Joseph W. Brown

Graphic abstract for easy visualization of the insect abundance and diversity found in the stomach of a Chordeiles nacunda. Pictured: stomach contents before preservation in ethanol 70%. A dashed pink circle highlights one of the 40 adult giant water bugs (Belostoma sp., Belostomatidae). Individuals of a giant water bug (Belostomatidae), a grasshopper (acrididae), and one Coleoptera accessioned in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo entomological collection are also pictured (lower right).

Latest articles at the WJO: Insect richness in the stomach of a Nacunda Nighthawk. #ornithology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

Logo for the Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament.

If you're new to demographic history inference from population genomics, try this webapp I created to illustrate how dadi fits bottleneck models to site frequency spectra: ryangutenkunst-dadi-two-epoch.hf.space . It even outputs files for submitting to the GHIST competition! ghi.st

Lesson 4: Computers You Can Talk To This lesson explores perhaps the most useful, most powerful facet of LLMs: the way that they allow humans to interact with computers in natural language.

We've added video sections to Lessons 4 and 5 of "Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines", our free online course about how to live and thrive in a ChatGPT world.

In the Lesson 4 video, we discuss whether LLMs might be even bigger than the GUI revolution ushered into homes everywhere by Apple.

My colleagues and I are meeting with the NIH Director this afternoon to discuss the impacts of recent policy changes on early career researchers.

It's a packed agenda, but if you have something you'd like me to try and share, please let me know.

Our LLMs can make you a worse version of something you should know how to do on your own that won’t save you any time this way but will cost money and make you stupider!

No more endless academic paper searches! Writing a research paper used to take weeks. With tlooto AI, you can go from a rough idea to a structure draft -- in just 3 minutes.

"With [some AI bullshit] you can go from a rough idea to a structured draft — in just 3 minutes"

We're so cooked.

Xiphactinus audax

The Big Angry Fish that Ate Kansas

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS Insects are declining worldwide. These declines have been documented across taxonomic groups and are worrisome given ecosystem services provided by...

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

at this point I carry around my copy of What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? in my breast pocket, as if it will someday protect me from a reductionist taking a musket shot at me

You can play here: phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/play.php

Phylo (video game) - Wikipedia

There are others, like Phylo (no longer available online afaik but influential enough to have a Wikipedia page)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylo_(...

I bet @evoneuro.bsky.social knows

And yeah, I think that the DOGE folks at agencies kind of had unilateral decision making authority in a way that's kind of scary because they both had the we should come into government and do common sense things mindset without realizing that the most common sense things are actually the hardest to accomplish for very specific reasons.

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.

The mouth of a deep sea-cave extending into the columnar basalt cliff.

Here's Fingal's Cave itself.

Museum Education and Programs Director - Rapid City, SD 57701 - Indeed.com The Journey Museum

The Journey Museum is hiring an Education and Programs Director.

www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9...

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

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!

I’m recruiting graduate students to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in January or September 2026!
If you're at #Evol2025 and curious about my research, come to my talk on Saturday at 11:30 AM in Macroevolution & Diversification II.
Contact me if interested.
claramuntlab.org

My first conference ever was at IPAM as an undergrad, bringing me into scientific research.

When I branched out into new topics, my first conference as new faculty was also at IPAM.

My R35 was suspended. A lot of personal feelings, but more I worry for the future of the country.

As described this a repeat pattern made with my linocut which juxtaposes two varieties of zebra, Grévy’s and Burchell’s, back to back, and also flipped upside down and replaced, against a red background.

Black & white & red all over: a repeat pattern made with my linocut which juxtaposes 2 varieties of zebra, Grévy’s & Burchell’s, back to back. Zebras are such an obvious temptation to the printmaker, considering how to depict life in black & white. They are inherently so graphic in their very skin.🧵

A Novel Form of Stereo Vision in the Praying Mantis Primate stereopsis effectively cross-correlates the luminance patterns between the two eyes. Nityananda et al. show that mantis stereopsis, by contrast, is unaffected by disrupting the interocular cor...

Paper here for those interested: A Novel Form of Stereo Vision in the Praying Mantis www.cell.com/current-biol...

A diagram showing the growth of a Ginkgo biloba long shoot with various stages illustrated in a simplified slightly stylised manner.

I'll be posting a Patreon post later today, but while I was writing it, I realised that I needed to produce an additional diagram because.... not many people seem to know how #Ginkgo actually grows!!!
Anyway, here's that diagram:
Ginkgo long shoot development.

#paleobotany #botany #plants #trees

tbh those seem like _extremely_ optimistic odds :/

It _is_ very quotable :)

GitHub - CompGenomeLab/PHACE: Phylogeny-aware co-evolution Phylogeny-aware co-evolution. Contribute to CompGenomeLab/PHACE development by creating an account on GitHub.

All data generated in this study and all benchmark analysis scripts and source codes for PHACE are available at github.com/CompGenomeLa...

Tom Lum @tomlumperson.bsky.social should do all paper press releases youtu.be/TiWFrL3OiPw?...