@gibsonmatt
Statistical genetics and software engineering at Eli Lilly and Company. PhD. interested in evolution, genomics, and computing. Likes and reposts do not reflect the opinions of my employer. https://home.gibsonmatthew.com
Here's where we are at: federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old white man, a US citizen and ICU nurse at the VA who appears in multiple videos to have done absolutely nothing violent or even remotely illegal.
Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.
Fantastic write-up. So incredibly strange
i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item
Please repost and amplify !
We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!
Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...
Deadline for applications is Oct 1
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
These embryo-selection startups are clearly feeding into an alt-right ecosystem that revels in techno-futurism much as such movements have in the past. GWAS participants & parents navigating IVF deserve better than being used as tools to attract the attention of edge lords.
A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵
Reflecting what we've known in plant genetics for a while, you just really can't beat ridge regression/GBLUP
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Amazing study from Jill Anderson, Megan Demarche and colleagues, integrating species distribution models, reciprocal transplants, snow manipulation and more to test whether a montane plant can adapt to climate change. The sad answer: not without human intervention.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
One day left to apply! Not seeing many American applications so far, which puzzles me a little bit. If you have a four-year degree including advanced courses in Ecology or Evolution, you are likely eligible. Happy to answer detailed questions over DM or email.
moonlight from behind clouds shows a distant black island on the horizon
moonshine over Isla Isabela, Galápagos
So weird & inscrutable that Musk & his core ideology keeps having strong connections to eugenics & race science, including the pseudonymous race science account Cremieux revealed to be ran by Jordan Lasker whose race science paper was at the center of a scandal involving NIH data misuse & deception
I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
My students don’t like my jokes about maize effective population size. Too corn Ne.
KU Center for Genomics is hiring a postdoctoral fellow!
Choose a mentor among the Center's faculty and propose an original project. Two years funding and generous research budget included. Please share, retweet and apply!
genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-geno…
Hey does anyone want to postdoc with me? :)
Our team is still hiring for this role in four US locations. Please reach out if you are interested.
careers.lilly.com/us/en/job/R-...
The UC Davis plant community is recruiting for a new head of the Charles M. Rick Tomato Genetic Resource center. This position is a cornerstone of the tomato and Solanaceae community and provides some really cool research and teaching opportunities. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06784
I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info:
mhibbins.github.io
My lab is hiring a technician, to hopefully start asap! FT position with benefits, and potential for two positions. Pls re-post! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Day trip back to Bloomington! Cardinal Spirits 😁
Hello evo bio community. I’m in the market for a new job! Interested primarily in bioinformatics roles (engineer or scientist) but anything genomics in ag or human space cool too!! Ideally here in the Midwest US or remote. I would greatly appreciate any leads.
Lobelia hybrid - easy to make in the greenhouse, doesn’t exist in nature.
We are looking for postdocs to join our collaborative team funded by an NSF BEE (Bridging Ecology and Evolution) grant. The Delph lab is focused on reproductive isolation/interference among 24 North American Lobelia species. We have some beautiful hybrids! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/23067
Critique of Clark’s PNAS paper on the persistence of social status in the UK:
Clark (2023) and the Persistence of Hereditarian Fallacies | “Overall, Clark provides no information about the relative contribution of genetic and non-genetic factors to social status”
Grace Hopper Source: Computer History Museum
Born in 1906, computer scientist Grace Hopper invented the first compiler for programming language.
Hopper popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages & paved the way to develop COBOL. She originated the term "bug" to describe glitches & became a Rear Admiral in the Navy.
