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sibellevilaca.bsky.social
#popgen #evolbio #genomics #consgen
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
One year on, we’ve heard little reaction to our paper conceiving #species as process-bound, historical, and without natural rank. Integrative #taxonomy and #phylogenetics should love the concept; #speciation biology might not, but it could. #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio
waynemaddison.bsky.social Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Dec 9
A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC).  doi.org/10.18061/bss...
Image of first page and an illustration from our paper titled "The species as a reproductive community emerging from the past".
December 8, 2024 at 5:42 PM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
Paper on species concepts; boosting with hashtags: #evolbio #philsci 🧪
waynemaddison.bsky.social Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Dec 9
A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC).  doi.org/10.18061/bss...
Image of first page and an illustration from our paper titled "The species as a reproductive community emerging from the past".
December 9, 2023 at 8:17 PM
jeannettewhitton.bsky.social
New to this site...

#evolbio #philsci 🧪
jeannettewhitton.bsky.social Jeannette Whitton @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social · Dec 9
Our paper on a process-oriented retrospective concept of species is long — so, here its argument is compressed into a thread of a dozen tweets!
@waynemaddison.bsky.social #SpeciesConcepts (Here is a link to the paper: doi.org/10.18061/bss...)
waynemaddison.bsky.social Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Dec 9
A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC).  doi.org/10.18061/bss...
December 9, 2023 at 8:24 PM
clocksevolution.bsky.social
Congratulations, Eva!
This is great news!

@estukenbrock.bsky.social
@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
@uni-kiel.de

#evolbio #leopoldina #crop #pathogen #fungi
mpi-evolbio.bsky.social MPI for Evolutionary Biology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social · May 27
Congratulations to Prof. Eva Stukenbrock on her appointment to the Leopoldina.
Her research on fungal pathogens helps us better understand evolution and protect crops.
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3882989/eva-...
#EvolutionaryBiology #Leopoldina
May 27, 2026 at 12:51 PM
ceb-uwa.bsky.social
Darwin came to town!
@beetlebonking.bsky.social @brainiants.bsky.social @upama.bsky.social

#UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #EnvironmentalScience
March 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
bembidion.bsky.social
A short video with a Mesquite tip showing how to display chronograms from a BEAST divergence dating analysis. youtu.be/CvxX8GauqLo 🧪 #evolbio @waynemaddison.bsky.social
Displaying Chronograms in Mesquite 4
YouTube video by Mesquite ProjectTeam
youtu.be
June 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio
@bembidion.bsky.social
Mesquite's two icons, one against a black background, and one against a sun on a sky blue background.
October 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
A short Quick Tip video showing how to concatenate and deconcatenate matrices in Mesquite 4. youtu.be/1etP6D3SrdE 🧪 #evolbio
@bembidion.bsky.social
Concatenating and deconcatenating matrices in Mesquite 4
YouTube video by Mesquite ProjectTeam
youtu.be
July 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org.

Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social ‬🧪 #evolbio
The two Mesquite logos. At left, a mesquite tree leaf is against a black background. At right, a leaf is against a blue sky and sun.
June 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
andylee.bsky.social
hit me up if you know anyone hiring a postdoc in marine #EvolBio #PopGen, especially if the job is remote or on the west coast!!! 🌊🐟🐚🧬
andylee.bsky.social Andy Lee, PhD @andylee.bsky.social · Jan 24
what a time to be a queer immigrant scientist looking for a job 😩😩
January 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...
Directors
www.evolbio.mpg.de
January 21, 2026 at 11:15 AM
jannicefriedman.bsky.social
Great thread from @annbot.bsky.social about our new paper on seed dispersal in annual and perennial Mimulus. Check it out! 🧪🌾 #evolbio #ecoevo #plantbio #botany
annbot.bsky.social Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · Jan 21
🎉Good news! The paper ‘Intraspecific variation in seed dispersal between annual and perennial populations’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Jenni Velichka and Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social is now #free for a limited time 🧵(1/8)

