It's time to stop making t-SNE & UMAP plots. In a new preprint w/ Tara Chari we show that while they display some correlation with the underlying high-dimension data, they don't preserve local or global structure & are misleading. They're also arbitrary.🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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I'm excited to share this new preperint with Matt Pennell and Doc Edge about the unifying mapping approaches within and between species biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tree sequences as a general-purpose tool for population genetic inference biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

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We updated this preprint based on a bunch of awesome comments we got from too many people to name, and think it's become a much better manuscript! If you haven't taken a look yet, make sure to check out the updated version! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Are you attending #TAGC24 and interested in comparative phylogenomics methods? Chat with Austin H. Patton on Sat 3/9 about NovelTree, a Nextflow pipeline that outputs gene families, gene family trees, species trees, and more! 👇

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I worked on a small project this weekend that bridges learning with usefulness. As mentioned in my earlier tweet, bioRxiv hosts over 311,000 manuscripts. A rapid method for identifying relevant papers would be handy.