Calm down everyone, apparently Ghost is coming. Probably still working out how to KO the howl.
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Calm down everyone, apparently Ghost is coming. Probably still working out how to KO the howl.
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Yes! These days Huey is a strong advocate for conservation research in Montana. One of the good ones for sure!
www.umt.edu/news/2024/07...
Local coverage of the impacts of federal #science cuts in western #Montana. 🧪
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The best!
"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote.
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Just be patient and kind to the remaining NSF folks. I promise you, they are still fighting for American science.
Matt I am so sorry to hear this. This is a massive loss for basic science, losing so many talented scientists dedicated to supporting the next big discoveries. Thanks for everything you’ve done, wishing you the best my friend.
It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races.
This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.
With all the bullshit coming soon, letting rodents predict the weather is going to seem data-driven in comparison.
What do the molecular mechanisms of trait variation tell us about how evolution works?
A great commentary by @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social
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Ping @fishcongen.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social
Just FYI I’m not quitting
Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night.
I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.
Preprint finally out! I show that eco-evo feedback can drive a tipping point where genetic drift overwhelms adaptation. This can result in a contraction of a species' range border or range fragmentation. Fragmentation is abrupt and arises readily under rapid temporal change. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Love this. And as a consequence aussies are some of the world's most hardcore commuters...
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Very proud to share this outstanding work by @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social - now out in Genetics!
Pollination in walnuts (such as this Persian walnut, Juglans regia) and pecans occurs through a genetically controlled temporal flowering dimorphism. Two distinct morphs alternate their phases of male and female flowering across the season, promoting outcrossing that has maintained a stable equilibrium throughout tens of millions of years of evolution. See eado5578. Photo: Philippe Clement/NPL/Minden Pictures
It feels surreal to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Incredibly proud of the work that went into this. And so grateful for the opportunities, resources, support and mentorship from co-authors and my whole scientific community that made it possible
Why we fund basic research
Suggestion: Search up Energy Share programs that help people stay warm in the winter. Katherine and I are making a $10,000 donation to Energy Share of Montana today.
Happy December 13th to all who celebrate!
Local synteny visualization of 3 species and 4 homologous groups.
Local synteny visualization of 5 accessions of beans, highlighting an array of TIR-NBS-LRR genes in this region.
A workflow for Tidyverse-based local synteny visualization: Good for visualizing local synteny across species, genotypes, or acorss regions of a genome. Can be used to showcase copy number variation. Still need to write the tutorial, but will be on my GitHub soon. #Genomics #DataVisualization
Yep
👋 Would love to be included. Not from the global south but here are a few outstanding speciation colleagues that are:
@guillermodelia.bsky.social
@dortizba.bsky.social
@emilyroycroft.bsky.social
We’ve done faculty searches where we skipped letters altogether and just did phone calls with the shortlist refs. Shifts work to search committee but much better signal to noise. However, some refs *really* disliked this, as if it was a breach in the way things should be. It was illuminating.
A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵
Great, let us know if you have questions or suggestions!
@gwct.bio’s version is much improved, including indels & other improvements. Definitely needs a follow up assessment.
Yes, good idea. Dealing with ref bias in F1s was one of our primary motivations when we first developed this, for genotyping, ASE assignment, etc. Here is an early 2017 pub where we empirically explore some of the biases.
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Just posting this to #popgen
Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics:
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Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.
