Fascinating ! I read the paper ... thanks for sharing .. question ... is the cephalopods RNA editing committed to memory or is the editing new with each environmental adaptation ?

Meet the newest animal from the Burgess Shale, Gyaltsenglossus senis, just published in Current Biology, as part of my Smithsonian NMNH postdoc. This half-a-billion year old fossil is a hemichordate, a group comprised of the enteropneusts and pterobranchs. tinyurl.com/y3yawyje

Four years ago today, Pizzagate was born when Wikileaks dropped John Podesta's hacked emails. Users on 4chan and Reddit said if you replaced the words "pizza" with "little girl" in his emails, suddenly they were eating children. A year and three weeks later, QAnon was born.

Wake up early tomorrow morning to see my work LIVE in the Mayr Award competition for Outstanding Student Talk in Society of Systematic Biologists ! Evolution Meetings #Evol2021 I'm up first, at 7am PST/10 am EST, so bring your coffee and we'll talk about why biters are special! 🐡🐟

Happy to share a preprint I've been working on. It applies rate heterogeneity to the problem of biased correlation described in Maddison & FitzJohn (2015). If you're interested in discrete character correlation, I'd love to hear your thoughts! ecoevorxiv.org/e2kj8/

Happy to see this volume out! We bring a comprehensive collection of reviews and original articles on the drivers of the exceptionally diverse Neotropical flora. Thank you to all the authors who contributed to making this the largest issue Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society and to the team of editors

Commencing countdown... until Evolution 2022! #evol2022

FYI: OUwie, corHMM, and HiSSE were all temporarily orphaned for violating CRAN's new code policies. New versions were sent to CRAN, but weren't processed fast enough... For now, if you want to install: library(devtools) devtools::install_github("thej022214/PACKAGE")

Very cool presentation by James Boyko for his PhD defense -- before and after opening the Pandora’s box of comparative methods

James Boyko is now Dr. Boyko! Thank you to his committee @sinkingdiatom @AdamSiepielski and Brian O'Meara . That was such a fun defense and I can't wait to see what the future holds!

I'm excited to announce that I will be joining UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as an Assistant Professor & Herbarium Curator this Fall (2022)! I'll be soon looking for grad students too! If you like plant biogeography and/or tropical botany, check out my website for more information👇#NewPI 🌿🌿🌿

A new preprint from my group examining the interaction between climate and life-strategies across a large number of independent clades. Really nice work from James Boyko @ehagen and Thais Vasconcelos ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm thrilled to announce that our department is now currently accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Plant Evolutionary Biology! Job link here: tinyurl.com/3evzyxdr. Come join us in wonderful Fayetteville and Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences!! Please RT!!

Our new R package is finally out!!! Ontophylo is a new approach integrating the PARAMO pipeline, ontologies, and adding new tools for studying phenomes. Check it out!!! :) Luomus @pseudacris Sergei Tarasov 🇺🇦

We have some awesome talks lined up for #SSAR2024 June 27-30 at the University of Michigan UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology #Herpetology

I'm hiring a post-doc to work on a new NSF-funded project. This is funded up to two-years and is in collaboration with Andrew Dickerson at UTK. Start date is very negotiable. Job description here: tinyurl.com/2whyry36. Contact me if you're interested. Please RT!!!