I've always been impressed with @carpentries.carpentries.org and it is great to see their integrity in standing up for their principles, even when there are significant costs to doing so.👏
Super impressed by the integrity shown by this NGO. May we all have similar courage to stand up for our principles when pushed against a wall by this admin.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: We refuse to reinforce systems of oppression and exclusion.
If you agree, take my grandmother’s advice. Put your money where your mouth is 🫶🏾
Donate: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
My colleague at UC Merced Josh Garcia is hiring for a position in Sustainable Agriculture. Check it out and apply if it's a good fit for you! aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02001
Great commentary on the new global bird phylogeny, if I do say so myself www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Logo for Society of Systematic Biologists Mentorship Program. Two parallel phylogenies, nothing fancy.
It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!
Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.
Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...
Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...
@systbiol.bsky.social
More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
The CSUN Faculty Senate just passed a resolution opposing the CSU adoption of ChatGPT Edu without faculty consultation at a cost of ~$1 million per month.
Thanks to @jbyoder.org for organizing!
Thanks @nautil.us for the cool blog post on our bird tree! @eliotmiller.bsky.social
nautil.us/all-birds-ro...
The new era of global bird phylogenies begins – this one built over several years by @snacktavish.bsky.social and team massively increases sample size and will be a fantastic resource for macroevolution and macroecology. 🪶 🌐 🧪
Short term @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social is supporting updates, and hopefully that will be a productive long term integration! And yes - it is relatively low cost, and supported by Open Tree of Life too (also has sustainability challenges, but it's low cost and a passion project for tenured faculty)
Yes! Thanks - We actually have posted 2 new trees since submission, and another one since acceptance, and will have it posted with the new 2024 taxonomy by June! Sometimes publication wheels turn slowly, but phylogenies keep getting updated :)
A great and very reasonable question! In the short term @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social has taken on supporting updates, (there's actually already a newer version posted than the one in the paper, and one in the works!) and hopefully that collaboration/support will pan out for the long term as well.
*** Academic BFD alert ***
We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
There's even a handy R package to make it easy to access any set of relationships you're interested in and link them to public datasets! 'clootl' - up on CRAN. github.com/eliotmiller/...
A complete and dynamic tree of birds - out today in PNAS! Teamwork with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others at
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social and Open Tree of Life to put together current relationships across all birds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
tree.opentreeoflife.org/curator/stud... Awesome! I linked the data from Dryad to OpenTree! Feel free to vet the curation.
Then. Now! @snacktavish.bsky.social
Applications are now open for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in *beautiful* Woods Hole, MA!
More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io
Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Application deadline: Jan. 29th
Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st
The Bulletin of the SSB announces publication of our Species Network Special Issue edited by Claudia Solis-Lemus & George Tiley. The first part of this issue is here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Articles from the second part of this issue will be published here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
Thanks!! We are really excited about it.
‘The Tree of All Birds’ is an excellent name for a medieval fable.
But also an extraordinary accomplishment in evolutionary mapping and visualisation for around 11,000 bird species.
🧪🦅🦆🦜🦢🦉🐓🦩🐦⬛🦚
Supplement is p16-42 in the pdf!
We made a tree of all birds! Preprint is up, comments are welcome.
A complete and dynamic tree of birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.20.595017v1
If you have thoughts on how you would like ModelFinder & PartitionFinder to work in IQ-TREE, I am interested in hearing them. We are re-building this now. Particularly interested in pain points for users!
Please repost if you have phylo followers...
We did a fun live phylogeny guessing game in evolution today! What's an animal more closely related to manatee than it is to human or cat?
Students yelled out ideas, and we added them to the tree as we went!
labs.minutelabs.io/Tree-of-Life...
