Bryan Carstens
@bryanccarstens.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist at The Ohio State University, Director of the Tetrapod Collection at the Museum of Biological Diversity, founding editor of the SSB Bulletin; bat aficionado, dad of two great kids, married to a writer of scary stories.
The SSB Bulletin just published a detailed monograph about Halichondria sponges written by Thomas Turner and colleagues. See more at ssbbulletin.org/article/id/5.... @systbiol.bsky.social @systassn.bsky.social @journalsysevo.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The SSB Bulletin just published a detailed monograph about Halichondria sponges written by Thomas Turner and colleagues. See more at ssbbulletin.org/article/id/5.... @systbiol.bsky.social @systassn.bsky.social @journalsysevo.bsky.social
My department is searching for TT faculty in Arthropod Systematics evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... The museum community is vibrant with excellent training opportunities for graduate students and postdocs. And we have 500+ smart and ambitious biology majors at OSU looking for research opportunities.
September 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My department is searching for TT faculty in Arthropod Systematics evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... The museum community is vibrant with excellent training opportunities for graduate students and postdocs. And we have 500+ smart and ambitious biology majors at OSU looking for research opportunities.
It's great to see Sydney Decker's paper on the highly accessed list over at Frontiers of Biogeography: biogeography.pensoft.net/browse_journ.... Lots of interesting papers published by this journal in the last few years.
Frontiers of Biogeography
Launched to support biogeographic researchFrontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society (TIBS, biogeography.org), a not-for-profit orga...
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August 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's great to see Sydney Decker's paper on the highly accessed list over at Frontiers of Biogeography: biogeography.pensoft.net/browse_journ.... Lots of interesting papers published by this journal in the last few years.
Newly published research on Adephaga beetles by Cody Cardenas et al. published in the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... @systbiol.bsky.social @eeob.bsky.social
Global Integration of Phylogenomic Data and Fine-Scale Partitioning Strategies Refine the Evolutionary Tree of Adephaga Beetles
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July 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Newly published research on Adephaga beetles by Cody Cardenas et al. published in the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... @systbiol.bsky.social @eeob.bsky.social
Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates
Intraspecific genetic variation and phylogeographic structure can be influenced by factors such as landscape features, environmental gradients, historical biogeography and organismal traits such as di...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
All articles in the Species Network Special issue of the SSB Bulletin are available here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Thanks to Claudia Solís-Lemus and George Tiley for their editorial work on this issue. @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social
Species Networks Special Issue
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May 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
All articles in the Species Network Special issue of the SSB Bulletin are available here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Thanks to Claudia Solís-Lemus and George Tiley for their editorial work on this issue. @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social
@ssbbulletin.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social We are happy to announce that all articles in the Species Network special issue edited by Claudia Solís-Lemus George Tiley have now been published. You can view the special issue here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
Species Networks Special Issue
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April 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
@ssbbulletin.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social We are happy to announce that all articles in the Species Network special issue edited by Claudia Solís-Lemus George Tiley have now been published. You can view the special issue here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates
Intraspecific genetic variation and phylogeographic structure can be influenced by factors such as landscape features, environmental gradients, historical biogeography and organismal traits such as di...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
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I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
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February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
We're happy to announce the publication of a new paper by Danielle Parsons that models hidden species in Salamanders. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... We describe how our predictive model identifies climatic variables as predictive of hidden diversity in Caudata. @systbiol.bsky.social
Predicting genetic biodiversity in salamanders using geographic, climatic, and life history traits
The geographic distribution of genetic variation within a species reveals information about its evolutionary history, including responses to historical climate change and dispersal ability across vari...
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October 21, 2024 at 2:13 PM
We're happy to announce the publication of a new paper by Danielle Parsons that models hidden species in Salamanders. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... We describe how our predictive model identifies climatic variables as predictive of hidden diversity in Caudata. @systbiol.bsky.social
Hope to see everyone tomorrow at our symposium @peer.Baku.social @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social
July 29, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Hope to see everyone tomorrow at our symposium @peer.Baku.social @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social
David Baum in his SSB presidential address at Evolution 2024 just called attention to the Maddison and Whittington paper published last year on species. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
The Species as a Reproductive Community Emerging From the Past
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July 27, 2024 at 12:50 PM
David Baum in his SSB presidential address at Evolution 2024 just called attention to the Maddison and Whittington paper published last year on species. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
A new paper by @tfirneno.bsky.social et al. was just published in the Bulletin of the SSB. It explores evolutionary relationships in earless lizards using genomic data.
