Wayne Maddison
Raw pu-erh in the morning; oolong in the afternoon. Chocolate: dark milk. Would rather be drawing spider genitalia, usually. Looking forward to the next field trip. Thinking about getting a pottery wheel. Father of two amazing adults. Emeritus Prof @ UBC
- The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
- Have any of you played the ZoL adventure game in Mesquite 4.02? (It's pretty short in its current version.) We'd welcome feedback about it as a game for students learning phylogeny.
- Does Mesquite's phylogenetic adventure game look familiar to anyone? 🧪 #evolbio
- The scoop: To get to Mesquite's adventure game, type "ZoL" into the log window. You will find yourself in an open field with a mailbox. 📬 (If that does nothing, then you'll need to turn on "Use Log Window for Command" under File>Defaults>.)
- 👀 Mesquite's adventure game has been discovered by @josephwb.bsky.social! BTW, for those of you teaching phylogeny of all life or a particular group of organisms, the adventure game is designed for students to test their knowledge of relationships. (Yes, we'll reveal how to access the game!)
- Has anyone taken up the challenge of finding the adventure game in Mesquite? 🔍
- Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social
- Mesquite now has a built-in adventure game, which you may be able to find if you say the correct magic word. You can also build your own versions of the game. 🤔
- Drama among punctuation marks. Brilliant. www.instagram.com/reel/DIFU9g2...
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- Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
- The fifth law of thermodynamics is that in a closed system, bureaucracy will always increase over time. There remains the possibility that this is merely a specific instance of the second law, with bureaucracy = entropy.
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- Reposted by Wayne MaddisonPlease help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio
- Reposted by Wayne MaddisonSince search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
- Reposted by Wayne MaddisonThe Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.
- Reposted by Wayne MaddisonHerbarium director position opening at Oregon State University @osu-herbarium.bsky.social Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...
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- Phylogenomics processing of locus-by-locus files with inconsistent taxon names in Mesquite 4, a short video (3 minutes). youtu.be/YdSWQMkW92k (Channel: bit.ly/4eM2SLZ) 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social
- Reading and viewing tree files output by different programs in Mesquite 4, a short video (3 minutes). youtu.be/MVk4aira8A8 (Channel: bit.ly/4eM2SLZ) 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Wayne MaddisonI've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
- Update! — Mesquite 4.01 released, fixing a few small and one substantive bug (for details see response post). New: NINJA (for neighbour joining), new merge taxa options, node spots, Google Earth mapping. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social
- A short video showing how to infer gene trees in Mesquite 4. youtu.be/xkAHBRIJ4CU 🧪 #evolbio #phylogenomics @bembidion.bsky.social
- Naiveté: Hoping people will follow your polite recommendation when defining a standard. When we defined the NEXUS file format in 1997, we considered DATA blocks to be already archaic, and recommended strongly against them. 38 years later, prominent programs still depend on them. 🤦 🧪 #evolbio
- A short Quick Tip video showing how to concatenate and deconcatenate matrices in Mesquite 4. youtu.be/1etP6D3SrdE 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social
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