I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.
Kyle T David
@kylethedavid.bsky.social
NSF postdoc in the Rokas lab at Vanderbilt university, interested in macro(ecology x evolution) 🧬 ➡️ 🦎 ➡️ 🌐
The single best piece of news I've read in the last 10 years conservatively
Dogs Lend Their Noses to Find Turtles for Science
Specially trained spaniels—aka turtle dogs—are helping researchers find and study elusive ornate box turtles.
nature.org
Pediatrician Dr. Mildred Stahlman revolutionized the care of premature infants (incl a miniature iron lung). She spent her career at #Vanderbilt U. Med Center & is credited w/ establishing the world's first modern Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). She died #OTD 2024. #WomenInSTEM #medsky (1/3)
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
From lenticular printing to mounted displays, #Evol2026 is pushing the boundaries of what it means to present a poster
“Tiktaalik wasn’t the needle in the haystack, it was the tip of the iceberg” Paraphrasing @neilshubin.bsky.social ‘s inspiring Gould Award Talk kicking off #Evol2026
Which of my beloved mutuals are at #Evol2026 this week?
If you’re wondering why Brötchen blew up seemingly out of nowhere, guess what: he’s a nepo baby. His mom is literally a pygmy hippo *at the same fucking zoo*
Knoebel 🛬 Gamescom@knoebel.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Berlin Zoo named their baby Hippo Brötchen. :) (Bread roll 🥖)
new IQTREE new OrthoFinder I'm eating good this week academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nothing like a fresh OrthoFinder run to make me feel like everything is going to be okay
I have no mouth (because I am a giant silk moth), and I must scream
You know what they say, a 𝘏𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢 in the hand is worth two 𝘏𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢 in the bush
Concerned I may be entering into a codependent relationship with my online frog supplier
Long live the queens! Some of those eusocial critter queens do have an extremely long life span up to 30 yrs or even longer (naked mole-rat, ants and termites), which is phenomenal considering their sizes. Which queen would you wanna be or serve if you’re a little critter? 👑
If I had a nickel for every time Ralph Fiennes played someone named Coriolanus I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
This deep sea creature is as sharp & clear as broken class, & can grow as long as your hand. This giant amphipod, (Cystisoma) only has two colored body parts: the dense orange stomach/egg pouch, & two MASSIVE eyes, which are a glittering holographic orange layer completely covering its head. 📽️ MBARI
Babe wake up new Will Ratcliff post prefaced with “1/25” just dropped
Will Ratcliff@wcratcliff.bsky.social · 4mo ago1/25 New paper out in PNAS! We show that the fitness costs of reproductive specialization, where somatic cells give up reproduction, scale inversely with organism size. Larger organisms can afford far more soma, removing a key barrier to multicellular complexity.
the "how on earth am I going to fill X pages" to "how on earth am I going to fit this all in X pages" pipeline
Two amphipods found at 2,500m in the Nankai Trough during the #Shinkai6500 expedition. Amphipods play a vital role in recycling nutrients on the ocean floor. To date, over 10,700 amphipod species have been described, but many remain undiscovered, particularly in the deep sea.
Top right is particularly arresting, and was probably designed by a really cool handsome genius
Prosanta Chakrabarty@prosanta.bsky.social · 6mo agoSome of my favorite Chuck D shirts #DarwinDay #evolution
