literally letting robots compete while banning trans people 🙃

Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Fantastic seminar from @deboraycb.bsky.social discussing some of the challenges and limitations of detecting balancing selection from genomic data and her ongoing work on developing a new ARG-based approach.

See preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....

Are unicorns real and can trees walk? | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep24 YouTube video by Natural History Museum

New episode today is MYTHICAL! m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYux... Featuring Jeff (who just moved to Cardiff Museum 😭). Available on Spotify and Apple too. 🐸 🦎 📕 🌴 No unicorns were harmed in the making of this podcast 🦄

Screenshot with the project information (title, grant number, etc.) that can be found in the link https://fapesp.br/18114/chamada-internacional-para-jovens-pesquisadores-tem-propostas-selecionadas

Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually!

fapesp.br/18114/chamad...

Screenshot with the project information (title, grant number, etc.) that can be found in the link https://fapesp.br/18114/chamada-internacional-para-jovens-pesquisadores-tem-propostas-selecionadas

Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually!

fapesp.br/18114/chamad...

Vai ser um looooongo ano....

This is so, so well-articulated.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

A spiny Coast Horned Lizard on sandy ground in bright sun. Its body and head are covered with horns and keeled scales, and the background shows a dry, rocky landscape. Photo credit: Saúl F. Domínguez-Guerrero.

Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America.

Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Offene Stellen

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th -

Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process

Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

Based on this, my advice up to now is: Please don't use an LLM to draft your analyses.

If you don't know what you're doing, it'll lead you badly astray and be unreadable.

If you know what you're doing, you can code the analyses faster and easier yourself.

Research Associate - Plant Phylogenomics at University of Sheffield Apply for the Research Associate - Plant Phylogenomics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Come and join us!!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ547/r...

Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Entrevista com o vampiro, que só acontece se você passa na prova escrita com o vampiro (junto da leitura oral com o vampiro). Daí tem também a prova didática com o vampiro.

(versão concurso para professor universitário)

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

Pessoal, papo sério:
Está aberta a Consulta Pública para incorporação de um novo tratamento para ELA no SUS. O relato de pessoas que convivem com a doença ajuda a tornar o processo decisório mais transparente e democrático.
Aqui mais informações para participar: falesobreela.com.br/engaje-com-a...

Milk provisioning in oviparous caecilian amphibians During parental care, female oviparous Siphonops annulatus provide oviductal lipid-rich milk to hatchlings through the maternal vent.

E em Cecílias também, o que possibilita uma piada taxonomicamente incorreta tbm sobre leite de cobra

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Conference idea, burning science man, where we gathered in a remote place, preferably a desert, debate and present our work, and burn all the posters at the end

There's no "gain in productivity" (a topic that would be debatable enough on its own) that justifies for me all the downsides of the use of generative AI in academia.

But you do you, I guess...

There's no "gain in productivity" (a topic that would be debatable enough on its own) that justifies for me all the downsides of the use of generative AI in academia.

But you do you, I guess...

An under-discussed consequence of generative AI: to prove *your* scientific text is human-authored and should be taken seriously, you'll have to show your credentials, which benefits people with privilege and harms people without it.

Harvard gets a pass; U of Nairobi, maybe less often.

"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. +

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people."

"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. +

Quantifying the spatiotemporal dynamics of the first two epidemic waves of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States Author summary In this work, we developed a set of tools and methods designed to produce high-resolution visualizations, as well as to quantify the complex and intricate patterns associated with the s...

We are published! We quantifying the spatiotemporal dynamics of the first two major waves of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA is online now!

By mapping the infections we were able to quantify the spread of SARS-CoV-2 over the contiguous US and we also estimated the speed of spread! tinyurl.com/y87tjnmd

I am now an Executive Editor at Palaeontologia Electronica :D Still feeling kinda lost in this new role... anyways, send your manuscript to us! :)

I'm really glad you'll have this legendary wizard working alongside with you

Ultra niche post. Me like it.