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Restarting my machine: "You have 4 windows with 120 tabs. Close all tabs?". I know I can restore previous sessions. But what if I can't? Might as well quit my job.

Well today was a first. I got choked up and barely kept it together during an academic talk. What the heck happened you say? I am an easy crier but also I agreed to spend a part of my talk on tree thinking. A thread..

"Reversed"-recommendation letters, now!!!!

Empirical Bayes shenanigans.

Today I must say goodbye to New Zealand. I will really miss this unique corner of the world. Thanks Alexei Drummond for the many lessons and support over the years. It's now time to return to the US -- cool science ahead with @landismj . Exciting!

Do you want to recover species trees with Multispecies Coalescent Model on large datasets (100+ genes)? Now you can with a Novel Adaptive Parallelised Bayesian Inference of the Multispecies Coalescent Model (StarBeast3) implemented in BEAST2. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

So I paid a lightning visit to my PhD lab recently. Glad to see my science found its calling.

Automatic rejection emails are better than no notification at all, and are also unavoidable when the number of candidates is large. But somehow knowing this doesn't make their impersonal tone and cliché content any less depressing.

Study finds open-access papers have fewer lead authors from low-income countries than paywalled articles go.nature.com/3gOFVdR

If only you could die by irony.

So I'm filling out the main US VISA application document online -- is it just me, or do they really have an insanely short timeout limit? I've just been logged out in ~15 seconds (?)

Brazilian mixer at #Evol2023! So great talk about “Evolução” (evolution in Portuguese) with you all! #Brasil #Brazil 🇧🇷

Haven't read this one yet, but glad people are looking into it. It'd be cool to learn how much all of this translates to job interviews in the US.

Today I got a submission rejected by Dryad. This is a first.