I'm happy to share that my paper about New Models for #inapplicable characters is out now at #SystematicBiology 😀 Luomus Life Sciences University of Helsinki New phylogenetic Markov models for inapplicable morphological characters academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance…

To study the association of #floral traits with #speciation and #extinction, we modelled and explored the evolution of corolla length and the lever-mechanism pollination system across our #Salvia #phylogeny fateme moein @JLandisBotany Soltis Lab @UF 👉ow.ly/pTOj50MThbF

out now in @ASNAmNat, my coauthors & I show the slope and variation of blood traits involved in oxygen transport are predictably related to elevational range characteristics in 136 species of Andean birds: doi.org/10.1086/723222

Excited to see this paper by my colleagues Johanna Jantzen et al out in New Phytologist! After accounting for phylogenetic non-independence, there's no major difference between the leaf spectra of AM and EcM-associated plant species CABO Science Plant Functional Ecology Lab nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

A common recommendation I make is for papers to include conceptual figures These help the reader (& author!) understand the hypotheses & predictions that motivate the study, and also to understand the results This is an exceptional example - well done! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New preprint from PhD work: a deep investigation into dynamics and drivers of evolution of succulent lineages. By far the biggest project I've undertaken, this was a great collab between Priest Lab - University of Bath, Tania Hernandez Hernandez and @LabSpiritu, involving several awesome trips to Mexico 1/4

.jim thorson kindly asked me collaborate on an R package for Phylogenetic Structural Equation Models: {phylosem} This package can fit all models {phylopath} can, but adds support for: - latent variables - imputation - more distributions Out now in JEB: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/P…

Our new paper is out in Eco Letters! bit.ly/GlobMyco w 100mil occs (11k sp.) we show the phylogenetic, climatic + soil correlates of mycorrhyizal traits. Environment explains myco. traits > than we thought: huge implications for ecosystems w changing climate. DM 4 pdf

This is a Yihui Xie appreciation post #rstats, please join me in sponsoring Yihui Xie on GitHub github.com/sponsors/yihui (Context: yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye…) 1/n 🧵(or shall I say 🧶)

It is no secret there exists a generalizability problem in AI for biology.  Despite all the advances in ML methods, the way we evaluate generalizability in ML models has not changed. How well does your ML model generalize across the entire spectrum of possible dataset splits?

Introducing treesurgeon (github.com/evo-palaeo/tre…), a new R package of tools and tricks for working with phylogenetic trees and data, especially morphology! Here's a few things it can do...

Our latest paper, "A Heteroscedastic Bayesian Generalized Logistic Regression Model with Application to Scaling Problems," is now freely available via open access (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…). #Statistics #DataScience #bayesian #COVID_19 #scaling #nonlinearsystems #spatial

This is the coolest thing I'm working on right now, IMO.... Fitting a multi-state threshold model with likelihood using the discrete approximation in #Rstats #phytools: blog.phytools.org/2024/05/fittin….

Going official with the release of something we've been cooking up for the last 3.5 years--a complete phylogeny of the world's birds! We = Emily Jane McTavish, Avibase (Denis Lepage), and other great collaborators from Open Tree of Life and Cornell Lab. Why is this such a big deal? A few reasons.

Most importantly, it's good, it's complete, and resources like this have proved to be research power tools. I suspect this--a major upgrade from what has been available--will continue to propel exciting science. Check out the preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. It's good you say?

The recording of today's #PolyploidyWebinar ft. me and Michael Mckibben is now up on youtube! Join the #PolyploidyWebinar hosted by @BarkerLab on November 6th for the next talks by Sylvia Kinosian and Tamsen Dunn! youtube.com/watch?v=GUGesJ…

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

Now our special issue on the relationship between Oliver Pergams and @macroevolution is online Journal of Evolutionary Biology! We hope that it marks the beginning of a new era of exciting discoveries. link to the issue: ow.ly/LHol50UjJql link to the editorial: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/vo…