The morphological diversity of nematodes! 🧪
Nevertheless, our phylogeny is well-resolved across most clades, with topologies remaining consistent across methods. I am not qualified to discuss the finer taxonomic details, but if you are interested please read the paper (I'll link it once it is available).
January 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The morphological diversity of nematodes! 🧪
Morphological Echo'
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20695
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20695
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Morphological Echo'
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20695
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20695
Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12
The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty | PNAS
Rates of evolution are fundamental to understand the processes that shaped the history
of life. The predominant view holds that high rates of pheno...
www.pnas.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12
New Pre-Print Alert!
Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity
with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity
with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
April 21, 2026 at 11:03 AM
New Pre-Print Alert!
Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity
with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity
with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data
Morphological data are essential for reconstructing evolutionary histories, particularly for fossil taxa, as they represent the primary source of information for integrating extinct lineages into ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 27, 2026 at 10:28 AM
📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Morphological Echo'
January 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Morphological Echo'
Morphological Echo
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20694
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20694
June 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Morphological Echo
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20694
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20694
Our new paper 'A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets,' is out in SysBio!
We introduce the "covariomorph" model in RevBayes to capture character and lineage specific rates of morphological traits.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
We introduce the "covariomorph" model in RevBayes to capture character and lineage specific rates of morphological traits.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets
Abstract. The rate of evolution of a single morphological character is not homogeneous across the phylogeny and this rate heterogeneity varies between morp
doi.org
February 25, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Our new paper 'A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets,' is out in SysBio!
We introduce the "covariomorph" model in RevBayes to capture character and lineage specific rates of morphological traits.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
We introduce the "covariomorph" model in RevBayes to capture character and lineage specific rates of morphological traits.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
Morphological Echo'
May 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Morphological Echo'
Replies that are shaped like answers. LLMs are morphological, not actually logical
A reminder for those who still haven’t understood: ChatGPT and other LLMs are designed to write language that matches patterns found in existing texts so the generated text sounds plausible. It absolutely does not query for “facts” in the way that we have come to think of “googling” information.
I write with @juliaangwin.com about our study that showed 50% of AI models’ responses to questions voters might ask were inaccurate.
Government must hold companies accountable, including through the privacy law called for by POTUS in his powerful #SOTU speech.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Government must hold companies accountable, including through the privacy law called for by POTUS in his powerful #SOTU speech.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
March 9, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Replies that are shaped like answers. LLMs are morphological, not actually logical
The world of watch batteries is utter alphanumeric and morphological chaos.
January 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The world of watch batteries is utter alphanumeric and morphological chaos.
🚨New paper alert!🚨
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
Supplemental Feeding as a Driver of Population Expansion and Morphological Change in Anna's Hummingbirds
Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response to environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds (Cal...
dx.doi.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🚨New paper alert!🚨
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
This will make my life easier! Nice work!
"MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data
Morphological data are essential for reconstructing evolutionary histories, particularly for fossil taxa, as they represent the primary source of information for integrating extinct lineages into ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
This will make my life easier! Nice work!
"MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
My husband got me a leather bound copy of my PhD dissertation 🥰
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My husband got me a leather bound copy of my PhD dissertation 🥰
"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution"
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution"
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new article is out in @science.org today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
just learned about the morphological cycle. this shit rocks. in the year 3000 nu-english will be an agglutinative language, like turkish. the ottoman long game is nearly complete.
January 31, 2026 at 1:54 AM
just learned about the morphological cycle. this shit rocks. in the year 3000 nu-english will be an agglutinative language, like turkish. the ottoman long game is nearly complete.
changing one's bodyplan in any way is the spirit of transhumanist morphological freedom
deliberate steroids and/or weightlifting, HRT/surgery, or exotic full biomimetic cyborg changes can all be considered as practicing morphological freedom. only weightlifting isn't technically transhumanism
deliberate steroids and/or weightlifting, HRT/surgery, or exotic full biomimetic cyborg changes can all be considered as practicing morphological freedom. only weightlifting isn't technically transhumanism
February 3, 2026 at 4:44 AM
changing one's bodyplan in any way is the spirit of transhumanist morphological freedom
deliberate steroids and/or weightlifting, HRT/surgery, or exotic full biomimetic cyborg changes can all be considered as practicing morphological freedom. only weightlifting isn't technically transhumanism
deliberate steroids and/or weightlifting, HRT/surgery, or exotic full biomimetic cyborg changes can all be considered as practicing morphological freedom. only weightlifting isn't technically transhumanism
Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms.
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution
Abstract. Intraspecific phenotypic variation provides the basic substrate upon which the evolutionary processes that give rise to morphological innovation,
academic.oup.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms.
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Morphological Echo'
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20695
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20695
October 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Morphological Echo'
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20695
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20695
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution
Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...
www.science.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
a ctrl+F approach to abolishing wokeness is going to be catastrophic. i'm trying to find journal articles about the history of city govt DEI programs & most of the search results are about like, morphological diversity of microbes, taxonomic diversity in fossils, diversity jurisdiction in law, etc
February 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
a ctrl+F approach to abolishing wokeness is going to be catastrophic. i'm trying to find journal articles about the history of city govt DEI programs & most of the search results are about like, morphological diversity of microbes, taxonomic diversity in fossils, diversity jurisdiction in law, etc
exercised my morphological freedom today
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
exercised my morphological freedom today
The genomic origins of cyanobacterial morphological diversity www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
September 22, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The genomic origins of cyanobacterial morphological diversity www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs