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Peg Yacobucci @pegyaco.bsky.social · 8d

Our paper on perceptions of punctuated equilibrium - including suggestions for how to teach about this essential evolutionary concept - is now available online! doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 13d

We hope that our contribution will not only be a useful reference for all researchers wanting to perform a tip-dating analysis on their favorite group of organisms, but also a starting point of discussion to further improve this class of methods and its application to empirical data!

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 13d

Non-exhaustive list of things you can find in our paper:
- A survey of all fossil tip-dating studies published until 2023
- A flowchart with all the steps to set up a tip-dating analysis
- Detailed discussion of all the elements making up a tip-dating analysis, from molecular alignment to FBD models

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Ever wondered how to incorporate fossils as tips in a phylogenetic tree?
Our new paper provides a comprehensive guide!

#EarlyFossilFriday
#FossilFriday
#TipDating
#Phylogeny
#EvolutionaryBiology

Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 13d

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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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 14d

Practical Guide and Review of Fossil Tip-Dating in Phylogenetics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40990492/

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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · 22d

Incredibly proud and also very emotional to see this new paper published in @systbiol.bsky.social. The study was lead by Pierre Cockx, who sadly passed away in July.
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Aug 21

New from #BiologyLetters: Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses buff.ly/abJm5Zv | #Evolution #Palaeontology #Taxonomy

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tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku.bsky.social · 26d

I am recruiting a PhD student this application cycle to explore questions on the evolution of morphological variation and phylogenetics. I'm especially seeking folks interested in fossil marine inverts. Please reach out to me if interested! Portal opens Nov. 1 eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

Admissions - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Resources For More Information Please contact: [email protected]

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tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms.

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Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution

Abstract. Intraspecific phenotypic variation provides the basic substrate upon which the evolutionary processes that give rise to morphological innovation,

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm..."

Haldane was right. Nature is awesome in its capacity to get weird! 🧪

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Occurrence Birth-Death Diffusion Process: Unraveling Diversification Histories with Fossils and Heterogeneous Rates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672414v1

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Aug 23

Impact of Partition Models on Phylogenetic Inference and Divergence Times of Lampyridae from Mitochondrial Genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671050v1

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · Aug 24

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 24

Are we heading for a world where no one ever needs to talk to another human being?

Self-service tills, apps for shopping and takeaways, silent hair salons, driverless taxis – why are we going to extreme lengths to avoid engaging with each other?

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Aug 22

Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social:
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"

Photo of the final slide of J Mappes's plenary at ESEB
Text on the slide:
Take-home
Natural history matters
Ecological reality is complex
Fresh ideas matter
Be ready to reject your favourite hypothesis
Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility

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Derek D. Houston @derekdhouston.bsky.social · Aug 20

Know anyone looking for a funded MS thesis project focused on native fish conservation? Send them this ad. NDOW and U. of Nevada-Reno are going to be learning more about this newly described species. (Note that the application deadline is quickly approaching.)

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 19

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it!
youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...

Zenil-Ferguson. The importance of quantifying rate uncertainty

YouTube video by Rosana Z-F

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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · Aug 19

Extremely proud to be part of this project integrating stratigraphic paleobiology with phylogenetics. Go and chat to Nik if you’re at #ESEB25 or check out his poster via the link below!

Niklas Hohmann @niklashohmann.bsky.social · Aug 19

Geological information improves phylogenetic inference 🥳
Excited to present our work on the interactions of #stratigraphy, #paleontology, and #phylogenetics at #ESEB25, poster board 312
@eseb2025.bsky.social @rachelwarnock.bsky.social

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Lauren Frankel @laufran.bsky.social · Aug 18

hi friends, let me know if you'd like a zoom link for my defense next week!

Lauren's defense poster with an ABBA-BABA site pattern diagram in the background, and photos of Neotropical bellflowers in the foreground. There's a picture of her to the left along with text: "Inferring hybridization at shallow and deep timescales. Lauren Frankel PhD dissertation defense. Monday, August 25 10:00am CDT"

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Jeremy M. Brown @jembrown.bsky.social · Aug 18

Registration is now open for #SSB2026!

I'm so excited to see many of you here in Baton Rouge in January! We're going to hear great talks, discuss the immeasurable value of natural history collections, and continue to strengthen our scientific community.

ssb2026.github.io

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Aug 12

Our paper describing our new improved GFmix models for phylogenetic inference that capture site-and-branch heterogeneity in amino acid composition.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix

Phylogenetic trees are often inferred from protein sequences sampled from diverse taxa across the tree of life. The compositions of these amino acid sequences may be heterogeneous across both sites an...

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Sungsik Kong @sungsik.bsky.social · Jul 29

Phylogenetic networks empower biodiversity research | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Phylogenetic networks empower biodiversity research | PNAS

Reticulate evolution has long been recognized as a key mechanism that contributes to genetic and trait diversity. With the widespread availability ...

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Jeremy M. Brown @jembrown.bsky.social · Jul 18

Registration for the SSB breakout meeting in Baton Rouge, LA in Jan. 2026 will be opening soon!

Registrants need to be SSB members, so make sure to check on your membership today and join/renew if needed: www.systbio.org

Check here regularly for updates: ssb2026.github.io

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2026 SSB Breakout Meeting

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · Jul 18

Check out our new paper! We find cavefish colonized caves 3x and global cooling events may have influenced these events.

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Percopsiformes phylogeny showing three independent cave colonization events

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All because I'm learning from the best people!!

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