As we enter conference season in the AI era, two observations...
congrats Becca & Al!
Robert Ricklefs - in memoriam dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...
Just a reminder that I'm recruiting PhD students to my new lab! Come find me at #Evol2026 to chat! #TeamFish
#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link
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š¢A Julia package for creating probability distributions parameterised by moments (mean, variance, etc.) or quantiles, on standard or arbitrary supports. Builds on Distributions.jl.
It makes this possible:
d = make_dist(Normal, q1=-1, q3=1)
#JuliaLang
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"It's stealing intellectual property. These systems have been trained on the entire internet without any regard for copyright. So people's photos, videos, books, etc. have been essentially stolen," says UBC computer scientist Dr. Alan Mackworth.
@alanmackworth.bsky.social @cs.ubc.ca
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting 2 temporary field technicians to assist with demographic surveys across the range of scarlet monkeyflower in California and Oregon. Perfect for recent graduates who are considering applying for grad school. Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231.... Please share!
David Toews
Benjamin Freeman
Recipe for a Good Ļ. How to Properly Estimate Population Genetics Summary Statistics and Why we Should Systematically Report Them academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Darren Irwin (he / him)
As advocates rally against them, two experts warn against betting too hard on AI while acknowledging its usefulness if used ethically.
Congratulations to Drs. Rebecca Jo Safran & J. Albert C. Uy for winning AOS 2026 Elliott Coues Awards for their innovative contributions to ornithological research.
https://americanornithology.org/aos-announces-2026-award-winners-for-research-service-conservation-publication/
#AOSAwards
Emily Troyer
Mehmet Hakan Satman
Alice Boyle
Seema Sheth
UBC Science
Benoit Nabholz
American Ornithological Society
Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word!
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Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,ā¦
Congratulations to Drs. Rebecca Jo Safran & J. Albert C. Uy for winning AOS 2026 Elliott Coues Awards for their innovative contributions to ornithological research.
https://americanornithology.org/aos-announces-2026-award-winners-for-research-service-conservation-publication/
#AOSAwards
Iām happy to announce DistributionsFactories.jl, a package that solves a problem most of us have hit: you know the summary statistics you want ā a mean and variance, a couple of quantiles, a mode ā bu...
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The Sheth evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina; USA) and the Angert Lab in the Departments of Botany an...
Abstract. Many long-standing questions in population genomics can now be addressed through comparative analyses and by leveraging the vast amount of genomi
