Statistical phylogenetics and the fossil record. Researcher, professor and mentor at a PUI. Mother, reader, runner. Congenital optimist. Minnesotan Virginian.
April Wright
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The broader implication extends beyond flowering plants.
Many famous "rocks vs. clocks" debates may not require choosing sides. The challenge is finding better ways to let fossils and molecules speak to each other.
Link to our latest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Box One is a bit of a banger
I stopped on my run to cool off in the shade and was rewarded justly
The hermit crab I found trying to cross a busy street yesterday seems happy in her new digs
If an owner doesn’t come forward, we’ll be getting her some buddies this weekend
“It’s my weekend, too. I get to have a weekend,” I tell myself as I cuddle up with a book in the roots of a big oak tree at the school year-end family picnic
And on my fourth day of being bedridden with a cold (?), I over exerted myself reading to my son.
Time for more MST3K, I guess 🤷♀️
Overleaf labs making it possible to share a .bib across projects! Very helpful stuff for avoiding an issue where you haven’t grabbed the latest .bib from GitHub and now your versions are out of sync …
www.overleaf.com/labs/partici...
And we're full.
But you can still sign up for the Super Social, which features a dance floor at the Great Lakes Science Center, until Monday! After Monday, you can only get tickets by swapping with someone who can no longer attend.
University rankings are deeply problematic. But in an era where accreditors and AAUP don’t censure over lack of shared governance, a penalty by US News in their college rankings might be the only remaining stick.
#AcademicSky
Ruolin WU
Using extensive fossil occurrence data and Bayesian Brownian Bridge modelling, this study derives data-driven calibration densities for molecular clocks and suggests a Late Jurassic origin of flowerin...
