CJ Battey

Biotech scientists hired before 2022 are the 2003 asst profs of industry. It’s a new world and our advice is ~useless to new grads 😭.

A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...

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Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!

We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥

Our key findings are as follows ...

A very ojai news day

SORA, ALHU, ANHU, COYE, YRWA, CATH, CATO, WCSP, AMCO, WEBU, MAWR, RWBB, TUVU, RTHA, CASJ, PUFI, BLPH, RCKI

Allen’s and Anna’s hummingbirds both doing display flights (ALHU over water, ANHU by the eucalyptus). First Sora sighting since last spring - glad they stuck around.

Good bird morning

Feds are on it

Congrats!!!

doing their shuttle flight over this marsh already. Seems early?

2025 first bird: Allen’s hummingbird

Pretty good

(It sounds basic but it is surprising how often PhDs I interview can’t do one of the minimal things, even when they can go extremely deep on another part!)

Minimal passing for my (industry r&d) interview question is knowing how meiosis works, how to process sequencing data from fastq to vcf, and how calculate and interpret a z score. Also need to write clean r or python, decent Unix skills, beginner git, and some cloud or cluster experience.

Im just a fan!

I realize this looks incriminating but it is still not me!

👀

I would also like my old Tacoma and the burrowing owl hat I left at Populuxe Brewing that winter while we’re at it

If this is 2016 sci twitter redux can we get popgengoogling back plz?

Are you a comp bio graduate student close to finishing your PhD?

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Gestalt id’d rustling tule as a sora and then it flew in to the open to confirm. 2yo unimpressed.

Members of @asn-amnat.bsky.social ($25 per year last I checked) who lack other funds can apply for a waiver of publication fees. Publish in AmNat, folks.
(and in Evolution too)

$1545 for society members to publish open access in Evolution. Publish in Evolution folks.

Causal interpretations of family GWAS in the presence of heterogeneous effects bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Family-based GWAS have become the gold standard for assessing causal genetic effects. They’re often said to offer an unbiased estimate of the average causal effect (ATE) of an allele or PGS. Here, we (Carl Veller & @mollyprz.bsky.social ) evaluate such statements.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

On my way to #ASHG2023! Come by the cancer genetics poster session on Thursday 3-5 to see some of our work at Myriad Genetics on a new test to detect cancer recurrence with cell-free DNA.

Currently a very gradients-went-to-inf vibe

Potty training is a big step away from the QOL local max in my house

Gotta thin out the darth a little over here

I had forgotten how a real following tab is 80% replies from the same four compulsive posters

Second the votes for desolation wilderness. Park at Loon lake and head towards rock bound lake. From there it’s granite high country with lots of options. Requires a permit but never had to reserve in the past. Great trout fishing. Emigrant wilderness out of Crabtree trailhead is also excellent.

Anyone else going to ASHG this year? Just registered. Got a tumor cfDNA poster to present but I’m going to sneak off to the evolution talks when I can.