Brian O'Meara

@omearabrian
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I study diversification, species delimitation, trait evolution & other macroevolutionary questions, often using new methods. Also random coding projects in my own time. I'm a college professor.

Views my own. Living in Oak Ridge, TN, USA.

I often follow interesting mastodon servers by following all their users (basically, merging several local feeds). Bonus is this helps new people get at least one follower (me) quickly.

He/him

#evolution #biology #rstats

PronounsHe/Him
Websitehttps://brianomeara.info
Githubhttps://github.com/bomeara
Tenure and promotion letters – Brian O’Meara

How I write promotion and tenure letters and what factors we should examine

Age rate scaling poster – Brian O’Meara

Age rate scaling poster

Evolution 2026 in person activities https://brianomeara.info/posts/evol2026inperson/
Evolution 2026 in person activities – Brian O’Meara

Our lab’s activities at Evolution 2026 in person meeting

Reading bills – Brian O’Meara

How to stay informed about state-level legislation

rnsf – Brian O’Meara

R package and cache of NSF grants

I've updated my rnsf #rstats package to include:

• Cache of public data on every #NSF grant (>500K)
• Info on every #GRFP

Tools for viz, examples of use, etc.

Blog post: brianomeara.info/posts/rnsf/

Pkg: https://bomeara.github.io/rnsf/index.html

AI optimization – Brian O’Meara

Optimization of papers for AI parsing?

PhyloPapers 2025, Reticulate evolution https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Oct_10/
PhyloPapers 2025, Reticulate evolution – Brian O’Meara

Discussion of Yardeni et al. (2025) reticulate evolution

PhyloPapers 2025, Growth of the tree of life https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Sep_05/
PhyloPapers 2025, Growth of the tree of life – Brian O’Meara

Discussion of Chen et al. (2025) about the growth of the tree of life

Course ads on R-sig-phylo https://brianomeara.info/posts/rsig/
Course ads on R-sig-phylo – Brian O’Meara

The main mailing list for phylogenetics in R, R-sig-phylo, is now nearly all ads for courses from a small set of companies. It would be great if they stopped this.