The dangers of uploading a paper in AI generative tools...

Wow wow wow! Congratulations!! I need to come visit you there! ;)

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

I’m finishing my tenure as Chief Meeting Organizer for the Evolution Meetings. Apply to replace me!

Without a doubt, this is my favorite service I’ve ever done. In trying times, it was a real balm to get together weekly with a group devoted to making the best meetings we can for students.

Very sorry to hear this and for your loss. I met him once in a GRC where he presented his very important paper on African cichlids. Excellent presentation, and he was very welcoming. My deepest condolences to his colleagues and family.

Graphical ad for Hobson Lab Parakeet sociality & cognition Postbac Research Technician, with a graphic showing a flock of monk parakeets flying towards a social network, two unmarked monk parakeets perched, and examples of our individually color-marked birds showing their dye marks and color codes

Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

An angiosperm‐wide perspective on reproductive strategies and floral traits Flowering plants have many modes of sexual reproduction, notably varying from selfing to outcrossing, and from bisexual flowers to individuals with separate sexes (dioecy). These reproductive modes ...

New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain Glémin, and Jos Käfer.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Bunch of people smile at a table with two king cakes in the front and a yellow lab smiling at the camera.

Happy #SSB2026 from the #LagoLab and #ZeFeLab, descendants & friends!
@tribblelab.bsky.social @laymonstera.bsky.social @racheljabaily.bsky.social @oschwery.bsky.social @evoyeyo.bsky.social @nicolas-cr.bsky.social @justkathe.bsky.social @laufran.bsky.social @ixchelgr.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social

Very excited for this incredible lineup of talks at #SSB2026!

ssb2026.github.io/talks.html

For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly.

@systbiol.bsky.social

Came to #ssb2026 for the original chicken figers and to pet the most adorable yellow lab ever #RocotoManzano.
See you this afternoon in the "Rev the Bayes and Q the matrix" workshop, get ready for graphical models, math, and trait evolution!

Laura, Rosana, Nico, Edison and Daniel enjoy the afterglow of eating tacos outside. Nico and Edison have glowing Mardi Gras beads on.

My Mardi Gras season has begun! My #SSB2026 has begun! My Mardi Gras SSB season jams begun! #LaissezLesBonsTempsRouler with @roszenil.bsky.social @nicolas-cr.bsky.social #LagoLab #ZeFeLab

Graduating college soon or recent college graduate? Looking to advance your career in botany, plant conservation and similar topics? Apply to the RAMP program at one of four premier botanic gardens!...

As the year wraps, it's time to celebrate marine biodiversity!

Nominate your favorite new-to-science *marine* species. form.vliz.be/en/form/worm...

The species must have been validly published in 2025. It can be extant or extinct.
@marinespecies.bsky.social @vliz.be @oceancensus.bsky.social

I understand the need for documentation, but a lot could be clarified simply by speaking directly to an administrator. This gives me flashbacks of trying to claim mileage from a trip and getting into a loophole because the typical road was closed due to landslides = 4 meetings totalling 3 hours.

The importance of basic science

Image of Cephalotes varians workers and a soldier nestled in their twig nest. Image via https://stevenwang.smugmug.com/Ants/List-of-Genera/Cephalotes/i-CjXZ3b9

Thrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants!

Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh

Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of
@systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

This is a small review of recent diversification methods (for molecular phylos), what they have achieved, their challenges, and a small opinion on where they are going. We are hoping this is useful for people trying to understand the myriad of methods available.

Lead by @ptitle.bsky.social, equal contributions from @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and me. Created for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social "An evolving view of lineage diversification"
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Humpback whales
Humuhumunukunukuapua’a (reef triggerfish)
Synchronous fireflies
Monarch butterflies overwintering
Moose

Really good summary of our work on poricidal anthers! I am printing this phylo in a big poster!

This work is the result of a lot of persistence, my co-authors especially @draverbee.bsky.social and @nicrodemo.bsky.social, greatly improved by reviewers and handling editors. Poricidal anthers evolved multiple times but this phenotype stayed in lineages 50 my after the origin of all angiosperms.

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

Second this recommendation. Daniel is a wonderful colleague and this is a great opportunity.

Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

Assistant or Associate Professor in Microbiology The Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor le...

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions.
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...
#microbiology #ecology

It's outdated in so many ways but Sepkoski's 1998 Rates of Speciation in the Fossil Record is such a classic and highly influential paper

How sex shapes transcriptome evolution in the songbird brain Sex differences have captivated scientists for a long time, yet the evolutionary rate of change in sex-biased gene expression has not been directly quantified. To address this issue, we leverage brain...

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv.

We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info: www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...