Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes: www.aurorasaurus.org

Northern lights over Santa Fe!

My little brother made the coolest thing you'll see all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULpN...

How is functional variation at large-effect loci maintained in natural populations, even as environments change? In a paper led by @mkarag.bsky.social, we tracked known pesticide resistant alleles in outdoor 𝘋. 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 cages & inferred selection and dominance from temporal sequencing data.

Rank-choice voting AND a roadrunner sticker? NM has voting figured out.

1/9 Excited to share the preprint for the second half of my PhD with @mollyschumer.bsky.social: Connecting human environmental impacts to hybridization in swordtail fish through genomics, GIS, water chemistry, and histology. Thread below! #SciSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

"The silence from the leaders of our university—at least in public—suggests the assault has already produced the intended chilling effect, but together we can overcome it." Good read from Stanford History profs Jessica Riskin and Priya Satia. stanforddaily.com/2025/03/17/i...

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I've been tremendously fortunate to work with @ksxue.bsky.social during her time as a postdoc at Stanford. She's not only a brilliant scientist and an excellent mentor/collaborator, but also a wonderful human being. You should totally join her lab!

I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...

It's been easy to feel powerless these past few months, but the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in SF this afternoon was an important reminder that the fight is not over!

Today's small joy was discovering the latex package "etaremune," which you can use in place of "enumerate" to count in reverse

I'm stoked to be at #SMBE2024! If you're interested in variability/diversity, microbiomes, and/or non-traditional applications of FST, I would love to chat! Poster Weds #44, title: Quantifying the stability of microbiomes and the timescale of antibiotic perturbation with FAVA

Just bought some science stamps! Now we only need a theory edition... store.usps.com/store/produc...

It's conference application season! We in the Rosenberg Lab recently assembled a list of conferences and I thought it could be helpful for other folks doing theoretical population biology. List is below -- feel free to add any we missed!

my work on cultural evolution and transmission biases in chess is out today in Proceedings B! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... humsci.stanford.edu/feature/stud...

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"

Brassica xkcd.com/2827

Today I contacted authors of three papers asking them to share data with me. I wasn't optimistic after seeing various Twitter horror stories, but I've received two kind, helpful, generous replies in just a few hours! Cheers to reproducibility!