Joel McGlothlin

A quick post to note that I noticed that I haven't been posting and it's been great, so back to not posting now

Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!

Very bad start to the day. I got Jeff Samardzija and Jake Arrieta confused on @immaculategrid.com. These two now join Jon Lester and John Lackey as commonly confused former Cubs pitchers with J names.

We are reading that too!

A stabilizing eco-evolutionary feedback loop in the wild Reciprocal interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes are a central tenet of eco-evolutionary dynamics but have rarely been demonstrated. Zamorano et al. demonstrate that changes in th...

Reading this with my class today. I love this paper.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Eight manuscripts in my editorial queue. Deep breaths.

Regretting not using this answer yesterday for a shot at @learnedleague.com best-wrong-answer glory:

After a series of high-profile incidents, in 2001 a table replaced a horse for future competitions in what Olympic event, per the broader sport's international rules federation?

HORSE TENNIS

If he had stayed healthy, this might have been right. What a game he had the other day.

Oops

PowerPoint will do this too, but I didn't have it turned on 😭

Thanks!

Thanks! 🤞

For me it usually happens if I let the computer go to sleep overnight. Today it was I just went to get coffee and everything stopped working. I had tons of files open, so it was probably a memory thing.

I got it fixed, so I'm OK

This happened to me this morning while doing a last-minute revision of my promotion talk that I'm giving today, nbd

If the wizards at Microsoft could make PowerPoint stop doing that thing where all of a sudden all your pictures disappear and you can't save your file and you lose three hours of work that would be great

Just found that the title of one my papers has been wrong on my CV for 18 years. The reviewers requested that we shorten it in the final revision and I forgot to change it on my CV when the paper went to press.

75% of academia is writing reports and then writing other reports that report on the reports

Or they mean "I'm mad that the party I don't like is deciding how money gets spent"

It's wild to me how the years run together. I didn't realize until I wrote it down on paper how much of the stuff I've done has been started as an associate professor.

To PRofessor

I have been writing my statement for my promotion packet, and I think I now have managed to convince myself that I should be promoted.

Proposal: A Tex-Mex/Italian fusion restaurant called Fajitaboudit

#1: The Fourth of July is a holiday about opposition to monarchy, and as a nation, we should probably get back to that

Also, I want a button to auto-archive all the threads I have already responded to but forgot to archive. This is always 75% of my inbox clog when I get behind.

AI is everywhere. Why can't it read my email backlog and make me a priority list of which ones to deal with first? I would prefer this to the distracting auto-suggestions of words I don't actually want to type.

Good to see you and sorry I didn't catch you again at the social!

I will be in Cleveland for sure!

A bibliography for the 2025 IDEA plenary The recording of my talk for the 2025 IDEA plenary is now posted over on the Evolution meeting YouTube channel (there’s a bunch of dead air at the start of the recording; the action starts a …

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

YouTube video by Evolution Meetings ASN Presidential Address - EVOLUTION 2025

My @asn-amnat.bsky.social Presidents Address for #Evol2025 is now available on YouTube:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=soPd...