Liam U. Taylor

Cover of book titled The Tree of Life: solving science's greatest puzzle.

My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.

Available as book, on kindle and as audio.

I would be really grateful for reposts.

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me, trying as always to listen to the Silver Jews

Spotify: Here's Pavement. Have you tried Pavement? Want to listen to some Pavement? Next up we've got an alt mood, like an Allen wrench dipped in bakers chocolate. Let's kick it off with some Paveme

I've had my PhD nearly 10 months, hardly even won one Nobel prize, spend all day arguing with people about shooting gulls and moping about evolutionary theory, what the hells wrong with me

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Difficult to beat Pete Coviello for great words on the subject of

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Griffon Vultures crossing The #Straits yesterday- pure migratory magic! ….or youth dispersal magic 😉 1,687 Griffon Vultures crossed over our heads!

Obviously I'm person on the right

American Chopper meme of two TMG fans arguing

My long awaited review of the new, highly enjoyable @themountaingoats.bsky.social album

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
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F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in December 2025 We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change. New York City Transit

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

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Plan ahead, or wing it? How storm-petrel parents adjust food delivery to young chicks New technology reveals how storm-petrels choose to allocate more food to their single chick as it grows older. These pelagic seabirds fly hundreds of kilom

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The devices are all consumer electronics and 3D printed housing. The analysis is all open-source.

You can combine these devices with RFID, GPS, or anything you'd like to learn a heck of a lot about any burrow or cavity nesting organism!

A Bowdoin undergraduate bands a Leach's Storm-Petrel under supervision of Kent Island director Patty Jones

Kenyon College Emeritus Professor Bob Mauck runs field validation tests on an automated weigh scale.

Out now in Behavioral Ecology.

We built weigh bridges that allow us automatically to track the energetics of a sensitive, nocturnal seabird. We show how these devices can help answer fundamental questions about parental care.

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Diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among tinamous, a group of superficially partridge-like birds more closely related to ostriches and emus.

Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)

Awesome paper. Poor woodpeckers, bashing their heads against trees *and* hyperventilating....

possible to add a %vape% operator that replaces |> ?

GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

DID OTTERS RUIN THE KELP FOREST?

by S. purpuratus

The New York Times running brave headlines like

DID THE IMMUNE SYSTEM RUIN CELL REPLICATION?

Authored by literally Plasmodium

Zohran says you’re trans now

then I pause for a second and say,

"hmm....I guess the modal lifespan of most birds is 0 years...."

then I gaze wistfully out the window

as an ornithologist and published life history theorist (lol), I often get asked how long different kinds of birds live, and I always just say, "ehhh, like 12 years."

How to apply Learn how to apply to the Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity graduate program at Indiana University with detailed steps, requirements, and deadlines.

If you're looking for a #postdoc but aren't quite a fit for my lab, check out this exciting opportunity via IU's Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity group! 2-year NIH traineeship to work on one of the group's core themes. Details here! ctrd.indiana.edu/how-to-apply/

Mamdani: "My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable."

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Freaking love this guy

the first students have now registered for my institution's first ever Phylogenetics course. Let's gooooo. Evolutionary history is historical baby 😈.

should I not post this preprint regarding my dreams of ancient Cthulhian creatures?

oooh

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation heading a team that develops habitat measures to benefit priority #bird species in #Switzerland (deadline 8 Dec 2025): buff.ly/Y1bIHr7

sending all my shitposts to the Spring Nature Manuscript Adviser AI

Got a chuckle out of me, but much more important is I think your project is really cool!