🚨 Introducing NovelTree: A Nextflow workflow for highly parallelized phylogenomic inference! 🚨 Pub: doi.org/10.57844/arcad… GitHub (software): github.com/Arcadia-Scienc… GitHub (analysis code & walkthrough): github.com/Arcadia-Scienc… Arcadia Science A 🧵, 1/8

I wrote a review on the functions of 🐜 queen pheromones shown explicitly with behavioral experiments, with a strong focus on the natural histories. >> doi.org/10.1007/s00265… Here is a summary figure-

Welcome Arthur Porto, our first curator of artificial intelligence for natural history and biodiversity! In this new position, Arthur Porto will use machine learning and image-based technology to analyze digital repositories of natural history data. #AIatUF floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florid…

EARLY VIEW in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 The mechanistic, genetic and evolutionary causes of bird eye colour variation | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Eamon C. Corbett robb brant faircloth | #ornithology

Do you work on #phylogeography, #phylogenomics, #introgression, or #Amazon #biogeography? I am excited to report that our paper is now out in early view at Society of Systematic Biologists. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance… 1/5

Adania Flemming, PhD candidate in FLORIDA’s dept. of biology and an ichthyologist here at the Florida Museum, launched Black in Natural History Museums week to bring together and create visibility for Black museum professionals. About #BlackinNHMs + schedule: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/third-…

“Indigenous peoples have moved parrots across continents and between islands for thousands of years. Later, European colonists continued that practice, and we’re still moving them around today,” said lead author @Jessica_Oswald. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/caribb…

Our response to calls for ‘compassionate collecting’ that amounted to an end to natural history field research. ‘Specimen collection is essential for modern science’ with 100+ authors led by Berkeley scientists - with Michael Nachman in the lead journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Our review on Amazonian avian biogeography is out! doi.org/10.1093/ornith…. This work was written by many many hands, and I want to thank all coauthors that made it possible! Gregory Thom Lukas Musher Alex Lees Vanessa Luzuriaga mateus ferreira +

We're hiring again! #TenureTrack Curator/Professor Butterflies & moths. Special interest in those studying global change, popbio, ecology/evolution, invasives, development. Starting salary to $105,000. Due Jan 5. Please share! tinyurl.com/2p7u5fy3 Florida Museum #McGuireCenter

Amazon protector: the Brazilian politician who turned the tide on deforestation nature.com/articles/d4158…

🎉 And the winner of the #IBISbestECRpaper 2023 is... Eamon C. Corbett's The mechanistic, genetic and evolutionary causes of bird eye colour variation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib… Huge congrats Eamon! bou.org.uk/ibis/ibis-best… Thanks to Leica Nature & Birding for the prize! #ornithology

🎉🎉🎉 I’m SO EXCITED: In Fall 2025, I will join the University of Wyoming as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology & Physiology! UWyo Zoology & Physiology UWyo College of Agriculture Life Sci & Nat Res UWyo News

Still counts… right?

Bioinformatics

What’s Kamala Harris’s plan for academia using the word “retreat” when we just mean “really long meeting”

Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florid… Analyzing an exceptionally rare fossil skeleton discovered in Florida became a paleontology college course where the only assignment was studying porcupine bones.

What a nice surprise!

1/This great El País English Edition article explains one of the most exciting recent discoveries in the Gene & RNA editing field - the discovery of Patrick Hsu’s Bridge RNA - a new class of RNA guided systems which enables large scale gene editing even beyond RNA & DNA cuts. Here’s my🧵👇