Women want me. Fish fear me. Fish want me. Women fear me. Women are fish, fish are fish. Phylogenetically, all vertebrates are fish.
February 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Women want me. Fish fear me. Fish want me. Women fear me. Women are fish, fish are fish. Phylogenetically, all vertebrates are fish.
Which, amusingly, is phylogenetically closer to tigers than leopards.
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Which, amusingly, is phylogenetically closer to tigers than leopards.
*pushes up glasses*
Phylogenetically, all humans, and indeed all mammals, are a type of Hitler.
Phylogenetically, all humans, and indeed all mammals, are a type of Hitler.
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
*pushes up glasses*
Phylogenetically, all humans, and indeed all mammals, are a type of Hitler.
Phylogenetically, all humans, and indeed all mammals, are a type of Hitler.
There should be a hat with some variation of "Fish love me, phylogenetically women are a kind of fish"
September 8, 2026 at 2:08 AM
There should be a hat with some variation of "Fish love me, phylogenetically women are a kind of fish"
If it looks like a fungus, spreads like a fungus, and deploys appresoria like a fungus, it could still be a species of oomycete which, while structurally and functionally resembling a fungus, remains phylogenetically distinct from fungi.
December 4, 2024 at 4:28 AM
If it looks like a fungus, spreads like a fungus, and deploys appresoria like a fungus, it could still be a species of oomycete which, while structurally and functionally resembling a fungus, remains phylogenetically distinct from fungi.
This is a common misconception! Phylogenetically speaking, mushrooms are closer to curses and malevolent incantations than to insects!
Biologically, mushrooms are a kind of bug
July 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is a common misconception! Phylogenetically speaking, mushrooms are closer to curses and malevolent incantations than to insects!
Phylogenetically accurate.
March 3, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Phylogenetically accurate.
October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is my kinda college hotel. My room has a coffee table book of all the plants on campus, organized phylogenetically! At Huazhong Agricultural University.
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This is my kinda college hotel. My room has a coffee table book of all the plants on campus, organized phylogenetically! At Huazhong Agricultural University.
Genome editing of phylogenetically distinct bacteria using cross-species retron-mediated recombineering - @seth-shipman.bsky.social @gladstoneinst.bsky.social go.nature.com/4tZluOU
Genome editing of phylogenetically distinct bacteria using cross-species retron-mediated recombineering - Nature Biotechnology
Retron-based systems for genome editing are functional across bacterial species.
go.nature.com
April 23, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Genome editing of phylogenetically distinct bacteria using cross-species retron-mediated recombineering - @seth-shipman.bsky.social @gladstoneinst.bsky.social go.nature.com/4tZluOU
Dolphins are, phylogenetically, whales.
April 18, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Dolphins are, phylogenetically, whales.
The distribution of fitness effects varies phylogenetically across animals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653358v1
May 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The distribution of fitness effects varies phylogenetically across animals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653358v1
is gritty related to muppets, like,..... phylogenetically
January 5, 2024 at 3:16 AM
is gritty related to muppets, like,..... phylogenetically
Scientist: Cuttlefish are not fish.
Him: Wait.
Scientist: Silverfish are not fish.
Him: Oh come on.
Scientist: Phylogenetically, humans are fish.
Him: 🤯
Him: Wait.
Scientist: Silverfish are not fish.
Him: Oh come on.
Scientist: Phylogenetically, humans are fish.
Him: 🤯
me: starfish
Scientist: not a fish
me: jellyfish
Scientist: not a fish
me: seahorse
Scientist: fish
Scientist: not a fish
me: jellyfish
Scientist: not a fish
me: seahorse
Scientist: fish
March 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Scientist: Cuttlefish are not fish.
Him: Wait.
Scientist: Silverfish are not fish.
Him: Oh come on.
Scientist: Phylogenetically, humans are fish.
Him: 🤯
Him: Wait.
Scientist: Silverfish are not fish.
Him: Oh come on.
Scientist: Phylogenetically, humans are fish.
Him: 🤯
Technically, phylogenetically, 100% correct
You will still get some scientists who bristle at this, and they are wrong lmao
You will still get some scientists who bristle at this, and they are wrong lmao
okay. so. humans are monkeys.
April 16, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Technically, phylogenetically, 100% correct
You will still get some scientists who bristle at this, and they are wrong lmao
You will still get some scientists who bristle at this, and they are wrong lmao
Here’s where I go off on a huge overly picky rant about isopod weed not being that phylogenetically close to cockroach weed.
September 25, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Here’s where I go off on a huge overly picky rant about isopod weed not being that phylogenetically close to cockroach weed.
Idk why this has never occurred to me til now but kinda wild we usually give dragons bat like wings considering birds are phylogenetically reptiles
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Idk why this has never occurred to me til now but kinda wild we usually give dragons bat like wings considering birds are phylogenetically reptiles
Need to predict an unknown trait, like body size, for extinct species? Use phylogenies! A new paper by colleagues from the @uniofreading.bsky.social and Montana State demonstrates that phylogenetic prediction is more accurate than regression formulae.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Phylogenetically informed predictions outperform predictive equations in real and simulated data - Nature Communications
Phylogenetically informed predictions account for phylogenetic relationships among species while predicting unknown trait values. Here, the authors critically compare this approach with equations deri...
doi.org
July 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Need to predict an unknown trait, like body size, for extinct species? Use phylogenies! A new paper by colleagues from the @uniofreading.bsky.social and Montana State demonstrates that phylogenetic prediction is more accurate than regression formulae.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
The weird thing is trees technically don’t exist. Phylogenetically, at least.
March 4, 2024 at 6:28 PM
The weird thing is trees technically don’t exist. Phylogenetically, at least.
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Interestingly, in many cases close cousins can have very different brain sizes – like chimps and humans (among many others in panel c), and genetically distant species can have very similar brain sizes (panel b for examples).
Interestingly, in many cases close cousins can have very different brain sizes – like chimps and humans (among many others in panel c), and genetically distant species can have very similar brain sizes (panel b for examples).
July 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Interestingly, in many cases close cousins can have very different brain sizes – like chimps and humans (among many others in panel c), and genetically distant species can have very similar brain sizes (panel b for examples).
Interestingly, in many cases close cousins can have very different brain sizes – like chimps and humans (among many others in panel c), and genetically distant species can have very similar brain sizes (panel b for examples).
John, wait until you find out trees aren't real eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/t...
There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.
eukaryotewritesblog.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:41 AM
John, wait until you find out trees aren't real eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/t...
Man is a fish. Phylogenetically speaking.
August 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Man is a fish. Phylogenetically speaking.
Thanks to @arctomet.bsky.social for sharing 'Phylogenetically informed predictions outperform predictive equations in real and simulated data' by Gardner et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... They use the disagreement over neuron count in T. rex (Herculano-Houzel vs Caspar et al) as a case study!
Phylogenetically informed predictions outperform predictive equations in real and simulated data - Nature Communications
Phylogenetically informed predictions account for phylogenetic relationships among species while predicting unknown trait values. Here, the authors critically compare this approach with equations deri...
www.nature.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thanks to @arctomet.bsky.social for sharing 'Phylogenetically informed predictions outperform predictive equations in real and simulated data' by Gardner et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... They use the disagreement over neuron count in T. rex (Herculano-Houzel vs Caspar et al) as a case study!