*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - ThreadSky

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eliotmiller.bsky.social • 17 days ago

*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409658122

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rheisman.bsky.social•17 days ago

Any interesting surprises in here about how different groups of birds might be related?

eliotmiller.bsky.social•17 days ago

Fortunately no! That I've noticed so far at least. That's one of the nice things about this. We're synthesizing hundreds of published studies, deferring to the most recent ones when they conflict, so the finished product shouldn't have any surprises in it.

rheisman.bsky.social•17 days ago

That makes sense - thanks!

eliotmiller.bsky.social•17 days ago

Resources like this are key to the research community, but they quickly grow old. We have a plan to keep this one current, and you can be a part of it! We've built an R package to make sure contributors get credit and to facilitate tree extraction. Check it out! https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/clootl/index.html

sheardcat.bsky.social•16 days ago

Congratulations, that's so cool!!!! 🐦🌳🥳

(I was literally just reading your preprint several hours ago, I hadn't clocked that it was officially out!!!)

eliotmiller.bsky.social•16 days ago

Thanks!!!

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