Meg Daly
@megdaly.bsky.social
Biodiversity, evolution, oceans, people. Opinions and enthusiasm my own.
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Be ungovernable
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Be ungovernable
This makes me wish I could knit more than lumpy rectangles
I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This makes me wish I could knit more than lumpy rectangles
Surprisingly delicious🐓💃
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Surprisingly delicious🐓💃
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
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The Sea Around Us assessed 18 fish and invertebrate stocks and concluded that “most species are unsustainably fished”, with particular worry for conch and lobster, Belize’s export mainstays. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/beli... (via @mongabay.com)
Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary)
Belize sells itself as a small-country answer to a big problem: how to keep the sea alive and the people who depend on it working. The pitch is strong. A debt-for-nature “blue bond” shaved public debt...
news.mongabay.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Sea Around Us assessed 18 fish and invertebrate stocks and concluded that “most species are unsustainably fished”, with particular worry for conch and lobster, Belize’s export mainstays. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/beli... (via @mongabay.com)
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The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/openpositions.html #phd
Open positions
Open positions
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/openpositions.html #phd
Bringing the outside in
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Bringing the outside in
A "good news" thing that the State of Ohio does is partner with universities and orgs like @visitcolumbuszoo.bsky.social to do vital conservation research. This story highlights fantastic work on native bees, but the efforts also focus on snakes, mussels & hellbenders
news.osu.edu/ohio-state-s...
news.osu.edu/ohio-state-s...
Ohio State, State of Ohio harness skills to save wildlife
Just how many species of bees live in Ohio? Based on other states, estimates land between 400 and 450. Until recently, there hasn’t been a way to be sure.Thanks to the Ohio Biodiversity Conservation P...
news.osu.edu
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A "good news" thing that the State of Ohio does is partner with universities and orgs like @visitcolumbuszoo.bsky.social to do vital conservation research. This story highlights fantastic work on native bees, but the efforts also focus on snakes, mussels & hellbenders
news.osu.edu/ohio-state-s...
news.osu.edu/ohio-state-s...
There is a Cnidaria-focused collection in the journal Diversity through which some interesting new papers are being published--this one resolves a taxonomic question around a common sea anemone, reinterpreting it as a native rather than introduced species.
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
www.mdpi.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There is a Cnidaria-focused collection in the journal Diversity through which some interesting new papers are being published--this one resolves a taxonomic question around a common sea anemone, reinterpreting it as a native rather than introduced species.
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature
The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Parallel shifts in differential gene expression reveal convergent miniaturization in fishes | PNAS
Body size variation in vertebrates is a complex polygenic trait, tightly correlated
with numerous aspects of a species’ biology, ecology, and physi...
www.pnas.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unnoted in this piece is the role PROFIT plays...
Universities can better recognize a breadth of contributions. But publishers could use their profits to recognize & compensate work done by researchers in the publishing process (or lower costs of open access).
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Universities can better recognize a breadth of contributions. But publishers could use their profits to recognize & compensate work done by researchers in the publishing process (or lower costs of open access).
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Major Academic Press Calls for “Publish or Perish” Reform
Just one-third of researchers, publishers, funders and librarians believe academic reward and recognition systems are working well, according to a survey from Cambridge University Press.
www.insidehighered.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Unnoted in this piece is the role PROFIT plays...
Universities can better recognize a breadth of contributions. But publishers could use their profits to recognize & compensate work done by researchers in the publishing process (or lower costs of open access).
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Universities can better recognize a breadth of contributions. But publishers could use their profits to recognize & compensate work done by researchers in the publishing process (or lower costs of open access).
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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I have stolen
the jewels
that were in
the museumcase
and which
you were probably
saving
for visitors
forgive me
they were expensive
so shiny
and so old
the jewels
that were in
the museumcase
and which
you were probably
saving
for visitors
forgive me
they were expensive
so shiny
and so old
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I have stolen
the jewels
that were in
the museumcase
and which
you were probably
saving
for visitors
forgive me
they were expensive
so shiny
and so old
the jewels
that were in
the museumcase
and which
you were probably
saving
for visitors
forgive me
they were expensive
so shiny
and so old
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Students (and recent graduates) working on anything phylogenetics, systematics or taxonomy-related, the abstract submission deadline for this year's (FREE ONLINE) Young Systematists' Forum approaches!
