Emily Jane McTavish

I've always been impressed with @carpentries.carpentries.org and it is great to see their integrity in standing up for their principles, even when there are significant costs to doing so.👏

Super impressed by the integrity shown by this NGO. May we all have similar courage to stand up for our principles when pushed against a wall by this admin.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: We refuse to reinforce systems of oppression and exclusion.

If you agree, take my grandmother’s advice. Put your money where your mouth is 🫶🏾

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Jr. Specialist in Sustainable Agriculture University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!

My colleague at UC Merced Josh Garcia is hiring for a position in Sustainable Agriculture. Check it out and apply if it's a good fit for you! aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02001

Great commentary on the new global bird phylogeny, if I do say so myself www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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

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

The CSUN Faculty Senate just passed a resolution opposing the CSU adoption of ChatGPT Edu without faculty consultation at a cost of ~$1 million per month.
Thanks to @jbyoder.org for organizing!

All Birds Roost in a Single Tree The first evolutionary tree that includes every avian species

Thanks @nautil.us for the cool blog post on our bird tree! @eliotmiller.bsky.social
nautil.us/all-birds-ro...

The new era of global bird phylogenies begins – this one built over several years by @snacktavish.bsky.social and team massively increases sample size and will be a fantastic resource for macroevolution and macroecology. 🪶 🌐 🧪

Short term @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social is supporting updates, and hopefully that will be a productive long term integration! And yes - it is relatively low cost, and supported by Open Tree of Life too (also has sustainability challenges, but it's low cost and a passion project for tenured faculty)

Yes! Thanks - We actually have posted 2 new trees since submission, and another one since acceptance, and will have it posted with the new 2024 taxonomy by June! Sometimes publication wheels turn slowly, but phylogenies keep getting updated :)

A great and very reasonable question! In the short term @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social has taken on supporting updates, (there's actually already a newer version posted than the one in the paper, and one in the works!) and hopefully that collaboration/support will pan out for the long term as well.

*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

There's even a handy R package to make it easy to access any set of relationships you're interested in and link them to public datasets! 'clootl' - up on CRAN. github.com/eliotmiller/...

A complete and dynamic tree of birds - out today in PNAS! Teamwork with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others at
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social and Open Tree of Life to put together current relationships across all birds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Build software better, together GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

tree.opentreeoflife.org/curator/stud... Awesome! I linked the data from Dryad to OpenTree! Feel free to vet the curation.

Then. Now! @snacktavish.bsky.social

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

The Bulletin of the SSB announces publication of our Species Network Special Issue edited by Claudia Solis-Lemus & George Tiley. The first part of this issue is here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs.... Articles from the second part of this issue will be published here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

Thanks!! We are really excited about it.

‘The Tree of All Birds’ is an excellent name for a medieval fable.

But also an extraordinary accomplishment in evolutionary mapping and visualisation for around 11,000 bird species.

🧪🦅🦆🦜🦢🦉🐓🦩🐦‍⬛🦚

Supplement is p16-42 in the pdf!

A complete and dynamic tree of birds bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

We made a tree of all birds! Preprint is up, comments are welcome.

A complete and dynamic tree of birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.20.595017v1 We present a complete, time-scaled, evolutionary tree of the world's bird species. This tree unites

A complete and dynamic tree of birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.20.595017v1

If you have thoughts on how you would like ModelFinder & PartitionFinder to work in IQ-TREE, I am interested in hearing them. We are re-building this now. Particularly interested in pain points for users!

Please repost if you have phylo followers...

Tree of Life Explorer | MinuteLabs.io Explore Earth's species and the relationships between them easily.

We did a fun live phylogeny guessing game in evolution today! What's an animal more closely related to manatee than it is to human or cat?
Students yelled out ideas, and we added them to the tree as we went!
labs.minutelabs.io/Tree-of-Life...