Kiran Marathe
@zqtpck.bsky.social
Jumping spider taxonomy and systematics for PhD and everything else about them for fun! Also, into natural history, Indian classical music, coffee, beers, and procrastination.
https://kiranmarathe.owlstown.net/
https://kiranmarathe.owlstown.net/
Phenasurya daeng, a new genus and species of plexippine jumping spider (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina) from Thailand zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Phenasurya daeng, a new genus and species of plexippine jumping spider (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina) from Thailand
We describe a new plexippine genus and new species, Phenasurya daeng gen. et sp. nov., with a striking red face, from Thailand. Its placement within Plexippina is supported by ultraconserved element (...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Phenasurya daeng, a new genus and species of plexippine jumping spider (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina) from Thailand zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...
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Are you a student interested in Arachnology? Join our annual virtual student social is happening soon!
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May 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Are you a student interested in Arachnology? Join our annual virtual student social is happening soon!
🕸️WHEN🕸️
Sunday, June 8, 6:30pm CST
🕸️WHERE🕸️
AAS student Discord
🕸️How to Register🕸️
If you’re not in the student Discord, send us a DM and we will share the link with you.
🕸️WHEN🕸️
Sunday, June 8, 6:30pm CST
🕸️WHERE🕸️
AAS student Discord
🕸️How to Register🕸️
If you’re not in the student Discord, send us a DM and we will share the link with you.
Can't recommend this enough for phylogenomic analyses—especially for someone like me who struggles to interpret those 'abstract' (wordy) black-and-green terminal outputs. Try this friendly black-and-green instead!
Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy.
Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).
Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).
May 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Can't recommend this enough for phylogenomic analyses—especially for someone like me who struggles to interpret those 'abstract' (wordy) black-and-green terminal outputs. Try this friendly black-and-green instead!
Reposted by Kiran Marathe
Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy.
Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).
Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).
May 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy.
Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).
Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).
Reposted by Kiran Marathe
A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵
PhyIN: trimming alignments by phylogenetic incompatibilities among neighbouring sites
In phylogenomics, regions of low alignment reliability and high noise are typically trimmed from multiple sequence alignments before they are used in phylogenetic inference. I introduce a new trimming...
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December 6, 2024 at 12:56 AM
A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵
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One year on, we’ve heard little reaction to our paper conceiving #species as process-bound, historical, and without natural rank. Integrative #taxonomy and #phylogenetics should love the concept; #speciation biology might not, but it could. #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio
A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC). doi.org/10.18061/bss...
December 8, 2024 at 5:42 PM
One year on, we’ve heard little reaction to our paper conceiving #species as process-bound, historical, and without natural rank. Integrative #taxonomy and #phylogenetics should love the concept; #speciation biology might not, but it could. #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio
Reposted by Kiran Marathe
The first of a series of posts about our field work in Madagascar.
Sunset on Masoala.
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Sunset on Masoala.
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Sunset on Masoala
I am looking out over a violet-flowered landscape in Antananarivo as I remember the last blue-and-gold sunset in Masoala. The beach at Ambodiforaha, nestled in Masoala National Park, faced we…
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November 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM
The first of a series of posts about our field work in Madagascar.
Sunset on Masoala.
waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/s...
Sunset on Masoala.
waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/s...
Reposted by Kiran Marathe
I was rereading Tinbergen's "On aims and methods of Ethology" this morning and was awakened by this: "It seems to me that...we...will always need naturalists and observers as well as experimenters; we must...not discourage the [person] with a gift for observation."
I have the gift for observation.
I have the gift for observation.
November 17, 2024 at 2:23 PM
I was rereading Tinbergen's "On aims and methods of Ethology" this morning and was awakened by this: "It seems to me that...we...will always need naturalists and observers as well as experimenters; we must...not discourage the [person] with a gift for observation."
I have the gift for observation.
I have the gift for observation.
Clarifying the phylogenetic placement of Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 (Araneae, Salticidae) with ultra-conserved element data doi.org/10.3897/zook... via @ZooKeys_Journal
Clarifying the phylogenetic placement of Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 (Araneae, Salticidae) with ultra-conserved element data
The subfamily Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 is an enigmatic group of minute leaf-litter-dwelling jumping spiders from Southeast Asia. Although previous molecular phylogenetic studies have suggested that it ...
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November 17, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Clarifying the phylogenetic placement of Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 (Araneae, Salticidae) with ultra-conserved element data doi.org/10.3897/zook... via @ZooKeys_Journal
With the discovery of Tenkana jayamangali, our knowledge of jumping spider diversity has become a bit richer! (doi.org/10.3897/zook...)
And oh, by the way, belated Happy International Jumping Spider Day!
And oh, by the way, belated Happy International Jumping Spider Day!
October 11, 2024 at 6:54 PM
With the discovery of Tenkana jayamangali, our knowledge of jumping spider diversity has become a bit richer! (doi.org/10.3897/zook...)
And oh, by the way, belated Happy International Jumping Spider Day!
And oh, by the way, belated Happy International Jumping Spider Day!
Iranattus rectangularis, known only from a male specimen from Iran, is now reported in India, including a female specimen.
*(collage) figure from the paper.
Read more here: zse.pensoft.net/article/1220...
*(collage) figure from the paper.
Read more here: zse.pensoft.net/article/1220...
May 15, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Iranattus rectangularis, known only from a male specimen from Iran, is now reported in India, including a female specimen.
*(collage) figure from the paper.
Read more here: zse.pensoft.net/article/1220...
*(collage) figure from the paper.
Read more here: zse.pensoft.net/article/1220...
I am convinced that the obsession with lawn grass in North America is an oil and gas lobby. The energy consumption involved in growing it and mowing it when it grows is redundant. And I’m not counting the energy used in processes surrounding the core objective!
April 10, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I am convinced that the obsession with lawn grass in North America is an oil and gas lobby. The energy consumption involved in growing it and mowing it when it grows is redundant. And I’m not counting the energy used in processes surrounding the core objective!
I can't think of a better way to celebrate Darwin's Day! Introducing Ghatippus paschima, a new plexippine jumping spider from the Western Ghats of India! For more: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1141...
Ghatippus paschima, a new species and genus of plexippine jumping spider from the Western Ghats of India (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina)
We propose a new genus of plexippine jumping spiders from the Western Ghats of India based on the new species Ghatippus paschima gen. et sp. nov. While it bears a superficial resemblance to Pancorius ...
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February 13, 2024 at 6:40 AM
I can't think of a better way to celebrate Darwin's Day! Introducing Ghatippus paschima, a new plexippine jumping spider from the Western Ghats of India! For more: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1141...