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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · May 16

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 | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Apr 23

@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 | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Apr 15

In addition, check out these drawings that the Sydney did to illustrate some of the wing morphological measurements. It's rare to find a biologist who can both crush it with statistical analysis AND be artistically inclined at the same time. Nice work Sydney!

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Apr 15

I'm super excited to see this in print. Sydney Decker did a fantastic job with the modeling and we were able to make use of phylogatr.org

About - Phylogatr

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Apr 15

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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

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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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Oct 21

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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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hope to see everyone tomorrow at our symposium @peer.Baku.social @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 27

Spellcheck! @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social ‘s name was spell wrong due to my lousy typing skills - it’s “Whitton”! Sorry Jeannette, I shouldn’t try to tweet and listen to a talk at the same time.

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 27

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 | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 12

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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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 12

@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 | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · Jul 11

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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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 12

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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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 11

A new paper by van de Peppel et al. investigates speciation and species boundaries in termite-cultivated basidiomycete fungi. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

Photos depicting the differences between the two fruiting modes in Termitomyces fungi.

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 9

@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...

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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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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · May 7

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 | Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Mar 18

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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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Dec 12

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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