Using a new machine learning tool – Convolutional Kitchen Sinks – Avery shows how it is possible to learn the evolutionary model on which species have been filtered into communities just from observations of their community membership. One of my favourite paper titles. Interested in Convolutional Kitchen Sinks? Make sure to check out Avery’s kitchen R package (available at https://github.com/avery-kruger/kitchen).

Read the full paper in Systematic Biology syae026, doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae026