Getting down to the wire on dorms. Dorms are one of the harder parts of the meeting to organize, but they are really important for cost and accessibility
Don't wait if you need dorm housing!
The paper: Statistical and Structural Bias in Birth-Death Models by @phylieu.bsky.social & @omearabrian.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sorry about the delay on that. This year, we've had a little more movement in terms of people not being able to accept volunteer slots, and have gone back to the list to make additional awards. Hopefully we can get those notices out by the end of the day today.
Last day for Mayr Award entry, and last day to be considered for inclusion in our sponsored symposium
A few slots remain in the Society-sponsored Imageomics workshop
Low-cost dorm housing nearly at capacity; virtual talks approaching capacity.
Don't wait!
Yes, notifications went out a couple days ago.
We really only have labor for ~130 regular contributed virtual talks. So, yes! Get those talks in!
Late submissions decided via Thunderdome.
Subsidizing is when you exchange your own money for goods or services that you then personally use
Not sure who is subsidizing whom if I buy a beer?
Well I looked at this on my cell phone, and I thought the dog was a sheep, so my reaction was one of complete confusion. Don’t bring farm animals in the house, Gary!
A picture of a small concretion (rock) with a white blob in the middle. this blob was described as the worlds oldest octopus and called Pohlsepia. Our research shows that hidden under the rock are teeth that confirm it is a nautiloid (a relative of modern nautiluses).
An artistic rendering of the rotting Pohlsepia on the seafloor 310 million years ago. Sharks, fish and arthropods lurk in the background
I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus...
Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
I'm going in person to #Evol2026 (and probably will have a poster) but I'm currently planning to give a talk in the virtual meeting: I want to reach all the people who will not be traveling to Ohio for various reasons and help support the welcome & inclusive move to virtual.
That includes a number of aspects of attendee safety. You can view the rubric on our website. We first used the rubric to book the 2028 meeting in Tacoma, and the linked website has my and then co-Chief Alex Wong's noted about using location rubrics
One other thing I want to acknowledge is that I know there are difficult feelings about going back to Cleveland. This meeting was booked in 2020, as part of a negotiation to be able to reschedule our meetings due to the pandemic.
In 2024, the Tri-Societies ratified a rubric for location choice 🧵
It’s a fun tidbit to get to share!
One cool thing about Cleveland is that it’s a strongly union town!
The conv center plans for their people to have humane working hours. That means they need a little more info from us about space use, catering, etc earlier than normal. Unlikely we can extend early bird much if at all
Don’t wait!
All women are all one very yucky behavioral thing being tolerated by our colleagues away from arming girls with fire
Hey Chris, I’m faculty there. Could you message me?
In this case, we've gotta turn the Gen Alpha way up on all our plots
Some days you get to teach a bunch of little girls to use matches
Some days you really need to do that
!!!!!! Congrats!
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...
“No,” Tenar said. “I have never understood men like you.”
As April fool’s day comes to a close, please pour one out for me.
We are now in the month of me replying “hm, sorry, what” to every other sentence.
No one is quite the same neurotic mess as I am
The reason this position has been so much fun is because you get to work with lots of different people you might otherwise not have.
And those people are creative and innovative. All three societies are hungry for ways to bring new value to members via meetings.
Anyway, apply!
Thirteen landmarks plotted for each specimen
Principal component (PC) 1 plotted against PC 2 using Procrustes coordinates. Restricted only to large specimens. A, Transennella conradina (upper 25%), B, Abra segmentum (upper 25%), C, Chamelea gallina (upper 25%).
A very interesting study, which shows that the parasite infestation significantly distorts and expands the morphospace of bivalves. Essentially ecological-interaction mediated neutral and maladaptive ecophenotypy.
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
Guess what jerk got in the cat tree to steal wet food from her enfeebled sibling.
Guess who would 100% do it again
The DC Metro
Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.
The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.
We’re at a very difficult crossroad in academia. The next person to be on committee has the potential to be very influential to a lot of people.
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.
Getting two copies of the book you put on hold at the library is the literary equivalent of two yolks in your egg