A great new website from the Royal Society has come online (http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/). It is has a timeline with important scientific milestones published in royal society journals available for download (free access). I am a history buff so this is a great one and a good complement to other similar sites like classics in PNAS (http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/classics.shtml). [...]
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For those of you that don’t know about IRC. It is a kind of chat room system that has been around since the 80′s and the early days of the internet. There is already a small presence of evolutionary biology on IRC but a couple of us (specifically Brian O’Meara and myself) decided to make [...]
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Just a short comment. This weekend I was at the UNC planetarium to check out some of the videos they offer. Just recently went to the Hayden Planetarium at the AMNH and was hungry for some more astronomy. I ended up checking out one of the 15 minute lectures (ok, I thought it was a [...]
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I got a mention in the New York Times today for a large tree that is in press at BMC Evolutionary Biology (to be published today). Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life This is work done when I first started at NESCent with my coauthor’s Michael Donoghue and Jeremy Beaulieu at Yale. We [...]
A ramble follows… As previous posts have eluded, I am working on building large trees and the software to do that. I have found out a few things along the way, such as the fact that linux is still better for some things (some would say, quite a lot of things) than mac (especially easy install [...]
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Just published a paper in Science (October 3, 2008 issue) with Michael Donoghue. It is titled Rates of Molecular Evolution Are Linked to Life History in Flowering Plants . Basically, we found that rates of molecular evolution in 5 large plant phylogenies are linked to generation time (life history). The largest phylogeny was of Commelinidae [...]
