Bryan Reatini successfully defended his PhD dissertation in March on the consequences of secondary contact between native and invasive Psidium in the Galápagos, and he presented some of his dissertation work at the Evolution 2021 virtual conference. The newly minted … Read more
Todd had the pleasure of co-instructing the 2nd iteration of the short course on Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis of Integrated Anatomical Traits at the SSB 2020 meeting in Gainesville – aka Systematics in the Swamp. The course was made available as a … Read more
All the collaborators on our new NSF project had a chance to meet face to face at RENCI last week and get things rolling. We’re are all excited about a few years of thinking hard about ontology-annotated traits on phylogenetic trees, aiming to … Read more
Bryan Reatini’s work in the Galápagos this past summer was featured in a photo essay in UNC’s Endeavor’s magazine. Check it out!
We have a new paper out in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics as part of a special issue on Biomedical Ontologies: Midford PE, Dececchi A, Balhoff JP, Dahdul WM, Ibrahim N, Lapp H, Lundberg JG, Mabee, PM, Sereno PC, Westerfield … Read more
A new paper of ours was published in PeerJ this past week: Piwowar HA, Vision TJ. (2013) Data reuse and the open data citation advantage. PeerJ 1:e175 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.175. The paper contributes to the evidence base about the costs and benefits … Read more
NESCent’s Education and Outreach program sends ‘ambassadors’ to research organizations throughout the world who interested in exchanging knowledge and expertise with the US evolutionary science community. NESCent has recently posted some information about a very interesting visit a few colleagues … Read more
We have a new preprint out: Piwowar H, Vision TJ (2013) Data reuse and the open data citation advantage. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e1 It’s currently under review at PeerJ, but we still welcome feedback, and will be happy to acknowledge anyone … Read more
A belated welcome to Prashanti Manda, who started as a postdoc in February after receiving her PhD at Mississippi State. Prashanti is a computer scientist on the Phenoscape project, and is based at NESCent. She working on methods for computating … Read more
