Simone Blomberg

Nice work! I’ve always wondered how many fossils would be helpful and where they would best be located in a tree. This is a great advance!

📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy!

Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social.

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with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

They won’t let me in anyway. Not that I would want to go there at the moment.

Australia has a bight: the Great Australian Bight. It’s the curvy bit at the southern coast of the country.

@dianafisher1080.bsky.social

Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments Abstract. Females and males typically differ in lifespan, patterns of ageing, and reproduction. General explanations for variation in the magnitude of this

Who really lives fast and dies young? In Drosophila, females show faster ageing and reproductive senescence than males across social environments, overturning sexual selection predictions and highlighting social effects on ageing. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
@laurenmharrison.bsky.social

Out now for several weeks. I hope you all like it!

Multivariate trait evolution: models for the evolution of the quantitative genetic G-matrix on phylogenies Abstract. Genetic covariance matrices (G-matrices) are a key focus for research and predictions from quantitative genetic evolutionary models of multiple t

How do genetic variances and covariances evolve over deep time? This paper unifies quantitative genetics and macroevolution with analytical models for G-matrix evolution on phylogenies, enabling new tests of multivariate trait evolution.
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Natalie Cooper, Senior Editor for MEE, has written a blog post for #InternationalWomensDay 2025. Read the full post here 👇

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@simone66b.bsky.social

Transgender mice are mice!
Transgenic mice are mice! 😜

Our latest rant w/ Simone Blomberg in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social - The fallacy of single imputation. We make a convincing case that single imputation is misleading and should not be (mis)used especially for trait datasets (also confirmed by simulations)

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