James Boyko

I'm hiring a post-doc to work on a new NSF-funded project. This is funded up to two-years and is in collaboration with Andrew Dickerson at UTK. Start date is very negotiable. Job description here: tinyurl.com/2whyry36. Contact me if you're interested. Please RT!!!

We have some awesome talks lined up for #SSAR2024 June 27-30 at the University of Michigan @UMichEEB #Herpetology

Our new R package is finally out!!! Ontophylo is a new approach integrating the PARAMO pipeline, ontologies, and adding new tools for studying phenomes. Check it out!!! :) @luomus @pseudacris @tarasov_sergio

I'm thrilled to announce that our department is now currently accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Plant Evolutionary Biology! Job link here: tinyurl.com/3evzyxdr. Come join us in wonderful Fayetteville and @uarkfulbright!! Please RT!!

A new preprint from my group examining the interaction between climate and life-strategies across a large number of independent clades. Really nice work from @jboyko21 @ehagen and @TNCVasconcelos ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm excited to announce that I will be joining @UMichEEB as an Assistant Professor & Herbarium Curator this Fall (2022)! I'll be soon looking for grad students too! If you like plant biogeography and/or tropical botany, check out my website for more information👇#NewPI 🌿🌿🌿

Very cool presentation by @jboyko21 for his PhD defense -- before and after opening the Pandora’s box of comparative methods

@jboyko21 is now Dr. Boyko! Thank you to his committee @sinkingdiatom @AdamSiepielski and @omearabrian . That was such a fun defense and I can't wait to see what the future holds!

@damalichthys So when I confidently said "oh ya, hOUwie is a month away", what I meant to say was a year away....

Codes on github here: github.com/jboyko/2020_ho… and on the github version of OUwie here: github.com/thej022214/OUw…

Happy to share a new preprint we've been working on that provides a joint likelihood framework for discrete and continuous characters in OUwie. Lot's of fun problem solving along the way. I'd love to hear your thoughts! ecoevorxiv.org/fb8k7/

@phylieu @EricHagen19 Thank you to all for stopping by my poster! Here’s the link to the preprint ecoevorxiv.org/e2kj8/

Our lab is represented at #Evol2022 #evol22 by @jboyko21 who will be presenting a poster on some of dissertation work TODAY at 5pm, and by @EricHagen19, who will present a poster on polyploid spatial patterns in flowering plants on Monday (6/27). Check them out! Please RT.

FYI: OUwie, corHMM, and HiSSE were all temporarily orphaned for violating CRAN's new code policies. New versions were sent to CRAN, but weren't processed fast enough... For now, if you want to install: library(devtools) devtools::install_github("thej022214/PACKAGE")

Commencing countdown... until Evolution 2022! #evol2022

@iochromaland sounds similar to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… which has an accompanying function in phytools (phyl.pairedttest)

Phylonerd question, I'm drawing a PCM blank -- a student wants to do a phyloANOVA to test if a treatment has an effect on a plant trait (so each species has two measurements, one w/ and one w/o treatment). Can anyone share a paper doing this kind of analysis?

Happy to see this volume out! We bring a comprehensive collection of reviews and original articles on the drivers of the exceptionally diverse Neotropical flora. Thank you to all the authors who contributed to making this the largest issue @BotJLinnSoc and to the team of editors

Happy to share a preprint I've been working on. It applies rate heterogeneity to the problem of biased correlation described in Maddison & FitzJohn (2015). If you're interested in discrete character correlation, I'd love to hear your thoughts! ecoevorxiv.org/e2kj8/

Wake up early tomorrow morning to see my work LIVE in the Mayr Award competition for Outstanding Student Talk in @systbiol ! @Evol_mtg #Evol2021 I'm up first, at 7am PST/10 am EST, so bring your coffee and we'll talk about why biters are special! 🐡🐟

Four years ago today, Pizzagate was born when Wikileaks dropped John Podesta's hacked emails. Users on 4chan and Reddit said if you replaced the words "pizza" with "little girl" in his emails, suddenly they were eating children. A year and three weeks later, QAnon was born.