Raymond Castillo
@raymondcast.bsky.social
PhD Student at Washington University in the Landis Lab!!
Polyploids Rock!!!
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Raymond Castillo
@raymondcast.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hi to all new mutuals and fellow scientists fleeing twitter! Figure I should have a post about who I am! I am a phd student at WashU in the landis lab, developing phylogenetic methods! I am primarily interested in modeling chromosome evolution using SSE models!
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As you are making your schedule for the last day of #Evol2025 don’t forget to add Nicolás Castillo’s talk about Puya character displacement. Puya are the most amazing plant in the Páramo ecosystem and their macroevolution is incredible.
June 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
As you are making your schedule for the last day of #Evol2025 don’t forget to add Nicolás Castillo’s talk about Puya character displacement. Puya are the most amazing plant in the Páramo ecosystem and their macroevolution is incredible.
Last but not least, I will be sharing some work on a model I have been developing for chromosome evolution today! Be there or be square! I'll be presenting at 4:45 in Phylogenetic Theory! #Evol2025
June 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Last but not least, I will be sharing some work on a model I have been developing for chromosome evolution today! Be there or be square! I'll be presenting at 4:45 in Phylogenetic Theory! #Evol2025
Also, if you missed their poster last night, Sarah Swiston, will be presenting their work on elipse modeling for biogeographic range evolution! (EMPIRE)
Alright #Evol2025 folks, we got a ton of talks today!
Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!
Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!
June 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Also, if you missed their poster last night, Sarah Swiston, will be presenting their work on elipse modeling for biogeographic range evolution! (EMPIRE)
Alright #Evol2025 folks, we got a ton of talks today!
Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!
Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!
June 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Alright #Evol2025 folks, we got a ton of talks today!
Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!
Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!
Today another postdoc in the Landis lab, @albertchristian.bsky.social, will be giving a talk during the machine learnering and new inference algorithm section at 3:15! If you are particularly partial to island biogeography you definitely dont wanna miss this one! #Evol2025
June 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Today another postdoc in the Landis lab, @albertchristian.bsky.social, will be giving a talk during the machine learnering and new inference algorithm section at 3:15! If you are particularly partial to island biogeography you definitely dont wanna miss this one! #Evol2025
Be sure to check out Anna Nagel's talk today in Molecular evolution II! Really cool work on estimating mutation ages and population origins in structured populations! #Evol2025
June 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Be sure to check out Anna Nagel's talk today in Molecular evolution II! Really cool work on estimating mutation ages and population origins in structured populations! #Evol2025
Had a fantastic time at the mole 2025 workshop in Woods Hole! I am so grateful to meet such amazing scientists! Although times are difficult and uncertain now, engaging with professors and students who are still working so hard to teach and learn despite recent hardships is truly uplifting.
June 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Had a fantastic time at the mole 2025 workshop in Woods Hole! I am so grateful to meet such amazing scientists! Although times are difficult and uncertain now, engaging with professors and students who are still working so hard to teach and learn despite recent hardships is truly uplifting.
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It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!
Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.
Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...
@systbiol.bsky.social
Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.
Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...
@systbiol.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!
Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.
Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...
@systbiol.bsky.social
Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.
Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...
@systbiol.bsky.social
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Totally forgot to update: I PASSED!!!!!!
A small win after a lot of despairing the past few months with the political climate :')
A small win after a lot of despairing the past few months with the political climate :')
Qualifying exam in a couple hours! Once it's over with I'll have to figure out a different way to distract myself from the existential dread that is US politics
April 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Totally forgot to update: I PASSED!!!!!!
A small win after a lot of despairing the past few months with the political climate :')
A small win after a lot of despairing the past few months with the political climate :')
Qualifying exam in a couple hours! Once it's over with I'll have to figure out a different way to distract myself from the existential dread that is US politics
April 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Qualifying exam in a couple hours! Once it's over with I'll have to figure out a different way to distract myself from the existential dread that is US politics
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The recording of last week's #PolyploidyWebinar featuring @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social is now up! youtu.be/zmUyTO3jN6s
Polyploidy Webinar 2 April 2025
YouTube video by Mike Barker
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April 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The recording of last week's #PolyploidyWebinar featuring @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social is now up! youtu.be/zmUyTO3jN6s
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Join us on Wednesday, April 2 at 11 AM Pacific Time for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! The last webinar of the 24-25 season will feature @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
March 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Join us on Wednesday, April 2 at 11 AM Pacific Time for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! The last webinar of the 24-25 season will feature @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
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@standupforscience.bsky.social in St. Louis!
