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Jonathan Chang
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I work in the public sector. Volunteer work: macroevolution and the fish tree of life.
Reposted by Jonathan Chang
I am thrilled that this manuscript is now out in the world! If you saw my talk at #Evol2025 you may remember me discussing how religion, politics & war shape urban evolution & now you can read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology - Nature Cities
Cities affect biological evolution, but traditionally researchers focus on the biophysical influence of urban environments. Instead, this Review explores how the social processes of religion, politics...
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
i think people are being too much of a doomer on the dire wolf story. if a few SNPs make a new species then think about how great it's going to be for alpha taxonomy. trillions of new species, just waiting to be described
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Chang
The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org
January 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
New blog post: create a triangle-based navigational mesh from hexagonal grids with the H3 library in R. Check out the step-by-step guide with code examples and apply it to your own spatial analyses. #RStats jonathanchang.org/blog/hexes-t...
Generating a triangular navigation mesh from H3 hexagons in R
How to create a triangular navigational mesh using global hexagonal grids from the H3 library. A worked example, based on the San Francisco Bay Area, demonstrates how to construct, visualize, and refi...
jonathanchang.org
December 31, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Did you get an automated reminder that your review is due on Christmas?

It's not an unpaid burden. Instead, it's an chance to get ahead in your career! Manuscript review is a key part of academic service and high-quality reviews reflect on your professionalism. 🧵(1/3)
December 25, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Announcing version 0.6.0 of `tact`, an app for stochastic polytomy resolution on phylogenies using taxonomy.

This version has no new features, but is updated for various dependency changes in the Python ecosystem. It may also be slightly faster due to using PyPy 3.10. (1/2)
December 16, 2024 at 11:33 PM
ChatGPT: making the easy stuff easy and the hard stuff impossible
November 22, 2024 at 12:38 AM
banned phrases in job ads:
* run, don't walk, to this amazing opportunity!
* we offer you SO much more than just a paycheck!
* a job that lets you live out your passions!
November 19, 2024 at 8:16 PM
the only motivation i have for finishing things is that i can then close all the browser tabs associated with that work
November 15, 2024 at 8:57 PM
they live, we sleep
November 12, 2024 at 10:54 PM