Gustavo Burin 🍉

Que orgulho do povo Brasileiro. Que alegria viver no mesmo tempo que Lula. Viva os povos indígenas, viva nossa natureza, viva a democracia, viva a ciência, viva a educação, viva os direitos humanos.

Just in time for parental leave 👼! Early view of our new article is available open-access at @plosbiology.org Here, we model how global biodiveristy is related to changes in biome energy and area through deep-time. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The organising by Lula's voters in Brazil right now is astonishing. They still might not win but they've put millions on the street and they have shifted the polls back to a tie -despite, in a friend's words, fighting "everyone -Trump, Meta, legacy media, the rich, betting companies, evangelicals".

Hello friends from outside Brazil For the past 2 weeks we've been fighting against Big Tech's algorithms clearly taking Flávio Bolsonaro's side, they aren't even hiding it anymore, it's surreal to see You can help us doing simple Google searches as the quoted post describes

Some people are reporting that the true result about the murder plan was not obtained in the first search Its called "Operação Punhal Verde e Amarelo" (operation Green and Yellow Dagger) the plan to murder Lula, Alckmin and Moraes, known and approved by Jair Bolsonaro.

Meta, X and other Big Techs are trying desperately to limit our reach on social media so we're trying to get to the search algorithms to spread the word: Flávio Bolsonaro is involved in crimes and schemes and is also trying to free his dad from jail, yes the one who attempted a coup d'etat

🚨HEY NON BRASILIANS FROM BSKY Wanna help ellect Lula and save ou democracy real quick? Just google any of these questions the most you can until Sunday: ⭐Bolsonaro mandou matar Lula? ⭐Caso Ana Clara Flávio Bolsonaro ⭐Flávio Bolsonaro tem envolvimento com a milícia? Our people thank you 🇧🇷⭐🇧🇷

It's funny because it's true

To all my non-Brazilian friends, please take a look at this to understand what is at stake for future elections ANYWHERE

This was obviously not written by me, but those around me can attest that it might as well have been, given that everything I've been saying about AI in research is there. Great piece that everyone should read and reflect upon!

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is under threat from budget cuts which would cripple their scientific collection staff. Myself, @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social, and Nicolás Campione wrote an article on why we think this is short sighted: friendsoftmag.org.au/Messages-of-...

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Why every university have a math department? Because all other departments need to talk to a mathematician at some point. And most of time that talk was not the best, sometimes was borderline disrespectful. Maybe what AI has done with mathematics, and mathematicians was give them back their humanity

Now that it's officially out, I have to say I'm quite proud of this work🙂 I got involved in it after a bit of a failure in another proj. Took way longer than it could. Started pregnant, published close to baby's 3rd bday😅 Very grateful for my patient mentors and collaborators doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Dipping my toes into some new stuff, and my first manuscript as last author! Huge effort by my great friend Edu, with great input from Ayumi and Santiago

Dipping my toes into some new stuff, and my first manuscript as last author! Huge effort by my great friend Edu, with great input from Ayumi and Santiago

Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153

Want to learn more about 'mysterious' limbless amphibians? Did you miss Mark's outgoing President's Lecture in (counts fingers) 2019 but are still dying to know more about caecilians? Then join us at the Linnean Society, 6PM on October 8th! (It's free! But do please register.)

Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️

I am pleased to share that our nowcasting R package {nowcaster} is finally on CRAN! The package wraps statistical models to estimate not yet reported data using an empirical delay distribution, either from individual-level data or from the differences of aggregated time series of cases.

Hear this wild idea out: what if we started blaming a system that forces researchers to publish a lot in little time? What if we stopped rewarding the number of papers when hiring new PIs? Do you really think researchers would still give up on doing what they love the most and hand it to AI?

Maybe one day I'll be one, but today is not the day (and each day I feel less and less hopeful, but I digress). You should definitely join if you can, though. The path towards a better academia is always easier when shared with the right people

New paper lead by Siobhan Pearson, exploring morphological differences between fur seal and sea lion crania 🦭 We found that allometry explains most differences between the two groups. This project originated as Siobhan's Masters project at @nhm-london.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/mms....

"Yes contributing to environmental catastrophes and extinction is scary, but what else are we going to do? Write our own emails? Learn math? Create art? Speak to other humans?!"

Shameless plug: if you want to know what happened to these guys' body size right after they went back into the sea (and through their evolutionary history too), check out our paper from 2024 😉 www.cell.com/current-biol...

lol

Now online at PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper w/ @astigall.bsky.social! 🧪 "Species-level diversity dynamics during the Great Ordovician biodiversification event: a phylodynamic case study of Laurentian brachiopod lineages" Link to paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ngnZ73N~L...

Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)

Question to my colleagues: a hat-trick is when you get three desk rejections with different papers in the same journal or is it when you get the same paper desk rejected in three different journals? Anyway, I got both this year \o/

Coffee with me, myself and I (I hate all three)

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

Spineless bastards

Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Third edition of my course on understanding phylogenetic comparative models and their inference! From finding the MaxLik, building an MCMC sampler to Markov processes, complex birth-death models and more. All welcome!

Apesar de a lapiseira ser de uma das cores mais feias já concebidas pela indústria, team 0.9 all the way