OK hive mind, do I know anyone who is up on best practice for archives that are a mix of digital and physical? I need a brain to pick!
Rafael Marcondes
@rafamarcondes.bsky.social
Lecturer at Barnard College. College teaching, birds, evolution, life in NYC, and pics of my cat, Rosalind Franklin. 🇧🇷 (The R in Rafael is pronounced like the h in "hat")
Out here in Amherst #AOS26 fantasizing about living in a small rural college town but if i lived in a small rural college town i would 100% fantasize about living in NYC 🙄😩
I appreciate the care with which stdtds prep their spiels to go with their posters, but PIs rly oughtta advise them not to launch into the spiel unless the viewer shows interest. I for one much prefer to look at the poster quietly and then ask specific Qs if i have any 1/2 #AOS26
Blocketty-block to the person who apparently came to #AOS26 exclusively to pedantically criticize everything and everyone on bsky
Someone organize one of these for evolution please!!!
Cristian Larroulet Philippi@cristianlarph.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is possibly the first time that (world-class) seismologists will join philosophers of science to discuss progress in seismology. Very proud of having co-organized this with @miguelohn.bsky.social and Teru Miyake #philsci #PSA26 #histci #seismology #earthquakes
I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com
I'm looking for PhD student to join my lab at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Fall 2027)! If you're interested in evolutionary genomics, conservation genetics, or biogeography, please reach out. I'll also be at #AOS2026 this week talking about sexual selection in small populations.
Trying to conceptualize modes of speciation for my Evolution course. Thoughts welcome!
The hotel receptionist asked me if i had a “cahh”. Took me a couple seconds to understand.
Rafael Marcondes@rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 3d agoAmherst I’m in you #aos2026
Posted Aug. 2020:"We must make certain that aftir thys pandemic the worlde ys NOT just onlyne deliverye, chain stores, and streaminge vydeo. Save spaces for art, theater, musique, lyfe; save superb accessible public educacioun; save communitye businesses and weirde fantastic locales. Save beautye."
Ughhhh there’s a Brazilian relative of mine (living in Brazil, with no interests in the US) who keeps posting (with implicit approval) clips of the republican senators grilling Dr Fauci
Hey, geology friends, my nephew would like to know what we’re looking at here. This is from a beach in Maryland.
Since 2020, I've kept a spreadsheet with the titles and a tweet-length summary of all the papers I've read. Today I made a word cloud of the sheet, and honestly I'm pretty surprised! Apparently the biology of sex is main main scientific interest?
I would absolutely fight for their inclusion. There needs to be more of this in papers not less. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The declining use of animal and behaviour images in animal behaviour journals
It is difficult to overstate the value of images in science. Visualization is often the most effective tool to convey scientific concepts, and the opp…
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Sorry to ruin #SharkWeek for you, but the Megalodon isn't hiding deep in the ocean. #LSU #LSUResearch
Oh and for those of you who will be at #AOS2026 next week, come see me talk about this work on Wed afternoon! I’ll try my best not to rant about peer-review again…
Rafael Marcondes@rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 5d agoTo the reviewer and AE who were *adamant* that we should delete these watercolors: FYI im getting loads of compliments on them. Everyone says we need more art like that in peer-reviewed pubs.
To the reviewer and AE who were *adamant* that we should delete these watercolors: FYI im getting loads of compliments on them. Everyone says we need more art like that in peer-reviewed pubs.
Rafael Marcondes@rafamarcondes.bsky.social · last mo.Also check out these GORGEOUS watercolors by Rice biology/art student Caroline Pollan!
Cool paper on a question that I’ve wondered about for a while. Since the evolution of mimicry is dependent on the experience of predators and not on spatial proximity of mimics and models per se, allopatric mimicry can evolve when predators are migratory: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Allopatric coevolution: Migratory predators may facilitate mimicry between geographically nonoverlapping species | PNAS
A natural assumption in evolutionary biology is that to coevolve, species must interact with each other and should therefore co-occur. However, man...
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The sweet spot of talk durations for me is 20-50 min. For 75 min lectures, I never have enough stuff to talk about, and for 10 min conference talks my first practice run inevitably goes to 15 min.
We are seeking sponsors for our 2027 annual meeting! Help support #ornithology and get your product or organization in front of an engaged audience of scientists and bird enthusiasts.
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We are seeking sponsors at multiple levels for our 2027 meeting! You can review our sponsorship prospectus below, and contact WOS President Auriel Fournier (auriel@illinois.edu) with any questions.…
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grateful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Sometimes I still think about the reviewer (for an organismal journal!) who didn't know what "natural history" was 🙄😭
Anyone got a simple illustration or schematic I can use to explain site likelihood calculations to an undergrad Evolution class? (I know, I know, but please let me make my own mistakes?)
Updated my applyingtoeeb.info site on applying to evolution and ecology grad school in the US to incorporate some of the latest immigration changes. Share with any REU or other students who might be considering grad school.
Already getting emails from incoming freshmen freaking tf out about fitting intro bio in their schedule and "staying on track for my major". THEY LITERALLY HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED COLLEGE YET. Who the hell instilled that mentality in them?? 😡😭
Iconic Texas grocery store chain H-E-B is named after its founder, Howard E. Butt
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Superbowl was named for Milton R. Super, who opened the first 'Supermarket' in 1843 AD in West Canaan, Texas. His vast empire of Supermarkets & fleet of merchant submarines in the Great Lakes made him the world's first trillionaire & the 15th President of the United States.