Jake Berv
@jakeberv.bsky.social
Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow | evolution | systematic biology | natural history | barbeque enthusiast
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Jake Berv
@jakeberv.bsky.social
· Jan 27
Happy to be able to provide silly GIFs in your feed once again.
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Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab.
Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.
Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.
Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds
Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ta...
phys.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:10 AM
cool
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And this is an important point to remember, because look at all the fucking Manifest Destiny imagery this admin uses. The fact that Greenland is ~90% Indigenous folks is part of why they're so keen to invade it- they see it as part of the colonial project they want to expand!
Friendly reminder: Greenland is actually Indigenous territory, not "other white people".
Well, now that he going to invade other white people, are the #ffffff going to step up and stop being performative? Your kin on the chopping block now.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
January 7, 2026 at 2:58 AM
And this is an important point to remember, because look at all the fucking Manifest Destiny imagery this admin uses. The fact that Greenland is ~90% Indigenous folks is part of why they're so keen to invade it- they see it as part of the colonial project they want to expand!
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Abolish outside cats. Put dots on win. Don’t spray poison on bugs.
January 6, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Abolish outside cats. Put dots on win. Don’t spray poison on bugs.
the meme game in the other place is ... not bad.
January 7, 2026 at 3:47 AM
the meme game in the other place is ... not bad.
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Tomorrow at 11am is my #SICB2026 talk on early ray-finned fishes! Come by and see all the cool fossils we've CT scanned. Track me down during the rest of the conference to see some 3D printed jaws.....
January 3, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Tomorrow at 11am is my #SICB2026 talk on early ray-finned fishes! Come by and see all the cool fossils we've CT scanned. Track me down during the rest of the conference to see some 3D printed jaws.....
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ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure
Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.
www.ithaca.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 AM
ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
if only this happened at the end of the last jedi
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
if only this happened at the end of the last jedi
this is bad
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
this is bad
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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
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Check out our new paper on the evolution of morphological variation in the avian head, led by @knapprew.bsky.social and out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B
You wait ages for a paper, and two come along (almost) at once! This is the first publication from the project we're currently working on, where we're investigating the relationship between different regions of the avian head. 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Avian cranial evolution is influenced by shape interactions between hard and soft tissue traits
Abstract. Changes in the structure and relative size of the brain are thought to be key transformations in the evolution of birds, reflecting innovations a
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Check out our new paper on the evolution of morphological variation in the avian head, led by @knapprew.bsky.social and out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B
bad.
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
bad.
important reading. don't use LLMs to write your reviews. the entire point of peer review is to solicit expert opinion. if you believe your opinion is incomplete, that is a feature of the process, not a bug.
@jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I had some thoughts about this a while back.
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
important reading. don't use LLMs to write your reviews. the entire point of peer review is to solicit expert opinion. if you believe your opinion is incomplete, that is a feature of the process, not a bug.
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Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations?
We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs.
apply.interfolio.com/178804
We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs.
apply.interfolio.com/178804
December 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations?
We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs.
apply.interfolio.com/178804
We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs.
apply.interfolio.com/178804
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incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs
It’s a eggnog recipe
It’s a eggnog recipe
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs
It’s a eggnog recipe
It’s a eggnog recipe
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Thought he was a cheeto
Teeny orange #toadlet found in #Brazil. A unique mating call led biologists to this newly discovered pint-sized #amphibian. #frog
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Thought he was a cheeto
Ruh roh
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Ruh roh
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car.
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
This Stellantis Brand Is Quietly Preparing Its Most Radical Steering Wheel Yet for Production | Carscoops
The Hypersquare steering wheel and steer-by-wire technology are headed for a production car soon, as Peugeot begins early prototype testing
www.carscoops.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car.
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
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New paper! Here we look at shape evolution of the mandible in Pelagiaria, a group of open-ocean fishes that includes tuna and mackerel. We find that shape disparity accumulated rapidly at the origin of the clade at around the K/Pg boundary... academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Adaptive radiation of pelagiarian fishes at the K/Pg boundary led to rapid diversification of mandible morphology
Abstract. Mandibles represent a key evolutionary innovation that has enabled jawed vertebrates to adapt and diversify in response to a range of food source
academic.oup.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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awesome work
New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
A colorful legacy of hybridization in wood-warblers includes frequent sharing of carotenoid genes among species and genera
Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
awesome work
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NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
cooking hard. some crazy stuff coming out soon. stay tuned.
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
cooking hard. some crazy stuff coming out soon. stay tuned.
Retat! dissilced?
discuss.
discuss.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Retat! dissilced?
discuss.
discuss.