David R. Maddison

We have released version 3.8 of Mesquite, a modular system for evolutionary analysis, now bundled with Zephyr (to run RAxML, IQ-Tree, etc.), Chromaseq, and Cartographer! The basic packages also have a few new features and bug fixes. @DavidRMaddison mesquiteproject.org

At a thrift store I bought some random photos of random people, and snuck one of the photos onto a friend's fridge (yellow arrow) when I visited him. In 2019. It's driving me crazy that he hasn't said anything. What should I do?

@joules53 and I designed a pointing and pinning block customized for pointed insects. Details at subulatepalpomere.com/2021/09/21/poi…, with links to the 3D model so that you can print your own. #Entomology #insects

@KlausRiede @plazi_ch @rdmpage @eurotaxonomy @waybackmachine @WayneMaddison @AcaciaJoe @GBIF Yes, it is still down. We expect it will take days to fix these vulnerabilities, as the fix requires deep changes to the code.

@plazi_ch @rdmpage @eurotaxonomy @waybackmachine @DavidRMaddison @WayneMaddison @AcaciaJoe @GBIF seems tolweb tolweb.org #treeoflife still down - got the impression the scientific community is moving away from #Aichitarget19, not towardsit

@rdmpage @plazi_ch @eurotaxonomy seems the #Treeoflife tolweb.org site is dead? We now have itol.embl.de/itol.cgi which certainly does not help the #restofus #scicomm #taxonomicimpediment

@KlausRiede @rdmpage @plazi_ch @eurotaxonomy Although the current outage is intended to be temporary, the fact of the matter is that I do not have the time to properly look after ToLWeb, and so it has been dormant for quite some time. If anyone wants to take up the watering can, please be in touch.

@KlausRiede @rdmpage @plazi_ch @eurotaxonomy @waybackmachine @WayneMaddison The current outage is, I hope, temporary; it is to patch a security vulnerability. #treeoflife

@rdmpage @plazi_ch @eurotaxonomy @waybackmachine @DavidRMaddison @WayneMaddison in any case, and unfortunately, #treeoflife ToL is now history....connect to the leaves of the tree (#species2000), and we would have been closer to achieve #Aichitarget19

The Tree of Life Web Project may be nearing the end of its life. The server that it is on will be retired on 31 December, and it is not clear yet whether we have the resources to move it successfully to a new one. #TreeOfLife tolweb.org

Congratulations, @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. Our two countries are close friends, partners, and allies. We share a relationship that’s unique on the world stage. I’m really looking forward to working together and building on that with you both.

Dating during COVID-19: Pam and I haven't seen each other in quite a few weeks, so we decided to recreate our first date over Zoom. We asked the owners of Sybaris to take pictures from the table, and we used those as Zoom backgrounds. sybarisbistro.com

Chromaseq 1.52 for Mesquite has been released; it is now compatible with MacOS X 10.15 (Catalina). #mesquiteproject #chromaseq chromaseq.mesquiteproject.org

Ten years after its discovery, the waterfall beetle Lionepha tuulukwa officially has a name. doi.org/10.1093/zoolin… #carabid

@dpsSpiders @WayneMaddison @BloodhoundTrack As a follow-up to Wayne's comments, it's even more complex. There are definitely specimens with DRM numbers that Wayne collected and WPM numbers that I collected. Also, as a general note, I have collected many hundreds of salticids over the years.

Check out our preprint on leveraging signal from #repetitive #DNA in species-level studies. Repeat signatures are stable within, and variable among, closely related #ground #beetle species. I’m proud of this last chapter of my PhD work with @DavidRMaddison biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The early-access version is available of our paper showing that the amazingly weird bembidiine beetles on the island of St Helena are one endemic clade with an African ancestry. @John_S_Sproul #StHelena #Carabidae academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/adv…

We've released Zephyr 3.1 (zephyr.mesquiteproject.org) for Mesquite, with numerous bug fixes as well as support for IQ-TREE runs on CIPRes. @WayneMaddison #mesquiteproject #iqtree #CIPRES

The Tree of Life Web Project: 25 years online subulatepalpomere.com/2019/11/16/the… #TreeofLife tolweb.org

@ISArachnology #Arachno19

We've released Mesquite 3.6 (mesquiteproject.org ). It supports Zephyr 3 (zephyr.mesquiteproject.org) with support for SSH-based analyses on remote servers) and Chromaseq 1.5 (chromaseq.mesquiteproject.org) with easier GenBank submissions). @WayneMaddison #mesquiteproject

We've released Zephyr 2.11 (zephyr.mesquiteproject.org) containing some important bug fixes for RAxML CIPRes use, IQ-TREE, and GARLI. #mesquiteproject @WayneMaddison

We've released Mesquite 3.51 (mesquiteproject.org), containing fixes for some bugs, including one that caused problems in interpretations of bootstrap and similar values attached to nodes in some tree files. @WayneMaddison #mesquiteproject