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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · Jul 22

I've always been impressed with @carpentries.carpentries.org and it is great to see their integrity in standing up for their principles, even when there are significant costs to doing so.👏

The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · Jun 19

ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding.

However...

Announcing Withdrawal of NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems Proposal

In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program. This project would position The Carpentr...

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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · Jun 20

Super impressed by the integrity shown by this NGO. May we all have similar courage to stand up for our principles when pushed against a wall by this admin.

The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · Jun 19

ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding.

However...

Announcing Withdrawal of NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems Proposal

In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program. This project would position The Carpentr...

carpentries.org

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Dr. Kari L. Jordan @drkariljordan.bsky.social · Jun 24

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: We refuse to reinforce systems of oppression and exclusion.

If you agree, take my grandmother’s advice. Put your money where your mouth is 🫶🏾

Donate: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · Jul 22

My colleague at UC Merced Josh Garcia is hiring for a position in Sustainable Agriculture. Check it out and apply if it's a good fit for you! aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02001

Jr. Specialist in Sustainable Agriculture

University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.ucmerced.edu

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Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · May 29

Great commentary on the new global bird phylogeny, if I do say so myself www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · May 19

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!

Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.

Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...

Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...

@systbiol.bsky.social

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · May 24

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...

Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!

Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer

ssb2026.github.io

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · May 9

The CSUN Faculty Senate just passed a resolution opposing the CSU adoption of ChatGPT Edu without faculty consultation at a cost of ~$1 million per month.
Thanks to @jbyoder.org for organizing!

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · May 7

Thanks @nautil.us for the cool blog post on our bird tree! @eliotmiller.bsky.social
nautil.us/all-birds-ro...

All Birds Roost in a Single Tree

The first evolutionary tree that includes every avian species

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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · Apr 29

The new era of global bird phylogenies begins – this one built over several years by @snacktavish.bsky.social and team massively increases sample size and will be a fantastic resource for macroevolution and macroecology. 🪶 🌐 🧪

Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · Apr 29

*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · Apr 30

Short term @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social is supporting updates, and hopefully that will be a productive long term integration! And yes - it is relatively low cost, and supported by Open Tree of Life too (also has sustainability challenges, but it's low cost and a passion project for tenured faculty)

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · Apr 30

Yes! Thanks - We actually have posted 2 new trees since submission, and another one since acceptance, and will have it posted with the new 2024 taxonomy by June! Sometimes publication wheels turn slowly, but phylogenies keep getting updated :)

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · Apr 30

A great and very reasonable question! In the short term @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social has taken on supporting updates, (there's actually already a newer version posted than the one in the paper, and one in the works!) and hopefully that collaboration/support will pan out for the long term as well.

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Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · Apr 29

*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · Apr 29

There's even a handy R package to make it easy to access any set of relationships you're interested in and link them to public datasets! 'clootl' - up on CRAN. github.com/eliotmiller/...

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · Apr 29

A complete and dynamic tree of birds - out today in PNAS! Teamwork with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others at
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social and Open Tree of Life to put together current relationships across all birds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · Apr 18

tree.opentreeoflife.org/curator/stud... Awesome! I linked the data from Dryad to OpenTree! Feel free to vet the curation.

Build software better, together

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Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · Mar 8

Then. Now! @snacktavish.bsky.social

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Jeremy M. Brown @jembrown.bsky.social · Jan 7

Applications are now open for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in *beautiful* Woods Hole, MA!

More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io

Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Application deadline: Jan. 29th

Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st

Workshop on Molecular Evolution | Marine Biological Laboratory

The workshop serves graduate students, postdocs, and established faculty from around the world seeking to apply the principles of molecular evolution to questions of anthropology, conservation genetic...

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 9

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 | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

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Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks!! We are really excited about it.

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · May 24

‘The Tree of All Birds’ is an excellent name for a medieval fable.

But also an extraordinary accomplishment in evolutionary mapping and visualisation for around 11,000 bird species.

🧪🦅🦆🦜🦢🦉🐓🦩🐦‍⬛🦚

Emily Jane McTavish @snacktavish.bsky.social · May 23

We made a tree of all birds! Preprint is up, comments are welcome.