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joelmcglothlin.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Associate Professor at Virginia Tech.
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Who's getting rich off this engineered volatility?

submitted 7 days ago • 198 comments

China is ripping us off how exactly? By manufacturing stuff we want to buy and selling it to us?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Hunter Greene is going to win the NL Cy Young Award

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I cannot afford to buy lunch at Logan in this economy

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

According to this post, I will be teaching at this thing. Apply today!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Talking today at Tufts University on stop #2 on my Spring Seminar Tour. This will be the same talk I gave at UNC recently except for the one slide I said was probably wrong (it was). Apologies to the UNC folks. DM me if you want the right answer. I guess we will also write a paper at some point.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Took my Twitter handle off my seminar title slide and replaced it with my Bluesky handle

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

How should I spend my afternoon/evening in Medford, MA?

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I have come here to chew bubble gum and answer emails, and I'm all out of bubble gum

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Wake up Babe, new @immaculategrid.com just dropped

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Matt McLain is on pace for 122 home runs

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Tomorrow marks the beginning of Elly De La Cruz's first MVP season

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Hey folks, its time to celebrate some outstanding scientists & science. The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social gives out a variety of awards each year. It is my great privilege to announce this year’s slate of awards. These will also be announced in the next ASN newsletter. 1/N

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Never trust AI

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

🧵 1/ New study on squamate color evolution hits the press: we show that brightness variation in lizards & snakes is strongly linked to habitat openness 🌞 This reveals how ecological pressures drive color evolution in one of the most diverse groups of tetrapods www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

You can glean a lot of information about a person from their @immaculategrid.com stats. 1. I am a Reds fan 2. I grew up in the 1980s and 90s (watching baseball on TBS, WGN, and WOR) 3. I had a lot of Rickey Henderson baseball cards 4. I am a Zack Greinke admirer 5. I am obsessive compulsive

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Please share this opportunity widely! Instructors: @fmachado.bsky.social @alencarlrv.bsky.social @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Jacqueline Sztepanacz, Patrick Carter & Joe Felsenstein (virtually)

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I don't understand NIH enough to know what this really means. The $65 million number seems made up, unless they are just going to fire more people.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 42 days ago • 1572 comments

Trump keeps doing this tariff thing because he is lonely and wants to have a reason to talk to Claudia Sheinbaum on the phone

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I just joined @aaup.bsky.social, and if you are an academic, you should too

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

My congressman is a degenerate goon who sends form letters like this one to people who call his office. I'm considering calling just to taunt him instead of to express concerns in a civil manner.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Listening to Memphis Minnie. She sure could play that thing.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments