Jeffrey M Kidd
@jeffreymkidd.bsky.social
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Genome evolution, podcasts, toast, and popcorn
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BK. Titanji
about 1 month ago
William Foege has died. He was a central architect of smallpox eradication, pioneering surveillance-driven ring vaccination when vaccine supply was limited. That strategy helped eliminate the deadliest human pathogen we’ve ever known.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
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William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/william-h-foege-dead.html
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Carl Zimmer
about 2 months ago
Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link:
nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A
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interesting new addition to the story of the spread of lactase persistence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Revisiting the Evolution of Lactase Persistence: Insights from South Asian Genomes
Lactase persistence (LP), the ability to digest lactose from milk into adulthood, is a classic example of natural selection in humans. Multiple mutations upstream of the LCT gene are associated with L...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686799v1
4 months ago
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
5 months ago
PEQG website live!
genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
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Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
https://genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
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Radley Balko
5 months ago
I don't think it would be possible to overstate Blake's influence on the DNA revolution in criminal justice and the exonerations that followed. He genuinely changed the world for the better. Rest in peace.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...
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Edward T. Blake, 80, Dies; Forensic Expert Sparked Innocence Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/science/edward-t-blake-dead.html
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Genome Biology and Evolution
5 months ago
Schall &
@jeffreymkidd.bsky.social
characterized structural variation in dogs using a combination of long- and short-read data and genome assemblies. Several SVs have frequency profiles across breeds consistent with selection. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf173
#genome
#evolution
#TEsky
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Seems like the rough times will continue for those of us trying to qualify to apply for a NIGMS R35.
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5 months ago
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Jeremy Berg
5 months ago
Here is NIGMS. This reflects Jon Lorsch's push away from R01s and toward MIRA awards (R35s). While there are some advantages to the R35 mechanism, there are downsides to "putting all of your eggs in one basket" as some discovered this year. 8/n
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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️⚧️🧬
5 months ago
Like a big family reunion. I'm lucky that our lab is full of kind creative people without big egos, just the best energy Hearing all the random research updates about advances in nanopore sequencing to whale evolution turned on part of my brain I hadn't used in a while. I miss academia 🥲
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Tony Antonellis
5 months ago
The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan is looking for a new faculty colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Asst Professor | U-M Careers
https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/269023/asst-professor
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LINEs and SINEs contribute a lot of dog genetic variation. We estimate that new insertions occur in ~1/184 and 1/22 births, with most diversity reflecting long-standing genetic variation .
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A phylogenetic estimate of canine retrotransposition rates based on genome assembly comparisons
Background Due to their history of domestication and breed formation, dogs are a powerful system for studying the phenotypic impact of genetic variation. Comparison of canine genome assemblies show th...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675418v1
6 months ago
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hope this is useful and saves someone some hassle!
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6 months ago
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Megan Dennis
7 months ago
Check out our latest work co-led by
@dcsoto.bsky.social
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@jmuribescr.bsky.social
identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
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https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXuFSV
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Nice to see Argus Farm Stop in the news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/b...
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What if a Grocery Store Was More Like a Farmers’ Market?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/business/farm-stop-groceries.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H08.yD8t.Y5vTVhw1s-ui&smid=url-share
10 months ago
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bioRxiv Genomics
12 months ago
Integrative genotyping and analysis of canine structural variation using long-read and short-read data
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.05.641690v1
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Jeremy Berg
over 1 year ago
A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through. 1/n
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