March 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@standupforscience.bsky.social in St. Louis!
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
list comprehensions may never make 100% sense to me but at least the work 💀
December 9, 2024 at 4:07 PM
list comprehensions may never make 100% sense to me but at least the work 💀
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Earlier this year my advisor @landismj.bsky.social and I published this cool work at BMB; looking at applying diffusion in macroevolutionary context for state-dependent diversification models to learn about evolutionary patterns that these models produce. #evobio
www.smb.org/news/13402507
www.smb.org/news/13402507
December 5, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Earlier this year my advisor @landismj.bsky.social and I published this cool work at BMB; looking at applying diffusion in macroevolutionary context for state-dependent diversification models to learn about evolutionary patterns that these models produce. #evobio
www.smb.org/news/13402507
www.smb.org/news/13402507
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Bayesian Least-Squares Supertrees (BLeSS): flexible inference of large time-calibrated phylogenies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.625936v1
Bayesian Least-Squares Supertrees (BLeSS): flexible inference of large time-calibrated phylogenies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.625936v1
Time-calibrated phylogenies are key to macroevolutionary hypothesis testing and parameter inference,
www.biorxiv.org
December 5, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Bayesian Least-Squares Supertrees (BLeSS): flexible inference of large time-calibrated phylogenies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.625936v1
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Join us on Wednesday, December 4, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have Pam & Doug Soltis presenting on the Polyploid Integration Institute and @trevorfaske.bsky.social on analyses of mixed-ploidy data! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
November 30, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Join us on Wednesday, December 4, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have Pam & Doug Soltis presenting on the Polyploid Integration Institute and @trevorfaske.bsky.social on analyses of mixed-ploidy data! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
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Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
November 19, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
time for end of semester despair yippee!
December 2, 2024 at 5:07 PM
time for end of semester despair yippee!
One of my peers and I are thinking of teaching a statistics nano-course for people in ecology and evolution, what are some statistical tests that you feel are important to your research?
November 19, 2024 at 5:42 PM
One of my peers and I are thinking of teaching a statistics nano-course for people in ecology and evolution, what are some statistical tests that you feel are important to your research?
also I am a queer latino whose grandparents immigrated from mexico so if that bothers you, i simply do not care! 😌
Hi to all new mutuals and fellow scientists fleeing twitter! Figure I should have a post about who I am! I am a phd student at WashU in the landis lab, developing phylogenetic methods! I am primarily interested in modeling chromosome evolution using SSE models!
November 11, 2024 at 3:08 PM
also I am a queer latino whose grandparents immigrated from mexico so if that bothers you, i simply do not care! 😌
Hi to all new mutuals and fellow scientists fleeing twitter! Figure I should have a post about who I am! I am a phd student at WashU in the landis lab, developing phylogenetic methods! I am primarily interested in modeling chromosome evolution using SSE models!
November 11, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Hi to all new mutuals and fellow scientists fleeing twitter! Figure I should have a post about who I am! I am a phd student at WashU in the landis lab, developing phylogenetic methods! I am primarily interested in modeling chromosome evolution using SSE models!
Reposted by Raymond Castillo
Join us on Wednesday, November 6, at 11 AM PST for the the next #PolyploidyWebinar! Sylvia Kinosian and Tamsen Dunn will present. The zoom link will be emailed out before the talks - sign up here if you have not signed up before! www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
November 1, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Join us on Wednesday, November 6, at 11 AM PST for the the next #PolyploidyWebinar! Sylvia Kinosian and Tamsen Dunn will present. The zoom link will be emailed out before the talks - sign up here if you have not signed up before! www.barkerlab.net/polyweb