Liam U. Taylor

Stay classy Richard

Very cool new exhibits at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History featuring some cool dinosaurs, including Archaeopteryx and Dodos, as well as learning lessons about extinction.

Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!

Catherine O’Hara in Beetlejuice. Close up, wearing black and white with black headband.

Catherine O’Hara in Home Alone. Wearing cream swearer and colourful scarf; decorating Christmas tree.

Catherine O’Hara as Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek. Wearing black and white with large sunglasses while people behind velvet ropes clap.

Catherine O’Hara in The Last of Us. Sitting in diner with book in hand as Pedro Pascal’s character interrupts her.

R.I.P. Catherine O’Hara. Absolute icon.🥺🥀

If I quit academia who will tell the people all this important stuff I just made up?

All I've ever wanted is a social media platform that's small voice memos, so I can tell my important stories, such as for example how today I reached into all my separate pockets and there was fruit in every one

like a mother running down the list of her childrens' names before reaching the correct one, I search through my dual authentication apps

love this one

Animals Are Climate Allies. So Why Are We Leaving Them Out of Climate Policy? • The Revelator Climate change threatens species around the world. At the same time, many animals can help us in the fight against climate change — if we let them.

Wildlife conservation is good for the climate. So why are animals so often left out of climate policy discussions? therevelator.org/animals-clim...

Some parts of this biological system are still very hard for me to wrap my head around. Will drink a beer and do a thread if, when, the arc of history looks different.

Snippet from supplemental material, describing the first steps to representing a complex biological graph as a character vector for phylogenetic analysis.

Supplement may be of interest for folks thinking about reconstructing complex biological relationships (graphs) in a phylogenetic context.

Photograph examples of plumage maturation in manakins, a family of colorful, tropical lekking birds.

Title page for a scientific article titled: "Evolutionary history of delayed plumage maturation in manakins," including abstract and keyword information.

Phylogenetic tree of delayed plumage maturation in manakins.

Evolution of manakin plumage maturation now out early look @sse-evolution.bsky.social

(Phylo-)Devo-evo, plumage, and social signaling

Bonkers system that reshaped how I think about both development and evolution.

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Adding “No problem if not” to my email signature

Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten - Nature While the photoreceptor outer segments in the bird outer retina have access to oxygen, the inner retina operates under chronic anoxia, supported by anaerobic glycolysis in the retinal neurons.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good bird cool

DOG SHOW RULES

I guess all I'm asking for is a massive bracket for each genus -> family -> order where ornithologists around the world can vote for the objectively best bird, and the winners get to rep their lineage on the tree 😇

Dear @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Cornell Lab of O,

your new phylogeny viewer is AWESOME and exactly what I wanted for years and will be an AMAZING resource for classes

BUT

you use an automatic thumbnail from the first image for each group

may we crowdsource better representative species lol

I made the Jim from The Office face to the friend I was eating with

In 2019 I was having a conversation about some science nonsense at the greatest brunch place in New Haven, CT (The Pantry). A precious young Yalie leaned over from the next table and said,

"I think it's actually pronounced YEW-LAR"

I said "oh, ok, thanks"

I wonder if he thinks about that, too

We got it (pretty much) through! Heh

(the brat is me)

I guess I'm just feeling a lot of sympathy for history rn

imagine working so hard FROM SCRATCH to make birds and some brat is like, "oohh but they're not viviparous yet 😒"

the only things that have ever happened happened historically, dunno why I should think of it as constraint w/r/t something random I made up

like giving someone $5 and them being like, "you're selfish, you didn't give me $10!"

which, to be fair, would be a very evo biol response to that situation

imagine being history and making literally everything that has ever happened, happen, and then people being like, man that's not enough we want more

I have the sneaking suspicion that future historians of biology will look back on the framing of *history* as a *constraint* and they will simply think us very weird

Way more than I ever got when I was, you know, whatever

I'm not particularly femme presenting most days, just due to constraints on time and attention and *gestures around*, but it's striking that the more I lean towards it, the more out of the way random dudes go to affirm masculinity

"hey thanks MAN!" "Right on dude!"

Goofy sometimes, for sure

A new editorial of mine in Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment , about the value of spending time with people on their land when doing ecology. 🌎🌿🦤

Walking the land with property owners
Tom A Langen, Catherine Benson, Rick Welsh
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

a diagram of a funnel with "your post" at the top. through the funnel there are several cross-sections: - audience: you, comprehension of your post: 100% - audience: followers, comprehension of your post: 90% - audience: followers of followers, comprehension of your post: 50% - audience: followers of followers of followers, comprehension of your post: 20% through the bottom of the funnel are "replies to your post" with several posts with stinky lines

Literally the first news outlet I've seen directly quoting her wife. Even the NPR piece on Renee Good that aired this morning made no mention of Becca Good whatsoever.