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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Jun 24

As you are making your schedule for the last day of #Evol2025 don’t forget to add Nicolás Castillo’s talk about Puya character displacement. Puya are the most amazing plant in the Páramo ecosystem and their macroevolution is incredible.

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Jun 23

Last but not least, I will be sharing some work on a model I have been developing for chromosome evolution today! Be there or be square! I'll be presenting at 4:45 in Phylogenetic Theory! #Evol2025

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Jun 23

Also, if you missed their poster last night, Sarah Swiston, will be presenting their work on elipse modeling for biogeographic range evolution! (EMPIRE)

Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Jun 23

Alright #Evol2025 folks, we got a ton of talks today!
Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Jun 23

Alright #Evol2025 folks, we got a ton of talks today!
Gabriel Garcia, a visiting PhD student from Brazil, will be sharing his work on ecological traits driving diversification in bats!

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Jun 22

Today another postdoc in the Landis lab, @albertchristian.bsky.social, will be giving a talk during the machine learnering and new inference algorithm section at 3:15! If you are particularly partial to island biogeography you definitely dont wanna miss this one! #Evol2025

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Jun 21

Be sure to check out Anna Nagel's talk today in Molecular evolution II! Really cool work on estimating mutation ages and population origins in structured populations! #Evol2025

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Jun 2

Had a fantastic time at the mole 2025 workshop in Woods Hole! I am so grateful to meet such amazing scientists! Although times are difficult and uncertain now, engaging with professors and students who are still working so hard to teach and learn despite recent hardships is truly uplifting.

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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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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Apr 18

This is bad.

Read the updates.

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Updates on NSF Priorities

www.nsf.gov

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Apr 18

Totally forgot to update: I PASSED!!!!!!
A small win after a lot of despairing the past few months with the political climate :')

Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Apr 16

Qualifying exam in a couple hours! Once it's over with I'll have to figure out a different way to distract myself from the existential dread that is US politics

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Apr 16

Qualifying exam in a couple hours! Once it's over with I'll have to figure out a different way to distract myself from the existential dread that is US politics

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · Apr 8

The recording of last week's #PolyploidyWebinar featuring @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social is now up! youtu.be/zmUyTO3jN6s

Polyploidy Webinar 2 April 2025

YouTube video by Mike Barker

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · Mar 29

Join us on Wednesday, April 2 at 11 AM Pacific Time for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! The last webinar of the 24-25 season will feature @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

A flyer for the next Polyploidy Webinar on Wednesday, April 2, at 11 AM PDT. Featuring Raymond Castillo from Washington University presenting "Phylogenetic methods for modeling chromosome size and count" and Eric Hagen from the University of Toronto on "Using -SSE models to study diversification after neopolyploidy and paleopolyploidy"

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · Mar 7

@standupforscience.bsky.social in St. Louis!

A group of people holding signs as part of Stand for Science demonstration

A woman holding a sign that says Save our Science

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · Jan 22

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Dec 9

list comprehensions may never make 100% sense to me but at least the work 💀

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Albert Ch. Soewongsono @albertchristian.bsky.social · Dec 5

Earlier this year my advisor @landismj.bsky.social and I published this cool work at BMB; looking at applying diffusion in macroevolutionary context for state-dependent diversification models to learn about evolutionary patterns that these models produce. #evobio

www.smb.org/news/13402507

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Dec 5

Bayesian Least-Squares Supertrees (BLeSS): flexible inference of large time-calibrated phylogenies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.625936v1

Time-calibrated phylogenies are key to macroevolutionary hypothesis testing and parameter inference,

www.biorxiv.org

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · Nov 30

Join us on Wednesday, December 4, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have Pam & Doug Soltis presenting on the Polyploid Integration Institute and @trevorfaske.bsky.social on analyses of mixed-ploidy data! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Nov 19

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio

go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Dec 2

time for end of semester despair yippee!

Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Nov 19

One of my peers and I are thinking of teaching a statistics nano-course for people in ecology and evolution, what are some statistical tests that you feel are important to your research?

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Nov 11

also I am a queer latino whose grandparents immigrated from mexico so if that bothers you, i simply do not care! 😌

Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi to all new mutuals and fellow scientists fleeing twitter! Figure I should have a post about who I am! I am a phd student at WashU in the landis lab, developing phylogenetic methods! I am primarily interested in modeling chromosome evolution using SSE models!

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Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi to all new mutuals and fellow scientists fleeing twitter! Figure I should have a post about who I am! I am a phd student at WashU in the landis lab, developing phylogenetic methods! I am primarily interested in modeling chromosome evolution using SSE models!

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · Nov 1

Join us on Wednesday, November 6, at 11 AM PST for the the next #PolyploidyWebinar! Sylvia Kinosian and Tamsen Dunn will present. The zoom link will be emailed out before the talks - sign up here if you have not signed up before! www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

A flyer for the next Polyploidy Webinar on November 6, 2024, at 11AM Pacific Time. It includes photos of the two presenters and their presentation titles. Sylvia Kinosian from the University of Arizona will speak on "Genomics is modifying our concepts of evolution in homosporous pteridophytes" and Tamsen Dunn from San Diego State University will present "Deciphering the Polyploid Ks Histogram with Forward Time Simulations."

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