https://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3mbhmm4kbyc2cWow—thanks @bruceslieberman.bsky.social for posting the entire issue of Paleobiology vol 51/4 2025 “Punctuated Equilibria at 50”—open access papers from the GSA 2022 50th anniversary symposium! A great community celebration!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jan 2026 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhmm4kbyc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lstqaneduk2tPhase one of the ongoing human gaiacidal extinction pulse of the biosphere . Once again, pitifully few insects in my backyard…. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2025 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lstqaneduk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lst6hf4jcc2mCool Sergi!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2025 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lst6hf4jcc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lqfmwxr7ps2jElisabeth Vrba obituary https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2025.2500804. My thanks to Georg Vrba, Elisabeth’s husband, for information and photos on her life and work in South Africa.30 May 2025 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfmwxr7ps2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lqcubbc2mk23I think this paper will be a tipping point in understanding the fundamental importance of punctuational change in all “evolutionary” domains—i.e. where evolution is seen as the fate of transmissible information [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 May 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqcubbc2mk23https://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lpoile3ul22oThis essay has the deep and simple ring of truth about it….. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2025 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpoile3ul22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3ll4xddkti22tGreat to see Ilya Tëmkin’s recent thinking on Hierarchy Theory—and on the newly reconstituted “Bretskyan Hierarchy.” Towards a “General Theory of Biology” indeed! [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2025 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll4xddkti22thttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lk7fjergqk2fMy Obituary of Elisabeth Vrba—out today in Nature in read-only format: rdcu.be/ediyO https://rdcu.be/ediyO12 Mar 2025 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk7fjergqk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lhtsk23swk2mI am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.10 Feb 2025 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtsk23swk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lh33bg2th22mMy letter to the Editor of the Cornell Sun in support of the Paleontological Research Institution: https://cornellsun.com/2025/01/31/letter-to-the-editor-the-importance-of-the-paleontological-research-institution/31 Jan 2025 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh33bg2th22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lgv4phyhhc2dHerewith, designer Bruce Hannah’s “Polyhedral Coyote”, inspired by Chapter 9 on “Gould’s Polyhedron” and “Coywolf” evolution in our book “Macroevolutionaries”29 Jan 2025 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgv4phyhhc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lgt5qheahk2fSo much for US global leadership in scientific and medical research https://apple.news/ABPTmNWizTkGyb6bFP_QTig?route=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcHBsZS5uZXdzL1RTbVBKSjlFeVNNdXdJRkUzODZ6SDZR28 Jan 2025 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgt5qheahk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lgr7sxsqdk2cWish I could hear your talk Sergi!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jan 2025 00:40 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgr7sxsqdk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lg6yvgzqtk27That was indeed fun..makes me want to go back and check out Ch 4 where we jump from Super Dave to David Hume with the greatest of ease… [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jan 2025 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6yvgzqtk27https://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lerik4koo22yLooking forward to hearing more Sergi!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jan 2025 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lerik4koo22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nilese.bsky.social/post/3lbvjc4osy226@jdegregori.bsky.social Ola James!27 Nov 2024 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:6mpapyxpmkhp3bfjylyfktoa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbvjc4osy226