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Albert Ch. Soewongsono @albertchristian.bsky.social · 27d

Today at WashU’s EEB seminar, I presented a new species diversification model that incorporates regional species diversity into rates of evolution through time (a joint work w/ @landismj.bsky.social).

Slides here: sites.google.com/view/albert-...

Preprint hopefully will be here this month #evobio

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Albert Ch. Soewongsono @albertchristian.bsky.social · Jun 29

What a blast attending my first in-person Evolution meetings!
Had the opportunity to present our work on:

1. A new biogeographic model of species diversification that accounts for species richness.

2. Phylogeography model for infectious disease transmission with visitor dynamics.

#Evol2025

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Jun 11

EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open!
This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too!
eebmentormatch.com

EEB Mentor Match

Visit the post for more.

eebmentormatch.com

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Jun 10

Today is the last day to register for the SSB Mentorship Program!

We're looking for a few more mentors to volunteer. Mentoring only takes one hour each month, and is a great way to support the next generation of biodiversity researchers!

#evobio 🧪 @systbiol.bsky.social

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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The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · May 29

Our members will find this morning’s phylogenetic methods session interesting. Phenomenal talks across all career stages of researchers: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr...

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · May 29

Please share!

We need a few more folks (esp. mentors) to join the SSB Mentorship Program for 2025. Help the next generation of systematists take flight!

Past mentors say: "really satisfying", "extremely gratifying", "optimism-inspiring", "just do it!"

www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...

#evobio 🧪

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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The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · May 27

Prez-Elect and council election season may be over, but student rep elections are just around the corner!

Get your application in by May 31. Details in the link.

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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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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · May 24

Hey folks going to #evol2025 in Athens. The SSE #DEI committee is sponsoring a workshop on how to avoid bias in writing T&P letters. Registration is required and the workshop is open to all career stages! Please share and help spread the word @sse-evolution.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

announcement for the SSE Sponsored Workshop "Avoiding Bias When Writing Tenure and Promotion Leters"

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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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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · May 20

A few spots more for this workshop if you didn't get to register. Notice that there are some participant support costs that will go to attendees! @tropicalbotany.bsky.social

Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Mar 28

Interesado en aprender conceptos basicos de estadística durante #Evol2025? Este taller es para tí. @tropicalbotany.bsky.social y yo estaremos hablando de la importancia de estos conceptos. Regístro en la página oficial del congreso. Gracias @systbiol.bsky.social por el apoyo!

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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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Isaac Lichter Marck @ca-naturalist.bsky.social · Apr 22

Join us July 27th the day before #Botany2025 for a free phylogenetic biogeography workshop in RevBayes!

Taught by @landismj.bsky.social +Sarah Swiston (WUSTL), Felipe Zapata (UCLA), and myself, with surprise guests!

Details: www.botanyconference.org/workshops/wo...

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌵 #Botany2025 Field Trips & Workshops are open for registration! 🌴

Explore alpine meadows, desert oases, and beyond! Student field trip waivers available (see website for details).

Workshops cover 3D printing, data analysis, graphic design, plus much more.

Register now! www.botanyconference.org

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Feb 21

NIH indirects case update:

Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.

Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:

(I'm paraphrasing here)

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Feb 12

Familiar expression from whiteboard, earlier. Seems about right.

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Feb 9

Tell us what is yet to be www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Jan 16

That's incredible, thanks for sharing

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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...

www.mbl.edu

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Jan 2

Do you know these three Russian agronomists? If you're interested, you're in for a real #ScienceDrama in four acts! 🧪🎭 Their story is the central piece of my Short History of Vernalization, but let me tell you about them here: 👇🧵🧵🧵🧵

#PlantScience #ScienceHistory

Portraits of three famous Russian agronomists.

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Dec 30

Onions: chain mail and mail chain icon

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · Dec 28

The result of that 2 months work was a 71 (single-spaced) page paper that I thought could fill the Bayesian phylogenetics primer niche. For years I hosted it on my website at various institutions (yeah, I was an OA hipster). It (dated & naive) is now on @figshare.com figshare.com/articles/jou... 18/

The State of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Bayes for the Uninitiated

The bulk of this paper is aimed at an audience that has been exposed, however tangentially, to Bayesian inference of phylogeny; who feel the excitement and intuit its promise, but are intimidated by b...

figshare.com

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · Dec 13

Do you work with equids, camelids, or aardvarks? We need lice from them for a research project. Please reach out if you might have access to those lice, I would love to tell you more about our project & collaboration guidelines!
#mammals
#lice
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Dec 18

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs

We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

zamudiolab.org

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Dec 14

doi.org/10.2307/2413...

Cladograms Should Be Called Trees on JSTOR

M. D. Hendy, David Penny, Cladograms Should Be Called Trees, Systematic Zoology, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 245-247

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