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Jesse Czekanski-Moir @jessecm.bsky.social · 6h

My more sincere submission for best title goes to "The Beagle in a Bottle" ... If it were a student's lab report, I would ask them to be more specific, but I think it's so memorable it works: www.nature.com/articles/nat...

The Beagle in a bottle - Nature

Nature - The Beagle in a bottle

www.nature.com

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Jesse Czekanski-Moir @jessecm.bsky.social · 6h

(funny because the entirety of the article text is "I got it there then." followed by a lengthy acknowledgements section)

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Jesse Czekanski-Moir @jessecm.bsky.social · 6h

My sincere submission for best title is "The Beagle in a Bottle" www.nature.com/articles/nat... ...arguably not specific enough, but so memorable I think they can get away with it

The Beagle in a bottle - Nature

Nature - The Beagle in a bottle

www.nature.com

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Jesse Czekanski-Moir @jessecm.bsky.social · 6h

doi.org/10.3120/0024... "Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected
March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on
Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de los
Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a
Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles"

Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for...

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 1d

In service of a Thing I have been mulling for a bit: what are your favorite and/or least-favorite journal article titles? Recent, classics, even your own (but I reserve the right to side-eye bragging and self-flagellation) — quote-post or reply with ‘em

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · Jul 15

Good morning, kids and people, today in book, we have a cover:

(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)

The book cover for my latest book, "True Color: The Strange and Spectacular History of Defining Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink." It's a tan ground with multicolored...folded-over cards, or windows with shades, or books that are kind of fanned open, or color chips (it's meant to be mysterious) in a 4x3 grid with the title and the author name (mine) between each row.

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C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec @squamiferum.bsky.social · 1d

[New Paper] Two shrimp species, Rimicaris loihi and R. cambonae, live side by side at hydrothermal vents — yet remain genetically distinct. Our genomic data and decadal sampling reveal insights on their demography and speciation!

Out now in Molecular Ecology, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Goodman and the rest of the #GEODE team on our new #dragonfly paper, “Systematic and taxonomic revision of emerald and tigertail #dragonflies (Anisoptera: Synthemistidae and Corduliidae)” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Ecology Supplies @ecologysupplies.bsky.social · 3d

🐝 🍁 A fresh batch of new products is here! 🍂 🕷️

Checkout what we're buzzing about on our latest Blog Post.
ecologysupplies.com/product-upda...

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 4d

The science is in: COVID boosters are worth it, even if you've been vaccinated and/or infected before. Stay safe out there, friends!: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 7d

“The path to a better Amazon doesn’t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 12d

Click the link to peruse the full set of illustrations, these are all absolutely STUNNING - I now have new wall art goals for my office!

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 12d

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

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Sofía Muñoz-Tobar @smunoztobar.bsky.social · 10d

Twenty two new species of beetles from Ecuador’s páramo and cloud forest offer a rare glimpse into ecosystems that remain largely unexplored. Species names pay tribute to sites, communities and cultural traits of the Ecuadorian Andes zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1583... #Biodiversity #Ecuador #bugs

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 10d

👀
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Caryn Vaughn @lovemussels.bsky.social · 10d

The Oklahoma Biological Survey at the University of Oklahoma is hiring a tenure-track freshwater ecologist. This is a great opportunity at a wonderful place to work. Please spread the word and encourage folks to apply: apply.interfolio.com/174472

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

apply.interfolio.com

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Michael Middlebrooks @secretsluglab.bsky.social · 10d

We're hiring a full time microbiology instructional staff position in the Biology at the University of Tampa. Apply if you are interested! utampa.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... #academicsky #microbiology #academicjobs

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 10d

New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 11d

Life-history evolution under artificial selection in a clonal plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679824v1

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Jesse Czekanski-Moir @jessecm.bsky.social · 11d

how do we know which thing is happening? 🫠

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 11d

When writing an article/book, you may experience the situation where you make a non-trivial change every time you look at it.

This means one of two things:

i) You're on the right track, so keep on editing (and presumably, improving) it.

ii) You should have submitted it a month ago (or longer).

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 13d

"Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity. For people whose privilege stems from geography, institutional reputation and inherited networks, the system works perfectly the way it is. That’s why institutions focus only on improved access and optics."

Prof. Dr. Dolors Armenteras @darmenteras.bsky.social · 13d

I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending | Nature

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system. Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

rdcu.be

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 17d

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Ryo Yamaguchi @r-yamaguchi.bsky.social · 17d

Here are my top picks:
Maynard Smith (1966) - Sympatric speciation
Felsenstein (1981) - How recombination impedes speciation
Fowler & Levin (1984) - Polyploid speciation

What other classics would you add?

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David Bapst @dwbapst.bsky.social · 17d

New from Sandy Carlson and co-authors... includes parsimony and Bayesian with FBD methods.

brachiopod.bsky.social @brachiopod.bsky.social · 17d

Our athyridide brachiopod paper has finally come out in Journal of Paleontology as FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/jpa..... Please let us know what you think!

Phylogeny of Athyridida (Brachiopoda): a comparison of methods of inference | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

Phylogeny of Athyridida (Brachiopoda): a comparison of methods of inference

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Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 17d

Why do some palm clades in Madagascar thrive while others stagnate? Why do some have 1 species, and others 180+? Turns out it's less about that Island Magic & more about inherited traits and timing (when is it not?)! 🌍🧪👇
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
@linneansociety.bsky.social

Explaining extreme differences in species richness among co-occurring palm clades in Madagascar

Abstract. Imbalance in species richness among related clades is a pervasive, yet incompletely understood feature of biodiversity. Comparison of species-poo

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 17d

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Paleogene’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Nicolas Gentis and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6)

👉 doi.org/p6mt

@nicolasgentis.bsky.social @alexislicht.bsky.social
@cr2p.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @cerege.bsky.social

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