Melina Celik

Evolutionary biology | Phylogenetics | Morphometrics
postdoc 🐨 Phillips Lab @phillipsevolab

[Melina Celik @m_a_celik]

Our new paper is out. Check out our reverse engineered #phylogeny approach which uses #molecular phylogeny and #ecological/life-history characters to correct for functional and developmental correlations among #morphological data.
https://t.co/TIAeBn4BHq

[CarmeloFruciano @CarmeloFruciano]

Quite happy that my #Rstats package GeometricMorphometricsMix is now available on CRAN This doesn't change much for most users, as the package has been available for years on GitHub, but I thought it was about time and it may be helpful for novice users https://t.co/05sVv1m3cO

[CarmeloFruciano @CarmeloFruciano]

Delighted to have contributed to this new paper by @phillipsevolab and led by @m_a_celik on phylogenetic inference using morphometric data https://t.co/3OSlV1a21i (in press in Systematic Biology)

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the particularly unusual hostility of peer reviewers. Apparently, several 'respectable' figures in the scientific community have contacted him to voice their disapproval and even urged him to terminate my employment. This also highlights how the cowardly silence of my 'allies' perpetuates bigotry and exclusion.

To my 'colleagues' who feel entitled to pass judgment on my existence as a Palestinian scientist—one who cannot turn away from the human instinct to preserve life while witnessing the daily murder of my people—I regret to inform you that I will continue to exist, unapologetically, with no regard for your comfort or supremacist ideals.

Fortunately, science is not confined to institutions. It lives in my mind and heart, and I can enjoy it fully—even from the solitude of my imagination; even if I were to become homeless. Home, however, is precisely what I am fighting for. I only wish I had the privilege to contemplate nature, without the existential threat of Zionism.

From my perspective at the margins here at MIT, I have come to see academia for what it truly is: a stronghold of racism, classism, and spiritual rot masquerading as enlightenment.

Apologies in advance if I don’t respond to comments on this post—this is a deeply personal reflection, shared primarily for myself.

[Nour Naim| نُور @NourNaim88]

🚨I have just learned that the Israeli army has killed my dear friend, Palestinian academic Reham Ishneiwra.
She was a brilliant researcher in biotechnology, leaving a significant mark in her field as one of the few specialists in #Gaza.

[Dr Jillian Garvey @jillian_garvey]

Proud to have facilitated and been part of this very important discussion at @CAVEPS_Palaeo on why palaeontologists need to collaborate with First Nations people- the first time this has been discussed in this forum. Looking forward to seeing change happen. @latrobe @latrobenews

[Pietro Viacava @pietro_viacava]

My last PhD chapter is now out there ready to be criticized - and cited, hopefully for good reasons! 🤞

An evaluation of performance and an attempt to "reconciliate" linear and geometrics morphometrics and their treatment of size and allometry.

https://t.co/FZhHoZBTTp

[Phillips Lab @phillipsevolab]

Identifying complex DNA contamination in pig-footed bandicoots helps to clarify an anomalous ecological transition:
https://t.co/PdR17b8cng

[Melina Celik @m_a_celik]

Great show opening this coming Saturday Nov 26th at KEPK

[Diversity MDPI @DiversityMDPI]

#DiversityMDPI, New publication "Identifying Complex #DNA #Contamination in #Pig-#Footed #Bandicoots Helps to Clarify an Anomalous #Ecological #Transition" at the link: https://t.co/1k2MsfRt3Y

[Melina Celik @m_a_celik]

@H_ArenasCastro @Banrepcultural Nice! We can add some imprints of your Senecio's heads

[Phillips Lab @phillipsevolab]

Marsupial PhD project! Please share among your folks.

We seek a PhD candidate to study marsupial evolvability and processes that promoted their biodiversity – using 3D shape variation and phylogenetic inference among living and extinct taxa.

See https://t.co/BdGfBOyhIH

[Melina Celik @m_a_celik]

@pietro_viacava @WeisbeckerLab @phillipsevolab Wonderful! Congrats Pietro !!

[Phillips Lab @phillipsevolab]

Our call to correct or flag GenBank errors. Currently, GenBank requires original authors to agree, even if they are no longer active (or alive).
https://t.co/U9e4QHfhf2

[Phillips Lab @phillipsevolab]

Gene sequencing tool clarifies ancient megafauna family tree. @miklosbolza has summed up thoughts on the use of mitochondrial DNA
https://t.co/uOuxFh2Ndn

[Phillips Lab @phillipsevolab]

New paper with Sarah Shazwani Zakaria "Enhancing mitogenomic phylogeny and resolving the relationships of extinct megafaunal placental mammals" is out in Mol Phyl Evol @ElsevierConnect. RY-coding and partitioning for hydrophobicity improved mtDNA phylogeny
https://t.co/KqpZiiYClu

[Pietro Viacava @pietro_viacava]

PhD paper is out! Are northern quolls shaping up or shipping out? Enjoy the reading! Open access, open data and fully reproducible! :)

With @WeisbeckerLab , @simoneb66 , @phillipsevolab , @TGuillerme , @skyefcameron , @drrobbiewilson and G. Sansalone

https://t.co/EzHIjGtY9I

[Melina Celik @m_a_celik]

In this second paper from my PhD, @phillipsevolab and I looked at overcoming incongruent signals among anatomical regions for Mesozoic mammals https://t.co/JP6t4kEHDp https://t.co/JP6t4kEHDp

[Bastien Mennecart @mennecart_b]

Welcome to Cartierodon, the largest European hyaenodont from the mid-Eocene!
Thanks @MattBorths for your comments, it is not as big as yours but still! https://t.co/UEMlA1DjQK

[Chloe van der Burg @ChloeAvdB]

First preprint paper out in #bioRxiv on regeneration in Exaiptasia pallida! #seaanemones #transcriptomics
https://t.co/xY8GQC2uek