Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh.
“This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”
Much of Claude’s training data likely includes older sources that list him as President of Iran. 😬
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
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#JMIH26 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 2026
Annual meeting of: Amer. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 🐟, Amer. Elasmobranch Soc. 🦈, Herpetologists' League 🐍 & Soc. for Study of Amphibians & Reptiles 🐸
The abstract submission and meeting website is now open jmih.net
Very sad news just in from Neil Shubin that Hans-Dieter Sues has died: suddenly in his sleep this past weekend. Hans’ knowledge of vertebrate palaeontology was exceeded only by his good humour. 😞
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An historic illustration of bees and other insects flying around a flowering bush.
All BHL staff have been secured! 🧪 As we enter our next chapter, the team who steward BHL’s collections & infrastructure remain in place, led by Colleen Funkhouser in her new role of Managing Director. Meet the team guiding BHL forward:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/celebrating-bhl-team.html
A work colleague in neuro/ophthalmology was telling me about how chameleons have unique coiled optic nerves. Turns out this was learned largely from digitized specimens in oVert. I remember when oVert was a grant proposal. Such an amazing resource 💚 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
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My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15
csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...
Awesome!
"Embryology reveals a morphological signature of ancestral diurnality maintained in a nocturnal lineage"
By Griffing et al. in @journal-evo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
(Are there any similar analyses for Nocturnal Caprimulgiformes -> Diurnal Apodidae / Trochilidae ? )
Does it have to be electroporation? Would microinjection be an option?
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To a first approximation, all Australian vertebrates are lizards. 🦎
But not just any lizards, Sphenomorphine skinks!
With more than 280 species they are hyper variable. Now, Janne Torkkola has pulled together the biggest phylogeny of the group to date. Read for free:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
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Registration is now open! Early-bird closes April 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...
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Ending this operation is not enough.
We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Congratulations to joint first authors @a-weberling.bsky.social and @holyanole.bsky.social for leading this incredible work published in @devdynamics.bsky.social!
Read the full press release: www.wrh.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
#EvoDevo #DevBio
Check out our paper on the neo-sex chromosomes in mountain pine beetle! We assembled THREE neo-Ys that are quite distinct and their corresponding neo-Xs .
02.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.
06.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 2203 🔁 598 💬 25 📌 23Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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New preprint!! 🚨 Did you know that many vertebrate species determine sex based on environmental conditions rather than chromosomes? Some turtles, like Trachemys scripta, rely on temperature. We learned more about how this happen molecularly.👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tom Morello leads the crowd in ‘Killing in the Name’ at First Ave 🎸🎶
🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social
A view of Friday Harbor Labs dock in the early morning with blowing sea fog in the background.
Want to do a postdoc at Friday Harbor Labs? We have two positions open. Apply by March 1st. I am happy to discuss potential projects with fish people.
apply.interfolio.com/180092
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport
26.01.2026 18:28 — 👍 10277 🔁 2076 💬 65 📌 71Yeah, as I heard it the DNA can bind to the plastic. We’ve been using the DNA LoBind tubes for a while now because of this. Seem to work well.
26.01.2026 21:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For those asking where we go from here: Not voting to fund ICE is a great place for us to start.
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ICE and DHS are out of control and making our communities less safe.
I will not support funding for DHS without clear accountability and stronger controls over the agency.
It is time for the Senate to do its job and rein in this lawlessness.
A picture of a woman’s face with cheeks pink from cold she is wearing a grey hat and orange hood to keep her warm. Many marchers are in the background. A cold sun shines through.
It was cold, but we Minnesotans are strong. We are fighting hard things - against cruelty and lack of humanity. And we get stronger together as we fight for each other.
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
