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Plant biology, bioinformatics, data science, academia, and industry
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Silas Tittes
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Our octopus population genetics preprint is up! This is Gabby Coffing’s final PhD chapter, and turned out pretty cool. Here’s a little explainer. 1/n
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darth™️
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was the met theme “elden ring”
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Ed
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as usual, the technical bits are the easy part
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Victoria Rose Richards
3 days ago
'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)
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Rebecca Colesworthy
4 days ago
AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It
A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2026/04/30/ai-slop-is-flooding-academic-journals-a-top-journal-measured-it/
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Joana Meier
5 days ago
New PLOS Biology paper arising from a collaboration between us at the Sanger/U Cambridge and the U York and Sheffield, and many more collaborators across the Americas and Europe. Regulatory changes in the same genes (optix, ivory) led to the same colour patterns in mimetic butterflies and moths.
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muscular baby jeb lund
5 days ago
I got that trending globally on twitter in 2015 and got yelled at by my editors at The Guardian.
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Being an industry bioinformatician is, as far as I can tell after 5 years, just patiently explaining the difference between fasta and fastq to people with MBAs until the heat death of the universe
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Charlie Anderson
6 days ago
Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying!
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Academic/job/Tenure-Track-Faculty-Position-in-Plant-Biology_REQ_0000077737-1
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Silas Tittes
7 days ago
So psyched for
@jrossibarra.bsky.social
! Truly a remarkable scientist and person and couldn’t be more deserving of the recognition.
www.ucdavis.edu/news/nationa...
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National Academy of Sciences Elects UC Davis Maize Geneticist Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
The National Academy of Sciences has elected Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at University of California, Davis, as a member. His election was announced April...
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/national-academy-sciences-elects-uc-davis-maize-geneticist-jeffrey-ross-ibarra
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Doc Edge
9 days ago
Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
Learn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/full-time-teaching-track-faculty-position-in-quantitative-and-computational-biology/1209/94300113920
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Ann Leckie
9 days ago
Any of my readers probably knows what a debt I owe to Cherryh. And if you don't, well, I'm telling you now. Go read something of hers if you're not familiar.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
9 days ago
More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2026/04/27/board-ouster-raises-further-concerns-about-nsfs
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Ian Coldwater đź§Šđźš«
9 days ago
as someone who once deleted all of prod the old-fashioned way, it’s funny to giggle at AI doing this but honestly a company where that can happen has problems deeper than AI
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Dennis B. Hooper
9 days ago
Eating a kumquat is what I assume sharks must feel like when they chew on the undersea internet cable
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Benjamin Braun
9 days ago
Since ChatGPT came online in late 2022, grant application numbers across 12 UK and EU funding bodies have increased by *57%*. For MSCA fellowships the number is *+142%*. I do believe that what we’re doing is insane and that we need to stop doing it IMMEDIATELY.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Kevin Bird
10 days ago
Congratulations to the Harper's Letter signatories and the Heterodox Academy!
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Stephen Murphy (smurph)
10 days ago
A big loss with the passing of Peter Raven. He was very encouraging of botany geeks like me; we once had a nice discussion about asexual reproduction in Danthonia and Hieracium two species I studied in my PhD
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Tom Flood
24 days ago
Plan your trip now!
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Joseph Galbo
12 days ago
Credit where due. This is rad.
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karl rove knausgĂĄrd
13 days ago
If I were trying to sell AI to the public I would be saying “it’s a useful way to write code faster and automate some tedious tasks that couldn’t be automated well before” and instead they’re running with “get on board or get left behind” and “we WILL eliminate your job.”
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Rachael Bay
13 days ago
We're looking for a junior specialist to work on a fun project exploring seagrass local adaptation across the whole state of California! It should be a good mix of field and molecular work. Please share with folks you think would be interested!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605
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Jr. Specialist - Stachowicz/Bay Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605
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Molly White
13 days ago
finally, someone has figured out how to allow people to put money on what’s going to happen with the S&P 500
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Jerad Walker
15 days ago
Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.
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ApocalypticaNow
20 days ago
Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]
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Crowsa Luxemburg
17 days ago
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦
17 days ago
Speaking of Canadian innovation… first time I’ve seen a product leaning into genetic engineering as a feature on the label
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
17 days ago
i'll take the bold (for bluesky) position that working for raytheon or northrup or whatever does not make you an irredeemable person, but palantir is very different because they are making karp's insane worldview the company's official public position, they're explicitly saying you believe this, too
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Brian Boyer
18 days ago
Just now realized that I failed to commemorate the first birthday of my bean blog! A year and a few days ago, I made my first post:
beantips.com/how-to-cook-...
Got some exciting (yes, that seems weird, but really) bean tips coming in year two!
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How to cook a pot of beans
Beans are awesome. They're cheap, healthy and delicious. I make a pot every week. Most recipes I'll be posting here will start with something like “First, cook a pot of beans.” So, let's get that out ...
https://beantips.com/how-to-cook-a-pot-of-beans/
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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler
19 days ago
I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:
mhibbins.github.io
I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
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Hibbins Lab
https://mhibbins.github.io/
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darth™️
19 days ago
the fuck is going on here
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Richard Waite
19 days ago
Is mandating an increase in the amount of corn and soy we burn in vehicles good for food security? No. Is it good for nature? No. But is it at least good for the climate? Also no. Read the latest from
@mikegrunwald.bsky.social
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Federal policy on biofuels goes from bad to worse under Trump
The administration’s lavish biofuel subsidies for farmers are bad for consumers and the planet, but the problem goes way beyond his administration.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/food-and-farms/federal-policy-biofuels-trump?amp%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_campaign=canary&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9cIkkebdXGHpKrr7mE2ZAHoN5x6mpyY0_pXiT8_igiNZRX9Ed_BRXAjosZQz24ww6ukw14vuyiiCF6eCRD95Ydj10Q1UcLBaPdSa3C4Wt1iTPPBxo&_hsmi=414133490&utm_source=newsletter
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I have a garage with enough gear to basically launch a small sporting goods store that would instead live in storage units at the edges of some wildernesses
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April Wright
22 days ago
We really only have labor for ~130 regular contributed virtual talks. So, yes! Get those talks in! Late submissions decided via Thunderdome.
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Martha Wells
22 days ago
So this arrived today:
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Jennifer Ouellette
22 days ago
Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York cemetery
www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
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Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York State cemetery
This whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-just-discovered-5-6-million-bees-under-a-new-york-cemetery/
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL
22 days ago
No one has ever been cooler than Masayoshi Takanaka
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Colin Carlson
23 days ago
Our study featured in
@nytimes.com
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/s...
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Global Wildlife Trade Fuels Spread of Disease From Animals to People
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/science/wildlife-trade-disease-spillover.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a1A.7MoM.mlKa7Y_PUrMz&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Bearhat
23 days ago
this is what teenagers in movies looked like during the iraq war
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Jerry Chen
23 days ago
the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there
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Emily Nussbaum
23 days ago
I think the current state of things is that you can delusionally attack the Pope OR post a meme of yourself as Jesus, but not one right after the other
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Dan Garisto
24 days ago
The NSF GRFP is now out! There are 2,599 awardees, which is the most ever—and a big shift from last year which initially halved awardees (1,000 awardees + an additional 500). I've thrown together a plot to break down the changes by field.
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
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Simon, Your Plymouth-Eagle Dealer
25 days ago
I love this result I love Paris Roubaix I love cyclocross, this is such a huge result for me because Wout has always made me want to ride my bike and this has got to feel fucking amazing for him
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Matt Brown
26 days ago
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
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David Kaib
27 days ago
There are only four continents.
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France also isn’t real
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meat spirited
27 days ago
In this movie, Jason Statham plays a retired [Metropolitan Police Officer] who is working as a [Longshoreman]. Events will transpire, causing him to have to spin kick [human traffickers] while [avenging] a [dead friend]
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Jeremy Yoder says no war
27 days ago
So anyway, amidst everything else, I've been spending this week figuring out how to deal with the death of a mentee Remembering Dr. Lea Richardson
lab.jbyoder.org/2026/04/09/r...
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Remembering Dr. Lea Richardson
Lea Richardson on the right, with the rest of the Spring Break 2023 field crew: Zoe Bautista, Daniel Dakduk, and Sebastien Postajian (jby) For more than a year, now, there’s been a hole in th…
https://lab.jbyoder.org/2026/04/09/remembering-dr-lea-richardson/
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