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Michael Landis

@landismj.bsky.social

Evolution, phylogenetics, biogeography, epidemiology, computational biology, statistical models, machine learning, scientific software β€” πŸŒ΅πŸ•°οΈπŸŒŽπŸŽ²πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“ˆ β€” https://landislab.org

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Workshop on Molecular Evolution | Marine Biological Laboratory The workshop serves graduate students, postdocs, and established faculty from around the world seeking to apply the principles of molecular evolution to questions of anthropology, conservation genetic...

Applications are now open for the 2026 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE)!

www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Claudia Solis-Lemus and I will be holding an informational session on Zoom next Wed (1/21) from 10:30-11:30 AM Central for those interested:

lsu.zoom.us/j/4968115684

Deadline to apply: 1/26

16.01.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
All Systematic Zoology/Biology research articles published over past 75 years, clustered by topic and represented in 2d space.

All Systematic Zoology/Biology research articles published over past 75 years, clustered by topic and represented in 2d space.

Reflections on the evolving practice of systematic biology, a joy to write with Michael Donoghue for the upcoming 75th volume of Systematic Biology!

academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

31.12.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
SIR of susceptible, infectious, and recovered compartments with individuals who take short "trips" to other locations away from home, plus diagram of four phylogenetic patterns of host-mediated infection (resident-to-resident, visitor-to-resident, resident-to-visitor, visitor-to-visitor).

SIR of susceptible, infectious, and recovered compartments with individuals who take short "trips" to other locations away from home, plus diagram of four phylogenetic patterns of host-mediated infection (resident-to-resident, visitor-to-resident, resident-to-visitor, visitor-to-visitor).

New preprint modeling pathogen phylogeography, where infected hosts spread disease through short "trips" between locations. Very fun collaboration with the brilliant @albertchristian.bsky.social and Ammon Thompson.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

31.12.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
RevBayes: Introduction to phylogenetic biogeography with the FIG model

RevBayes TimeFIG tutorial series: revbayes.github.io/tutorials/fi...

31.12.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cartoon of paleogeographic, biogeographic, and phylogenetic history of an island plant radiation, and plots of hypothesized relationships between regional features and biogeographic rates.

Cartoon of paleogeographic, biogeographic, and phylogenetic history of an island plant radiation, and plots of hypothesized relationships between regional features and biogeographic rates.

New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua πŸŒ±πŸοΈπŸŒ‹

w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social

biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722

31.12.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today at WashU’s EEB seminar, I presented a new species diversification model that incorporates regional species diversity into rates of evolution through time (a joint work w/ @landismj.bsky.social).

Slides here: sites.google.com/view/albert-...

Preprint hopefully will be here this month #evobio

11.09.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What a blast attending my first in-person Evolution meetings!
Had the opportunity to present our work on:

1. A new biogeographic model of species diversification that accounts for species richness.

2. Phylogeography model for infectious disease transmission with visitor dynamics.

#Evol2025

29.06.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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EEB Mentor Match Visit the post for more.

EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open!
This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too!
eebmentormatch.com

11.06.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Today is the last day to register for the SSB Mentorship Program!

We're looking for a few more mentors to volunteer. Mentoring only takes one hour each month, and is a great way to support the next generation of biodiversity researchers!

#evobio πŸ§ͺ @systbiol.bsky.social

10.06.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our members will find this morning’s phylogenetic methods session interesting. Phenomenal talks across all career stages of researchers: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr...

29.05.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please share!

We need a few more folks (esp. mentors) to join the SSB Mentorship Program for 2025. Help the next generation of systematists take flight!

Past mentors say: "really satisfying", "extremely gratifying", "optimism-inspiring", "just do it!"

www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...

#evobio πŸ§ͺ

29.05.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Prez-Elect and council election season may be over, but student rep elections are just around the corner!

Get your application in by May 31. Details in the link.

27.05.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...

Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!

Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer

ssb2026.github.io

24.05.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
announcement for the SSE Sponsored Workshop "Avoiding Bias When Writing Tenure and Promotion Leters"

announcement for the SSE Sponsored Workshop "Avoiding Bias When Writing Tenure and Promotion Leters"

Hey folks going to #evol2025 in Athens. The SSE #DEI committee is sponsoring a workshop on how to avoid bias in writing T&P letters. Registration is required and the workshop is open to all career stages! Please share and help spread the word @sse-evolution.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

24.05.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Logo for Society of Systematic Biologists Mentorship Program. Two parallel phylogenies, nothing fancy.

Logo for Society of Systematic Biologists Mentorship Program. Two parallel phylogenies, nothing fancy.

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!

Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.

Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...

Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...

@systbiol.bsky.social

19.05.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

A few spots more for this workshop if you didn't get to register. Notice that there are some participant support costs that will go to attendees! @tropicalbotany.bsky.social

20.05.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Logo for Society of Systematic Biologists Mentorship Program. Two parallel phylogenies, nothing fancy.

Logo for Society of Systematic Biologists Mentorship Program. Two parallel phylogenies, nothing fancy.

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!

Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.

Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...

Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...

@systbiol.bsky.social

19.05.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Join us July 27th the day before #Botany2025 for a free phylogenetic biogeography workshop in RevBayes!

Taught by @landismj.bsky.social +Sarah Swiston (WUSTL), Felipe Zapata (UCLA), and myself, with surprise guests!

Details: www.botanyconference.org/workshops/wo...

22.04.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

NIH indirects case update:

Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.

Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:

(I'm paraphrasing here)

21.02.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 348    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 38
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Familiar expression from whiteboard, earlier. Seems about right.

12.02.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tell us what is yet to be www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

09.02.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's incredible, thanks for sharing

16.01.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Workshop on Molecular Evolution | Marine Biological Laboratory The workshop serves graduate students, postdocs, and established faculty from around the world seeking to apply the principles of molecular evolution to questions of anthropology, conservation genetic...

Applications are now open for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in *beautiful* Woods Hole, MA!

More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io

Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Application deadline: Jan. 29th

Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st

07.01.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
Portraits of three famous Russian agronomists.

Portraits of three famous Russian agronomists.

Do you know these three Russian agronomists? If you're interested, you're in for a real #ScienceDrama in four acts! πŸ§ͺ🎭 Their story is the central piece of my Short History of Vernalization, but let me tell you about them here: πŸ‘‡πŸ§΅πŸ§΅πŸ§΅πŸ§΅

#PlantScience #ScienceHistory

02.01.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 9

Onions: chain mail and mail chain icon

30.12.2024 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
The State of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Bayes for the Uninitiated The bulk of this paper is aimed at an audience that has been exposed, however tangentially, to Bayesian inference of phylogeny; who feel the excitement and intuit its promise, but are intimidated by b...

The result of that 2 months work was a 71 (single-spaced) page paper that I thought could fill the Bayesian phylogenetics primer niche. For years I hosted it on my website at various institutions (yeah, I was an OA hipster). It (dated & naive) is now on @figshare.com figshare.com/articles/jou... 18/

28.12.2024 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you work with equids, camelids, or aardvarks? We need lice from them for a research project. Please reach out if you might have access to those lice, I would love to tell you more about our project & collaboration guidelines!
#mammals
#lice
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13.12.2024 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

18.12.2024 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Cladograms Should Be Called Trees on JSTOR M. D. Hendy, David Penny, Cladograms Should Be Called Trees, Systematic Zoology, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 245-247

doi.org/10.2307/2413...

14.12.2024 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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