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🇨🇳🇨🇦🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Marie Curie postdoc at University of Edinburgh | Wasp taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | ymilesz.github.io/
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I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info: mhibbins.github.io

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Yes music video/dance abstracts over graphic any day!

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These 'easy' bristles are part of the reason why I gave up on Diptera haha.

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Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen! academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic... 🦀🦑🧪

Circular timetree of crabs with pie slices colored by superfamily (Figure 2 in the paper). Simplified version with no text/labels. Line drawings of crabs arranged around the perimeter like a zodiac, with colors matching the superfamily pie slice.
Figure by me, drawings by Harrison Mancke and Javi Luque
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He's now moved to Italy, so not sure how that works over there...

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He's also slowly coming back into the entomology world, including the international congress next month. I imagine he has been banned from the Canadian ento society, but I guess not the other international ones...

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I think you can probably find snow scorpionflies in NB, in case you need to find some mecopterans to show students.

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Thanks Peter :)

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As for future directions, we suggestion: i) reconcile conflicts among morphological and molecular phylogenies; ii) improve the Hymenoptera fossil record; and (iii) reconcile age estimates. We had a lot of fun working on this, hopefully the community will find it useful :) 🧪

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Miles Zhang
@ymilesz.bsky.social
🇨🇳🇨🇦🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Marie Curie postdoc at University of Edinburgh | Wasp taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | ymilesz.github.io/
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