Calm down everyone, apparently Ghost is coming. Probably still working out how to KO the howl. apple.news/AsPIaHH-wTY6...

Yes! These days Huey is a strong advocate for conservation research in Montana. One of the good ones for sure! www.umt.edu/news/2024/07...

Local coverage of the impacts of federal #science cuts in western #Montana. 🧪 flatheadbeacon.com/2025/03/07/a...

"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Just be patient and kind to the remaining NSF folks. I promise you, they are still fighting for American science.

It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races. This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.

With all the bullshit coming soon, letting rodents predict the weather is going to seem data-driven in comparison.

What do the molecular mechanisms of trait variation tell us about how evolution works? A great commentary by @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ping @fishcongen.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

Just FYI I’m not quitting

Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night. I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.

Preprint finally out! I show that eco-evo feedback can drive a tipping point where genetic drift overwhelms adaptation. This can result in a contraction of a species' range border or range fragmentation. Fragmentation is abrupt and arises readily under rapid temporal change. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Love this. And as a consequence aussies are some of the world's most hardcore commuters... Source www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Very proud to share this outstanding work by @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social - now out in Genetics!

It feels surreal to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Incredibly proud of the work that went into this. And so grateful for the opportunities, resources, support and mentorship from co-authors and my whole scientific community that made it possible

Why we fund basic research

Suggestion: Search up Energy Share programs that help people stay warm in the winter. Katherine and I are making a $10,000 donation to Energy Share of Montana today.

Happy December 13th to all who celebrate!

A workflow for Tidyverse-based local synteny visualization: Good for visualizing local synteny across species, genotypes, or acorss regions of a genome. Can be used to showcase copy number variation. Still need to write the tutorial, but will be on my GitHub soon. #Genomics #DataVisualization

A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵

Just posting this to #popgen Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics: github.com/cooplab/popg... Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.

Outstanding opportunity here! Great department & city surrounded by the incredible Sonoran desert.

I don’t plan on retuning to Twitter but I am curious to hear thoughts on the point of deleting all past posts before closing an account. Is this mostly performative or are there other reasons to do this?

Hello, Bluesky. Twitter has gotten too weird. Anybody I know over here yet?

Great to work with @ekopania.bsky.social, @jeffreygood.bsky.social, and everyone else on this project! I was happy to be able to present Emily's cool figure showing dN/dS of genes in different tissues and different time-points at Evolution a couple years ago:

Our work on the evolution of male reproduction in murine rodents is out now in Evolution! “Sperm competition intensity shapes divergence in both sperm morphology and reproductive genes across murine rodents” doi.org/10.1093/evol... (1/4)

Grads & Postdocs: interested in the Speciation Gordon Research Conference www.grc.org/speciation-c..., and Symposium www.grc.org/speciation-g...? We will give registration vouchers to a random set of grads/pdocs who register before Nov 24 ($300 if traveling from North America, $500 from outside)

1/AlphaFold 3 code now available, following researcher criticism for not providing it with the initial publication. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Show me a picture, new or old, of #AlaskaSky Sunrise over Ugak Bay, Kodiak August, 2024

Happy to announce CAMBIUM, our new NSF NRT graduate training program on biodiversity informatics at the University of Arizona! Our website will be up shortly, but you can read about the program in the press release below! Please share with students who might be interested in being a CAMBIUM fellow!🧪

My lab is looking for a postdoctoral scholar. See image or t.co/bdIxT8eE6n If you're a plant geneticist or mol biologist and appreciate the wonders of evolution this is a position for you. We can teach dry lab or genomics so plz consider if you want to learn a new skill!

Not a paper per se but chapter 11, as it was commonly known, was incredible. Swofford, Olsen, Waddell, Hillis. Phylogenetic Inference, in Molecular Systematics, pages 407–514. Sinauer Assocs, Inc., Second ed, 1996.

UMontana is hiring a Data Scientist! Collaborate with Montana scientists on genomics research & support HPC and bioinformatics training. Full-time non-TT science position w/ opportunity for independent research. Come join a great team in Missoula! DM if interested. bit.ly/UMJobs4437

Unravelling the mystery of mouse mummies on the summits of the Andes, out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Rare dispersal? Inca sacrifices? Or persistence at the top of the world? Just in time for Halloween🐭 Start of a great collab w/ postdoc Schuyler Liphardt, Jay Storz, Guillermo D'Elía & more!