# Brian O’Meara

## Pages

- [New Mac setup](https://brianomeara.info/macsetup.llms.md)
- [head](https://brianomeara.info/head.llms.md)
- [Tenure](https://brianomeara.info/tenure.llms.md)
- [Scheduling app](https://brianomeara.info/schedule.llms.md)
- [Location/Contact](https://brianomeara.info/location.llms.md)
- [presentations](https://brianomeara.info/presentations.llms.md)
- [Feedback](https://brianomeara.info/feedback.llms.md)
- [Opportunities](https://brianomeara.info/opportunities.llms.md)
- [Software](https://brianomeara.info/software.llms.md)
- [education](https://brianomeara.info/education.llms.md)
- [U. Minnesota EEB Head](https://brianomeara.info/UMN.llms.md)
- [publications](https://brianomeara.info/publications.llms.md)
- [Home](https://brianomeara.info/index.llms.md)
- [Model Selection Using the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)](https://brianomeara.info/aic.llms.md)
- [employment](https://brianomeara.info/employment.llms.md)
- [Institutional Memory](https://brianomeara.info/institutionalmemory.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, first class](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Aug_22/index.llms.md)
- [Evolution 2026 in person activities](https://brianomeara.info/posts/evol2026inperson/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Reticulate evolution](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Oct_10/index.llms.md)
- [Tenure and promotion letters](https://brianomeara.info/posts/tenureletters/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Genomic species delimitation](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Sep_12/index.llms.md)
- [Funding for tenure](https://brianomeara.info/posts/fundingfortenure/index.llms.md)
- [Uncertainty and risk](https://brianomeara.info/posts/uncertaintyandrisk/index.llms.md)
- [How long does balance in eponymous names require?](https://brianomeara.info/posts/eponymous_birds/index.llms.md)
- [An alternative to CRAN for phylogenetics](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylotasticruniverse/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Bayesian analysis](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Aug_29/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Phylogeography](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Sep_17/index.llms.md)
- [Joining Mastodon](https://brianomeara.info/posts/joiningmastodon/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Multivariate traits](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Nov_14/index.llms.md)
- [Williams College stops seeking federal grants](https://brianomeara.info/posts/williamsgrants/index.llms.md)
- [Periodical cicadas](https://brianomeara.info/posts/cicadas/index.llms.md)
- [Age rate scaling poster](https://brianomeara.info/posts/ageratescalingposter/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Machine learning for traits](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Oct_31/index.llms.md)
- [Github rate limit](https://brianomeara.info/posts/githubratelimit/index.llms.md)
- [Bias correction in diversification models](https://brianomeara.info/posts/biascorrection/index.llms.md)
- [Watching memory in targets in R](https://brianomeara.info/posts/targetsmemory/index.llms.md)
- [Evolution 2023 SSB Presidential Address](https://brianomeara.info/evol2023.llms.md)
- [Learning Objectives](https://brianomeara.info/learningobjectives.llms.md)
- [Useful links](https://brianomeara.info/useful.llms.md)
- [teaching](https://brianomeara.info/teaching.llms.md)
- [Promotion to full](https://brianomeara.info/promotion.llms.md)
- [Macroevolution (EEB464)](https://brianomeara.info/eeb464.llms.md)
- [Guidelines & Recommendations](https://brianomeara.info/guidelines.llms.md)
- [Research](https://brianomeara.info/research.llms.md)
- [service](https://brianomeara.info/service.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Alpha taxonomy](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Nov_7/index.llms.md)
- [Course ads on R-sig-phylo](https://brianomeara.info/posts/rsig/index.llms.md)
- [Museum Shards](https://brianomeara.info/posts/museumshards/index.llms.md)
- [AI optimization](https://brianomeara.info/posts/ai_optimization/index.llms.md)
- [Reading bills](https://brianomeara.info/posts/readingbills/index.llms.md)
- [13,000 page site with Rmarkdown and targets](https://brianomeara.info/posts/collegetables/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Summary](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_summary/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Growth of the tree of life](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Sep_05/index.llms.md)
- [rnsf](https://brianomeara.info/posts/rnsf/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Handling Data Deficiency](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Oct_24/index.llms.md)
- [Grad core class in evolutionary biology, 2023 edition](https://brianomeara.info/posts/evolutioncore2023/index.llms.md)
- [Fraction of history](https://brianomeara.info/posts/percentageage/index.llms.md)
- [Dentist for likelihood](https://brianomeara.info/posts/dentist/index.llms.md)
- [Field Safety](https://brianomeara.info/posts/fieldsafety/index.llms.md)
- [Conference locations](https://brianomeara.info/posts/conferencelocations/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Behavior and genomics](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Oct_03/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Simulation](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Sep_24/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Phylogenomics](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Nov_21/index.llms.md)
- [SSB Code of Ethics](https://brianomeara.info/posts/codeofethics/index.llms.md)
- [PhyloPapers 2025, Trait evolution](https://brianomeara.info/posts/phylopapers_2025_Oct_17/index.llms.md)
- [Fossils do not help fix diversification parameter estimates](https://brianomeara.info/posts/fossilsdonothelp/index.llms.md)
- [GRFP 2025](https://brianomeara.info/posts/grfp_2025/index.llms.md)
- [SSB candidacy](https://brianomeara.info/SSB.llms.md)
- [DDIG](https://brianomeara.info/ddig.llms.md)
- [People](https://brianomeara.info/personnel.llms.md)
- [Should you go to grad school to be a professor?](https://brianomeara.info/shouldyougotogradschool.llms.md)
- [General](https://brianomeara.info/general.llms.md)
- [About This Website](https://brianomeara.info/about.llms.md)
- [summary](https://brianomeara.info/summary.llms.md)
- [funding](https://brianomeara.info/funding.llms.md)
- [people](https://brianomeara.info/people.llms.md)
- [CV](https://brianomeara.info/cv.llms.md)
- [Better letter](https://brianomeara.info/better-letter.llms.md)
- [EcoEvoJobs](https://brianomeara.info/ecoevojobs.llms.md)
- [Local COVID data](https://brianomeara.info/covid.llms.md)
- [Calendar](https://brianomeara.info/calendar.llms.md)
- [Phylogenetics](https://brianomeara.info/phylogenetics.llms.md)
- [Blog posts](https://brianomeara.info/blog.llms.md)