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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 6d

Webpage on the hidden curriculum of applying to ecology and evolution grad programs in the US (a lot of the info applies to other fields too, but perhaps less well): applyingtoeeb.info

#AcademicSky 🧪

Applying to US Graduate School in Ecology, Evolution, and Related Fields

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall. There's of course no better way to understand Goodall than in her own words, of which there are volumes to explore. But I also love Stephen Jay Gould's introduction to her "In the Shadow of Man": archive.org/details/insh.... As Gould notes, and Goodall embodied, "Nature IS context"

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 9d

Some great geckos you got there

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 9d

"Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity. For people whose privilege stems from geography, institutional reputation and inherited networks, the system works perfectly the way it is. That’s why institutions focus only on improved access and optics."

Prof. Dr. Dolors Armenteras @darmenteras.bsky.social · 10d

I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending | Nature

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system. Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 10d

Late Afternoon Light ~ Cyril Cox, 1958

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 12d

I would enjoy taking your class!

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 12d

These are great. Might add Gavrilets' holey landscape work (e.g. Gavrilets 97) and one or two of Barton's classics (e.g. Barton and Bengtsson 1986)

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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 14d

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 14d

Nice one dude!!

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 15d

This may sound a bit weird, but I have been waiting for someone to make a robust defense of shame for what feels like ages and folks, this is it

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 15d

There's an Attenborough BBC doc on Darwin that concludes with this transition: www.dailymotion.com/video/xsxubk

Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life - David Attenborough

Dailymotion video by Channel 1859

www.dailymotion.com

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 15d

I have a couple of small updates on this story, in case y'all have been wondering about any fallout since its July publication! 🧵

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector

If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

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Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 16d

Now published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 16d

Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!

The Anderson Lab at Georgia Tech

my academic website

seanasanderson.github.io

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Dan MacGuigan @dmacguig.bsky.social · 16d

Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social · 16d

Fun to synthesize some exciting future directions for spatiotemporal genomics in this Tansley perspective.

Check er out!

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 16d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

The genetic architecture and spatiotemporal dynamics of adaptation across human-modified landscapes
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

(🧵 1/6) What determines how quickly species adapt to changing environments?...

Fig. 1 Temporal genomic approaches for measuring selection coefficients from allele frequency change vary in power and accuracy depending on sampling design, sample size, and dominance. SLiM design.

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 21d

What can a planet tell us about hands?

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 21d

Uhhhhhh

New York Times headline how did hands evolve? Look to your anus. A new study suggests

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 21d

🎉🆕📰🎉: Diversity patterns and knowledge gaps of Atlantic Forest epiphyllous bryophytes: a highly neglected group
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 21d

Interested in measuring trees and branches from Lidar data? Don't want to use Matlab? (who does).

Take a look at our new Python package for reconstructing trees from point cloud data using quantitative structure models (QSM's).

Fun with @jefferybcannon.bsky.social!

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Sandra Goutte @sandragoutte.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share that our paper on the #evolution and #genomics of the most common #color polymorphism in #frogs is now out in @pnas.org! My favorite frogs even made the cover of this week’s issue! 🎉🐸🎉

Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A pair of Ehiopian grass frogs (Ptychadena nana) on the cover of PNAS this week!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 28d

If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers

In this article, we provide a modeling approach that accounts for imperfect detection of species, especially rare ones, in biodiversity studies. Using three case studies across diverse taxa (birds, i...

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Rachel Moran @rachelmoran.bsky.social · Sep 4

First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Top left: Results of genome-wide association study (GWAS) for sex in E. caeruleum, E. radiosum, and E. spectabile showing sex chromosome turnover has occurred repeatedly. Top right: Phylogeny showing sex chromosome turnover in darters and non-darter percids. Chromosome 9 is the putative ancestral sex chromosome, shared by Perca flavescens and multiple members of the orangethroat darter complex (e.g., E. spectabile, E. pulchellum). Bottom: Schematic depicting repeated turnover of sex chromosomes as a mechanism to resolve mitonuclear conflict and promote speciation.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 1

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

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