Liam U. Taylor
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Liam U. Taylor
@liamtaylor.bsky.social
Doherty Postdoc in Biology - Bowdoin College - BSS Kent Island (they/them)
Some parts of this biological system are still very hard for me to wrap my head around. Will drink a beer and do a thread if, when, the arc of history looks different.
January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Supplement may be of interest for folks thinking about reconstructing complex biological relationships (graphs) in a phylogenetic context.
January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
DOG SHOW RULES
January 23, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I guess all I'm asking for is a massive bracket for each genus -> family -> order where ornithologists around the world can vote for the objectively best bird, and the winners get to rep their lineage on the tree 😇
January 23, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I made the Jim from The Office face to the friend I was eating with
January 22, 2026 at 7:42 PM
I feel superior, researchers get their rocks off, journal gets pub fees it's a win-win-win
January 13, 2026 at 9:17 PM
(the brat is me)
January 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I guess I'm just feeling a lot of sympathy for history rn

imagine working so hard FROM SCRATCH to make birds and some brat is like, "oohh but they're not viviparous yet 😒"
January 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
the only things that have ever happened happened historically, dunno why I should think of it as constraint w/r/t something random I made up

like giving someone $5 and them being like, "you're selfish, you didn't give me $10!"

which, to be fair, would be a very evo biol response to that situation
January 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
imagine being history and making literally everything that has ever happened, happen, and then people being like, man that's not enough we want more
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Way more than I ever got when I was, you know, whatever
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM