A bunch of election conspiracy theorists have been posting up outside of libraries filming voters as they return their early ballots and claiming they are "mules" or "ballot stuffing." One post went viral on Twitter, despite not showing any illegal activity, prompting this from the commissioner:

did not know that the MMR vaccine actually prevents autism. if pregnant women get rubella they commonly develop fetal abnormalities that lead to autism newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/i...

Human spermatogenesis leads to a reduced nuclear pore structure and function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.30.620797v1

NEW: I contacted dozens of electors on Trump slates in swing states across the country, with a question: would they participate in a 2020 fake elector scheme in 2024, if Harris wins their state? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-tr...

Highly recommend reading the conclusion, acknowledgements, and the "about the authors" section of their original paper. They presented on this work when they were high school students, at a national conference.

Sharing on behalf of Andy Clark @ Cornell. Their Dept of Mol Bio and Genetics has an Asst Prof opening with a focus on human genetics and genomics this year: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28554

Excited to see this paper of ours in print! We worked out the genetic basis of a difference in courtship performance between flies carrying different Y chromosomes found in natural populations

Wow, the Guardian journalists who just yesterday published about the network of race scientists getting funding from tech CEOs just broke another story that this group has accessed UK Biobank data without authorization. This is seriously bad for the integrity of science & a massive failure by UKBB

In the least surprising revelation ever: Aporia magazine -- the white nationalist substack that promotes racial pseudoscience -- is astroturfed by a right-wing tech billionaire. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

So. Here it is. The ABSOLUTELY nuttiest study we have ever done in my 25+ years as a scientist working on mosquitoes "Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes" Let's dive into the paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

IF YOU ARE EVACUATING FROM FLORIDA HAVE NOWHERE TO GO OR CANNOT AFFORD A HOTEL... We have 40 acres in Picayune, MS where you, your horses, farm animals, and pets can ride out the storm. We are about 9 hours from Tampa. Tents and RVs welcome. Please email [email protected]

NEW: Nebraska state senator Mike McDonnell says he WON'T support the last-minute GOP push to change the way Nebraska allocates its electoral votes to favor Trump

Most nucleotide sites [in Daphnia] experience fluctuating selection with mean selection coefficients near zero, with little covariance in selection strength across time intervals, and with selection distributed across large numbers of genomic islands of linked sites

The fruit fly Drosophila has been and continues to be a place where exciting new discoveries are made in all areas of biology. For example, we now have the entire "connectome" of its brain, with all neurons and neural connections identified. 1/n 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Postdoc position is available in the Calvi lab at Indiana University, Bloomington to study cell division, genome stability and cancer in Drosophila. Calvi lab: calvi.lab.indiana.edu/index.html To apply: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25679

Stream or attend a conference on Frontiers in Human Genetics at Columbia University (Oct 10 & 11), by registering here: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

I am happy to share a preprint of recent microbe mineral interaction research from our team led by Nicole Fiore demonstrating calcium carbonate as the sole source of inorganic carbon for methanogenesis. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

Check out my review on Haldane's rule, thinking about sex-biased hybrid dysfunction with ESD, homomorphic GSD, haplodiploidy, & hermaphrodites in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Absolutely beautiful work by @christianlandry.bsky.social et al., experimentally demonstrating constructive neutral evolution via compensatory mutations in duplicate genes

scenes from political media's faux-wonk heel turn talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/kamal...

New preprint! It’s about the population genetics of antagonistic Medea gene-drive elements under partial selfing. Lots of weird surprising things emerge — selfing makes Medeas frequency dependent and turns them into barriers to gene flow between populations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Escalation of genome defense capacity enables control of an expanding meiotic driver https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598716v1

Transformation of meiotic drive into hybrid sterility in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.10.593569v1

It's finally out! Our second single cell "atlas", this time of the mouse seminal vesicle -- probably the last major tissue in mammals to be subject to single cell RNA-seq. 1/n (let's see if I can figure out threading on bsky) doi.org/10.1101/2024...

How a biased test kept thousands of Black patients from getting a new kidney www.cbsnews.com/news/kidney-...

Why Cross-Fertilize? The first volume of my OPUS project on sex/asex is now out. Beautifully illustrated by Zoe Dinges. Made freely accessible as pdf, url, and ePub by Adam Mazel at IU Press. Designed especially for educators and graduate students, covering key concepts in evolutionary ecology.

"We thought we knew how Voyager would end. The instruments would shut off, one by one.  The signal would get fainter.  Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost. We didn’t expect that it would go mad."

This new preprint by Josh Schraiber, @docedge.bsky.social, and Matt Pennell looks amazing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sometimes a paper stops you in your tracks. New work from Loppin’s group found that histone eviction during sperm development ensures that paternal chromosomes aren’t mistaken for maternal chromosomes in the Drosophila embryo. My Perspective: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 1/2

Clark, PNAS 2023 (C23) argued that people’s social status is largely determined by genetic variation. Here, we show these claims are unsubstantiated & that C23 tells us nothing about the contribution of genetics to status @jedidiahcarlson.com @arbelharpak.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT. cpb.sf.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-...

University of Nebraska-Lincoln is searching for an assistant professor in genes, genomes, and evolution. Evaluation of applications begins October 20, please share widely!

Hey folks, just trying to maximize the number of eyes on this job posting, for which I serve on the search committee. If you work on "genes, genomes, and evolution" writ large, and are on the job market, please apply! Please repost and share widely! employment.unl.edu/postings/87675

New preprint on a much improved McDonald Kreitman test. Compared to GRAPES, ABC-MK 1) handles much larger # of infividuals, 2) teases apart strong vs. weak adaptation, 3) estimates the average strength of deleterious variants more accurately and 4) runs much faster. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...