@roblanfear.bsky.social
phylogenetics, molecular evolution, some genomes, kids, dogs, and eclectic hobbies none of which I am much good at but I think for me that's the point
What the actual fuck.
29.08.2025 03:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I remember reading the study this is based on somewhere (preprint, maybe), and worrying a lot that it was perhaps very overparameterised.
Honestly can't recall details, but would be interested to know others' thoughts. Will re-add the primary study to my reading list.
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Let's find leaders for ANU who act as if higher ed actually matters.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...
I just love this paper. If you are interested in germlines, go read it.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It's so bad. Obviously impossible to know for sure, but one develops a decent radar after years of looking at undergrad work. And parts of the review are just so 'off' in that tricky to nail down way.
07.07.2025 01:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Right now I'm responding to grant comments, and one of the reviewers appears to have mostly relied on AI to generate their (sometimes hilariously off-base) critiques.
I am not enjoying this.
The BEAST X logo - an octopus wrapping its noodley appendages round the letter X.
BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be...
Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community
Same in Science. And the VC won't even be there. It's a joke.
02.07.2025 01:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The two Mesquite logos. At left, a mesquite tree leaf is against a black background. At right, a leaf is against a blue sky and sun.
Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org.
Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social 🧪 #evolbio
Would be very interesting to work in the Perth office for a bit. Maybe you’d get hired to write a speech or two!
07.06.2025 22:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I get it.
The absolute state of #ourANU. It's a mess.
Charge that right back to ANU. They should bear the cost, not you.
04.06.2025 10:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0www.wehi.edu.au/careers/make...
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Love it! I still use "ham", "cheese", "egg" etc. because of a programming book I read maybe in the last century.
04.06.2025 08:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I do hope you are working from the very nice and recently refurbished ANU office there!
04.06.2025 00:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0look at how they're geared up to arrest unarmed civilians. Fucking absurd. And hats off to the people who backed them down.
02.06.2025 23:16 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0so much this. My experience of current grading is that even when the citations are real the information is often made up. One student acknowledged they didn’t read stuff, just got AI to (drastically incorrectly) summarise papers.
29.05.2025 23:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is why productivity is declining.
29.05.2025 00:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We will send the open letter to ANU executive and Council today at 3pm.
At 7.30am, we have 434 signatures. How high can we get before 3pm?
Tell your colleagues, spread the word!
Is this related to why announcements for Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowships are delayed?
Maybe RMS couldn’t handle new grants being awarded when the other changes were being made?
Why doesn’t the ARC tell anyone what’s going on?
Simple transparency & expectations management would be nice.
Time to speak up again. Here’s our latest open letter against unnecessary and damaging cuts and redundancies: forms.gle/SmuBaMz6PPGT...
26.05.2025 02:00 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I liked this one a lot. I'd love to grab a coffee and chat about strategies for HE inspired by this.
24.05.2025 08:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Same for me. IT seems very unstable at the moment, presumably because of understaffing thanks to precisely the subject of the document none of us can read.
23.05.2025 02:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In 1987 I took Stephen Jay Gould’s “Science B16 course” that helped convince me to be major in Biology w/ a focus on Evolution. But it was my TA Wayne Madison showing us early versions of MacClade that really did the trick.
23.05.2025 02:08 — 👍 45 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
The Mesquite icon shown, as a Mesquite leaf against a black background, and as a leave against the sun and a blue sky.
Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy.
Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).
ANU colleagues, stand up and protect your workplace and each other. Let's stop the reputational and psycho-social damage being done by the disproportionately heavy-handed response of the executive. Please sign and share widely in your networks. #ourANU
22.05.2025 22:36 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
If you're part of #ourANU, please read this open letter to the ANU executive, and consider signing it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
