With the worst record in baseball, the Mets are not making it easy to believe

The Mets are absolutely garbage this year but I love their broadcasters so much. Great commentary, surprisingly lucid and honest, and sometimes hilarious

I will never, ever, ever use AI in my writing. From idea to the finished piece, it’s all human. I do not see the point otherwise.

Very proud of my graduate student @crowleyk.bsky.social for successfully defending her MS thesis today! Congrats!

The paper: Statistical and Structural Bias in Birth-Death Models by @phylieu.bsky.social & @omearabrian.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@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...

In an unusual turn of events, some good news: this morning I woke up to multiple emails about different manuscripts getting accepted for publication! I've never had more than one accepted on the same day. Amazing

We (with @dornhaus.bsky.social) finally wrote up our class on how to teach modeling to biologists, which ends up being a non-trivial exercise in understanding the roles that theory plays in the scientific method. We hope others will use our class, or simply enjoy the manuscript!

Incredible the new genAI tool intended for biologists to steal/plagarize other people's work named itself after Rosalind Franklin

An portrait of a man that (sort of?!) looks like Colonel Sanders holding a bucket of Kentucky Fried Crinoids

True story. The night before I started my PhD candidacy exams, I boldly roasted my advisor, Bill Ausich, at the annual departmental awards ceremony and presented him with this incredible work of art: "Colonel Ausich and the Kentucky Fried Crinoids". 12 years later and no regrets. 😅

Incredible. This is unironically the future I want

Congratulations to Alysha Zazubec (Cole lab) for successfully passing their PhD Candidacy exams!

"The Pig does not answer to man’s law, unless we remember that, in fact, he does."

Pleased to learn the overall numbers have increased, but disappointed there was only one award in paleobiology (w/ 7 honorable mentions)

[info from @fossilexpress.bsky.social ]

The NY Mets have been terrible this year but Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, and Ron Darling are the best group of broadcasters in MLB and it's not close. It's such a joy to listen to those guys talk about baseball

New paper out with @cichlidnick.bsky.social and Peter C. Wainwright. We show that different habitats impact fish diversification. Habitats with a complex benthos show increased diversification rates across ray-finned fishes.

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Also, they occur alongside * gargantuan * specimens of Leptaena brachiopods in the Ellis Bay Fm., but only very tiny Leptaena specimens (and no snails) occur immediately above the O-S boundary

Thanks for the amazing thread, Pete! The occurrence of big snails are really interesting to me there because they occur in rocks * just after* the end-Katian extinction pulse (assuming there is one) and just a few meters below the end-Ordovician

Fingers crossed it'll translate into a Nature paper titled, "The largest marine snail from the Ordovician Period sure was a chonky dude"

Hey @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, any ideas for IDs of these fine molluscan specimens? It's my understanding that the fossil snails from Anticosti Island needed further taxonomic work and/or revision but I'm not certain

Here are 5 remarkable snails that lived during the Ordovician Period. All collected from the Ellis Bay Formation (Hirnantian) of Anticosti Island and reposited in the Invertebrate Paleontology collections at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 🐌🐌🐌 🧪

Look at the size of the one on the left!

I can hear a Northern Parula singing in the OU Geosciences parking lot. How am I supposed to move on with my day until I find it?!

5 remarkable molluscs ftw

It's crazy that bands like AFI and Coheed & Cambria aren't * far more * popular. Inredible discographies

absolutely impossible for me to handwrite a lowercase "d" that doesn't look like a partial derivative

I never use to use chatGPT and I still don't

A rhombless rhombiferan!

Science is good. We should fund it.

I love walking around campus and listening to the spring migratory birds singing

‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Abstract. Twenty-five years ago, the book The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation by Dolph Schluter presented a testable framework that integrated ecology, genet

Twenty five years on from Dolph Schluter's book "The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation" that reshaped the way adaptive radiation was studied, this review revisits key questions raised to evaluate the progress made over the past quarter century, 8 of which remain unresolved...🌍🧪👇