Me to students: "Don't just take a screenshot of your R output and paste it in your document, thats unprofessional" NYT to ME:

{livelink} walked so {webrarian} could run. Mini browser-based #rstats environments powered by #webR and its 4-panel editor. YAML config, build, preview. Done. R package coming soon. #pyodide folks, stay tuned.

Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.

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Available now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Taking on some big-scale natural history: processed >40k @inaturalist.bsky.social images of Monarda fistulosa using computer vision to query for flower presence and phenotype flower color: doi.org/10.1086/739413

i dont knoe eho needs to hear this (but someone does) you should not use file.choose() BUT IF YOU DO PLEASE DO NOT PUT IT IN A RMARKDOWN FILE

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

working on my material for next semester. this one ended up on the cutting room floor

Starting now on @Twitch -- twitch.tv/realgoodai I'll be discussing teaching, learning, feedback adn textbooks in the llm era with @RealGoodAi realgoodai.org

Fauci is not exactly Vavilov but Lysenkoists in charge might send him to an El Salvadorian gulag

Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Brazier et al. (@romanstet.bsky.social)

Just made promptdown public. It's a plain-text interface for working with LLMs using literate programming. See and edit the full prompt each turn. No cramped input boxes, no hidden context, no append-only chat. Still early alpha, feedback welcome! github.com/t-kalinowski...

"illustrates how marvellously flexible plant reproductive systems can be." ...discovery that sunflower seeds can develop without fertilization and endosperm (!) 🌾🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00904-8

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

For true DMI afficiandos, we also were intrigued by results on the genotype combinations under selection at different incompatibilities. Any comments welcome and thanks to many co-authors including @gilrosenthal.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social @pandolfatto.bsky.social & others not on bluesky

If you happen to be interested in the coexistence of diploids and tetraploids given modern coexistence theory and stochastic population dynamics - Check out our #JustAccepted paper at @asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/734411

Roses are red, Tulips are too, Predict for a BLUP, Estimate for a BLUE.

Argh, is bookdown.org...down? 504 Gateway Time out from here #bookdown

I just told my stats class "To use LLMs to help understand things you do, rather than to help do things you dont understand" and that might be my new AI policy

I've always been super curious about bird chromosome evolution. Clicked with interest and then got more excited to see Heath Blackmon (a scientist I was luck enough to advise during his postdoc) was partly behind this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Cant wait to read !🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

From Micro to Macro: Avian Chromosome Evolution is Dominated by Natural Selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.626112v1

Job advert --- plz RT / distribute Department Head Plant & Microbial Biology University of Minnesota Twin Cities Come be my boss. Our department is fun. The twin cities are a great place to live. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...