Biotech scientists hired before 2022 are the 2003 asst profs of industry. It’s a new world and our advice is ~useless to new grads 😭.

1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

A very ojai news day

SORA, ALHU, ANHU, COYE, YRWA, CATH, CATO, WCSP, AMCO, WEBU, MAWR, RWBB, TUVU, RTHA, CASJ, PUFI, BLPH, RCKI Allen’s and Anna’s hummingbirds both doing display flights (ALHU over water, ANHU by the eucalyptus). First Sora sighting since last spring - glad they stuck around. Good bird morning

Feds are on it

2025 first bird: Allen’s hummingbird Pretty good

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If this is 2016 sci twitter redux can we get popgengoogling back plz?

Are you a comp bio graduate student close to finishing your PhD? The Mahan Fellowship is a fully-funded ~2 year postdoc to work with any Fred Hutch comp bio faculty members! Pre-proposals are due Dec 20! Check out full details here: apply.interfolio.com/157470 #ScienceJobs 🧪 #AcademicSky

Gestalt id’d rustling tule as a sora and then it flew in to the open to confirm. 2yo unimpressed.

Members of @asn-amnat.bsky.social ($25 per year last I checked) who lack other funds can apply for a waiver of publication fees. Publish in AmNat, folks. (and in Evolution too)

$1545 for society members to publish open access in Evolution. Publish in Evolution folks.

Family-based GWAS have become the gold standard for assessing causal genetic effects. They’re often said to offer an unbiased estimate of the average causal effect (ATE) of an allele or PGS. Here, we (Carl Veller & @mollyprz.bsky.social ) evaluate such statements. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

On my way to #ASHG2023! Come by the cancer genetics poster session on Thursday 3-5 to see some of our work at Myriad Genetics on a new test to detect cancer recurrence with cell-free DNA.

Potty training is a big step away from the QOL local max in my house

I had forgotten how a real following tab is 80% replies from the same four compulsive posters

Anyone else going to ASHG this year? Just registered. Got a tumor cfDNA poster to present but I’m going to sneak off to the evolution talks when I can.