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Orlando Schwery

@oschwery.bsky.social

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Research Scientist @Zenil-Ferguson Lab, UKY. Macroevolution, Phylogenetics, Diversification, Model Adequacy, Causal Inference, Dung Beetles, Ericaceae. 🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸 Opinions=own. He/him Mastodon: @[email protected], X: orlando_schwery oschwery.github.io .. more

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · 7d

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Vacancy alert! Now open: PhD position on tropical forest succession and acoustic monitoring of seed dispersers. 🌱 🎶
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of tropical ecology. Based at Wageningen University (NL) with fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico.

PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 13d

Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

The ray-finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic kno...

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 17d

Available now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Taking on some big-scale natural history: processed >40k @inaturalist.bsky.social images of Monarda fistulosa using computer vision to query for flower presence and phenotype flower color: doi.org/10.1086/739413

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 21d

The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...
@asn-amnat.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Undergraduate Community at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2026.

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 23d

Oops…“Principal components (PC) axes
identified by a PCA are not necessarily the most informative biologically. Nevertheless, paleoanthropologists frequently interpret proximity in PC space as indicative of morphological and thus evolutionary affinity or relatedness”

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Principal Components Analysis fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominins

Objectives Paleoanthropologists often utilize geometric morphometrics and principal components analysis (PCA) to interpret shape variation within the hominin fossil record. It is common practice to in...

www.biorxiv.org

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Matt Haber @profmatthaber.bsky.social · 25d

If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab.

Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...

The Philosophy of Biology Lab: Entangled Lineages, Classification, and Individuality - Office of Undergraduate Research

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 25d

How to use and interpret the #adaptationinertia framework of #phylogenetic comparative methods based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to study adaptation:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Pienaar et al. 2025

Phylogenetic comparative methods for studying adaptation: the adaptation-inertia framework

Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods are a major tool for evaluating macroevolutionary hypotheses. Methods based on the mean-reverting stochastic Orn

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Else Mikkelsen @elsemikkelsen.bsky.social · 25d

Almost PhDone! I'll be giving my PhD exit seminar in the morning (Thursday), and defending on Friday.

A poster for Else's exit seminar titled "The Role of Hybridization in the Speciation of Birds". The poster shows illustrations of several bird species (skuas and manakins) above a background of a subarctic coastline and a tropical rainforest river.

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 27d

New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum

An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.

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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 28d

@nedlazaruswolfe.bsky.social and my book—Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau—comes out tomorrow!! 🤿🐟🌟

I plan to wake up, go vote in my local election, and maybe do an unboxing??

A page from my upcoming book. Jacques emerges from snorkeling and asks Philippe:
"When does the new graphic novel about me, Jacques Cousteau, come out?"
"The one by Ned Wolfe and Caroline Hu?"
"Oui."
"Tomorrow! 11/4"

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · Oct 30

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · Oct 27

🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution 🧪

"Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data"

Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data

Understanding the evolution and phylogenetic distribution of morphologic traits is fundamental to macroevolutionary research. Despite decades of major advances and key insights from molecular systema...

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · Oct 27

#CallForApplications
Offering up to three positions in our “First Research Article” Fellowship Program!

🌐 For PhD students at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions
🚀 Research in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, or #STS

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4oygRbJ

#HistSci

The image consists of a collage of three images. The first one displays a graphic with the description: “Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We’re hiring.“ The image on the top right shows a group of people at the Institute’s courtyard. Several flowers are depicted in the foreground. Photography by MPIWG, 2021. The image on the bottom left shows two women sitting on a bench in the library. Photography by Setform, 2017.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 25

Hot take:

Analytic philosophy is *not* obsessed with word meaning. Correct word meaning is crucial to any discussion! 90% of pointless argument is because nobody defined the meaning of a word or the purpose of an endeavor.

It's like claiming mathematicians are obsessed with symbol meaning. Fah!

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Oct 24

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Applied Biostatistics

ybrandvain.github.io

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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · Oct 24

Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙

Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details

Lake Agnes in State Forest State Park

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Shen Tian 田申 @tianshenbio.bsky.social · Oct 24

My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cr. to Shen Tian

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · Oct 24

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona.

Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona.

Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument.

A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Oct 24

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

Beware giving this site your unpublished data

Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.

https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\

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Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · Oct 23

I thought I shoulda named one of my sons "Ian Motion" _just for the possibility_ of a morning roll call by a substitute teacher. No one would register/understand what happened, but it would exist in the universe.

Ralph from The Simpsons.

Teacher (doing roll call): "Brown, Ian Motion?"
Ralph: "Here!"

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · Oct 23

"Keep calm and carry on: bites from Trichonephila clavata are unlikely and cause minimal discomfort," in the Journal of Medical Entomology: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...

Keep calm and carry on: bites from Trichonephila clavata are unlikely and cause minimal discomfort

Abstract. Arachnophobia is a widespread phenomenon, despite the fact that the vast majority of spiders pose no meaningful threat to people. The introductio

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · Oct 23

"Chemical management strategies for the invasive Jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata (Araneae: Araneidae)," in the Journal of Economic Entomology: doi.org/10.1093/jee/...

Chemical management strategies for the invasive Jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata (Araneae: Araneidae)

Abstract. Historically, spider management has received relatively little attention in the literature compared to insect pests, and few studies have examine

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · Oct 23

A pair of new studies in ESA journals offer some reassuring findings about Jorō spiders:

“These spiders are easy to manage and pose a minimal health risk.”

Studies show Joro spiders are easy to kill and virtually harmless

David Coyle, associate professor of forest health and invasive species at Clemson University, recently co-authored two papers addressing some key public

news.clemson.edu

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Oct 23

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

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Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social · Oct 23

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!

We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

Circular phylogeny showing the branching pattern of 30k plant species with lineages with poricidal and non poricidal taxa indicated. A small subset of poricidal taxa are illustrated around the phylogeny.

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Magda Garbowski @magdagarbowski.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!

Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

Students collecting vegetation data in the Organ Mountains

Plants with soil and roots

Students collecting plants from forest understory

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · Oct 23

Want to see what {galaxias} can do? 🤔

Check out slides from a talk we presented on galaxias this week at the Living Data conference:
martinwestgate.com/presentation...

Or, check out this intro video about galaxias:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4-...

#rstats 🌏🧪🐟

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · Oct 23

🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨

📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia

galaxias.ala.org.au

#rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟

A thread 🧵👇

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Oct 22

Beyond phylogeny: phytochemical diversity as a unique metric for biodiversity in the Gentianales

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Richard-Bollins et al.

@WileyPlantSci #biodiversity

Visualisation of the relationship between phylogenetic diversity and J (phytochemical evenness).