Thanks for the shoutout! I would not be doing what I do today without the mentorship of Dave McCauley. He was my freshman advisor, my researcher advisor, and my professor for Evolution and Biostatistics. He was brilliant, kind, and generous, and was a perfect example of how to be a great scientist.

Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt@evolutionvu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dr. @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social got his start as an undergraduate with David McCauley. Today he's a Professor at Virginia Tech studying quantitative genetics and the #evolution of complex traits. He's also the Reviews Editor for Proc B. It's always fun to see where our alumni's careers take them!

Every time I teach Evolutionary Genetics, I assign the students to write a Digest in the style of the journal Evolution and encourage them to submit it if they are eligible. This past spring, an undergraduate student, Henry Ayers, decided to submit his, and it just got published. Way to go, Henry!

Digest: Longitudinal striping in rodents

Abstract. Why do some rodents exhibit longitudinal dorsal stripes rather than the much more common monochromatic pelage coloration? Caro et al. (2026) inve

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I was working on two overdue manuscript reviews for different journals but both in the same review system. I had the windows open in adjacent tabs. I finished my review for MS #1 and confidently hit submit. Guess what?

#Evol2026 #DNA

If you're at #Evol2026 and want to talk about publishing a review in Proc B, come find me. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/pages/r...

#Evol2026 is my 19th Evolution meeting (I count 2021), and my 16th in a row. I feel really lucky to be part of this community. I also feel old!

Hey, #Evol2026 people. It's a small meeting. Let's talk.

@adarowski.bsky.social This was fun. I left yesterday's @immaculategrid.com open in a tab, started playing it this morning, and then refreshed the window. Who knew Mario Soto was such a great hitter?

Happy to share this new preprint, the first submitted chapter from Kait Malewicz's dissertation and a collaboration with Chris Feldman's lab at UNR. Pick your poison: Tetrodotoxin variants give Pacific newts a potential leg up in the coevolutionary arms race with resistant garter snake predators

What are people using to make their lab webpages now? Mine (made on WordPress) is horribly out of date and I'm thinking about just starting over.

In August, I will no longer merely associate with professors

Check out Kait's work as highlighted by the ACS!

American Chemical Society@acs.org · 4mo ago

Garter snakes can eat poisonous newts and survive. How? And how might newts fight back? A computational chemist seeks answers. Kait Malewicz, a grad student at Virginia Tech College of Science, is presenting this work today at #ACSSpring2026! [1/2]

A quick post to note that I noticed that I haven't been posting and it's been great, so back to not posting now

Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!

Very bad start to the day. I got Jeff Samardzija and Jake Arrieta confused on @immaculategrid.com. These two now join Jon Lester and John Lackey as commonly confused former Cubs pitchers with J names.

Reading this with my class today. I love this paper. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A stabilizing eco-evolutionary feedback loop in the wild

Reciprocal interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes are a central tenet of eco-evolutionary dynamics but have rarely been demonstrated. Zamorano et al. demonstrate that changes in th...

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Eight manuscripts in my editorial queue. Deep breaths.

Regretting not using this answer yesterday for a shot at @learnedleague.com best-wrong-answer glory: After a series of high-profile incidents, in 2001 a table replaced a horse for future competitions in what Olympic event, per the broader sport's international rules federation? HORSE TENNIS

If he had stayed healthy, this might have been right. What a game he had the other day.

Joel McGlothlin@joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · last yr.

Hunter Greene is going to win the NL Cy Young Award

If the wizards at Microsoft could make PowerPoint stop doing that thing where all of a sudden all your pictures disappear and you can't save your file and you lose three hours of work that would be great

Just found that the title of one my papers has been wrong on my CV for 18 years. The reviewers requested that we shorten it in the final revision and I forgot to change it on my CV when the paper went to press.

75% of academia is writing reports and then writing other reports that report on the reports

I have been writing my statement for my promotion packet, and I think I now have managed to convince myself that I should be promoted.

Proposal: A Tex-Mex/Italian fusion restaurant called Fajitaboudit

#1: The Fourth of July is a holiday about opposition to monarchy, and as a nation, we should probably get back to that

AI is everywhere. Why can't it read my email backlog and make me a priority list of which ones to deal with first? I would prefer this to the distracting auto-suggestions of words I don't actually want to type.

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

A bibliography for the 2025 IDEA plenary

The recording of my talk for the 2025 IDEA plenary is now posted over on the Evolution meeting YouTube channel (there’s a bunch of dead air at the start of the recording; the action starts a …

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My @asn-amnat.bsky.social Presidents Address for #Evol2025 is now available on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=soPd...

ASN Presidential Address - EVOLUTION 2025

YouTube video by Evolution Meetings

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#Evol2025 was for me maybe the most important meeting I have ever been to. My science will be drastically improved by my interactions over the past week. It was bittersweet due to the current situation and the people who weren't there, but I'm optimistic that we are strong enough to overcome this.

Incensed

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."