Still accepting applicants for a postdoc! Here's the evoldir link if you're interested:
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Please reach out! Share with a friend!

CIPRES is shutting down at the end of June: www.phylo.org .

It's been such a good resource for the phylogenetics community. Thanks to #NSF and Simons for funding it and for all the people who have worked to grow and sustain this for so long.

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration “With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...

My institution relentlessly going whole hog on AI has the one benefit of inspiring colleagues to be completely hilarious-
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fre...

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Here's a fact you can't un-know:

The strongest organism on the planet, pound for pound, is Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

The bacterial pathogen that causes Gonorrhea can 'lift' 100,000X its own body weight. That's like a human lifting the Eiffel Tower.

Let's explore how the heck we can even know that.

South Shore is a veritable architectural museum of some of the finest mid sized multifamily housing in the country

Side view illustration of a large dragonfly with bright yellow and black markings. One of North America's largest dragonflies, specializes in hunting other dragonflies.

The Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus). From my STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide book, coming in Sept. 2026. a.co/d/gAgXe4q?ta...
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #medart #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #dragonflies #odos

A fair-skinned red-head person who has discovered he has a predisposition for melanoma only after unleashing AI agents on his genome.

GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.

The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.

The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

Come work with us!

That's a heck of a graphic www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I was today years old when I learned that the ultimate population control tactic for Brown tree snakes on Guam is poisoning them with Tylenol capsules glued to dead baby mice, deployed by helicopter

A brownish-black insect with four yellow dots on his elytra and pincers protruding from his abdomen. He has his abdomen raised and pincers open. He is standing on a white sheet.

Another view of a male Ancistrogaster sp. earwig. He has his pincers raised, likely in a defensive posture, there were lots of other insects around.
Intag Refugio, Ecuador #invert

A brownish-black insect with four yellow spots ion his elytra and a pair of pincer protruding from his abdomen. He is standing on a white sheet.

We found this amazing earwig at a bug light last night. This one is a male, they typically have larger pincers. There is not much info available about the genus so I'm not sure why he has those strange protrusions from his abdomen.
(Ancistrogaster sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

At a glance, 2599 recipients - I think the highest total ever? And quite a few in the Life Sciences, which I know was a concern for many - Evolutionary Biology had twice as many recipients (38) as last year (19).

Searching southern Baja for gall wasps on an endangered live oak.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

For non-scientists, LTER programs run for decades, so scientists can learn how ecosystems change over time. These programs cover ecology, evolution, systems biology, and it includes animals, plants, even microbes, and more. We learned so much about how our world works with LTERs. This sucks :(

Why are scientists, particularly geologists, so excited to get new images and human observations of the far side of the moon?

A planets geology is the ultimate “crime scene”. Let me explain….

#Artemis ⚒️🧪

OMG. The LTER program is one of the best, most ambitious programs in ecology. It's 26 sites supporting science about the long-term and large-scale phenomena. Like: how does farming change soil over time? How do sites recover from disturbance? What makes a healthy river? etc. 💔💔

Without these long-term research programs, there is no #2026MMM

That was the biggest damn cottontail I’ve ever seen.

Gonna eat like a king for DAYS.

Not sure what’s up with all the eggs though.

#HappyEaster Bipeds!

Pied stilt walking the beach on impossibly long thin pink legs. Suck it, Dali.

New Zealand pied stilt | poaka 🪶

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

#2026MMM Fans of the MMM art team's work! We have set up an emergency side store with RedBubble here and will be adding to it today and tomorrow: www.redbubble.com/people/4MadS...

Exciting to finally experience my personal equivalent of ‘is there a doctor on the plane?’ 🕊️

#2026MMM

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THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR ANOTHER MMMAGNIFICENT JOURNEY OF SCIENCE, STORY, & NATURE.

Y'all are the very best! #2026MMM

Until next time, be well, good night & good luck.

TOP: Fig. 1.Placement of study samples within the African crocodilian phylogenetic tree. Colours of the branches refer to the species found in Guinea-Bissau in this study, namely: the Nile crocodile (C. niloticus in green), the West African crocodile (C. suchus in yellow), and the West African dwarf crocodile (O. cf. tetraspisin purple). Red dots at the nodes represent highly supported nodes (>95% pp), coloured dots next to the branch description represent the samples collected for this study. The red rectangle in the inset map of Africa represents the geographic location of Guinea-Bissau. This figure and maps within it, were produced using QGIS version 3.36. BOTTOM: Fig. 2. Distribution of crocodile data collected in Guinea Bissau. Symbols with red strokes represent barcoded genetic samples.

Pizzigalli et al. (2025) used mtDNA from tissue & poop samples to investigate croc diversity in Guinea Bissau in W. Africa. They found evidence for Nile crocodile (previously thought to be extinct in that region 200 years ago)! doi.org/10.1038/s415... #2026MMM #RIP

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YUB NUB EVERBODY! YUB NUB! #2026MMM