👉 https://doi.org/nzxv

#AoBpapers #Botany #PlantScience
Intraspecific variation in seed dispersal between annual and perennial populations
January 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology
21-23 January 2026, Valencia, @sesbe-org.bsky.social
sesbe2026.es

🧪 #ecoevo #evosky #evolbio
@uv.es @ucciuv.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @ibmcp.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es @sibecol.bsky.social @raciencias.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
asherleeks.bsky.social
Here is a list of labs in #ecology and #evolution who are recruiting graduate students for next year: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

PIs looking to recruit can enter information here: t.co/Fn1LRAA5Ip

I believe this list is thanks to @drcarl.bsky.social

#evosky #ecoevo #evolbio #AcademicJobs
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2025 (Responses)
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 10:52 PM
gregpriest.bsky.social
OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.”

The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow.

🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio
Cartoon of Darwin holding a copy of the Origin, looking into a mirror and seeing as his reflection Malthus holding a copy off his Essay on the Principle of Population. By Tom Dunne for American Scientist.
September 28, 2026 at 4:53 PM
gregpriest.bsky.social
OTD in 1854, Charles Darwin began sorting his notes in preparation for writing a treatise with the working title “Natural Selection.”

He would never publish the book, instead publishing a short “abstract”—titled “On the Origin of Species”—in 1859.

🐋🌱 #HistSTM #evolbio 🧪
Manuscript title page of On the Origin of Species, in Charles Darwin’s hand.
September 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
A short video showing how to infer gene trees in Mesquite 4. youtu.be/xkAHBRIJ4CU 🧪 #evolbio #phylogenomics
@bembidion.bsky.social
Inferring Gene Trees in Mesquite 4
YouTube video by Mesquite ProjectTeam
youtu.be
July 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
polejit.bsky.social
Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio #evoeco #ecology
Jitka's EcoEvo Lab - Jobs
ecoevo.owlstown.net
June 12, 2026 at 4:03 PM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
An old quip: "All stories you read in the newspaper are completely true except those for which you have first-hand information." This has many corollaries, e.g. "All clades are purely diverging, without introgression, except for those for which you have the pertinent data." 🧪 #evolbio
February 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
gregpriest.bsky.social
“We must therefore try to establish a new standpoint which … takes account of organic wholeness, but … treats it in a manner which admits of scientific investigation.”

🐋🌱🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci #evolbio #STS 🧪
gregpriest.bsky.social Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Sep 19
Ludwig von Bertalanffy—the architect of “General System Theory”—was born OTD in 1901.

Mechanism “provides us with no grasp of … organic 'wholeness,’ … of organic 'teleology,’ or of the historical character of organisms.…”

🌱🐋🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci #evolbio #STS 🧪
Cover of General System Theory.
September 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
Scientific fashions, perfectionisms, and the value of traditional morphological taxonomy. #evolbio #philsci 🧪

waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/s...
Scientific fashions, perfectionisms, and the value of traditional morphological taxonomy
Like any conversation, science goes through wave after wave of fashion. One decade, it will be all the rage to study one type of question, and to shun sloppiness of one kind but tolerate another. A…
waynemaddison.wordpress.com
July 16, 2026 at 9:46 PM
birdlady.bsky.social
New substack--guest post on race and science #science #blacksky #blackinstem #medsky #histsci #HPBio #evolbio
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open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
This Is What The New York Times Doesn't Want You To See
Guest post by Jonathan Marks
open.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
waynemaddison.bsky.social
Mesquite 4.beta2 released! Much faster reading of files with thousands of matrices. New features since 4.beta include Trace All Changes (known from MacClade) and Import GenBank Numbers. www.mesquiteproject.org & discuss at groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...
‪@bembidion.bsky.social ‬🧪 #evolbio
Two icons of the Mesquite program, with leaves of the mesquite tree against a black background (first icon) and against the blue sky and sun (second icon).
June 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
Open access now: Insights from the Women in Evolutionary Biology Workshop (MPI-EvolBio, May 2024) in Evolution — 5 recurring equity themes + practical strategies. Next workshop already funded for 2026. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 AM