Hey everyone,

I think I'm gonna stop apologizing for the lack of update, as I blame 2021 for that ;)

Anyway, kinda slow couple of months, first catching up with stuff that was pushed back due to the teaching training programme, and then working in the revision of our first manuscript. Yes, the odds were indeed in our favour and we got two nice-ish reviewers who made interesting suggestions to improve the manuscript. Hopefully in the next update I'll be able to share with you an acceptance of the revised manuscript. I know I said that we would react to the decision on Twitter, but it would have been either a probably unfair rant on Reviewer 1, or a fanboy crush on the second reviewer, so... eh!

In any case, what made me update the news section was our participation at the Symposium of Morphometrics and Evolution of Shape (SMEF11), which was a blast: amazing talks, great organizers and a very interesting R workshop. Gotta confess that we recycled the talk from SICB, but at least this time we got some interesting Q&A after the talk! Oh! And the organizers said that SMEF12 (in 2023) might also be a virtual conference due to the reduced organizing cost (very important for technically free-of-charge conferences) and the increase in international participation, so please keep it on your radar going forward.

Anyway, I'll better get back to finishing that revision... Can't wait to start working on manuscript 2!

Until next update,

Eloy