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has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded.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?

Hey you…yes, you. Good job for getting through this year. You did a great job. Go ahead and take a couple breaths then treat yourself. I’m really proud of you.

Not such a long road…? 😂 #StarTrek

If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be? 🔮 For my latest newsletter, inspired by A Christmas Carol, I posed this question to 12 people I greatly admire. Their answers were surprising, heartfelt, and thought-provoking. thefuturehunter.substack.com/p/the-ghost-...

Full-time, 10-week paid summer marketing internship working for Star Trek! Available to students who will be Juniors, Seniors, or Masters students in fall 2025. Hybrid or on-site (NYC, LA). Deadline for applications December 31, 2024-- see careers.paramount.com/job-invite/4...

Dr. @josheyler.bsky.social knows many fun facts about the history of grades! 🍖 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

So funny just how many people are having leftover turkey for lunch today at work (including me)… 🍗 (Apologies to vegetarians…)

Sad but unsurprising: "outrage facilitates the sharing of misinformation at least as strongly as sharing of trustworthy news; and ... users are more willing to share outrage-evoking misinformation without reading it first." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Thanksgiving all! Very grateful for the friendships and kind engagements from you all on this platform and more generally. Wishing you the very best today and always!

Some expressions of gratitude by members of the Duke University community… #Thanksgiving today.duke.edu/2024/11/work...

Apparently it’s #FlyDay or #DrosophilaDay in honour of the day Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly or vinegar fly line w1118 (the first variant with the white eyes) was isolated, so enjoy some drosophila #sciart! 🧪 #inverts This print highlights the model organism with a ring of 5 of 🧵1/n

With sails unfurled no less!

It’s a privilege to be able to walk from work to an early voting site- thanks to Duke University for making it easy and to the 1158 people who voted before me here on this first day of early voting in NC!

Let me tell you how much I love Europa on today's Short Wave from @npr.org 🚀 www.npr.org/2024/10/16/1...