Our paper (Brieuc Lehmann is the first author) is now online in Genetics. academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

So sad to hear about the passing of Jane Goodall. She was a huge inspiration for me. I was lucky enough to see her give talk, and to meet here, many years ago. A huge loss.

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! The hidden effects of genetic purging in Galápagos Mockingbirds avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/t... Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Jakub Vlček, Sebastian Espinoza-Ulloa and their colleagues | #ornithology

In 2020, O Gaggiotti, J Goudet and I showed that Qst-Fst comparison was uncalibrated with high population structure. During her PhD with us, Isa do O developed LogAV: a method that accounts for any population structure while testing for local adaptation : journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

New article from @stefcraps.com! Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Week 2 mega preview with @patrickclaybon.bsky.social @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social - Buying more Jets stock - Kyle Pitts SZN? - The Titans defense: creditable - Bo Nix trying stuff - Puns. So many puns 🎧: landing.podtrac.com/nfldaily 📺: youtu.be/rxi0ko9dDp0?...

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...

Wow, Florida at it again… planning to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, even for schoolkids. Don’t let the facts of decades of preventing outbreaks and protecting public health get in the way.

Ever wonder what a day in the life of an Innocence Project lawyer is like? Take a moment to read this @reuters.com profile of Director of Strategic Litigation Chris Fabricant and learn about the everyday challenges our legal team faces. www.reuters.com/practical-la...

How do wildlife populations respond to human pressures, and how can we better predict these responses to guide conservation? Here, we review current modelling approaches and highlight new opportunities, with case studies. 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social

I finally tried out {priorsense}📦 with #Stan #rstats and it's awesome! Fed it a simple model I use for teaching, and found some (minor) prior-data conflicts. The powerscale_plot_dens() function really helps in understanding how "bad" the conflict is.

Alberta, Canada The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools Internally distributed list obtained by CBC shows more than 200 books slated for removal www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

At this point, I bet you can bottle horse dewormer, call it CureAll, and sell it on pharmacy shelves, and there would be no consequence. Oh wait! They already do that, with endorsement from a dude with worms in his brain!

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Bioinformatics workbook bioinformaticsworkbook.org/#gsc.tab=0

Free course: Intro to Computational Biology by Mike Love, author of DESeq2. biodatascience.github.io/compbio/

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Excited for this year's lineup of fabulous speakers, including @bielleogy.bsky.social, @catalicu.bsky.social, and others at the @calstate.bsky.social Virtual Bioinformatics Webinar series! I hope that you'll join us - Friday's at noon Pacific. Deets in the flyer.

The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.

📢 The Carpentries is in Forbes! Our Directors @drkariljordan.bsky.social @erinstellabecker.bsky.social were interviewed by @jdrakephd.bsky.social for Forbes on The Carpentries' decision to withdrew from the $1.5M science grant due to new federal DEI rules: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Incredibly proud of this work where we developed a method for understanding the information contained in millions of genomes. Another example of NIH funded research.

I'm excited to speak this afternoon at #useR2025 on outgrowing your laptop with #Positron for #rstats users! You can check out my slides at juliasilge.github.io/useR-2025/

Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al. An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors. The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Rather amusingly, ChatGPT answered this for me by hallucinating a non-existent article, allegedly published far too early and, luckily, by an author whose work I am well familiar with:

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Sun et al. analyzed 50 cell cycle genes to study trade-offs between body size and cancer resistance in cetaceans, providing molecular support for Peto's paradox (no correlation between body size, lifespan, and cancer risk across species). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf159 #evobio #molbio #cancer

Well this is unfortunate - extend the pause on regulations on #lobster fishing to protect #rightwhales until 2035? ""Lobstermen will have insufficient time to work in a good faith way to plan for new regulations, and may well find themselves unable to comply," Golden said Tuesday" 🐳🌍🦑

The Society for Marine Mammalogy’s Official List of Marine Mammal Species and Subspecies has been updated. Visit the SMM website for the full list: marinemammalscience.org/science-and-... Image: Uko Gorter 2025 #SMM #Marinemammal

[July 12] My latest roundup of #ConservationJobs in Canada, plus a few cool ones not related to conservation. All ads have salary range. I’m not involved so please contact employers directly. Feel free to send me job ads for future compilations. www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

ResearchGate just asked me if Robert Kennedy authored some of my papers with me (on whale genetics). What the hell is going on!? Has he hired folks at ResearchGate to help pad his resume? This is crazy and alarming. Curious to hear if others are seeing this.

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the first in a brief series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code. Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social and @stephenjwild.bsky.social for their helpful reviews.

DiffMethylTools: a toolbox of the detection, annotation and visualization of differential DNA methylation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.... the github link is dead, though..

I only recently found out that Web of Stories has a wonderful series of long and fascinating interviews with some major figures in Biology and other fields (authors, artists, poets, etc.), including John Maynard Smith, Ernst Mayr, and many others. Well worth a watch. www.youtube.com/@webofstorie...

As a follow-up to _Calling Bullshit_, Jevin West and I developed the course about LLMs that we think every college freshman should take. Yesterday I talked about the course in a seminar at UNSW. And thanks to my colleagues there, 24 hours later the video is already online.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

In a new Review article, Hu et al. propose "Conservation Evolutionary Biology" as a new subdiscipline of conservation biology that integrates evolutionary history and ecosystem dynamics to guide biodiversity conservation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf122 #evobio #molbio #conservation

Looks like the live-stream of the talk will be set to go here, a bit before 7pm Eastern: youtube.com/live/vfDKMEy...

Very important - I’m working on a project gauging who feeds urban wildlife and why. Critical to have people on the team who, for example, know how to design robust questionnaires etc.

Today, the House of Representatives will vote on a rescission package that will instantly gut all federal funding for public media. All of it, gone. Here’s more information: protectmypublicmedia.org?utm_source=n...

New paper on #rightwhale conversation by Cole & Brillant www.int-res.com/articles/esr... "...annual entanglement risk to right whales from the GSL snow crab fishery is estimated to have been reduced by approximately 62 ± 3% (mean ± SE) relative to pre-closure" 🐳🌍🦑

Every scientific institute should follow this path. There is no moral stance for spending so much public money on bad software that sacrifices your sovereignty. Word/Excel are not the worst of it. e.g. The Max Planck Society spends millions of Euros annually for shitty MS calendar/email.

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

Actual conversation I have with myself upon reading the daily news this year.

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! On de-extinct Dire Wolves and the dubious use of species concepts avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/o... The discussion about the de-extinct dire wolves was a nice opportunity to explain the application of species concepts and criteria.

New paper: Culture and conservation in baleen whales @ellengarland.bsky.social, @petercorkeron.bsky.social, Mike Noad, Briana Abrahms, @jennyallen13.bsky.social, @rconstantine.bsky.social, @lrendell.bsky.social, Renata Sousa-Lima, Kate Stafford, @emma-carroll.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

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