tianshenbio.bsky.social · 19d
My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cr. to Shen Tian

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 20d
I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona. Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona. Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument. A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20d
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\

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Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · 20d
I thought I shoulda named one of my sons "Ian Motion" _just for the possibility_ of a morning roll call by a substitute teacher. No one would register/understand what happened, but it would exist in the universe.
Ralph from The Simpsons. Teacher (doing roll call): "Brown, Ian Motion?" Ralph: "Here!"

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 20d
"Keep calm and carry on: bites from Trichonephila clavata are unlikely and cause minimal discomfort," in the Journal of Medical Entomology: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...
Keep calm and carry on: bites from Trichonephila clavata are unlikely and cause minimal discomfort
Abstract. Arachnophobia is a widespread phenomenon, despite the fact that the vast majority of spiders pose no meaningful threat to people. The introductio
doi.org

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 20d
"Chemical management strategies for the invasive Jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata (Araneae: Araneidae)," in the Journal of Economic Entomology: doi.org/10.1093/jee/...
Chemical management strategies for the invasive Jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata (Araneae: Araneidae)
Abstract. Historically, spider management has received relatively little attention in the literature compared to insect pests, and few studies have examine
doi.org

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 20d
A pair of new studies in ESA journals offer some reassuring findings about Jorō spiders:

“These spiders are easy to manage and pose a minimal health risk.”
Studies show Joro spiders are easy to kill and virtually harmless
David Coyle, associate professor of forest health and invasive species at Clemson University, recently co-authored two papers addressing some key public
news.clemson.edu

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 20d
Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

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Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social · 20d
I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!

We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
Circular phylogeny showing the branching pattern of 30k plant species with lineages with poricidal and non poricidal taxa indicated. A small subset of poricidal taxa are illustrated around the phylogeny.

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Magda Garbowski @magdagarbowski.bsky.social · 21d
Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!

Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
Students collecting vegetation data in the Organ Mountains Plants with soil and roots Students collecting plants from forest understory

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 21d
Want to see what {galaxias} can do? 🤔

Check out slides from a talk we presented on galaxias this week at the Living Data conference:
martinwestgate.com/presentation...

Or, check out this intro video about galaxias:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4-...

#rstats 🌏🧪🐟
First presentation slide for a talk on galaxias. Shows the galaxias logo and names of presenters and authors. The galaxias logo (in the shape of a hexagon)shows the front half of a colourful, green galaxias fish on an orangey-salmon coloured background

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 21d
🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨

📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia

galaxias.ala.org.au

#rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟

A thread 🧵👇
the galaxias hex logo showing a fun-coloured illustration of a green galaxias fish. The head, gills and fin in the centre with light green on the underside, green lips and wavy shades of green on its back, with blue and orange markings by its eye and gills. The background is light orangey-salmony colour in a sunburst style

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 21d
Beyond phylogeny: phytochemical diversity as a unique metric for biodiversity in the Gentianales

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Richard-Bollins et al.

@WileyPlantSci #biodiversity
Visualisation of the relationship between phylogenetic diversity and J (phytochemical evenness).

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 21d
Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Parallel shifts in differential gene expression reveal convergent miniaturization in fishes | PNAS
Body size variation in vertebrates is a complex polygenic trait, tightly correlated with numerous aspects of a species’ biology, ecology, and physi...
www.pnas.org

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Jonathan Huie, PhD @jmhuie.bsky.social · 21d
New PhD preprint! We studied the effects of habitat and multi-stage life cycles on salamander limb bones! Aquatic and terrestrial spp. have divergent morphs + semi-aquatic and multi-phasic spp. do their own thing + decoupled external and internal shape promote diversity. 🧪🦎

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
salamander phylogeny with representative limb bones and their cross-sections

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 22d
New phylogeny and family-level classification of Stomiiformes (viperfishes, hatchetfishes, bristlemouths)

bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Genome-wide phylogeny reshapes our understanding of the evolution of deep-sea dragonfishes, bristlemouths, viperfishes, and allies (Stomiiformes) - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background The evolutionary relationships within Stomiiformes, a diverse order of deep-sea fishes dominating the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones, remain contentious due to conflicting morphological...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 22d
PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 22d
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