Tyler Imfeld

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Covering All Bases: A Universal Metazoan UCE Probe Set to Democratize Phylogenomics Abstract. Biology is in a genomics era, but many researchers may still be alienated from these techniques as a lack of genomic resources remains for many a

@sderkarabetian.bsky.social et al. developed a metazoan ultraconserved element (UCE) probe set, providing a resource for multiple research groups working on vastly different animal lineages.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf193

#genome #evolution #compbio #phylogenetics

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Estimating the rate of quantitative trait evolution in the presence of gene tree discordance by calculating likelihoods across trees Quantitative traits provide insights into how phenotypes evolve across species. However, standard comparative methods often assume a single species tree and overlook the discordant gene tree histories...

New preprint led by grad student, Yu Mo! We introduce new software to calculate evolutionary rates of quantitative characters in the presence of discordance

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Grade F level diagram of an ostrich skeleton. The pelvis is labelled as a humerus, and sternum appears to be labeled as the pelvis.

The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.

East Maroon Bells Pass in late July, buried beneath a dense field of verdant veg and an artist's palette of wildflowers.

If you haven't experienced the alpine during peak wildflower season, you should! I've never been so speechless and infatuated with a landscape in my life. The Brown-capped Rosy-Finches and pika were a spectacular cherry on top.

Lol. Well, that seems like my impetus for catching up with you more frequently! We're getting ready for our move at the end of the month, but I'm teaching a Colorado Flora & Fauna field course right before we leave. Going to be a very fun and very stressful month!

Shan!!! Congratulations to you! This news is so wonderful to hear.

I asked ChatGPT? I asked Grok? Well, I asked a Red-breasted Nuthatch and it said yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yenk yen

Really, absurdly disappointing. I'm teaching a field course focused on environmental threats to Colorado's biodiversity next month and will have students contribute to citizen science projects as impactful coursework. We'll have some lively discussion about this news, I'm sure. Yikes.

Birds of the World - AviList: A Unified Global Checklist of the World’s Birds is Now Available AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, that provides the most current and authoritative taxonomy of birds around the world was released today by experts in taxonomy, nomenclature, and bioinform...

A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen!
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Thanks Sean! Once I'm back in Ohio and that much closer to Chicago, you should expect a visit from me to the Field Museum. Family and or student collaborators in tow!

A happy fellow posing at his alma mater on a glorious spring morning. Trees are leafing out, shrubs are flowering, and academic journeys are coming full circle.

After five incredible years in Colorado, I’m returning to my home place in August to start as an Assistant Professor of Biology at my alma mater, Xavier University! Stay tuned for more ornithological, museum, and teaching goodness once the Imfeld Lab has flocked back to Cincinnati.

A complete and dynamic tree of birds - out today in PNAS! Teamwork with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others at
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social and Open Tree of Life to put together current relationships across all birds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reminds me of this enterprising individual I saw the other day. I… I don't think you built that.

Congratulations!!! I am so stoked for you!

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

This exchange happened to me in my prelim defense too, and I had to write the calculations for both after surviving the first long pause!

I can already tell making the move over here was a smart move because I'm seeing loads of cool papers coming through my feed that are perfect to incorporate into my Evolution & Conservation Biology courses next semester. Missed this after the "empty mall" stage on the other place!

Congrats! What class will you teaching? I'm in total solidarity with you about the registration bedlam.

Following the flocks, I'm making my migration to this platform now too. My name's Tyler, and I'm an Asst. Prof in Biology at Regis University. I teach a breadth of bio & statistics courses and do research with students in bird collections. Excited to rebuild some community here!

@whotooktimfeld.bsky.social & @fkbarker.bsky.social compared songbird sister clades across Eastern & Western Hemispheres - individual American clades experienced opportunity, constraint or neutrality following dispersal, independent of the older suboscine clade

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