Stuart McDaniel

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We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community!

Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions!

apply.interfolio.com/164677

Ht @margaretrenkl.bsky.social

GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.

The alleged killer of Darwin is on the loose in the US

Assistant Professor of Biology The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

It's publication day for Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World!

Immerse yourself in the miniature world of these fascinating plants, delve into their evolutionary past and look ahead to what might be in store for their future.

More details at: shorturl.at/Zmtfe

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Argiope aurantia - Wikipedia

I’d bet it’s an orb weaver, gorgeous and harmless unless your a bug

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope...

Nice work, I’m really glad to see the lab just killing it

Early diverging is so persistent in the literature, even when the paper discusses a recent apparent adaptation (like the paper above). To write in a less misleading way focus on the age of traits - inferred from fossils or phylogenies - rather than lineages

This is a very cool project studying parent-offspring conflict in bryophytes using phylogenetic methods

Mating-system evolution in predominantly haploid species: a commentary on Clo et al. (2025) An organisms’ mating system is a key determinant shaping the distribution of genetic variation among individuals, populations, and species. Yet, mating sys

Mating-system evolution in predominantly haploid species: a commentary on Clo et al. (2025)

Bart Nieuwenhuis & @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Scenes from a science crisis: a selection of recent developments 🧵1/6

Great thread

Origins and diversity of Greenland’s Qimmit revealed with genomes of ancient and modern sled dogs The Qimmeq (Greenland sled dog) has worked continuously with the Inuit in Greenland for more than 800 years. However, they now face drastic population declines caused by climate change, urbanization, ...

Whoa, Science just published and abstract in Greenlandic

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Graphic showing genomics-assisted breeding in perennial fruit crops using crop wild relatives. (Graphic design by Freya Emery.)

🌞🌞🌞 Check out this new #AJB Synthesis article! 🌞🌞🌞

Genomic resources for crop wild relatives are critical for perennial fruit breeding & #conservation

By Zoë Migicovsky (@zoemig.bsky.social)

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#botany #plantscience #genomics #genetics #biodiversity #crops #climatechange

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?

That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience

A 🧵 1/n

Just pausing for a minute to appreciate the hauling capacity of the minivan

@minyaaa.bsky.social

YouTube video by Barrett Brown Raiders of the Lost Ark - Warehouse

Totally foreshadowed by the end of Raiders youtu.be/TASlXWbMZyU

A quiet, serene video of a raccoon drinking from a local lake and nothing wild happens

Congrats! Your future colleague @milessilman.bsky.social was my REU mentor many years ago at @mlbs-uva.bsky.social

The current administration has more successfully destroyed US science and the scientific enterprise than the hypothetical nuclear weapons program in Iran.

Great thread for folks headed to Athens @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Spanish #NotMoss dispersing its seeds

Wild question for those plant systematists that may know, are there any reliable estimates of the life spans or generation times of Amborella trichopoda? Please reshare if you’re not certain, hoping if this floats around a bit someone with this specific bit of knowledge will see it on their feed.

At the height of the pandemic Campari was prob on this list

The Trump regime has set our kids' future on fire How we fight back against this war on science, medicine, and education.

Who would set a country's future on fire?

The Trump regime has already plunged America into a distinction that has only been earned by two previous governments, which happen to be the two most murderous regimes in human history.