Emily Jane McTavish

Toot toot, train's leaving the station. Received some good news on the future of this paper! [No promises yet] The time is now to get trees added into OpenTree and into this new global bird phylogeny. See details below. It's easy! Check out github.com/eliotmiller/cl… too

@GNavalon @EliotITMiller @Avibase @opentreeoflife @CornellBirds Hi Guillermo, the data structure links what paper said what date for what node... kind of like shown here academic.oup.com/view-large/fig… so applying specific sets of dates would be pretty straightforward, (and I actually have code that does that - I just need to clean it up).

@EliotITMiller @snacktavish @Avibase @opentreeoflife @CornellBirds I see! Thanks for clarifying. Well I know a big part of the avian evolutionary biology community would be super interested in a tool like what you guys developed here, and the more customisable the better! Ideally in some years we'll have a full consensus about divergence times.

@EliotITMiller @snacktavish @Avibase @opentreeoflife @CornellBirds Yes, using, for instance, your function extractTree() to get a phylogeny with certain nodes calibrated after some specific analysis (or a set thereof, or excluding others).

@fkbarker @TheLabAndField @EliotITMiller @opentreeoflife A little more than 1 year later... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@fkbarker @TheLabAndField @EliotITMiller @opentreeoflife In MYA no less!

Going official with the release of something we've been cooking up for the last 3.5 years--a complete phylogeny of the world's birds! We = @snacktavish, @Avibase, and other great collaborators from @opentreeoflife and @CornellBirds. Why is this such a big deal? A few reasons.

@cdessimoz @NatureBiotech @ddylus @sedlazeck @SinaMajidian @AdrianAltenhoff I was surprised you didn't cite our paper from last year where we describe the same technique! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Super happy that the Read2Tree paper is now out at @NatureBiotech—the centrepiece of @ddylus’s postdoc and a wonderful collaboration with @sedlazeck. Key contributions by @SinaMajidian and @AdrianAltenhoff too. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Back-to-back: Two proposals were declined funding. This one hurts because they almost got there, and the PMs held on for likelihood of funding.

The @GeneticsSociety apologized today for the participation of some of its early leaders in the eugenics movement, as well as the group’s failure to acknowledge and oppose other past harms and injustices in the field of genetics. More in @NewsfromScience. science.org/content/articl…

Susana Magallón, Santiago Ramírez, Hernán Vázquez, Ricardo García, Alejandro González, Ivalú Cacho, Virginia León, Alejandro Oceguera, Helga Ochoterena, Alejandro Zaldivar, Alejandra Moreno, Arturo Becerra, Pablo Vinuesa @systbiol is so grateful for all your hard work! (2/2)

#SSB2023 in Mexico City is now over - and what a fantastic meeting it was! Wonderful people, exciting science, and a great location. A HUGE thank you to all the organizers! (1/2)

Attending #SSB2023 and interested in your own SSB sticker? Look for them on tables at lunch and coffee breaks this afternoon.

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Help lead our Lab's work to end student debt and more! The Higher Education, Race, and Economy @HERE_Lab at @UCMerced is hiring a Policy and Communications Director! Salary $95K to $120K based on education/experience. Please apply or share our posting! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucm/EMPLOY…

I was so excited as I thought my server drew Darwins tree on my check. Then I realized it was Rudolph.

Job Alert: Come work with wonderful faculty and students at @ucmerced Assistant Teaching Professor in Environmental Systems Science. aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01447

SACNAS is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 SACNAS Presidential Award, Dr. Corey K. Welch. Dr. Welch will be presented the award at the 2022 NDiSTEM in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday, October 29th at 9am. Congrats Corey! 🎉 👏 bit.ly/3gG3Pvk

Anyone have any tips for teaching an undergrad evolution course with a free or open access textbook or course materials? We use this free textbook for intro bio, but I haven't found options for evolution. openstax.org/details/books/…