Delighted that our manuscript on "Coevolution of patch selection in stochastic environments" has been accepted for publication in @ASNAmNat This was a paper several years in the making with my brilliant collaborators Alex Henging (Texas A&M) and Dang Nguyen (U Alabama). As often is the case, the AmNat reviewers and the editors did a great job in identifying ways to improve the manuscript. Always greatly appreciated! #coESSinSpace

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725079

SSB is looking for reviewers for this year's student awards competitions. This is a critical role in our Society's efforts to support early career researchers in systematics!

Please consider volunteering by filling out this form before March 1st.

https://forms.gle/iGZtFgiDYAStCsdM8

I am SO EXCITED to say that in Fall 2024, I will be starting my lab at at Washington State University in Pullman, WA!!

I'll be an Asst. Prof of Biology as well as Director of the Conner Museum of Vertebrates.

I can't wait to move (home!) to the PNW and to join an amazing group of colleagues. Wohoo!!

Registration is open for Evolution 2023. See you there!
https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration.html

Smithsonian’s hi.si.edu is one of the first place based mobile museum experiences I’ve come across that feels right. Key point, there is no app, it just uses the browser and capabilities of the mobile device. Hope to see more like this!

Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.

February's cover image accompanies a new article on homoploid reticulate evolution in Helianthus sunflowers https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad013 #science #evolution #biology #genome #SciComm #evolgen_paper

Today I'm proud to announce the release of Homebrew 4.0.0.

The most significant change since 3.6.0 enables significantly faster Homebrew-maintained tap updates by migrating from Git-cloned taps to JSON downloads. In short, this means `brew update` and auto-updates will be much faster.

Also, if you read to the end you get to see me in a stupid beer outfit the other maintainers made me wear.

Check it out:
https://brew.sh/2023/02/16/homebrew-4.0.0/

See here 👇a thread about the new & highly improved #rstats package "fundiversity" to compute functional diversity

Led by the great #sDiv postdoc @idiv Matthias Grenié @LeNematode

Check it!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.06585
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RT @LeNematode
Our work with @grusonh is finally published online (and OA) in @EcographyJourna
at https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06585
We present {fundiversity} an #rstats📦to compute functio…
https://twitter.com/LeNematode/status/1625108455471054848

PHYLOPIC 2.0 HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY RELEASED! Check out the new, faster, more useful version here, with 6320 free silhouettes (and counting): https://www.phylopic.org
#sciart #science #evolution #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #illustration #viz #art #visualization #biology

March issue of TREE now out!
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/current

Cover features Heidi Pearson et al

Featured articles Liow et al, de Tombeur et al, Valdovinos et al

Articles by Wu et al, Dauphin et al, Chacón-Labella et al, @schradin et al Sargent et al, Hartel et al

Letter exchanges: (1) Moleon + Sánchez-Zapata and Palmer et al and (2) Hoffmann + Bridle and Vinton et al

An unexpected pattern. To me, at least.

Ant colonies are much more likely to be polymorphic (=have multiple size classes of workers, and/or soldiers) in the world's *arid* regions.

#Ants #Science #Formicidae #Evolution

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.1899

"This systematic uncertainty in career prospects further tips the scale against researchers from underrepresented groups7, those who are less able to flexibly respond to emerging career opportunities (for example, through geographical relocation or by working overtime) and potentially even those who prioritize research quality over their personal employability."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01508-2

Alright, let's see if this mastodon works. We are hiring at NSF - DEB. https://debblog.nsfbio.com/2023/02/07/now-hiring-permanent-program-directors-in-evolutionary-processes-and-ecosystem-science/

Funded Masters opportunity in my lab!

The work involves ecological tradeoffs, fish swimming/feeding, and application to issues facing coastal Louisiana. Start date July 1 if possible.

Please send to interested students!

Advert for a postdoc position to study stickleback (and other fish) ecotoxicology with Jessica Brandt at UConn, in collaboration with Maria Rodgers, myself, and Kat Milligan-McClellan.
Please share!

Gun safety for me but not for thee https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/desantis-campaign-emails-gun-free-event/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Hey all #infosec #datasci #rstats folks.

Unless you're a 🐘 purist, please do this.

https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/109836374584710980

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Not ready to talk about Black History. Still talking about white US history.

Q: Why are Black neighborhoods so often high crime neighborhoods? Must be a lawless people! Violent! Thieves! Predators!

A: There is no such thing as a "high crime neighborhood." The whole concept is entirely made up based on our notion of what we consider a crime.

You may be thinking:🤔 Wait... What?! Not true! A high crime neighborhood has more drug use and sales, theft, and even murder!

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