Finallllly joined twitter! Naturally, my profile photo is of me and my amazing masters defense rattlesnake cake courtesy of @changsarahl Farida Samad-zada and twitterless Brock😀

#PopulationViability analysis projects decline of protected #rattlesnake population due to #roadkill in new Endangered Species Research study by Stephanie Winton et al., highlighting need for #conservation measures to reduce roadkill of long-lived #reptiles doi.org/10.3354/esr010…

Have you collected or do plan to collect minimally invasive DNA samples? Read our interview with the authors (Danielle Schmidt, PhD & Michael Russello) of a recent paper exploring the use of GT‐seq for minimally invasive samples molecularecologyblog.com/2020/02/17/int… (photocredit Marcus Atkins)

Welcome to Twitter Brock Burgess! Glad you’ve finally joined @changsarahl, Farida Samad-zada, and I in reppin’ the ECGL 🧬

Very very excited to share our latest paper out in Ecology and Evolution! 🐍🧬 Genotyping‐in‐Thousands by sequencing reveals marked population structure in Western Rattlesnakes to inform conservation status onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

We propose new #geneticdiversity indicators to be used in the post-2020 #biodiversity framework strategy Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework . EU Support from the Convention on Biological Diversity UN Biodiversity sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My favorite part of data analysis is when you forsake the old gods and sacrifice an alpaca to get something in R to work.

It's going to be quite a week, so here's some totally real footage of a pika in the wilderness. x.com/thatericalper/…

Feeling this! Thank you @ljrissler for such an inspiring talk and bringing to light the importance of equity in STEMM #evol2021

Come watch a fellow #russelloecgl lab member Bryson Sjodin talk about pika whole genome assembly in the Genomics/Ecology section, 11:40am, June 21st 2021! Whole-genome improvements are always welcome :) Also #pika are cute little buggers. #Evol2021

Y'all, mark your calendars! You'll definitely want to check out this excellent talk about an application of #GTseq for use in fisheries management at virtual #Evol2021. #russelloecgl

Stoked to share that our latest pika paper (and the first of my dissertation research) is published in Heredity! Check out the current issue's cover which features an incredible photo taken by fellow #russelloecgl PhD student Brock Burgess. nature.com/articles/s4143…

Curious about the population genomics of invasive deer on the Haida Gwaii archipelago?! Check out the most recent work by my fellow #russelloecgl PhD student Brock Burgess! nature.com/articles/s4200…

And there’s a blog post!

I remember breaking down to my Ph.D. advisor about how stupid I felt while troubleshooting a problem in my project when she handed me this paper. Years later it is still relevant to young students starting off in Science. It's ok to feel stupid, we all do on a regular basis.

Anyone out there know how to troubleshoot DIYABC-RF? Having issues adjusting my priors so that my simulated and observed SNP datasets aren’t mismatched. Could it be the scenarios I am testing?? Any and all help greatly appreciated! #diyabc #genomics #popgen #populationgenetics

I knew that salmon were cool, but didn't really grasp how much (more than I thought). Here is my first salmon genomics paper, where we investigated (and found) the genomic basis of reproductive and migratory behaviour in sockeye tinyurl.com/5n84uwy4 👇a couple of highlights: