Josef Uyeda
@pseudacris.bsky.social
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Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2027! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. The application deadline is earlier this year: November 1st!
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September 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2027! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. The application deadline is earlier this year: November 1st!
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
I see 2 or 3 responses from the left about Trump's $5000 dividend. It's bribery for votes, he's not going to do it, don't be a sucker. But if a Dem proposed anything of the sort, the immediate R response would be its inflationary and would increase the deficit, and this attack seems to always work.
September 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
I see 2 or 3 responses from the left about Trump's $5000 dividend. It's bribery for votes, he's not going to do it, don't be a sucker. But if a Dem proposed anything of the sort, the immediate R response would be its inflationary and would increase the deficit, and this attack seems to always work.
Story on our new paper led by Sergei Tarasov!
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/rese...
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/rese...
When biology inspires mathematics: new discovery explains why a widely used evolutionary method can give false answers | University of Helsinki
Researchers have identified a previously unrecognised mathematical property that explains why one of evolutionary biology's most widely used statistical models can produce convincing but incorrect con...
www.helsinki.fi
September 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Story on our new paper led by Sergei Tarasov!
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/rese...
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/rese...
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A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
August 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Evolution 2027 meeting logo contest! The winner will receive free conference registration and t-shirt! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2027-logo-co...
2027 Logo Contest
2027 Evolution Logo Contest! San Juan, Puerto Rico Please submit your original images to be considered. The winner will receive free meeting registration and t-shirt! Due October 1 Submit to...
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August 25, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Evolution 2027 meeting logo contest! The winner will receive free conference registration and t-shirt! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2027-logo-co...
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My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
August 25, 2026 at 1:32 PM
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
Spot on, but for the more pickle brained signatories I suspect that not only is it demonstrating their priorities, but the positive feedback between their priorities and their algorithm. I could easily believe they mostly don't know what's happened whereas this was a defcon1 event in their feeds.
If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.
August 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Spot on, but for the more pickle brained signatories I suspect that not only is it demonstrating their priorities, but the positive feedback between their priorities and their algorithm. I could easily believe they mostly don't know what's happened whereas this was a defcon1 event in their feeds.
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Because if you didn't say a word about DOGE eliminating every federal grant with any element that Grok thought had anything to do with LGBTQ health, climate change, health disparities, and most of all DEI?
I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.
I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.
August 24, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Because if you didn't say a word about DOGE eliminating every federal grant with any element that Grok thought had anything to do with LGBTQ health, climate change, health disparities, and most of all DEI?
I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.
I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.
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Why is there "no consensus" about sex in biology? Turns out, we're using seven different concepts.
In "Evolution, development and the incoherence of sex" we name & elucidate these concepts. With Karen Warkentin and Jay Falk
@jjinsing.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
In "Evolution, development and the incoherence of sex" we name & elucidate these concepts. With Karen Warkentin and Jay Falk
@jjinsing.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
August 13, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Why is there "no consensus" about sex in biology? Turns out, we're using seven different concepts.
In "Evolution, development and the incoherence of sex" we name & elucidate these concepts. With Karen Warkentin and Jay Falk
@jjinsing.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
In "Evolution, development and the incoherence of sex" we name & elucidate these concepts. With Karen Warkentin and Jay Falk
@jjinsing.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Comparative Evolution of Photosynthetic Light Response Curves: Approaches and Pitfalls in Phylogenetic Modeling of a Function-Valued Trait
Rebekah Evelyn Davis, @plantevoecophys.bsky.social, Eric Goolsby
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#PlantScience
Comparative Evolution of Photosynthetic Light Response Curves: Approaches and Pitfalls in Phylogenetic Modeling of a Function-Valued Trait
Rebekah Evelyn Davis, @plantevoecophys.bsky.social, Eric Goolsby
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#PlantScience
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August 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Comparative Evolution of Photosynthetic Light Response Curves: Approaches and Pitfalls in Phylogenetic Modeling of a Function-Valued Trait
Rebekah Evelyn Davis, @plantevoecophys.bsky.social, Eric Goolsby
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#PlantScience
Comparative Evolution of Photosynthetic Light Response Curves: Approaches and Pitfalls in Phylogenetic Modeling of a Function-Valued Trait
Rebekah Evelyn Davis, @plantevoecophys.bsky.social, Eric Goolsby
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#PlantScience
Really nice article laying out the semantics of sex/sexes that causes persistent confusion and arguing in our community. It lays out the undisputed patterns in biology and makes clear any "lack of consensus" on sex/sexes is arguing across different levels. academic.oup.com/icb/article/...
Evolution, Development, and the Incoherence of Sex: A Framework for Multiple Sex Concepts
Synopsis. The word sex can refer to at least seven distinct, evolutionarily related biological phenomena (0–6 below). Bacteria and archaea use mechanisms f
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August 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Really nice article laying out the semantics of sex/sexes that causes persistent confusion and arguing in our community. It lays out the undisputed patterns in biology and makes clear any "lack of consensus" on sex/sexes is arguing across different levels. academic.oup.com/icb/article/...
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Very cool pair of papers demonstrating little link between amount of additive genetic variation and amount of nucleotide variation within species:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Levels of additive genetic variation vary substantially between species
Adaptive potential determines how populations respond to environmental change. This study compiles evolvability estimates from over 170 multicellular species, revealing substantial variation across th...
journals.plos.org
July 31, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Very cool pair of papers demonstrating little link between amount of additive genetic variation and amount of nucleotide variation within species:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Interdisciplinary scientist is an awesome science role, but my experience is that it isn't rewarded early on. Being a translator is a profession by itself, interdisciplinary science doesn't just happen by putting experts in a room together. It's more natural & effective if "trained from birth" 1/n
I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column.
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Is Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?
"You don't want scholars answering to two or more disciplines. You want them to enrich and integrate their own discipline with ideas drawn from others."
www.psychologicalscience.org
July 30, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Interdisciplinary scientist is an awesome science role, but my experience is that it isn't rewarded early on. Being a translator is a profession by itself, interdisciplinary science doesn't just happen by putting experts in a room together. It's more natural & effective if "trained from birth" 1/n
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Get excited :) PhyloSpec is coming! A shared standard + modelling language for phylogenetic models. Write a model once, run it across engines like BEAST X, BEAST 2.8 & RevBayes. Easy and reproducible. Built by @tochsner.bsky.social & collaborators (ETH Zürich, Auckland, LMU). phylospec.com
PhyloSpec
A standardized way to describe phylogenetic model components, common assumptions, and best practices in the field of phylogenetics.
phylospec.com
July 28, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Get excited :) PhyloSpec is coming! A shared standard + modelling language for phylogenetic models. Write a model once, run it across engines like BEAST X, BEAST 2.8 & RevBayes. Easy and reproducible. Built by @tochsner.bsky.social & collaborators (ETH Zürich, Auckland, LMU). phylospec.com
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Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
www.science.org
July 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
Another day of Lysenkoism
Astonishing.
RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist.
In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist.
In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Another day of Lysenkoism
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As a reminder, I am starting a new lab at UNC Charlotte in 2027—and I am eager to apply these new tools, along with others, to diverse systems. Get in touch if you have ideas.
bsky.app/profile/jake...
bsky.app/profile/jake...
#Evol2026
I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027.
Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: [email protected]
More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.
I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027.
Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: [email protected]
More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.
July 20, 2026 at 2:52 PM
As a reminder, I am starting a new lab at UNC Charlotte in 2027—and I am eager to apply these new tools, along with others, to diverse systems. Get in touch if you have ideas.
bsky.app/profile/jake...
bsky.app/profile/jake...
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Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years.
Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1
Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1
Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...
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July 20, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years.
Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1
Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1
The NY Times favorite industry: making a movement's imagined rhetorical excesses more narratively focal than the modest clearly beneficial shift it is successfully pushing for. Now for native plant gardening!
For the @nytimes.com Magazine, I wrote about the increasingly fervent native plant movement; its esteemed guru, the entomologist and bestselling author Douglas Tallamy; and the complexities of ecologically responsible gardening in our modern era.
Gift link 🎁 : www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/m...
Gift link 🎁 : www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/m...
I Wanted an Ecologically Responsible Garden. It Was Harder Than I Thought.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The NY Times favorite industry: making a movement's imagined rhetorical excesses more narratively focal than the modest clearly beneficial shift it is successfully pushing for. Now for native plant gardening!
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New paper from @jakeberv.bsky.social harnesses a massive skeletal measurement dataset for passerines to show nested bursts in phenotypic evolution, many of which appear coincident with intervals of climate instability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 20, 2026 at 12:46 PM
New paper from @jakeberv.bsky.social harnesses a massive skeletal measurement dataset for passerines to show nested bursts in phenotypic evolution, many of which appear coincident with intervals of climate instability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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i did a triple take at this line. the university of michigan apparently jeopardized a grad student's status and got him detained by ICE for almost a month on this basis, which i can only convey to non-academic folks as "absolute horse shit"
June 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM
i did a triple take at this line. the university of michigan apparently jeopardized a grad student's status and got him detained by ICE for almost a month on this basis, which i can only convey to non-academic folks as "absolute horse shit"
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Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out [email protected]!
We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...
We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...
June 26, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out [email protected]!
We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...
We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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SSB Prez Tracy Heath announcing awards!
2026 Ernst Mayr Award goes to Dr. Rowan French for the talk Function and macroevolution of exaggerated male antennae in longhorned beetles
Watch the Mayr talks from virtual #evol2026 on YouTube: youtu.be/QMiKMC9ctjw?...
2026 Ernst Mayr Award goes to Dr. Rowan French for the talk Function and macroevolution of exaggerated male antennae in longhorned beetles
Watch the Mayr talks from virtual #evol2026 on YouTube: youtu.be/QMiKMC9ctjw?...
June 23, 2026 at 12:14 PM
SSB Prez Tracy Heath announcing awards!
2026 Ernst Mayr Award goes to Dr. Rowan French for the talk Function and macroevolution of exaggerated male antennae in longhorned beetles
Watch the Mayr talks from virtual #evol2026 on YouTube: youtu.be/QMiKMC9ctjw?...
2026 Ernst Mayr Award goes to Dr. Rowan French for the talk Function and macroevolution of exaggerated male antennae in longhorned beetles
Watch the Mayr talks from virtual #evol2026 on YouTube: youtu.be/QMiKMC9ctjw?...
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#Evol2026
I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027.
Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: [email protected]
More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.
I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027.
Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: [email protected]
More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.
June 22, 2026 at 3:18 PM
#Evol2026
I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027.
Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: [email protected]
More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.
I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027.
Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: [email protected]
More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.