This is really the crux of the taxonomy crisis. There is now a shortage of trainees, but it's not because of a lack of interest or even funding for students. It's because for the past 30 years, funding has been *only* for students, not for jobs for them after they finish. So they do other things. 🧪
Do you have a citation for that?
Ad fontes: divergence-time estimation and the age of angiosperms ⚒️🧪 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.20076
Accurate divergence times are essential for interpreting and understanding the context in which lineages have evolved. Over the past several decades, debates have surrounded the discrepancies between....
Cool new paper by postdoc Wade Roberts. Hidden a little by the title, but we also test longstanding hypotheses about the relationship between genome size and cell size. Good stuff! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Body size is a fundamental predictor of organismal abundance, and larger-bodied organisms predominate in colder areas ("Bergmann’s rule"). This study of diatoms reveals that in these unicellular organ...
Our department is accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology! Job link here: tinyurl.com/yc564huk. Come join us in wonderful Fayetteville!
A hypothesis-based hop microbiology laboratory module testing the plausibility of the mythical origin of the India Pale Ale journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....#jcampubs
Watched #Eclipse2024 from a rest stop in Ouachita National Forest. License plates in the parking lot: Oregon, Washington, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Cherokee Nation, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, California, Minnesota, Idaho, Wisconsin, Nebraska, North Dakota.
Does your department or college have any written guidelines or policies about faculty publishing in MDPI (or similar) journals?
Interesting trivia: I think this is the first diatom paper published in Sys Biol since 1992. The first issue after the transition from Sys Zool to Sys Biol reviewed a diatom book, and the second issue had a diatom on the cover. We started so strong!