Very sorry to hear this and for your loss. I met him once in a GRC where he presented his very important paper on African cichlids. Excellent presentation, and he was very welcoming. My deepest condolences to his colleagues and family.
Graphical ad for Hobson Lab Parakeet sociality & cognition Postbac Research Technician, with a graphic showing a flock of monk parakeets flying towards a social network, two unmarked monk parakeets perched, and examples of our individually color-marked birds showing their dye marks and color codes
Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy
New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain Glémin, and Jos Käfer.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Bunch of people smile at a table with two king cakes in the front and a yellow lab smiling at the camera.
Happy #SSB2026 from the #LagoLab and #ZeFeLab, descendants & friends!
@tribblelab.bsky.social @laymonstera.bsky.social @racheljabaily.bsky.social @oschwery.bsky.social @evoyeyo.bsky.social @nicolas-cr.bsky.social @justkathe.bsky.social @laufran.bsky.social @ixchelgr.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social
Very excited for this incredible lineup of talks at #SSB2026!
ssb2026.github.io/talks.html
For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly.
@systbiol.bsky.social
Came to #ssb2026 for the original chicken figers and to pet the most adorable yellow lab ever #RocotoManzano.
See you this afternoon in the "Rev the Bayes and Q the matrix" workshop, get ready for graphical models, math, and trait evolution!
Laura, Rosana, Nico, Edison and Daniel enjoy the afterglow of eating tacos outside. Nico and Edison have glowing Mardi Gras beads on.
My Mardi Gras season has begun! My #SSB2026 has begun! My Mardi Gras SSB season jams begun! #LaissezLesBonsTempsRouler with @roszenil.bsky.social @nicolas-cr.bsky.social #LagoLab #ZeFeLab
Graduating college soon or recent college graduate? Looking to advance your career in botany, plant conservation and similar topics? Apply to the RAMP program at one of four premier botanic gardens!...
As the year wraps, it's time to celebrate marine biodiversity!
Nominate your favorite new-to-science *marine* species. form.vliz.be/en/form/worm...
The species must have been validly published in 2025. It can be extant or extinct.
@marinespecies.bsky.social @vliz.be @oceancensus.bsky.social
I understand the need for documentation, but a lot could be clarified simply by speaking directly to an administrator. This gives me flashbacks of trying to claim mileage from a trip and getting into a loophole because the typical road was closed due to landslides = 4 meetings totalling 3 hours.
The importance of basic science
Image of Cephalotes varians workers and a soldier nestled in their twig nest. Image via https://stevenwang.smugmug.com/Ants/List-of-Genera/Cephalotes/i-CjXZ3b9
Thrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants!
Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh
Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of
@systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
This is a small review of recent diversification methods (for molecular phylos), what they have achieved, their challenges, and a small opinion on where they are going. We are hoping this is useful for people trying to understand the myriad of methods available.
Lead by @ptitle.bsky.social, equal contributions from @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and me. Created for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social "An evolving view of lineage diversification"
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Humpback whales
Humuhumunukunukuapua’a (reef triggerfish)
Synchronous fireflies
Monarch butterflies overwintering
Moose
Really good summary of our work on poricidal anthers! I am printing this phylo in a big poster!
This work is the result of a lot of persistence, my co-authors especially @draverbee.bsky.social and @nicrodemo.bsky.social, greatly improved by reviewers and handling editors. Poricidal anthers evolved multiple times but this phenotype stayed in lineages 50 my after the origin of all angiosperms.
And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
Second this recommendation. Daniel is a wonderful colleague and this is a great opportunity.
Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.
Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.
#iamabotanist
Details (+ application portal) here:
lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5
The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions.
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...
#microbiology #ecology
It's outdated in so many ways but Sepkoski's 1998 Rates of Speciation in the Fossil Record is such a classic and highly influential paper
I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv.
We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info: www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza next to a windmill whose sails are a large phylogeny, subtitled Escudero Lab
Marcial Escudero’s lab has a nice logo 😁
https://marcialescuderolab.weebly.com/
#ESEB2025
G.G. Simpson is the most mentioned paleontologist at #eseb2025. These are 3 different talks from two separate sessions. But there are more! adaptive landscapes, adaptive radiations and horotely (rates) are in! So is the fossil record! @roszenil.bsky.social @ignacioq.bsky.social and others!
the crazy hour explains my typos 🤦🏾♀️
Our "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!
