Eeee!!!! So, good news: me and @lepidodendron.bsky.social will be co-hosting a symposium at EPPC this year looking at plant Paleoart!!!!! This has been a long time coming, so I'm incredibly excited that we can finally announce it! #paleoart #paleobotany #conference #FossilFriday #botany
@phylieu.bsky.social and I have another paper in our informal series, “we worry about diversification rates.” This time, how to get unbiased estimators of speciation & extinction, even when looking at small clades as part of MiSSE, CLaDS, etc. models.
Overview: brianomeara.info/posts/biasco...
The paper: Statistical and Structural Bias in Birth-Death Models by @phylieu.bsky.social & @omearabrian.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My PhD student will be finishing soon and is looking for a postdoc position to start in the fall semester. If you have a postdoc ad or opening and are looking for someone experienced especially in population/evolutionary genomics with a knack for coding and bioinformatics, let me know.
Hi!
I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section.
(Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!)
badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com
🎓 My PhD thesis is now available online at dx.doi.org/10.5287/ora-... ! If you're interested in anything biogeography, dung beetles, biodiversity data quality, landscape genomics, the Afrotropics, etc. etc. please have a read! Would love to discuss with anyone who has questions. 🪲🌍
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...
Janine Schweier will head the WSL research unit ‘Forest Resources and Management’ from 1.4.2026. Her emphasis is on the practical application of research findings to facilitate planning in the forestry sector. www.wsl.ch/en/news/new-... #Forest #Forestry #ForestManagement #ForestEcology
I have been hiding in the desert, clamoring on rocks while taking tips from lizards on the best way to collect seeds from the Death Valley Sage. @npr.org came along for the ride and it was amazing.
www.npr.org/sections/the...
Bryozooloigsts! Remember to register for Larwood Oslo 1-3 June 2026 #bryozoa www.bryozoology.org/kopie-von-20... the deadline is coming up fast! Please remind your friends and colleagues!
New study led by Sean McHugh (@phyllurus.bsky.social) now out in @systbiol.bsky.social!
Sean's approach models how species gain and lose biome affinities over time, both in terms of where they *do* live (e.g. movement) and where they *could* live (e.g. adaptation)
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
Figure of historical timeline for ideas in the manuscript. Caption reads: "An evolving view of phylogenetic biogeography. Each period (arrow) corresponds to one of the four periods discussed in the main text. The ordering of themes within each period does not precisely correspond to when key ideas were introduced or popularized."
New preprint on the recent history of phylogenetic biogeography, with co-authors Isabel Sanmartín and Joel Cracraft, now up on EcoEvoRxiv: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
5 years. 3 research stays in Germany. One PhD across continents. Last month, Sandra Gyarteng graduated from the University of Ghana - completing a doctoral journey from fieldwork in West Africa to molecular research at MPI for Biology Tübingen. Read more about her journey here: tinyurl.com/er2x2jyu
April's fool month...
In our next WSL Biodiversity Seminar (8 April), Lalasia Bialic-Murphy @wslresearch.bsky.social will discuss the demographic functional diversity of forests across biogeographic gradients.
The seminar is hybrid, and everyone is welcome!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8
I am so very honored to receive this award from @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @asn-amnat.bsky.social , and @systbiol.bsky.social !!!
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
It's me wearing a pigeon shirt standing next to a large OU
I am thrilled to share that I have accepted an offer for Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Sam Noble Museum/Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma!
I will be starting this August and looking forward to more fishy research. 🐟🐠🐡
Thanks to all who've helped me get this far!
Systematic Biology’s March 2026 issue (75.2) is published! It features Laura Kubatko's 75th anniversary piece on species trees, along with a nice mix of empirical and methodological studies. Check it out: academic.oup.com/sysbio/issue...
@systbiol.bsky.social
Delighted to see our work on the cover of Systematic Biology!! We introduce an approach for analyzing pairwise-defined traits (e.g. 'strength of RI', 'diet niche overlap') in a phylogenetically informed context (R package 'phylopairs' now on CRAN). Read it here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
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/...
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
How old are tomatoes, peppers and golden berries? 🍅🌱
We combined fossils with molecular data to time-calibrate the evolutionary history of #Solanaceae
Curious about total-evidence dating? Take a look!
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Pink candy in the shape of a whale skeleton with gummy octopuses and other sweets.
Did I make a whale fall coffee cake for my Oceanography final? Yes, yes I did. The taffy bones did start melting, need a better material next time.
Two PhD scholarships at Flinders University in Molecular Ecology 🧬
Project: adaptive introgression & rapid evolution under climate change
Includes fieldwork, experiments & genome sequencing
Start July 2026 | AUD$36k stipend
Contact me or luciano.beheregaray@flinders.edu.au
#PhD #EvoBio #Genomics
Happy #TaxonomistAppreciationDay! Please support biodiversity science by citing taxonomic literature & acknowledging museum collections. Here at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, our Invertebrate Paleontology collection houses millions of specimens, including ~10k type & figured specimens 🧪
Many brightly colored pinned moth specimens in an Entomology collection.
Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection!
Details here:
tinyurl.com/bdduefsy
