📢 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?
If you teach evolution or use R in the classroom, we’d love feedback and contributions.
Please share if useful for your teaching or lab.
Paper link: doi.org/10.21105/jos...
(11/11)
Where to find it (3/3):
🌐 Website with vignettes + tutorials: mjanuario.github.io/evolved
(10/11)
Where to find it (2/3):
📖 Docs + dev version on GitHub: github.com/mjanuario/evol…
OR
(9/11)
Where to find it (1/3):
📦 Install from CRAN
R> install.packages("evolved")
OR
(8/11)
evolved comes with teaching vignettes —but instructors can easily build their own modules for their classes. We also have intros for using R in evol teaching contexts.
(Questions & Answer keys are available on request so AI doesn't get it so easily 👀)
(7/11)
All datasets are structured like real research data and work with standard R tools (e.g., #ape, #phytools, #diversitree).
Students aren’t learning toy examples — they’re learning transferable practices
(6/11)
Topics span across evolutionary biology:
🫘 Population genetics (selection, drift, Hardy–Weinberg)
🦕 Paleobiology (diversity through time, fossil data)
🌳 Phylogenetics & macroevolution (birth–death models, tree simulation)
🧬 Molecular evolution
(5/11)
Our key design feature: two function levels
🔹 High-level → fast, simple, analysis-focused
🔹 Low-level → transparent, readable, modifiable (great for
learning how models actually work)
This supports everything from structured labs → open inquiry projects.
(4/11)
Our goal: Let students do #science practices, not just hear about its theories
With #evolved, students can:
• Simulate evolutionary processes
• Analyze realistic datasets
• Test hypotheses
• Visualize results
• Work with tools used by researchers
(3/11)
In my opinion, #evolution is inherently complex & data-driven: #fossils, #molecules, #phylogenies, #simulations...
But #teaching with real workflows is hard — setup time, data formatting, and #software complexity eat #class time. Well #evolved was built thinking about these barriers
(2/11)
🚨New paper + software
Folks I want to introduce #evolved —our R package for teaching evolutionary biology through inquiry-based learning.
For undergrad + grad courses.
🧬💻
Paper link: doi.org/10.21105/jos...
#RStats #Evolution #STEMEducation #activelearning
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Where to find it (2/3):
📖 Docs + dev version on GitHub: github.com/mjanuario/evol…
OR
(9/11)
Where to find it (1/3):
📦 Install from CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/e…
OR
(8/11)
evolved comes with teaching vignettes —but instructors can (and should )easily build their own modules for their classes
We also have intros for using R in evol. teaching contexts.
(Questions & Answer keys are available on request so AI doesn't get it so easily 👀)
(7/11)
All datasets are structured like real research data and work with standard R tools (e.g., #ape, #phytools, #diversitree).
Students aren’t learning toy examples — they’re learning transferable practices
(6/11)
Topics span across evolutionary biology:
🫘 Population genetics (selection, drift, Hardy–Weinberg)
🦕 Paleobiology (diversity through time, fossil data)
🌳 Phylogenetics & macroevolution (birth–death models, tree simulation)
🧬 Molecular evolution
(5/11)
Our key design feature: two function levels
🔹 High-level → fast, simple, analysis-focused
🔹 Low-level → transparent, readable, modifiable (great for
learning how models actually work)
This supports everything from structured labs → open inquiry projects.
(4/11)
Our goal: Let students do #science practices, not just hear about its theories
With #evolved, students can:
• Simulate evolutionary processes
• Analyze realistic datasets
• Test hypotheses
• Visualize results
• Work with tools used by researchers
(3/11)
In my oppinion, #evolution is inherently complex & data-driven: #fossils, #molecules, #phylogenies, #simulations...
But #teaching with real workflows is hard — setup time, data formatting, and #software complexity eat #class time #evolved was built thinking about barriers
(2/11)
Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
1 week left to get your image in for Evolution 2026 logo contest! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Fossil stickleback fishes preserved on white rock in a black specimen tray.
The back half of a fossil bird, preserved on light colored rock.
For #FossilFriday, a visit to the Truckee Formation of Nevada: sticklebacks and a grebe in UMMP. Annual layers in these lake sediments give a precise relative chronology for fossils from different levels, providing kyr resolution essential for bridging paleontological and biological perspectives.
Brazilians at #Evol2025! @mjanuario.bsky.social and I are planning ab informal meetup tomorrow after the poster session (~7:30pm) at Creature comforts, a brewery 10 min from the conference center. Non-Brazilians who want to mingle and hear some Portuguese are always welcome!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
