James Boyko (@jboyko.bsky.social)

James Boyko

@jboyko.bsky.social

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When @omearabrian.bsky.social saw the manuscript, he described it as: ‘What if this figure could be an entire paper?’ I choose to interpret that as high praise. Now accepted at AmNat: The geometry of macroevolution (with Dan Rabosky). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

James Boyko

@jboyko.bsky.social

17 Jan

I should note the figure is from this excellent paper by Wayne Maddison and Rich FitzJohn. academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

academic.oup.comThe Unsolved Challenge to Phylogenetic Correlation Tests for Categorical CharactersWhen comparative biologists observe that animal species living in caves also tend to have reduced eyes, they may see such correlation as evidence that the

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Stephen A. Smith

@blackrim.bsky.social

7 Mar 2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o... Worth a read in order to better know who wants to attack higher ed. 1/4

nytimes.comOpinion | The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education (Gift Article)Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”

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Botanical Society of America

@botsocamerica.bsky.social

28 Jan 2025

mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria from openly available specimen images New in #AppsPlantSci by @tvasconcelos.bsky.social & @jboyko.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @r-foundation.bsky.social @gbif.org #botany #biodiversity #iamabotanist

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James Pease

@jamesbpease.bsky.social

10 Jan 2025

The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

James Boyko

@jboyko.bsky.social

18 Nov 2024

I wrote this about finding the optimal discrete character model structure. I hope this will be useful for empiricists. The main point is that relying only on the package default models is bad and can have nasty consequences or parameter estimates and ASR. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

James Boyko

@jboyko.bsky.social

18 Nov 2024

"nasty consequences FOR*..." honestly, a spelling error in my first post really just confirms my identity on bsky.

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