Rich Meisel
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📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January!
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January!
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
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Wishing all of our followers a Happy New Year 2026! We kick off with the January Issue of JEB online now:
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/39/1
📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/39/1
📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano
January 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Wishing all of our followers a Happy New Year 2026! We kick off with the January Issue of JEB online now:
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/39/1
📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/39/1
📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano
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Just a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!
Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
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DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
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DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
January 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Just a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!
I think you owe us a track by tracking grading of Mellon Collie given the high variance in this table
January 5, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I think you owe us a track by tracking grading of Mellon Collie given the high variance in this table
Looks nice, but the helmet probably protects you better when it's on your head instead of your charming front rack
December 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Looks nice, but the helmet probably protects you better when it's on your head instead of your charming front rack
Leave it up and in 10 months it's a Halloween decoration
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Leave it up and in 10 months it's a Halloween decoration
Happy the one day a year you listen to the Vandals to all who celebrate 🥳
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Happy the one day a year you listen to the Vandals to all who celebrate 🥳
There should be a folk band that plays Christmas themed horror music called the Kingston Falls Trio
December 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There should be a folk band that plays Christmas themed horror music called the Kingston Falls Trio
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Quiz time: what is the song Jingle Bells about?
a. Christmas
b. Street racing
c. A vehicle accident
d. Picking up women
a. Christmas
b. Street racing
c. A vehicle accident
d. Picking up women
December 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Quiz time: what is the song Jingle Bells about?
a. Christmas
b. Street racing
c. A vehicle accident
d. Picking up women
a. Christmas
b. Street racing
c. A vehicle accident
d. Picking up women
Why not just drink the Laphroaig?
December 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Why not just drink the Laphroaig?
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This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
"Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
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Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
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Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
Two steely Dan albums!
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Two steely Dan albums!
This is cool! Also, maybe the first ever map of Houston population data that does not generate the arrow... Geology trumps systemic demographic impacts
December 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is cool! Also, maybe the first ever map of Houston population data that does not generate the arrow... Geology trumps systemic demographic impacts
Even the good ones that were written by Jews?
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Even the good ones that were written by Jews?
Oldest? ~32 yo Florida Marlins hat
Most proud of? ~30 yo shorts
Most proud of? ~30 yo shorts
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Oldest? ~32 yo Florida Marlins hat
Most proud of? ~30 yo shorts
Most proud of? ~30 yo shorts
R, but his first love is the C
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
R, but his first love is the C
What's a pirate's favorite way to compress multiple files?
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
What's a pirate's favorite way to compress multiple files?
What's the basic pirate's favorite thing to order at the Italian restaurant?
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
What's the basic pirate's favorite thing to order at the Italian restaurant?
What's a pirate's favorite part of a farm?
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
What's a pirate's favorite part of a farm?
What's a pirate's favorite sea creature?
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
What's a pirate's favorite sea creature?
What's a pirate's favorite sewing material?
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
What's a pirate's favorite sewing material?
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I am recruiting graduate students to my genomics-focused lab in EEB at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Please spread the word if you know any students with an interest in a computational focus to genomics research! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//UIllinois.EEB.Genomics
The Catchen Lab (https://catchenlab.life.illinois.edu/), in the Department
of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign is recruiting graduate students to join...
evol.mcmaster.ca
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I am recruiting graduate students to my genomics-focused lab in EEB at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Please spread the word if you know any students with an interest in a computational focus to genomics research! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...