Evolution 2026 meeting logo. Clilp art of a globe and laptop showing a virtual presentation. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Global Meeting Participation.
SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.
Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.
But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅
First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.
#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates
😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱
Today was a great day for the lab: @hcamarillo.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD dissertation.
Congratulations, Dr. Camarillo! We are very happy and excited to see what comes next for you.
Poster for a spoof academic lecture. Title reads "The Macroevolution of Cereal Mascots: A lecture by Dr. Matt Friedman." Cropped circles show pictures of Darwin and Matt; these flank the title. Below, a variety of colorful cereal mascots are shown, with a quote from Origin: ". . . endless forms most beautiful have been, and are being, evolved." The time and venue is listed at the bottom of the poster: Thursday, April 9th, 8:30 pm Biological Science Building.
Poster for spoof academic talk. Several lines of text are shown against a cream background: 8:30PM THURSDAY, APRIL 9TH A SPOONFUL OF KNOWLEDGE RM 1010 BSB World-reknown paleontologist, Dr. Matt Friedman, will be giving an exclusive lecture on the macroevolution of cereal mascots. If you don't know what that is, you should come. If you already know what that is, you should still come. We will be providing cereal, milk, bowls, and spoons as usual, but byob, byom, byoc, and byos is encouraged! Two images are shown at the bottom of the poster. The first is a cartoon-like illustration of a stack of books topped with a bowl of cereal bearing the Cereal Club logo. The second shows the classic illustrated sequence of human evolution, with the modern human's face topped with the Cereal Club logo.
Last night, it was my honor to deliver the inaugural "Spoonful of Knowledge" lecture for the U-M Cereal Club. I gave an updated version of a talk on cereal mascot evolution put together in the last year of my PhD, longer ago than I care to admit. Poster credit: Cereal Club Instagram.
Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive!
If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.
I'm incredibly excited to announce that my new podcast, Dreaming Against the Machine, is launching next week with @multitude.productions! Join me for conversations about what a better future could look like. Available wherever you get your podcasts! Here's the trailer for the show:
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
This is so, so well-articulated.
I hope you slept as peacefully as these young loons captured on film by Harry Collins: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
Grad students & postdocs: how is funding uncertainty affecting you right now?
SSE's GSAC is collecting anonymous input to inform advocacy and conversations at Evolution.
Share your perspective by May 1, 2026 and pls RT!
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/...
📄Published Today in Nature:
500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social).
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me...
TLDR: 1/11
My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!!
Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior...
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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
Join us for virtual Evolution on May 20-22! SSE members in 152 countries and territories around the world receive free virtual meeting registration - request your discount code today! #Evol2026
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How can you not be romantic about evolution?
Close up shot of Solaster endeca surface pink and bubbly. By Alexander Semenov: https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_semenov/4371752155/
Red and orange projections as a close up shot of Crossaster papposus surface. Photo by Alexander Semenov: https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_semenov/4372503348/
Closeup of sea star skin, unknown species. Alexander Semenov: https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_semenov/8447618289/
Close up of Crossaster papposus sea star skin. By Alexander Semenov: https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_semenov/8448703898/in/photostream/
My god. Have you ever seen close-ups of sea star skin? 🧪🌊🌿
Sharing this with our graduate student community 👇
The Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants are a great way to support your research journey.
We encourage you to apply!
🎯April 15 is the last day to:
- Save $100 on in-person meeting registration
- Submit your virtual or in-person talk
- Apply for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation!
We look forward to seeing you online in May and in Cleveland in June!
#Evol2026
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/...
Reminder to folks: it's possible to change your default search engine. I use duckduckgo with ads and AI turned off, but there's also kagi, ecosia, qwant, and many more. They don't seem as good as Google in 2015, but that's sort of where we are now.
Screen shot from PowerPoint showing a paleogeographic map with color shading representing paleobathymetry (blues) and land forms (browns to greens). The automatically generated description for alt text reads "A picture containing cake, birthday, blue, decorated."
PowerPoint's automatic alt text is endlessly entertaining.
No, this is not "A picture containing cake, birthday, blue, decorated"
Reminder to edit the auto alt text before distributing slides to your class....
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
The Evolution Meetings logo, stating that the meeting will be online May 20-22, 2026 and in-person June 20-24 2026
The 2026 Ernst Mayr Award Competition is open! This is SSB's student talk award. Students selected to compete will deliver their talk during the virtual Evolution meetings May 20-22, 2026.
Applications close April 15, 2026.
For information on registration, see: www.systbio.org/ernst-mayr-a...
art of two jawless, flat-headed fish called zihaiaspis wuningensis with what can only be described as 0: expressions
pov you are scrolling through a paper on a newly-described silurian galeaspid and you see this magnificent life reconstruction
Photographed near Malaysia’s capital, several Wallace's flying frogs descended from the rainforest canopy to breed in a rain-filled puddle 🌧️🐸
This stunning moment was captured by Jamal Kabir, winner of the animal category in Capturing Ecology.
Thaaaanks!
Btw when are you going to visit us at Ann Arbor?
