Rafael Marcondes
@rafamarcondes
Lecturer at Barnard College. College teaching, birds, evolution, life in NYC, and pics of my cat, Rosalind Franklin. 🇧🇷 (The R in Rafael is pronounced like the h in "hat")
@devonderaad.bsky.social: Looking out at this crowd of incredibly resilient people, i feel hopeful despite our unprecedented, cynical times #AOS26
@devonderaad.bsky.social dropping a bomb at the #AOS26 plenary 💣🔥
Since 2020, I've kept a spreadsheet with the titles and a tweet-length summary of all the papers I've read. Today I made a word cloud of the sheet, and honestly I'm pretty surprised! Apparently the biology of sex is main main scientific interest?
Trying to conceptualize modes of speciation for my Evolution course. Thoughts welcome!
Pretty proud of this idea I came up with and of the illustration I made with ChatGPT
I think my new favorite example of a historical constraint in evolution just arrived in my print (🥰) copy of @asn-amnat.bsky.social!!! And on the same week that i prepped my lecture on adaptation and constraints!!!
Fireflies in the middle of freaking Manhattan. New York City can’t be a real place
Stay home all day with AC and blow up my electric bill, or set the AC a little higher leave home and brave the furnace?
ChatGPT to the rescue--it's gotten A LOT better at making usable figures!
Checked one “living fossil” off my bucket list… now onto coelacanths!!!
Also check out these GORGEOUS watercolors by Rice biology/art student Caroline Pollan!
They say seeing a Raven is a bad omen, but personally i feel my day is made every time i see one
New fear unlocked, thanks to this cool little report from my old friend Vagner Cavarezere's lab! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Student Q: how would this suggestion by F85 to do PICs on a phy with polytomies work in practice? How to calculate the contrast (contrastS?) between the 3 branches? What value do we carry over to the polytomy's parent (rootwards) node?
Asked ChatGPT to draw a caricature of me based on my CV. Bad idea, I know, but it's scary how good and real it is!!!