@bstaggmartin
Phylogenetics/comparative methods geek working as postdoctoral researcher at University of Georgia in Leebens-Mack lab. Currently an NSF PRFB fellow (plant genomes program) trying to figure out what the deal is with eucalypt trees. Opinions = my own
Man, I think that hits the nail on the head for...so many things that aren't up to snuff in our academic institutions. :/
But I guess I've been well, as much as can be expected in these times! Miss chattin' away with you in lab haha How the heck are you?!
This is such a good point. Reminds me of when well-intended programs/initiatives end up benefitting the most priveleged among underrepresented groups before the folks that need it the most...
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Comic. [Two people looking at a board with apparent formula (3.1.3.1)/(3.1.2.1)] PERSON: Do mammologists think these are hard? I mean, this one just evaluates to 3/2. [caption] Mathematicians encounter dental formulas
Dental Formulas
xkcd.com/3213/
Oof, well, thanks for giving me excuses to keep up my anti-LLM coding attitude for at least a little longer!
I just don't see the appeal of it all still...I got into this field because I like knowing how things work under the hood.
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
The U.S. and Israel continue to be the biggest threats to children (and humanity).
So how many of my colleagues are PAYING OpenAI to use their LLM again???? You see where your money is going?
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🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪
Phage–host interactions are a key driver of microbial ecology, but observing them in nature is hard!
With metaHi-C, we detect freshwater phage–host pairs and link their infection dynamics to evolution.
Together with @nadal-molero.bsky.social & Ana Martin-Cuadrado
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social will become the latest Lesson Program of The Carpentries @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social in September 2026 🎉
They join our existing lesson programs: Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry.
carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...
Functionally, this is the end of foundational science research in many fields in the United States, the money taken away to subsidize already wealthy billionaires and their companies.
New for @undark.org
On: "The Birthday Paradox," the transatlantic slave trade, ancestral bonds, and the hidden power of statistics.
"Family is family, whatever our genetic relationship. Impressively, the birthday paradox study captures this possibility."
undark.org/2026/02/27/o...
Reposting this because I'll never pass up an opportunity to introduce people to the wonderful world of sheoaks.
To be clear, this is family of ANGIOSPERMS with feaux needles/cones most closely related to BIRCHES.
Oh, and they also fix nitrogen to boot! Then again, so do the closely-related alders.
We're excited to be recruiting an NSF funded postdoc to work in the Villanea lab at CU Boulder. We're specifically interested in candidates who want to work at the intersection of population genetics, ancient DNA, and computer modeling. Please RT
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
I was always so infuriated by the "increasing transparency" rhetoric thrown around last year. This admin has consistently only made things more opaque so it never has to justify their blatantly ideological decisions. I'm so sorry--none of this should be happening, especially to young scientists...
I already shared the preprint for this month's ago, but I still find this to be one of the coolest new discoveries! The idea of "ghost kingdoms" of life just never really occurred to me before, but of course it's completely possible when you think about it.
It's never as simple as we'd like, eh? Well, at least there's no shortage of puzzles to solve!
And still no Dem leaders have gone to Minneapolis. No donor efforts to alleviate anything. Just leave people out to fend for themselves.
When @omearabrian.bsky.social saw the manuscript, he described it as: ‘What if this figure could be an entire paper?’
I choose to interpret that as high praise.
Now accepted at AmNat: The geometry of macroevolution (with Dan Rabosky). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
ICE just set up a bluesky account. Just a quick reminder that this blocklist exists:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Ewww who asked for this?!
The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f
Evolution isn’t always forward-looking. Experiments show that an early, beneficial mutation can trap E. coli on a local fitness peak, preventing ecotype diversification in structured environments and highlighting the role of G×E interactions.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Now someone just needs to make a boldface package where the boldness of the font is proportional to the amount of c's you tack on to "\thicc"
Renee Nicole Good, 37. Married mother of a six year old, was unarmed and driving away when she was shot and killed in her car this morning by a member of the United States Government.
We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.
Exactly! Even if you think mass deportation is a worthy goal (it isn't, but that's another topic), it doesn't take an expert to see how massively scaling up ICE this quickly would only result in an immense armed force of poorly-trained fanatics.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to ICE: "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis."
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
