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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

meanwhile all my friends have started looking like Buck Meek in the KEXP live version of Not by Big Thief

Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Born to look like Adrienne Lenker in the KEXP live version of Not by Big Thief, forced to look like James Krivchenia in the KEXP live version of Not by Big Thief

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 5d

just let me hyperlink to truth tables in all my sentences

Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 5d

styles don't allow "and/or" because it's vague, but there's even more trouble when I try to add "XOR" to my manuscripts? get a grip

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 6d

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students!
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

Join the lab

The Caetano lab at Towson University (Maryland, USA) is seeking a Master's degree student to start in Fall 2026. A Research Assistant (RA) position is available to the student during part (or all) of....

caetanods.weebly.com

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 6d

(fair enough if authors themselves think it's rad, though)

Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 6d

I genuinely do not mean to be controversial but please we don't need taxonomic authorities in the TITLES of papers that aren't about systematics

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 7d

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).

also hey, this issue is stacked??

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 13d

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect,

Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 13d

I use leading commas for all my functions.

mtcars |>
filter(
TRUE
,vs==1
, mpg > 20
, am!=0
)

Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 14d

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do.

Tell me the rules you break!

I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 14d

an important part of modern biology is picking appropriate proxies for fitness, which are carefully confirmed by anonymous peer reviewers by checking whether there is a tradeoff in those proxies

Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 14d

so it's true I'm optimized, as I always suspected

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 14d

Literally just the abstract to van Noordwijk and de Jong 1986

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 14d

In the 1980s biologists discovered the idea that an organism cannot be in two places at once, which was hailed as a major innovation at the time

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 14d

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 14d

my face when I read this sentence in 1000 papers 100000 times per day

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 14d

Understanding the tradeoff between the tradeoff between the tradeoffs between current and future tradeoffs between future and current reproductive success is critical for evaluating long term trends in tradeoffs between current and future reproductive success.

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 16d

This is sick, Dan!

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 16d

Now with pages in Conservation Biology

Clarifying the so-called gull problem in the Gulf of Maine: Response to Taylor et al. (2024)
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Incomplete progress toward reasoning about the gull problem: Reply to Diamond et al. (2025)
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

#gulls

Clarifying the so‐called gull problem in the Gulf of Maine: Response to Taylor et al. (2024)

Click on the article title to read more.

doi.org

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 16d

I'm sure anything that comes out of the Seagull Summit, and the reactions by everyone else to it, will be calm, measured, and sensible

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Inverness summit to look at problems posed by urban gulls

The Scottish government says the Inverness event will bring together community groups and experts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 16d

I've drawn us a helpful diagram

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 16d

In general, though, I find my colleagues and I profoundly disrespectful of centuries of progress made in other disciplines (especially the humanities)

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 16d

like, Nancy Cartwright is the one to tell me whether I've found a *law* of evolution. I should shut up and measure birds. Not because I'm weak or dumb, just because I've thought a lot about birds, and she's thought a lot about laws

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 16d

I don't care that practicing scientists flounder foundational terms (say 'meaning' in signaling, 'law' in evolution, 'nature' in conservation) - that's too much to ask for their (our) skills/interests.

I do find it frustrating and unnecessary that they (we) constantly build *from* those terms

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KaterFritz 🐔 🤔 🥚 @konkretbitte.bsky.social · 18d

🎨 Huang Yongyu (1992)

Vier stilisierte blaue Reiher mit langen Hälsen und gelben Augen blicken nach rechts; rechts chinesische Kalligrafie und rote Siegel.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19d

The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism."

I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

A tweet from Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) shows a screenshot of an Advocate article. The tweet text says: “This is an example of an element of TIVE rhetoric coming from @Harvard Professor Alejandra Caraballo @Esqueer_in the @TheAdvocateMag. The notion that opposing Transgender Ideology is a form of violence (‘eradication’ here) leads people to justify violence.” The screenshot highlights a quote from Alejandra Caraballo criticizing a Heritage Foundation policy proposal: “They want us all eradicated.”

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