Send us your abstracts by Saturday, OCTOBER 25 11:59PM GMT+1
tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
Send us your abstracts by Saturday, OCTOBER 25 11:59PM GMT+1
tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
YSF2025 Registration Form
Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form.
This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...
tinyurl.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Students (and recent graduates) working on anything phylogenetics, systematics or taxonomy-related, the abstract submission deadline for this year's (FREE ONLINE) Young Systematists' Forum approaches!
Send us your abstracts by Saturday, OCTOBER 25 11:59PM GMT+1
tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
Send us your abstracts by Saturday, OCTOBER 25 11:59PM GMT+1
tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
Love how this is formatted like the hippo sat for a portrait at Sears, circa 1983
October 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Love how this is formatted like the hippo sat for a portrait at Sears, circa 1983
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Yet, we don’t train young scholars to fail well.
We praise resilience, but rarely explain how to build it.
Rejection is part of the scientific method.
It’s the friction that refines our thought.
5/
We praise resilience, but rarely explain how to build it.
Rejection is part of the scientific method.
It’s the friction that refines our thought.
5/
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Yet, we don’t train young scholars to fail well.
We praise resilience, but rarely explain how to build it.
Rejection is part of the scientific method.
It’s the friction that refines our thought.
5/
We praise resilience, but rarely explain how to build it.
Rejection is part of the scientific method.
It’s the friction that refines our thought.
5/
Just home after the PhD defense of @anemone-padawan.bsky.social .
Nothing in my professional life offers more joy than the growth and success of my students. I could not be happier, prouder, or more excited for his future😍🎉
Nothing in my professional life offers more joy than the growth and success of my students. I could not be happier, prouder, or more excited for his future😍🎉
October 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Just home after the PhD defense of @anemone-padawan.bsky.social .
Nothing in my professional life offers more joy than the growth and success of my students. I could not be happier, prouder, or more excited for his future😍🎉
Nothing in my professional life offers more joy than the growth and success of my students. I could not be happier, prouder, or more excited for his future😍🎉
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The Young Systematists' Forum is nearly upon us!
If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference!
Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference!
Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
YSF2025 Registration Form
Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form.
This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...
tinyurl.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The Young Systematists' Forum is nearly upon us!
If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference!
Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference!
Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
Lovely lady at my back door this morning
October 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Lovely lady at my back door this morning
Ten days left to apply! This is a mid- to senior- level, endowed role in a FANTASTIC research collection. Letters not req up front, so barrier to application is low.
Curious? Reach out out or apply!
Curious? Reach out out or apply!
📢HIRING ANNOUNCEMENT!📢
📍The Ohio State University is looking for applicants for the position of Martha N. and John C. Moser Chair in Arthropod Biosystematics and Biological Diversity.
📆Application deadline: 15 OCT 2025
👇Check the link below
osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
📍The Ohio State University is looking for applicants for the position of Martha N. and John C. Moser Chair in Arthropod Biosystematics and Biological Diversity.
📆Application deadline: 15 OCT 2025
👇Check the link below
osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
October 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Ten days left to apply! This is a mid- to senior- level, endowed role in a FANTASTIC research collection. Letters not req up front, so barrier to application is low.
Curious? Reach out out or apply!
Curious? Reach out out or apply!
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Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students!
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...
Join the lab
The Caetano lab at Towson University (Maryland, USA) is seeking a Master's degree student to start in Fall 2026. A Research Assistant (RA) position is available to the student during part (or all) of....
caetanods.weebly.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students!
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...
I was adopted through closed adoption. I have a happy adoption story from my perspective. But I know that my happy story may not be a happy chapter in someone else's life. That's haunting and hits me differently at different times in my life.
If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I was adopted through closed adoption. I have a happy adoption story from my perspective. But I know that my happy story may not be a happy chapter in someone else's life. That's haunting and hits me differently at different times in my life.