Evolution Day 2

Second day of the conference. Many of the talks I most want to see are coming up Monday and Tuesday, and I have a bit more to do to prepare my own talk, so I take it a bit light on sessions. Highlight of the day was definitely the discussion with Mark McPeek and the other journal editors during and following the “Happy hour with the editors” session, which was perhaps the best event of the conference, despite a rather unimpressive attendance. Apparently this is an annual tradition I missed last year, certainly hope not to miss it again. Hope to flush out my reflections from those discussions sometime, meanwhile, just a few notes to myself below.

Haven’t kept up with the paper notes, so using my own twitter archive to capture the essentials I wanted to remember or share from the talks I saw. A bit of a cop-out but makes for quick collective note-taking.

Talks

  • Stamatakis, Alexandros.  What’s new in RaxML?

  • Crosby, Ralph: Fast Evolutionary Tree Distance computation using quartets

  • Linder, Randal: SaTe-II, faster/more accurate simultaneous alignment and phylogenetic inference

  • Zwickl, Derek: A simple instertion-deletion mixture model for phylogenetic inference

Lunch with Dan Rabosky, Graham Slater and others.

  • Chris Martin: Beyond Ecological Opportunity: adaptive radiation and the origins of novel ecological niches

  • Matt McGee: Functional morphology and kinematics of feeding in stickleback: implications for ecological speciation

Happy Hour with The editors

(Am Nat, Evolution, JEB:)

Archiving code. double-blind review? who owns your review? Big names rejected more often from big journals. No one successfully guesses their reviewers.  Rejections are usually for failures of communication, not failures of scientific process.

Dinner with Liam Revell & Sam Price

My twitter coverage

  • rmvq Discussion with editors: who owns “copyrights” for review dialogues? Can author post reviews on blog? No one knows for sure. #evol1110:20 PM Jun 19th retweeted by cboettig

NerdyChristie Can sexual dimorphism be a source of variation for adaptive radiation? Yes, says Matthew McGee. #evol117:15 PM Jun 19th retweeted by cboettig

cboettig Check out Chris’s heatmap of pupfish jaw evolution: #evol11 https://bit.ly/lfJ0Mn6:56 PM Jun 19th

cboettig Chris Martin: not talking about those seed-eating finches, but niche novelty: bloodsucking vampire finch, tool using finch, … #evol116:50 PM Jun 19th

cboettig Chris Martin explores the third axis of adaptive radiations & opens with photos of Darwin’s finches tatoos #evol116:48 PM Jun 19th

cboettig RT @lukejharmon: de Koning: “with great data comes great responsibility.” A great motto for the genomic age. #evol115:34 PM Jun 19th

cboettig @JennyMcGPhD #evol11 shuttles to dorms till 10:30p. They can extend till 11pm for tweetup if we request5:33 PM Jun 19th

cboettig #evol11 tweet-up 9pm at Embassy hotel bar (following poster-session)?4:33 PM Jun 19th