@rachelkruger
PhD candidate at Binghamton University studying speciation in Monkeyflowers! Lover of unintentionally funny signs, music, photography, well-dressed mannequins, nature, winter sports, and pre-loved things. She/her | 🩷💜💙 | ADHD+ Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Just added to our #PlantScience journals, societies, and institutions starter pack:
@forestryjfr.bsky.social
@botsocscot.bsky.social
One more spot left, who's in! #SciComm
go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C
Hi all! I’m a PhD candidate in the @lindseyswierk.bsky.social and Powell labs at Binghamton University. I use #PopGen, #BehavioralEcology, and #VisualModeling to study the #evolutionary & #ecological processes of #divergence in a semi-aquatic #Anolis lizard species complex. #speciation #evolution
We are excited to start off 2026 with some BIG NEWS!
For the first time, we are offering free shipping for orders > $200! (only available within the contiguous US).
Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda
Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland.
Best consideration date: 3/14
Job Ad:
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
Department:
biology.umd.edu/people
Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.
There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.
Dendrochronology and paleoclimatology of the Stradivari's violins:
"...the majority of soundboards were crafted from Norway spruce (Picea abies) that grew at very high elevations during the severe climatic conditions of the Maunder Minimum"
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Climate
NYT Told it in the 3rd (he built) person but there were many of us fighting this fight across 7 institutions, including our Great GREAT PARTNERS Stanford University and all of our Indigenous colleagues and allies at OSU, UW Seattle, UW Madison, UC Santa Cruz, ASU and the Tribes in RADx UP
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
There appears to have been another ICE murder in Minneapolis this morning.
[CW: graphic video]
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
More people need to read up on the history of slavery in the Americas and the lengths enslaved women went to to avoid bearing children into slavery. Look up flos pavonis, cotton root, all the other tools used to prevent or end pregnancy - a key form of resistance to sexual and reproductive violence.
Here is the 60 Minutes segment Bari is trying to keep you from seeing. They keep getting taken down so watch asap
@knechtfour.bsky.social we oughtta get this for Lauren
HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!
harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in...
You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats
List of 8 species names and observation dates next to a small thumbnail of my photograph. Here are the species: Deuteragenia sayi, Phytoplasma asteris, Chionea scita, Caenolampis robertsi, Anaptomecus longiventris, Galapaganus conwayensis, Nesocastolus, and Eumicrota socia.
List of another 8 species with pics: Eurythrips, Ischnodemus variegatus, Philodromus barrowsi, Aprostocetus fidius, Colaspis pseudofavosa, Mycosphaerella impatientis, Cymindis planipennis, and Heinrichiessa sanpetella.
If you're bored and use iNaturalist, here's a link to a tool that displays which of your observations were the first recorded for a taxon. I apparently have 16 (out of 3,395). I need to get out more. 🌿 #inaturalist #nature #insects #spiders glauberramos.github.io/inat/first-o...
Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
New #mimulus preprint! We found grandparental environments exhibit strong effects on the fitness of their grand-offspring and whether this was positive or negative depended on the historical environment, showing TGP is locally adaptive
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New paper by PhD student Aly Van Natto! 🌾🧪
Ever wondered if a plant's early start (seed vs. clonal fragment) affects the rest of their life's trajectory? We did! So we tested it over 3 yrs. Seedlings grow & flower fast but die young, while clones play the long game
#PlantScience #ecology #evolution
I’m very proud to have published the article referenced here, which constituted one of my dissertation chapters. It was certainly a labor of love!
New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾
Sign the petition to restore eligibility of 2nd year grad students to the NSF GRFP. They are being robbed of the opportunities to advance their innovative science. @chubicki.bsky.social
"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats."
—Albert Schweitzer
We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social
companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat
they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box
Folks on LinkedIn - you might notice an email about using your data and your content to train generative AI. If you'd like to opt out, the clicky button is here:
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
(you'll need to be logged in of course)
Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.
I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
