Alexander McKelvy

Evolution, biogeography and systematics of snakes

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

20 years since the original ratsnake phylogeography paper in Evolution, genomic data helps us understand the biogeographic history of our continent, and ratsnakes!
Our paper is now available in early view at the link below!
https://t.co/axIObJ0Psd

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@HerpGSU Is it an active choice to forgo using the name Lampropeltis rhombomaculata for the members of the species complex in this state?

[Justin Bernstein @JustBernstein]

After six years of work with countless generous individuals and researchers, decades of work from previous researchers and communities, I am STOKED to announce the phylogenomics and #museomics of Homalopsidae has been published in the Bulletin @systbiol ! https://t.co/EC95ZFyfSu

[Jeff Doser @jeffdoser18]

Interested in multi-species occupancy models with species correlations and spatial autocorrelation? Check out our new paper in @ESAEcology and our vignette below for fitting the models in spOccupancy: https://t.co/TUQen8enkg

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

I challenge @RobertKennedyJr @joerogan and @PeterHotez to submit papers with data supporting their vaccine hypotheses which we will subject to open, public peer review by domain experts.

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@glopezpadro @Peters_Glen

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@gschuman @CarlosGSmith The same people pushed back on wokism back then too, with fire hoses and Jim Crow laws and fires at Stonewall. That's your place in history.

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@GovRonDeSantis Shithole governor

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@Mick_Jones269 @KHayhoe Don't move the goalposts

[Liam Revell @phytools_liam]

Ancestral state reconstruction under the hidden-rates model using #Rstats #phytools: https://t.co/nRBgVc5mKU.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

Here are the big takeaways from the @IPCC_CH Synthesis Report released today.

First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@photoriphy @PeterSchorschFL Best he can do is post a narrowly cropped crowd-sourced poop.

[Liam Revell @phytools_liam]

I have a new pre-print for #Rstats #phytools "version 2.0." If published, this will also become the new citable reference for phytools. Check it out! 👉https://t.co/S3yL9ZQezM.

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@snakeymama @Crixartos If you want to spend your time on that by all means but I'm sure it's just people trying to come to terms with rattlesnakes not rattling at them and relying on crypsis. About as much merit as hoop snakes or sizing up a person to eat them.

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@Crixartos @snakeymama https://t.co/T1MZUgXM8i

People have a lot of unsupported opinions on snakes. You'll also hear the "sizing up prey to eat it story" and a silly one about a talking snake tricking someone. None of it is true.

https://t.co/T1MZUgXM8i

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@Crixartos @snakeymama This is a persistent myth with no evidence

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@ValerieGoldst17 @WoodleyBooker @oftenuncommon @marklevinshow To make a word plural (slap an s on the end). It couldn't be simpler.

[Jason Garcia @Jason_Garcia]

The Florida Legislature is calling a special session next week that everyone will say is about punishing Disney.

But it's actually about cleaning up the mess Ron DeSantis made when he had his staff con a bunch of migrants in Texas into boarding a plane to Martha's Vineyard.

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

Bragging about federal money again but this time in reference to his death cult. Very cool.

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

I’m committing to securing $3.5 billion in funding for Everglades restoration and the protection of water resources – which will bring our record investment to $6.8 billion in just 8 years.

We will leave Florida to God better than we found it.

[Mike Fahmie @mikefahmie]

I was shocked this weekend to learn that @MayorOfTLH appointed Grow Tallahassee officer & PAC Chair Bugra Demirel to the Greater Frenchtown-Southside Citizens Advisory Committee. This is unethical on several levels and warrants further investigation.

[Alexander McKelvy @SnakeEvolution]

@DSlishX @MuellerSheWrote @KanakaMark Law school 101? Why then did Mueller, who knew from the getgo he could not prosecute, fill his team with prosecutors?

https://t.co/HLw08tVcER