Orlando Schwery

#philsci #hbpio

The Philosophy of Biology Lab: Entangled Lineages, Classification, and Individuality - Office of Undergraduate Research

If you know an undergrad that would like to spend the summer doing research in my philosophy of biology lab, encourage them to apply to the U’s SPUR program. Includes a $5,000 stipend and subsidized housing to work in my lab.

Details and how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/SPUR-PhilBio...

Phylogenetic comparative methods for studying adaptation: the adaptation-inertia framework Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods are a major tool for evaluating macroevolutionary hypotheses. Methods based on the mean-reverting stochastic Orn

How to use and interpret the #adaptationinertia framework of #phylogenetic comparative methods based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to study adaptation:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Pienaar et al. 2025

A poster for Else's exit seminar titled "The Role of Hybridization in the Speciation of Birds". The poster shows illustrations of several bird species (skuas and manakins) above a background of a subarctic coastline and a tropical rainforest river.

Almost PhDone! I'll be giving my PhD exit seminar in the morning (Thursday), and defending on Friday.

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.

New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

A page from my upcoming book. Jacques emerges from snorkeling and asks Philippe: "When does the new graphic novel about me, Jacques Cousteau, come out?" "The one by Ned Wolfe and Caroline Hu?" "Oui." "Tomorrow! 11/4"

@nedlazaruswolfe.bsky.social and my book—Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau—comes out tomorrow!! 🤿🐟🌟

I plan to wake up, go vote in my local election, and maybe do an unboxing??

Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data Understanding the evolution and phylogenetic distribution of morphologic traits is fundamental to macroevolutionary research. Despite decades of major advances and key insights from molecular systema...

🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution 🧪

"Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data"

A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨

🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾

Find out by studying meerkats!

🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions

Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

The image consists of a collage of three images. The first one displays a graphic with the description: “Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We’re hiring.“ The image on the top right shows a group of people at the Institute’s courtyard. Several flowers are depicted in the foreground. Photography by MPIWG, 2021. The image on the bottom left shows two women sitting on a bench in the library. Photography by Setform, 2017.

#CallForApplications
Offering up to three positions in our “First Research Article” Fellowship Program!

🌐 For PhD students at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions
🚀 Research in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, or #STS

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4oygRbJ

#HistSci

Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙

Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details

Hot take:

Analytic philosophy is *not* obsessed with word meaning. Correct word meaning is crucial to any discussion! 90% of pointless argument is because nobody defined the meaning of a word or the purpose of an endeavor.

It's like claiming mathematicians are obsessed with symbol meaning. Fah!

This was a type II error demonstration, Yaniv is apparently on bluesky @ybrandvain.bsky.social

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Cr. to Shen Tian

My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona.

Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona.

Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument.

A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Beware giving this site your unpublished data Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

I thought I shoulda named one of my sons "Ian Motion" _just for the possibility_ of a morning roll call by a substitute teacher. No one would register/understand what happened, but it would exist in the universe.

Keep calm and carry on: bites from Trichonephila clavata are unlikely and cause minimal discomfort Abstract. Arachnophobia is a widespread phenomenon, despite the fact that the vast majority of spiders pose no meaningful threat to people. The introductio

"Keep calm and carry on: bites from Trichonephila clavata are unlikely and cause minimal discomfort," in the Journal of Medical Entomology: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...

Chemical management strategies for the invasive Jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata (Araneae: Araneidae) Abstract. Historically, spider management has received relatively little attention in the literature compared to insect pests, and few studies have examine

"Chemical management strategies for the invasive Jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata (Araneae: Araneidae)," in the Journal of Economic Entomology: doi.org/10.1093/jee/...

Studies show Joro spiders are easy to kill and virtually harmless David Coyle, associate professor of forest health and invasive species at Clemson University, recently co-authored two papers addressing some key public

A pair of new studies in ESA journals offer some reassuring findings about Jorō spiders:

“These spiders are easy to manage and pose a minimal health risk.”

This work is the result of a lot of persistence, my co-authors especially @draverbee.bsky.social and @nicrodemo.bsky.social, greatly improved by reviewers and handling editors. Poricidal anthers evolved multiple times but this phenotype stayed in lineages 50 my after the origin of all angiosperms.

the galaxias hex logo showing a fun-coloured illustration of a green galaxias fish. The head, gills and fin in the centre with light green on the underside, green lips and wavy shades of green on its back, with blue and orange markings by its eye and gills. The background is light orangey-salmony colour in a sunburst style

🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨

📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia

galaxias.ala.org.au

#rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟

A thread 🧵👇

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣

We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.

Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview

Want to see what {galaxias} can do? 🤔

Check out slides from a talk we presented on galaxias this week at the Living Data conference:
martinwestgate.com/presentation...

Or, check out this intro video about galaxias:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4-...

#rstats 🌏🧪🐟

Visualisation of the relationship between phylogenetic diversity and J (phytochemical evenness).

Beyond phylogeny: phytochemical diversity as a unique metric for biodiversity in the Gentianales

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Richard-Bollins et al.

@WileyPlantSci #biodiversity

Students collecting vegetation data in the Organ Mountains

Plants with soil and roots

Students collecting plants from forest understory

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!

Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

salamander phylogeny with representative limb bones and their cross-sections

New PhD preprint! We studied the effects of habitat and multi-stage life cycles on salamander limb bones! Aquatic and terrestrial spp. have divergent morphs + semi-aquatic and multi-phasic spp. do their own thing + decoupled external and internal shape promote diversity. 🧪🦎

doi.org/10.1101/2025...