Very excited to share the capstone of my postdoc work with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, co-led by Wright lab grad student Cassandre with contributions from many others. We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.

Surely this is not the same amygdala my ancestors were using to fend off wolf packs and grizzly bears

There is a lot of stuff going on. I feel it would be nice if there wasn't as much stuff going on

When you look at your old code and you're impressed that past you was able to figure all that out

So far my experience of winter in Rochester is that it's basically a coin flip whether you're going to get pelted on the face with hail on your commute home from work

I may have neglected writing the documentation for this R package for a bit too long

clouds 😑

i like snow

Still a few more days to apply to our open faculty position! This is a stellar department to be an evolutionary geneticist. I've really enjoyed my time here so far. Feel free to DM if you have any questions! apply.interfolio.com/173431

I've seen riparian plots you people wouldn't believe

Not to post spoilers but the history of chromosomal rearrangements in Rumex is genuinely breaking my brain right now. Excited to share with y'all

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As a biologist I am pretty envious of the explanatory power of the "everyone is 12" theory

Happy to chat with any potential applicants who want to work in plant phylogenomics!

the lion does not concern himself with factor of 2 errors

New preprint led by grad student, Yu Mo! We introduce new software to calculate evolutionary rates of quantitative characters in the presence of discordance 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First grant submitted 🙏

Memories of Lake Superior Old Woman Bay, Ontario July 2016 #WeekNforNights #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #sunset #ShareCanGeo #blueskyphotography #PukaskwaNP #LakeSuperior

Looks like only first year grads can apply now

The Board of Coalescence is nearly full

UR Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor in mathematical/computational evolutionary genetics. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/173431

too many documents

super excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now in Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy: doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

writing a phylogenetics-oriented grant without using the word "diversity" or any of its derivatives

when the first September hits as a new PI

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv. We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Being a PI is definitely a step up in responsibility and workload but so far I am really enjoying it. I'm being challenged in an incredibly fulfilling way that I haven't felt probably since I was a first year grad student.

Real Northerners know that the two week stretch including the last week of August and the first week of September has the best weather of any time of the year

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Wear sunscreen folks. I am Suffering

Old Man Yells At FASTA Headers

Finally tried a garbage plate. I have been Baptized

Returning to the command line after a break of many months got me feeling like Jordan when he came back from retirement

Seeing the finalized plans for my lab space renovation has me SO hyped for the future

new institution, new flavor of package dependency hell

You ever randomly get stressed about something and then completely forget what it was five minutes later? What a nice feeling. Like oh it couldn't have been that bad

Day 15 of professoring: started drinking coffee again

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Finally making an effort to understand Fahrenheit

What's the academic version of aura farming

They should invent a type of printer that prints things

I'm drinking amounts of water you can't even conceive of

Really cool that there's a 4 billion degree heatwave on the precise days that I'm moving

Air conditioning is not enough. I need a personal walk-in freezer

also for the systematics inclined folks, support early career researchers (ahem, like me) presenting in the Mayr Award Symposium on Friday, May 30! (SSE has the Hamilton Award sessions the day before, on Thursday, May 29)

Imagine your 5 year old kid hates their birthday party and you have to explain to them that it was planned by a computer and not by you, their parent. Oof

Very excited to see this super fun collaboration with @jacanamama.bsky.social finally published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...