How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵 mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html

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Reminds me of one of my professors' challenges when learning marine invertebrate diversity: try to pick animals representing five phyla you'd eat in a stew.

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Just slept 10 hrs post #botany2026 ama

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Tribble Lab representation was strong at #Botany2026! What a fantastic opportunity to reconnect and welcome new scholars into our botanical community.

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I am thrilled to share that I will join the American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org as the Dean of Collections, Curator, and Professor in September!

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