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July 12, 2024 at 1:13 PM
A new paper by @tfirneno.bsky.social et al. was just published in the Bulletin of the SSB. It explores evolutionary relationships in earless lizards using genomic data.
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@ssbbulletin.bsky.social announces publication of a really cool paper by @rejectresubmit.bsky.social and @3rdreviewer.bsky.social that uses SML to decipher speciation and introgression: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
Distinguishing Between Histories of Speciation and Introgression Using Genomic Data
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July 12, 2024 at 1:07 PM
@ssbbulletin.bsky.social announces publication of a really cool paper by @rejectresubmit.bsky.social and @3rdreviewer.bsky.social that uses SML to decipher speciation and introgression: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
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The last paper from my PhD is finally out in Bulletin of SSB with @3rdreviewer.bsky.social! We used theory and supervised machine learning to learn how to disentangle uncertain histories of speciation and introgression.
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July 11, 2024 at 9:40 PM
The last paper from my PhD is finally out in Bulletin of SSB with @3rdreviewer.bsky.social! We used theory and supervised machine learning to learn how to disentangle uncertain histories of speciation and introgression.
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A new paper with Emanuel Fonseca that uses AI to combine phylogeographic and landscape inference was just published. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Artificial intelligence enables unified analysis of historical and landscape influences on genetic diversity
While genetic variation in any species is potentially shaped by a range of processes, phylogeography and landscape genetics are largely concerned with…
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July 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM
A new paper with Emanuel Fonseca that uses AI to combine phylogeographic and landscape inference was just published. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new paper by van de Peppel et al. investigates speciation and species boundaries in termite-cultivated basidiomycete fungi. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
July 11, 2024 at 9:03 AM
A new paper by van de Peppel et al. investigates speciation and species boundaries in termite-cultivated basidiomycete fungi. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
@ssbbulletin.bsky.social A new article by Blake Fauskee et al. in the Species Network Special Issue identifies ancient introgression in Mouse Lemurs and demonstrate how this phenomenon was the root cause of phylogenetic uncertainty. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
July 9, 2024 at 12:23 PM
@ssbbulletin.bsky.social A new article by Blake Fauskee et al. in the Species Network Special Issue identifies ancient introgression in Mouse Lemurs and demonstrate how this phenomenon was the root cause of phylogenetic uncertainty. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
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...
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2023): Species Networks Special Issue
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July 9, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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...
A new article by DeBiasse et al presents an improved estimate of Cnidarian phylogeny: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Their approach to analysis of phylogenomic data is intriguing and worth a read. @megdaly.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social
A Cnidarian Phylogenomic Tree Fitted With Hundreds of 18S Leaves
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May 7, 2024 at 5:31 PM
A new article by DeBiasse et al presents an improved estimate of Cnidarian phylogeny: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Their approach to analysis of phylogenomic data is intriguing and worth a read. @megdaly.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social
A new article in the SSB Bulletin by Joshua Justison and @trayc7.bsky.social explores how reticulation among diverging evolutionary lineages can influence macroevolutionary patterns.
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March 18, 2024 at 3:53 PM
A new article in the SSB Bulletin by Joshua Justison and @trayc7.bsky.social explores how reticulation among diverging evolutionary lineages can influence macroevolutionary patterns.
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A new article in the SSB Bulletin by Joshua Justison and @trayc7.bsky.social explores how reticulation among diverging evolutionary lineages can influence macroevolutionary patterns. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
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March 18, 2024 at 3:48 PM
A new article in the SSB Bulletin by Joshua Justison and @trayc7.bsky.social explores how reticulation among diverging evolutionary lineages can influence macroevolutionary patterns. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
Submissions open at: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
Submissions open at: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
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To practicing species taxonomists using morphology, here's a guide to our new paper on species concepts. A 🧵. @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social (Paper: doi.org/10.18061/bss...; see also: bsky.app/profile/wayn...) #evolbio #philsci 🧪
December 12, 2023 at 6:32 PM
To practicing species taxonomists using morphology, here's a guide to our new paper on species concepts. A 🧵. @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social (Paper: doi.org/10.18061/bss...; see also: bsky.app/profile/wayn...) #evolbio #philsci 🧪
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It’s a gem, for sure! As is the manuscript. Thanks to you and @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social for such a well-framed contribution to the discourse. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it 😊🤓😎
January 23, 2024 at 8:29 AM
It’s a gem, for sure! As is the manuscript. Thanks to you and @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social for such a well-framed contribution to the discourse. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it 😊🤓😎
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Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
December 13, 2023 at 1:06 PM
Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees