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Biergarten nummer sechs

Berlin adventures

Hell yes

Die Mauer

Die Mauer

Just in case anyone was worried about me. Doesn’t count as a biergarten, but still staying hydrated!

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social! Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social! Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Biergarten nummer fünf (featuring Dr. Turelli!)

Biergarten nummer vier

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Ich bin ein Berliner

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...

Biergarten nummer zwei

Biergarten nummer eins

first eight days in #Berlin

Come work with my amazing new colleague!

An exciting negative result!

RFK Jr., back at the lab: "No no, I said two parts roadkill, one part whale juice! Do I have to do this all by myself?"

This looks like an amazing tool www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...

…so you know they’re good

In #GENETICS, @3rdreviewer.bsky.social‬ and @smishra677.bsky.social‬ show it is possible to estimate recombination solely using the allele frequency spectrum and provide a genealogical interpretation of the results, showing how #MachineLearning can provide insights into biology. buff.ly/emixz9W

This story is wild. The water in Bloomington, Indiana hasn't been consistently fluoridated since 2020, but the public wasn't notified. Even the Mayor didn't know. It only became public knowledge when IU chemist Dr. Katherine Edmonds* read a footnote in a report. bsquarebulletin.com/bloomington-...

ellis beach, queensland

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

sailboat on sea (g.b.r., queensland)

How your email finds me

Cool new paper on pop gen and machine learning: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Living Colour #TinyDesk concert now up! livingcolour.com/home/blog/75...

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

The lab will be giving multiple talks and posters at #evol2025! First up, my talk at 2:45 on Monday:

Grits! #evol2025

looking for some fun talks for #Evol2025 day 1? Caroline's this morning is on cool Violet phenology (10AM, Adaptation I, Parthenon 1) My talk this afternoon is on female control of male post-mating performance (4:15PM, Sexual selection III, Athena GH)

#Evol2025 speakers: click the Enable Editing button in the warning message on your power point when you’re ready to start the slide show. If you do, you’ll have captions from PowerPoint, which is important for accessibility. Otherwise they won’t show up.

Come here me talk at #Evol2025 about butterfly chemical evolution today (Saturday) at 3pm in room Athens AB (Parallel Evolution I). Stay for Zarley Rebholz on chemical convergence between plants and ladybirds!

#evolution2025 has officially begun

Our paper (w/ @smishra677.bsky.social) is now out in Genetics! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

One year of German! I feel like between Duolingo and some slow-German podcasts, I’ve learned a lot (enough to read sports headlines at least)

evergreen post, unfortunately

Now this is what a Left Rogan would sound like

"Presentations should be formatted using the widescreen (16:9) slide size, not 4:3. Only Powerpoint and pdfs are supported." www.evolutionmeetings.org/instructions...

Anyone know what the screen dimensions are for talks at Evolution this year? 4:3 or 16:9?