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First genome assembly of wild #Aedes mosquitoes. Paper coming soon! Pre-print is out! Thanks to our collaboration with @jsoghigian.bsky.social, @ird-fr.bsky.social, @yale.edu and #CT_CAES.

Wow... This thread (and original plos post) are really interesting

"It’s us against the world now, turkey."

I’m happy to share a little bit of my story and “Jam” with this video from Arch Magazine from @ucalgary.bsky.social. See it here 👇🏼 archmagazine.ucalgary.ca/providing-a-...

It's really good to see an alternative social media platform rapidly expand! Time to get back to checking here more often 🙂

Hello Less Hateful World

Because folks liked my latest pigeon comic so much, here's another pigeon piece! I made this a couple years ago for a sadly now defunct publication called Pipe Wrench. I hope this piece helps spread more pigeon love. #pigeon #bird #comic #cartoon #science 🪶

Hmm. The statistics in the first brain shrinking study seem screwy. Nonhospitalized (386) vs. Control (384) was not even close to significant, but all cases (401) vs control was just barely significant? Sorry, I don't buy this result as meaningful. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A case of measles in Calgary 😨 www.albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page178...

#academia I recall getting a handwritten note from my VD for Research when I got my first NIH R01 funded. A very nice gesture. We need more of this!

Join us for an excellent symposium on some of the "other sides" of vector biology research!

Attending @entsocamerica.bsky.social meeting? Join @jsoghigian.bsky.social and myself for our symposium, Beyond the Bite: Natural History, Systematics, and Ecology Enhance Knowledge of Our Most Deadly Foe, cdmcd.co/B8PqPW #EntSoc23

Known of this work for a while now so really happy to see it out in print. Work by @jsoghigian.bsky.social and others, Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.

The ghostest with the mostest

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Get your Kleenex out. A group of Chicago area Rabbis attended the funeral of Wadea Al-Fayoume, the six year old Palestinian-American boy who was brutally murdered by his landlord due to his ethnicity and religion. Rabbi Ari Hart explains why the Rabbis attended the funeral in the screenshot below.

Hi Bluesky community My first post here after years on Twitter. Interests include all things science & Higher Ed. In particular Parasitology, drug resistance, molecular epidemiology/diagnostics, genetics/genomics genomics and veterinary medicine. Thanks for the invite @jsoghigian.bsky.social !

Just published on our blog: Bluesky for Journalists FAQ This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code. We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!

(Pls repost) Folks who majored in history, english, or something else “useless,”what was your first job out of school? What are you doing now? I know there are plenty of online resources about jobs but I’m trying to show my students that careers are often not straight lines.Thank you!!!!

Some halloween costume ideas. 🪶🧪

Come be our colleagaue! Assistant/Associate Professor in Vector Biology/Ecology! Specific topic area open! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Man who routinely gets ratioed attempts to kill the entire idea of being ratioed.

Is science bluesky fully realised yet? Do we have a discourse about this absolutely bananas paper? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting for this to finally be online! Was a privilege to be part of such a great international team. Excellent phylogenetic comparative work by @genmorinaga.bsky.social to cap it all off!

What the actual....

👋 Hi genetics/statgen/gen-epi trainees! 🧬 🧪 If you are interested in reviewing please let me know! We (HGG Advances, eLife) are constantly in need of knowledgeable reviewers and would be more than happy to work with you. Please feel free to email me (or other editors) if you're interested!

Pete, the Townsend's Warbler back again. ( I like to think this is the same guy who visits every year around now). Just so happy we didn't miss him as we fly east tomorrow. #birding

An absolutely crazy story...

It's Thursday. You need some eels in your life, right? And some otters? Here you go! A scene of otters & eels, from an early 15th C. copy of Gaston Phoebus's Livre de la chasse. Eel blood is toxic to mammals, but otters don't care. They love them some eels. Can you blame them? 🧪🗃️

It's mushroom season! Here are all the types you will see. My mailing list: buttondown.email/rosemarymosco

Bad working conditions for nurses literally mean bad patient care. Endless solidarity for every health care worker striking for better.

Blue sky over blue lupine and arrowleaf balsamroot above the Blue River🌿

How about a Lava heron and sally lightfoot crab from the Galapagos for a bedtime photo (i.e. bedtime on the east coast of the US). #birds #evolbiol #ecoevo

A common feature of ships going back to ancient times was the 'Ship's Cat.' #Cats were great for keeping rat populations low, preventing loss of stores, damage to ropes & rigging and in modern times, electric lines & reducing risk of disease spread.

Those of us in public health know that the impact that Travis Kelce has by promoting vaccination is much bigger than doctors or scientists promoting it, so thank you Travis. Vaccines are rad. 🧪 EpiSky IDSky

Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year using the first 6 months of data: • NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside • Full-time employment increased • Fewer visits to the ER • Fewer nights spent in jail

A common yellowthroat. (Close-ups and depth of field are lovely, but I really like photos that capture animals in their context.) 🪶

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"

Little-known PNW secret: fall hiking > summer hiking. Fewer bugs, fewer crowds, perfect temperatures, more color. Perfection.

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but Watson & Crick received the Nobel Prize. Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution til after her death.

For those on NSF or NIH sections/panels, just a heads up - the portals will possibly/probably (definitely?) be down during the government shutdown, so...

I'm on an NSF grant panel later this year - we were just told access to proposals will not be available during a shutdown. FYI, if you're reviewing right now - download!

Awesome new work out by @erikenbody.bsky.social on the genetic architecture of Darwin Finch beak evolution over time. Instant classic that will likely become part of textbook material for Evolution Courses going forward. Congratulations Erik! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Slightly late to the Google Scholar Wordcloud party, but... shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...

New lab motto