Comp. evol. biol., fake ornithologist, LFHCfs, Luddite, CSH
I get down methodically
Without regard to my soul
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hdr: socks & sandals
Joseph W. Brown
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What sets the strikingly similar #mutation rates seen for certain animal cell types? In this Essay, @marcdemanuel.bsky.social , @mollyprz.bsky.social , @natanaels.bsky.social and Anastasia Stolyarova discuss how #selection may shape cellular mutation rate patterns🧪#AcademicSky
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palaeoverse is a community-driven R package of generic functions to help streamline palaeobiological analyses and improve code readability and reproducibility. This is our last version before a major refactor in Autumn, supported by funding from the @softwaresaved.bsky.social.
How long?
#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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These fuckers came for fountain pens with SEO-heavy AI slop.
Now they're coming for birds, again with AI slop attributed to an author who doesn't exist? This is personal.
I've been keeping this quiet for a while, but now's as good a time as any to announce:
I have a book contract for a new textbook, Applied Evolutionary Medicine, with Princeton Univ Press.
Core theme: "What, if anything, do medical practitioners do differently when they understand evolution"?
Long-term small effective population size, inbreeding, and a recessive lethal haplotype drive premature death in the endangered Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.06.730634v1
