Very excited to share our Trends in Ecology & Evolution review paper on #punctuated_evolution: a pattern of long-term stability interrupted by dramatic changes. A thread on the origins of rapid change, from large #extinctions to socio-technological #disruption.🌍🧬🛠 doi.org/10.1016/j.tree…

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper

Sometimes you just have to walk around with a giant ichthyosaur jaw bone in your backpack #FossilFriday

Douglas et al. show that up to 99% of evolutionary change occurs at branching points in genes, morphology, and language. A major step for punctuated evolution, aligning with our goal of a unified framework. Niles Eldredge Andrej Spiridonov Blai Vidiella royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Anyone can use AI chatbots to 'vibe code.' Could that put programmers out of a job? ⁦NPR⁩ npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-…

This phylogeny of "living fossils" Coelocanths apparently suggests significant survival of many of their clades through the P-Tr event 🤔 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Une étude foisonnante Pour la Science sur un possible héritage de l’#autisme provenant de l’#ADN 🧬de #Néandertal par Emily Casanova, PhD Loyola New Orleans #AlexFeltus Clemson University Thomas Bourgeron Institut Pasteur, since 1887 #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #genetic #SNP #Neuroscience #brain #handicap

Just in case you missed it earlier, my latest article exploring a molecular basis to #PunctuatedEquilibria. #Evolution #Biology #Macroevolution cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The Sam Noble Museum is hiring a Collections Manager in Invertebrate Zoology. Come work with us! ou.taleo.net/careersection/…

A new study finds that photons (aka light) can actually pass through your head. Has some interesting implications for photosensitive neurons inside the #brain! #neuroscience #physics spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neuro…

George has christened and now claimed my soon-to-be office chair. Not sure how to break the bad news it’s not staying here. 😬 Wonder what SLU’s policies are on bringing your pet to work… 🤔😸

what i mean when i'm talking about the "red, white, & blue" or the "stars and stripes"

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

⁦Actually HBO Max⁩ WHYYYYYYYY?!? Where else am I going to obsessively rewatch DW over and over??? 😢😢😢 m.economictimes.com/news/internati…

I'll have more info when I get back from fieldwork but I'll be recruiting 2 graduate students to begin in 2026 (1 PhD, 1 MS). My lab investigates macroevolutionary dynamics using phylogenetic methods & the fossil record. Please share w/ students having strong research interests!

This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important

I'm noticing that due to (I think?) a lot of benchmarkmaxxing on long horizon tasks, LLMs are becoming a little too agentic by default, a little beyond my average use case. For example in coding, the models now tend to reason for a fairly long time, they have an inclination to

Story 🧵 This morning, our uber driver in pulled up and before letting us into the car, he asked “are you with the genocide? Are you on the side of Netanyahu?” 1/n

The grave risks for science as the whole of leaving fundamental scientific infrastructure in the hands of for-profit capitalist company. Essential scholarly services should be internationally curated by value-based societies/orders/colleges. hannahshelley.neocities.org/blog/2025_08_1…

New preprint with Resia Pretorius showing the amyloidogenic potential of the proteome of thrombi in various embolisms and atherosclerotic plaques. #TeamClots preprints.org/manuscript/202…