wait till they figure out how much faster the airplane, a machine invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903, can traverse the same distance

NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology LIGHTNING TALKS: 9:15 - 10:30 AM EDT Focus on the collective: what can our community do in a time of uncertainty? PROTHAMA MANNA, CLEMSON UNIV. MOHAMED NOOR, DUKE UNIVERSITY RUTH SHAW, UNIV. OF MINNESOTA JOSEPH GRAVES, NC A&T STATE UNIV. SCOTT EDWARDS, HARVARD UNIV. EMILY JOSEPHS, MICHIGAN STATE UNIV. ALISON DAVIS RABOSKY, UNIV. OF MICHIGAN WORKSHOP & BREAKOUTS: 11 - 12:30 PM EDT Focus on the individual: how scientists can respond constructively, creatively, and sustainably in the face of instability NELIA VIVEIROS, UNIV. OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS

👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium:

Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology

Pls RT to help get the word out!

So cool to see our work highlighted here! Thanks @botany.one ! And, re: the question “were you one of the observers in our dataset,” besides in the paper supplement, there’s a full list of them here: github.com/pmckenz1/mon...

can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

George Lucas

‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Plot That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

Three figures, each quantifying the marginal posterior uncertainty in various one-dimensional variables using nested quantile intervals. The intervals are horizontal so that the marginal posterior visualizations can be stacked on top of each other vertically, allowing for more readable variable name labels.

Did you know that I maintain a suite of principled diagnostic and visualization tools for Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis in both R and Python?



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I just updated the visualization tools to include a new plot variant.

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

"France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech" #digitalsovereignty techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/f...

Today @jillmlove.bsky.social have an amazing talk in her public dissertation defense on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in #Mimulus . Jill, you’ve accomplished so much. I’m so proud of you.

#ProudPI #Mimuluspropaganda

how much money does the marine corps lose

We should hold the Nuremberg 2.0 trials in Appomattox.

WSJ: Israeli Military Says It Regrets Damage to Iran Synagogue From Airstrike By Anat Peled and Henna Moussavi

Repeat after me: “Israel is not synonymous with Judaism”

I’m a Jew horrified by Bibi’s grotesque war crimes—he’ll happily bomb a synagogue on Pesach (Passover) in a heart beat, because, repeat after me, “Israel is not synonymous with Judaism,” & it’s extremely antisemitic to conflate the two

Flyer of the course on "Introduction to Biodiversity Genomics". All information are also here: https://biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com/

In July, we will teach the 3rd biodiversity genomics course in Latin America, this time in Bogotá, following the COLEVOL meeting. We invite applications from students, postdocs and PIs from Latin America interested in learning how to analyse genomic data. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com

cover of the book "Bayesian Workflow" by Gelman, Vehtari, et al. Coming out later this year, in the summer probably.

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

A good day to remember not to judge all
members of a religion by the actions of a political leader affiliated with that religion. Equally true of US, Afghanistan, Israel, or others. The corollary is that criticism of the politician or country is not criticism of an entire religion or ethnicity.

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

Someone here** said Coke spends billions annually to tell people daily that sugar tastes good, so we should never take our foot off the gas reminding people that bad things are indeed bad ... so I am re-skeeting the thing we've all seen already.

**apologies for not being able to re-find the source

A botanist searches for the seeds of the rare Death Valley Sage For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds.

Great field #botany story of the difficulties of collecting seed from endangered species. Featuring the tireless and talented @naomibot.bsky.social . Lots of field photos in the story. I'm so glad this story got some coverage. #rareplants #conservation
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!! Wow, NPR article highlighting botanist @naomibot.bsky.social !!

Is the fundamental theorem of natural selection of any use? Abstract. There have been many recent discussions of the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection, with an emphasis on its mathematical accuracy. It is arg

Read the Commentary by Brian Charlesworth: "Is the fundamental theorem of natural selection of any use?"

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Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome Eukaryotic genomes harbor many forms of variation, including nucleotide diversity and structural polymorphisms, which experience natural selection and contribute to genome evolution and biodiversity...

Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & more! Our high-quality pennycress pangenome is a striking example of genome architecture shaping different kinds of genomic variation, including some surprising centromeric movement

$50 million gift to advance UChicago research and support faculty in AI Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines

They could have bailed out the Division of the Humanities. But no. news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...

the level of pent-up horniness for a rocket launch that doesn't benefit or involve elon musk exceeds even my high expectations

The heirs of Appomattox are the heirs of the Apollo, and the people dragging this country into darkness own nothing about this moment. This is ours.

Molecular entomologist Jason Rasgon named AAAS Fellow | Penn State University Jason L. Rasgon, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair in Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Delighted and grateful for this recognition from @sse-evolution.bsky.social. The Dobzhansky Prize is a special honor, and I'm thrilled to have been in the conversation this year. Big congrats to Wendy Valencia-Montoya!

This guy like "I've always wanted to be a marathoner, but I didn't want to run long distances. But now, with the help of this handy SUV, I'm crossing finish lines like there's no tomorrow! 😁"