Epstein Craved Harvard Connections. Many There Were Eager to Help.

Epstein Craved Harvard Connections. Many There Were Eager to Help. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Collections + experiments at 2 field stations, ecology.louisiana.edu and @ksrjokershill.bsky.social , for the win.

Huge congrats to Tess!!!

Hey Asia Hightower's @puffballove.bsky.social cool paper analyzing 1000s of leaf shapes in published in #AppsPlantSci doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

🚨 My first first-authored paper is out in @evolletters.bsky.social

🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.

🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.

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1 billion percent endorse this. My colleague @mfrederickson.bsky.social and I share this paper when teaching field courses....

Peak interest: Toronto’s snow mountains that refuse to melt are a toxic hazard Reaching up to 100ft, these massive piles contain tonnes of salt that keep roads clear but pose environmental and health risks

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!

My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.

We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.

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that it is much more than an annotated bibliography of a field. Does it identify strengths, weaknesses, holes in our understanding? Set an agenda or vision for challenges an area must meet?

An accurate overview of the state of the field is is necessary but not sufficient. A good review has more.

Sleepaway Camp for Scientists - Macleans.ca At the Koffler Scientific Reserve’s new operations centre, researchers can stay where they study

UofT's field station, @ksrjokershill.bsky.social , in the news:

macleans.ca/economy/real...

The logic is the same about differences in relatedness.

But I'd avoid it & these 'twin' calculations entirely. Tons of hidden assumptions baked in: dominance, epistasis, G*E, shared environments being equal, interactions between additive effects and any of these, effects of assortative mating...

One of America’s Great Traditions Is Dying. I’ll Never Let It. Not Now That I Have Proof I Was Right All Along. There’s still time to get on the right side of history.

Dan Kois deep dive on … bar soap? Heck yeah

The humble bar of soap used to define the American way. Now it’s dying. I will not let it go down without a fight. slate.com/life/2026/02...

Not genomics, but I **LOVED** a versatile piece of software for matrix operations, life cycles, permutation and randomization testing, and basic stats... PopTools, an add-in for 32 bit Excel on Windows.

It was great for teaching and early students, user-friendly, and efficient.

You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.

Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files PALO ALTO, CA - The generative artificial intelligence Grok, which recently made headlines for creating user-directed underage pornography, has expressed "profound uneasiness" at being associated with...

Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.

The ass kissing of Trump by execs of Apple and Amazon and others coupled with ongoing silence from many in the tech and biotech and science areas about ICE and related evil activities is extremely disappointing.

thanks.. so kind, and glad it made an impression!

The Spandrels paper should only be read with Mayr's Am Nat response, How to Carry Out the Adaptationist Programme, and of course: Lande and Arnold 1983.

L & A '83 was a direct antidote as far as selection is concerned. It can be measured, correlated traits distinguished, we can do experiments..

Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

Super intuitive to have the configuration options spread across 5 locations, with partial redundancy, and some of them opening a web-browser with a slightly different set of options.

I'd like to thank Slack for hiding configuration tools in : 1, the workspace name & its menus; 2, the gear icon next to the workspace name; 3, the Admin gear icon in the left navigation panel ; 4, the three horizontal lines on the top left (on a PC); 5, the question mark icon on the right.

Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies WASHINGTON D.C. – Following a whirlwind week at Davos, and despite backtracking on threats to annex Greenland, US President Donald Trump is still threatening to tariff Champagne to keep people from pa...

Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies

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Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?

"The power of the less powerful begins with honesty."

Bravo, and well-said, Mr. Carney.

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

A pattern of escalating, unnecessary violence:

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

New paper in Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...