In a new study, Sarah Marion &co use genetic mapping and whole genome sequencing in wild #Drosophila to reveal the genetic basis of naturally occurring lethal mutations and introduce a new model that could explain their frequencies in natural populations. 🧪 #genetics

New study by the awesome Sarah Marion on naturally occurring lethal-causing mutations in Drosophila trinity.duke.edu/news/newly-t...

Excellent advice for PhD student applicants... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’ll be back on Star Trek: The Cruise in 2027, and hope you join me! Get ready to celebrate a year of #StarTrek celebrations at sea! Book now/ ASAP at StarTrekTheCruise.com #StarTrekCruise

"The Scientific Context of Star Trek TOS" with @mafnoor.bsky.social and @drerinmac.bsky.social

My TEDxNewEngland talk is out!!! By identifying commonalities among evolving systems, both living and nonliving, we can develop an expanded concept of evolution that describes the emergence of complex phenomena and reflects the creativity of the cosmos.

Some good reminders here to help avoid faculty burnout: time away, reflection/ goal setting, community, etc. www.chronicle.com/article/feel...

Happy US Thanksgiving to all! Really grateful for all my friends & connections on this platform!

I got to go on the @ncse.bsky.social Safeguarding Science podcast with ST science advisor @mafnoor.bsky.social and the episode is out! Star Trek and Evolution together on one episode! ncse.ngo/safeguarding...

The ultimate intersection of fiction and fact: Star Trek. We were so honored to interview Dr. Mohamed Noor and dive deep into how the show's focus on discovery and scientific integration pushes our understanding of the universe. @mafnoor.bsky.social 📺 Watch the full interview: youtu.be/P9d936OOFYo

A replicator would be amazing, but I'd never trust a transporter. They're like death traps! I'm concerned replicators might be abused if widely available. Remember why the Kazon wanted one? #StarTrek #SciFiTech @mafnoor.bsky.social

🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT🚨 Welcome aboard! In this exclusive interview, The Transporter Room sits down with Dr. Mohamed Noor, acclaimed evolutionary geneticist and Star Trek science consultant. @mafnoor.bsky.social Be sure to Like, share, and follow 📆 November 9th |1PM PT / 4PM ET 🎞️ youtu.be/P9d936OOFYo

Congrats Sarah, @mafnoor.bsky.social, and team on such a cool paper!

Just in case you need some joy/laughs, the new season of Abbott Elementary starts now on ABC.

Excited that we could share some of our recent work on how temperature affects sporulation and recombination rate in Saccharomyces 🎤🌡️🧬🔬 Thanks for having us Mike & @heredityjournal.bsky.social!

Fun interview of Adam Nimoy about his book, conducted last summer... www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_EQ...

"The Enterprise Guys" with Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, and John Billingsley, moderated by @mafnoor.bsky.social #STLV

Come see a new evolution talk at #STLV this Thursday! #StarTrek

GET AN EARFUL OF THIS: #StarTrek: KHAN — A full-cast audio drama written by Kirsten Beyer & @davidmack.bsky.social, based on a story by Nicholas Meyer. Premiering September 8 from CBS Eye Podcast Productions and Realm. Official Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71e...

Fun chat about the science and more in the most recent Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode! #StarTrekSNW www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q9b... on the 7th Rule podcast!

Honored to have gotten to contribute a tiny bit to #startreksnw season 3-- GREAT season and hope everyone loves watching it as much as all the folks enjoyed making it! (Red circle added)

My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social tells us about th domestication of yeast in bread 🍞 Humans have made a profound impact on the genome of S. cerevisiae And commercial baking strains are super weird! #Evol2025 #Evol25

The program for Evolution 2025 is now live! Talk schedules for both the virtual and in-person meetings can be found here: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr... @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025

See you next week, Astro on Tap West LA!

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Amidst all the terrible and terrifying news, so lovely to hear of @jkpritch.bsky.social's election to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations!

6pm PST/9pm EST, Dr. @mafnoor.bsky.social joins #The7thRule for this intriguing episode of TNG, "The Masterpiece Society!" Set your clocks/phones to Trek over to the live chat! youtu.be/_hBCIKCqe9s?...

Great article on/ by Jayne Brook in latest Duke University magazine. #StarTrek dukemag.duke.edu/stories/seed...

The rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do I expect to see Darth Vader’s ship behind this? 😂 #starwars

Fun chat about my work with my wonderful colleague Antwan Lofton. #DukeU youtu.be/4pBUwGSNqaw?...

💐 To NIH and NSF program officers, and anyone else trying to keep those institutions alive: Thank you for trying to do an impossible job in an impossible time. I’m sorry for all of us that this is the world we’re living in. 1/n

We have a new paper out today, where, among other things, we find evidence that a locally adaptive chromosomal inversion likely trapped an even older inversion along its path to becoming the supergene it is today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

Thanks for coming, Dr @miquai.bsky.social ! Always a pleasure to see you!

Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪

Sorry to hear of Scott Hawley’s recent passing- definitely a groundbreaking scholar… genestogenomes.org/in-memory-of...

You know you talk a lot about #StarTrek when “Bad” wants to autocorrect on your phone to “Badgey”… 😂

“The distribution of highly deleterious variants across human ancestry groups”. Preprint with Anastasia Stolyarova and @gcbias.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As a prelude to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we had the privilege of volunteering at Bread for the City in D.C., helping to prepare their daily food pantry. We're creating a Service List and invite your suggestions for volunteer or donation opportunities in the comments. #MLKDayofService

Thanks so much, and back at ya @backofthehead.bsky.social ! Happy new year! 🎊 🎉

why are these evaluations used in hiring, promotion or tenure files? They have no statistical value as assessments and they are actively discriminatory against anyone not a cis able-bodied white man. How many more papers like this do we need to stop using them?