Sigournie Brock
@sigournie.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ Iowa State University | Heath Lab | phylogenetics | bioinformatics and computational biology | 1 9 0 8
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th August 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by @brpetrucci.bsky.social from Iowa State University on “Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
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?...
The @systbiol.bsky.social Mentorship Program is looking for a few more faculty/curators/etc. to help mentor the next generation of systematic biologists. Great way to meet new people and build community, and only takes ~1 hour per month. Link: forms.gle/1daBQbswoFqj... Please share!
Michael Landis@landismj.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe @systbiol.bsky.social Mentorship Program is back for 2026-2027! The program pairs off mentees with mentors based on shared interests in systematics and biodiversity research. Low effort, high reward! 12 virtual monthly meetings. More info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Apply by June 12th!
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab
Our #evol2026 cheatsheet is live, coinciding with the program release. Your one-stop shop for all the Society events during the meeting. Bookmark it and check back often in case of updates! www.systbio.org/evolution-20...
SSB members should have received an email on this today Don't forget to attend the Members Meeting June 21 at 12:45 PM in Room 25B at #evol2026. Tell the Society what activities, initiatives, and work are important to you.
Gina Baucom@gbaucom.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social
#evol2026 starting up tomorrow! We’ve got your cheat sheet of Society events here: www.systbio.org/evolution-20... The app and online program have all the on-site information, including registration desk hours, safety officer, and speaker ready room info.
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
Don't miss the virtual Research Synthesis Working Group's symposium at #Evol2026 this week! The symposium is in two sessions across Thursday and Friday. Topic: "Cross disciplinary approaches for understanding budding speciation"
Make sure to come support student and recent student researchers in the Mayr sessions 1:30-5 PM US EST Thursday, May 21!
Evolution Meetings@evolmtg.bsky.social · 3mo agoVirtual Evolution is this week! Check out the schedule here: www.evolutionmeetings.org/virtual-prog...
Official artwork for the 2026 SACNAS Annual Conference is here! 🎨✨ Created by SF Bay Area illustrator Cecelia Perez (she/her), her mural-like style highlights Chicano culture, #STEM, and Southern California symbols in a single stunning piece. #SACNAS2026 #ChicanoArt
Its hard to overstate just how urgent this is, we need to get vaccinating BEFORE we have lots of sad wildlife documentaries of mass deaths in penguin colonies...
Vaccination against H5 HP avian influenza virus leads to persistent immune response in wild king penguins www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Registration continues this morning in the Hilton lobby for #SSB2026! We've got name tags, lanyards, meeting stickers, and buttons for everyone. Be sure to let us know if you're a first time speaker at a scientific conference!
#SSB26 kick-off this morning with the Primer on Phylogenomics workshop at full capacity! Led by Edgardo Ortiz, PhD. Organized by the @systbiol.bsky.social’s GraSP committee.
If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs. Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them! cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
Registration for the SSB breakout meeting in Baton Rouge, LA in Jan. 2026 will be opening soon! Registrants need to be SSB members, so make sure to check on your membership today and join/renew if needed: www.systbio.org Check here regularly for updates: ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social
2026 SSB Breakout Meeting
ssb2026.github.io
1/13 Time to talk about dogs and fossilized birth-death models! Here is a quick run-down of my #Evol2025 talk. 🧵
Just created my Bluesky! Let's hope I use it more than twitter. Hope you follow me if you want to hear about Bayesian phylogenetics with fossils, state-dependent diversification, and canids!!
