Tootfinder

i stumbled across a fragment of my online dating profile from two decades ago
I'm into Monk, chaos theory, Björk, Vermeer, Frosted Mini-Wheats, Wallace Stevens, Saint-Saëns, Tim O'Brien, Miro, evolutionary biology, Ravel, Gregory Corso, fresh berries, UFOs, Ellington, Bible comics, computational complexity, Nespresso, The Kinks, Diane DiPrima, fresh-squeezed OJ, Köln's Kompakt music label, Giacometti, Mingus, that sort of thing. I'm very curious and never bored.
s…

Inhomogeneous continuous-time Markov chains to infer flexible time-varying evolutionary rates
Pratyusa Datta, Philippe Lemey, Marc A. Suchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11982 ht…

Inhomogeneous continuous-time Markov chains to infer flexible time-varying evolutionary rates
Reconstructing evolutionary histories and estimating the rate of evolution from molecular sequence data is of central importance in evolutionary biology and infectious disease research. We introduce a flexible Bayesian phylogenetic inference framework that accommodates changing evolutionary rates over time by modeling sequence character substitution processes as inhomogeneous continuous-time Markov chains (ICTMCs) acting along the unknown phylogeny, where the rate remains as an unknown, positiv…

"Specialist" and "generalist" are surprisingly slippery categories— biology abhors a binary— but quantifying the shared evolutionary history of plants eaten by insects introduced to North America let these authors predict their plant-damaging impacts https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70083

Great RadioLab interview with Ella al-Shamahi, about her journey from religious anti-evolutionism into evolutionary biology. New perspective but also familiar if you (like me) grew up among Christian creationists; really moving on what faith, even "denialist" faith, means to people
#science #evolution

The evolution of asymmetrical regulation of physiology is central to aging
Mirre J P Simons, Marc Tatar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15911 https://arxiv.org/…

The evolution of asymmetrical regulation of physiology is central to aging
The evolutionary biology of aging is fundamental to understanding the mechanisms of aging and how to develop anti-aging treatments. Thus far most evolutionary theory concerns the genetics of aging with limited physiological integration. Here we present an intuitive evolutionary framework built on how physiology is regulated and how this regulation itself is then predicted to age. Life has evolved to secure reproduction and avoid system failure in early life, and it is the physiological regulati…