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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 10h

We are reading that too!

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 11h

Reading this with my class today. I love this paper.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

A stabilizing eco-evolutionary feedback loop in the wild

Reciprocal interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes are a central tenet of eco-evolutionary dynamics but have rarely been demonstrated. Zamorano et al. demonstrate that changes in th...

www.cell.com

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 15d

Eight manuscripts in my editorial queue. Deep breaths.

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 15d

Regretting not using this answer yesterday for a shot at @learnedleague.com best-wrong-answer glory:

After a series of high-profile incidents, in 2001 a table replaced a horse for future competitions in what Olympic event, per the broader sport's international rules federation?

HORSE TENNIS

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 18d

If he had stayed healthy, this might have been right. What a game he had the other day.

Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hunter Greene is going to win the NL Cy Young Award

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 19d

Oops

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 20d

PowerPoint will do this too, but I didn't have it turned on 😭

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks!

Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks! 🤞

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 20d

For me it usually happens if I let the computer go to sleep overnight. Today it was I just went to get coffee and everything stopped working. I had tons of files open, so it was probably a memory thing.

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 20d

I got it fixed, so I'm OK

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 20d

This happened to me this morning while doing a last-minute revision of my promotion talk that I'm giving today, nbd

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 20d

If the wizards at Microsoft could make PowerPoint stop doing that thing where all of a sudden all your pictures disappear and you can't save your file and you lose three hours of work that would be great

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 27d

Just found that the title of one my papers has been wrong on my CV for 18 years. The reviewers requested that we shorten it in the final revision and I forgot to change it on my CV when the paper went to press.

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Aug 29

75% of academia is writing reports and then writing other reports that report on the reports

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jul 9

Or they mean "I'm mad that the party I don't like is deciding how money gets spent"

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jul 9

It's wild to me how the years run together. I didn't realize until I wrote it down on paper how much of the stuff I've done has been started as an associate professor.

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jul 9

To PRofessor

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jul 9

I have been writing my statement for my promotion packet, and I think I now have managed to convince myself that I should be promoted.

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jul 8

Proposal: A Tex-Mex/Italian fusion restaurant called Fajitaboudit

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jul 3

#1: The Fourth of July is a holiday about opposition to monarchy, and as a nation, we should probably get back to that

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jul 3

Also, I want a button to auto-archive all the threads I have already responded to but forgot to archive. This is always 75% of my inbox clog when I get behind.

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jul 3

AI is everywhere. Why can't it read my email backlog and make me a priority list of which ones to deal with first? I would prefer this to the distracting auto-suggestions of words I don't actually want to type.

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jun 29

Good to see you and sorry I didn't catch you again at the social!

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jun 27

I will be in Cleveland for sure!

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