Back on my birbshit! #LaurierBiology #SciArt
10.03.2026 22:36
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Back on my birbshit! #LaurierBiology #SciArt
Welcome back, Steve. What an experience.
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Great logo for the 1995 Evolution meeting in Montreal.
Wiarton Willie is dead, long live Wiarton Willie. We now enter the Willie interregnum period.
Our condolences to Wiarton and groundhog enthusiasts everywhere.
Since I've had journalists asking me about the recent falling cat science paper that just dropped, here's the blog post I wrote about it recently. 🧪 skullsinthestars.com/2026/03/07/n...
On a related note, I think I have received letters/emails for almost all of these variants:
As a Tristan born in Alberta in the 70s, I am obliged to share (and in case you were wondering about the sudden spike: that was the name of Brad Pitts’s character in 1994’s Legends of the Fall)
Hello I would like to share with you my new-and-improved website that compiles 46 years' worth of baby-names data in Alberta:
albertababynames.com
It now includes the latest data (for 2025) and a similar-names function to easily browse through various spellings in naming trends.
@pankajd.bsky.social & @darrenobbard.bsky.social show that immune genes overall evolve faster at the protein level, but are less prone to copy-number changes than other genes in Drosophila.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag034
#genome #evolution #drosophila
📣 JOBS!!! We're looking for new colleagues in the School of Biology @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social - two associate profs (plant sci and animal biology) and a lecturer (ecology/zoology)...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs
Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT
Do dim forests select for bigger butterfly eyes? Surprisingly, no. Across 59 species, eye size evolution reflects ancestry and scaling—not ecology. By @sridharhalali.bsky.social and @lepphylo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Happy to be able to share our review of the consequences of rising temperatures on animal fertility, led by @rhondasnook.bsky.social with @liamdougherty.bsky.social and Claudia Fricke. Research is getting active in this area but there's still a lot of unknowns...
rdcu.be/e7uGm
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🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
I am tired of people insinuating that biology education research and disability advocacy within the field or STEM at large are "less rigorous" or "less important" pursuits when both of these areas of critical research are what will help us continue moving the field forward.
Eugenics still has a lingering touch on how we discuss genetics in our classroom spaces, and many of the examples that we use such as talking about diseases are based in erroneous eugenics-inspired thought. This is why we need disabled biologists. www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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dear #Rstats #dataviz and #ggplot ninja, dear @coulmont.bsky.social , here is the next challenge
I want a ggspiralbars
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Are you at #Dros26? Come by the micropub booth!
Line chart with four coloured lines, with add symbols and direct labels for accessibility.
A new, work-in-progress #RStats package which
📊 Tries to automatically choose the best chart type from data types and values
🎨 Uses accessible colours, with added labels and shapes
📈 Has cleaner, more readable default #ggplot2 styling
in just one line
ggauto(df$v1, df$v2, df$v3)
#DataViz
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
Then you are safe from this latest abomination!
When people understand the system and process behind AI art, its moral implications become harder to accept
Sharing with the #Drosophila folks on #DrosoFeed + #Dros26
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