Oh, look what I saw on the beach!

Here's a genome from the Vertebrate Genomes Project (vertebrategenomespro...): a chromosome-level assembly for the false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)! 🐋 This resource advances cetacean research and conservation. Photo: Stefan Thiesen Buntrabe 1/2

This is hilarious! 🤣 "Someone draft a statement calling this 'Biden's War'" 🤣

The “Fraud Squad” is a more accurate name. And this is horrible for Rice’s Whale and other endangered wildlife.

Point cloud local ancestry inference (PCLAI): continuous coordinate-based ancestry along the genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713813v1

And guess what’s on the cover of Current Biology today 🐸

Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur

Help vaquita porpoise come roaring back by casting your vote. Every vote helps endangered species advance to the next round and brings them closer to the $10,000 conservation prize. uproar.indianapoliszoo.com

First Event Announcement 📅 March 5th
⏰ 6 PM CET / 9 AM PST Dawn of Cetology: The Scientific Pursuit of Whales, from Antiquities to the Twentieth Century

One genome changed everything. The Human Genome Project showed us that: • reference genomes are scientific infrastructure • open data accelerates discovery • collaboration makes scale possible Those same principles now power a far bigger vision — understanding life across the entire Tree of Life. 🌳🧬

The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action: Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.

Developing this course from scratch, incorporating several new recent developments from my lab, including tests of ghost introgression, model development and testing, and inference from Ks histograms. Do sign up! Feel free to DM me with queries.

Join us Sat, Feb 7 for a FREE virtual book launch of 'The Evolution of Cetacean Societies'. Live Q&A + cover BTS. 🕕 18:00 GMT / 10am PT 🎟️ Free with registration 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Accuracy matters across all life, because errors propagate into population, adaptation, and conservation research. Done right, reference genomes become lasting assets: anchoring global tools, databases, and collaboration for generations. #ReferenceGenomes #BiodiversityGenomics #ChromosomeScale

Do you like your learned society and what it does for you and your research community? Then publish in their journal! This paper by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social & Co shows that it will only do good, and comes with a handy database of academy-friendly journals. 👇

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

In a new GBE Review, @david-peede.bsky.social et al. overview the SMC model and extensions, discuss examples of discoveries made with the help of SMC-based inference, and comment on the assumptions, benefits, and drawbacks of various methods. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution #compbio

🎉 5,000+ genome assemblies sequenced! EBP affiliates are building momentum, and we’re already looking ahead to the next genome sequencing milestone on the road to 2026. Congratulations to everyone who worked together to make this happen. Happy holidays and a happy New Year! ✨🧬

A new #ScienceAdvances study shows that commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean over the past century reduced the genetic diversity—and possibly the evolutionary fitness—of the region’s humpback whales. https://scim.ag/4anxPpM

We made the cover of @heredityjournal.bsky.social ! Photo by @cherinebaumgartner.bsky.social

Buy The Evolution of Cetacean Societies book direct from uChicago press via link below and use the code UCPNEW at checkout to get 30% discount off the list price. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Halloween, the day Satan introduces your children to the gateway drug to homosexuality—costumes!

New paper out in Heredity: 'Evidence of long-term purging of mutation burden in killer whale genomes'. Time calibration of purging was through inclusion of an ancient (7.5Kyr) genome which was close to directly ancestral to the present-day population with signature of purging. rdcu.be/eM25j

We are seeking speakers for #pag33 hosted in San Diego: Jan 9th at 10:30am. Talk to us about your current/planned efforts to develop genomic resources for threatened/endangered species! @ebpgenome.bsky.social - hosted by @uconneeb.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com Abstracts by Oct 27th! 🧬 🦜 🌱 🐛 🐢

It's not easy to make genomic research sound exciting, but the Earth BioGenome Project has done a great job in the latest issue of EBP Life, featuring "Underwater Genomes", and a Spotlight story that makes my career sound as exciting as I think it is. bit.ly/EBP_LIFE

We are seeking volunteer ASL Interpreters (or students working towards certification) to join monthly, virtual meetings and facilitate translation of spoken language (English) to American Sign Language and sign language to spoken language. Knowledge of marine mammal sciences is not required. (1)

White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

Thanks to our whole EBP community for making this milestone possible. | @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social | @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social | @atlasea.bsky.social | @biogeneurope.bsky.social | @ergabiodiv.bsky.social | @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social | @invertebrates.bsky.social | @projectpsyche.bsky.social |

🚀🧬🔥 Hot off the press — 2025! Don’t miss this must-read publication: bit.ly/4mJwFb7 This groundbreaking paper sets the stage for Earth BioGenome Project Phase II — where EBP is gearing up to scale genome sequencing 10× faster than ever before! 🌍✨

📣 ATTN (please share!) 📣 The #DEI Committee of the Society for @marinemammalogy.bsky.social is currently seeking volunteer American Sign Language Interpreters (or students working towards certification). #ASL #AmericanSignLanguage #SignLanguage #marinemammals @dolphinwhisperer.bsky.social

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Thank you @murray.senate.gov for joining the chorus demanding RFK be fired. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr... Now we need action! @sanders.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.

I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.

The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.

With the death of anti-LGBTQ Christian Nationalist, James Dobson, the VIP section of Hell is now full. Fellow bigots, please make other arrangements.

“Progress” is not what got them to drop everything, including Merloni leaving her vacation, to scramble and fly to DC immediately. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Release the unredacted tRumpstein files!

Costco NEVER carried mifepristone Costco NEVER carried mifepristone Costco NEVER carried mifepristone Costco NEVER carried mifepristone

Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:

People working in or visiting museums in DC: Please use your phones to record politically/racially/sexuality/gender sensitive exhibits before the Trump administration desecrates them with its white supremacist heteronormative propaganda. Because we will need to fix them when he’s gone to Hell.

NEW: Governor Newsom will be holding a press conference and rally at 11:30 AM PT tomorrow in Los Angeles regarding redistricting. The announcement is chef's kiss.

"ChatGPT, show me on a map where most of the crimes are being committed in Washington, DC."

@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."