When @omearabrian.bsky.social saw the manuscript, he described it as: ‘What if this figure could be an entire paper?’ I choose to interpret that as high praise. Now accepted at AmNat: The geometry of macroevolution (with Dan Rabosky). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o... Worth a read in order to better know who wants to attack higher ed. 1/4

Opinion | The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education (Gift Article)

Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”

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mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria from openly available specimen images New in #AppsPlantSci by @tvasconcelos.bsky.social & @jboyko.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @r-foundation.bsky.social @gbif.org #botany #biodiversity #iamabotanist

The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

I wrote this about finding the optimal discrete character model structure. I hope this will be useful for empiricists. The main point is that relying only on the package default models is bad and can have nasty consequences or parameter estimates and ASR. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...