| Website | leehsiangliow.com |
| Bryozoan stuff | https://bryozoanlableed.wordpress.com/ |
| Workplace | https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/index.html |
My periodic reminder that if someone makes something you love - art, writing, a podcast, whatever - you should let them know.
You may be the only person who does, and it may make all the difference.
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I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Permian Basin.
In the lab we work on the evolution of species interactions, especially mutualism, parasitism, and insect-plant interactions, and especially leafflower-leafflower moth associations. We also think macroevolution, networks, phylogenies, molecular ecology, island biogeography, and the tropics are cool.
Folks working on colonial organisms, we are organizing a topical session at GSA this year for you. "Better Together: Coloniality as a Way of Life and of Generating New Tools and Insights across Fields" Oct 2023
https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2023/home
#bryozoa #corals #graptolies #GeologicalSocietyAmerica #Paleontology #Paleobiology
While New Caledonia is known as a centre of plant endemism, its fern flora has been under-studied. Recent collections of Ptisana Murdock, a genus often poorly represented in herbaria due to their large size, enabled new molecular phylogenetic investigation and a reassessment of previously proposed taxonomies based on morphology. Sequence data from the endangered (EN) dwarf species P. rolandi-principis (Rosenst.) Christenh. are obtained for the first time and confirm that it is genetically distinct and warrants recognition at the species level. Previous studies suggested that the widespread South Pacific species P. salicina (Sm.) Murdock was present in New Caledonia. However, revised analyses indicate that the New Caledonian plants are an endemic species, recognised here for the first time at the species rank as Ptisana soluta (Compton) Murdock & Perrie, comb. nov., stat. nov., with a vulnerable (VU) conservation ranking. The most common species, the New Caledonian endemic P. attenuata (Labill.) Murdock, is shown to be genetically variable, and warrants further systematic and phylogeographic investigation.
Have I mentioned that I am heavily involved in organizing the virtual version of the Evolution conference (which is now open for registration)?
And that it is very, very inexpensive?
As in, $20 for student members inexpensive?
Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight
Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
and
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817
There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
What are we waiting for?
Emma the Curious 🧐 has moved!
JennyMcG
Peter Roopnarine
David Hembry
Andy Murdock
Emilia Jarochowska 🇺🇦🌱
Warren Currie 🦠🦐
Mike Wiser
Björn Brembs