Congratulations to @michellezavala.bsky.social on the publication of one of her PhD. This research builds on #NSF-funded #PopUpPoplar research using WGS and replicate common gardens to understand how climate and hybridization influence stomata evolution nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Amazing to have a byline with @cbo.bsky.social - read our take on Watson’s ultimate legacy in the Boston Globe. Will be in Sunday’s print edition.

"What James Watson got wrong about DNA" By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

More plainly visible and dynamic than I have seen before

IT GOT BETTER 📍Central MN

If you're interested in working with me on a master's or PhD with questions related to genomics, biodiversity, and climate change, I'd love to chat about the CAMBIUM fellowship! There's an informational webinar next week and applications are due December 1st.

Very interesting perspective! I often have the opposite thought: "Experimenting like a modeller" Perhaps the two could co-exist for better workflows. Extensive exploration on simulated data should be the norm before running experiments to make sure the design is capable of the intended inference.

Reading that article led me to seek out other writing by Coviello. This is an excellent piece relevant to everyone in or who cares about American academia. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

I am so proud & happy to see our Potamo genome assembly finally out there in the world! The process ended up being way more challenging than expected, but for some really cool reasons. ❤️🐌🧬 TLDR: Surprise! A VERY recent WGD. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... Photo: C. Böck, ILIM, Mondsee, Austria)

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We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

We are hiring! Postdoc position exploring the ecological niche of the Molassodon ecospecies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, that we @campy-bara.bsky.social have previously shown has a distinct "hunt, kill, devour phenotype in the laboratory. details here: www.simm.cas.cn/web/rcdw/rcz... please share.

Impressive how this article cites a who-is-who among anti-science grifters. For anybody who needs a dose of reality, this video is excellent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJb...

Here is something you will only find in this part of the UP. A person on FB selling a 515 lb piece of "float copper" This means it is a piece of nearly pure copper deposited here during the last deglacial. People search for these with metal detectors since anything at the surface has been found.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

Our paper is out! We found out that there are seasonal changes in shallow sediments which potentially upends any study that has interpreted them as a static environment. Including my own papers.

Mood

Hiker Wandering Through Oregon Forest Enjoying Vibrant Reds And Golds Of Fall https://theonion.com/hiker-wandering-through-oregon-forest-enjoying-vibrant-1845142293/

Science on Tap is back! Looking forward to hearing Dr. Kim O'Keefe talk about fire ecology and climate change tonight!

Last week we were in the Washington Post for our characterization of Robertsonian chromosomes. This week we are entering our 10th day of being shut down and all of our research is on hold. To help me feel not-so-bad, here is a thread of some studies we released right before the shutdown 🧵 [1/n]...

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.

I'm honored to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. As always, I extend my sincerest thanks to all my wonderful mentors, colleagues, collaborators, admins, and trainees who make this work possible. #MacFellow

I’m excited to announce that I am starting a postdoc position in the Gompert Lab at USU. It brings me comfort and joy to study processes of change and adaptation- how boundaries between groups can break down and result in more variable and resilient populations. Catch me learning about 🦋 hybrids!!

🚀 New tool: Reversible Jump MCMC running in your browser! Built an interactive widget for fitting mixture distributions when you don't know how many components you need. Check it out: dchodge.github.io/rjmc-widget-...

Advances in haplotype phasing and genotype imputation. #HaplotypePhasing #GenomeImputation @natrevgenet.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto

I'm hiring for some early-mid career wet lab roles in LA we're building the cattle industries top genomics lab. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... please share with socal pals! cc @nmancuso.bsky.social @docedge.bsky.social

New paper led by PhD student Elise Pletcher! Forecasts from simple, density-dependent population models are highly transferable to new sites. Adding env. covariates does little to improve prediction in-sample and worsens forecasts out-of-sample. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enhancing local meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis and maize through juxtaposition of heterozygous and homozygous regions | Nature Plants share.google/ZsqLLUu9l2Zv...

Something that I discovered as a graduate student, but have never published. Formally, from a statistical point of view, dominance and epistasis are only distinguishable under linkage equilibrium. Otherwise they are confounded.

interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky

New Tenure Track Position in Data Science or Biostatistics with us here at MTU is live. We have great people here in a fantastic location that is probably a lot cooler (temperature-wise) than wherever you live during summer! www.employment.mtu.edu/en-us/job/49...

Look at this regex. Appreciate its magnificence.

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

So proud my postdoctoral work is finally out! We designed an assay to measure cfDNA and DNA mutations in samples collected simultaneously to lower limits of detection in liquid biopsy assays, using clonal hematopoiesis as an example. Read the article here: www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Shirley Chen's paper from my lab on the dilution and amplification hypotheses regarding the biodiversity-disease relationship. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

15 teens. 300 miles. And the best story you'll read today.

Hi-reComb: constructing recombination maps from bulk gamete Hi-C sequencing. #HiC #RecombinationMaps #GameteSequencing #Genomics #Genetics academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Admixture and environment shape population genetic and phytochemical variation across a conifer hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667945v1

Excited to showcase my new Open Educational Resource for intro college level Botany. It's a hybrid textbook, lab manual, and workbook. Published and ready for anyone to implement! I'll be showcasing it in the Educational section of #Botany2025 today and handing out copies & stickers!

I'm thrilled to share more cool fish genetics, led by former MSc student Amanda Meuser, and with former student Amy Pitura and collaborator @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social. This one is about minnow hybrids! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It was a fun afternoon of sharing the work we do at @umnnrri.bsky.social to visitors for our open house last week. Lots of science and work to be shared! My role was to talk about our awesome eddy covariance towers and peatlands in Minnesota!

Ed Seidel faced challenges from the outset with the pandemic, state budget cuts and hostile lawmakers. Supporters celebrated his innovation and achievements over the past five years. Critics said he didn’t fit Wyoming’s culture and proved ineffective at communication. wyofile.com/university-o...