Jonathan Chang

Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology - Nature Cities Cities affect biological evolution, but traditionally researchers focus on the biophysical influence of urban environments. Instead, this Review explores how the social processes of religion, politics...

I am thrilled that this manuscript is now out in the world! If you saw my talk at #Evol2025 you may remember me discussing how religion, politics & war shape urban evolution & now you can read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

i think people are being too much of a doomer on the dire wolf story. if a few SNPs make a new species then think about how great it's going to be for alpha taxonomy. trillions of new species, just waiting to be described

Aronoff Lab at The Ohio State University

The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

Generating a triangular navigation mesh from H3 hexagons in R How to create a triangular navigational mesh using global hexagonal grids from the H3 library. A worked example, based on the San Francisco Bay Area, demonstrates how to construct, visualize, and refi...

New blog post: create a triangle-based navigational mesh from hexagonal grids with the H3 library in R. Check out the step-by-step guide with code examples and apply it to your own spatial analyses. #RStats jonathanchang.org/blog/hexes-t...

Finally: what about the editors and authors awaiting your feedback? What better Christmas gift to give your colleagues than a suggestion to cite more of your manuscripts?

So the next time you get an automated review reminder on Christmas: run, don't walk, to this opportunity!

When everyone else is relaxing with their families for the holidays, the emails and other demands for your time are lessened. It's the perfect time to focus on your manuscripts to review, leaving a clean slate for the new year. (2/3)

Did you get an automated reminder that your review is due on Christmas?

It's not an unpaid burden. Instead, it's an chance to get ahead in your career! Manuscript review is a key part of academic service and high-quality reviews reflect on your professionalism. 🧵(1/3)

The `tact` software is maintained on a volunteer, best-effort basis. For more information, check out the website: tact.jonathanchang.org

Announcing version 0.6.0 of `tact`, an app for stochastic polytomy resolution on phylogenies using taxonomy.

This version has no new features, but is updated for various dependency changes in the Python ecosystem. It may also be slightly faster due to using PyPy 3.10. (1/2)

ChatGPT: making the easy stuff easy and the hard stuff impossible

banned phrases in job ads:
* run, don't walk, to this amazing opportunity!
* we offer you SO much more than just a paycheck!
* a job that lets you live out your passions!

i have 16gb and its fine even with docker and a bunch of other stuff going. firefox is fairly efficient with its memory use so its not really a big deal to have hundreds of tabs open

the only motivation i have for finishing things is that i can then close all the browser tabs associated with that work

they live, we sleep