With the new academic year starting, and many people beginning fresh as graduate students, post-docs, or junior faculty, I have been thinking a lot about the core philosophies that govern my own perspectives on science. So I thought I would share. Welcome to The Tao of Cheese

The story of most scientific discoveries x.com/springerthings…

1/x This is the best, most comprehensive take I’ve seen on the idea of “endemicity” re: #SARSCoV2/#COVID19 Also, Sarah Zhang … wow. She is pumping out highly informative #COVID19 articles on a daily basis. Makes me tired just thinking about how hard she’s working!

Fred Hutch Girls Who Code is putting together an exciting computational biology focused session this spring. If you know any female or nonbinary high schoolers who are interested in 💻 and 🧬, we would love to have them join us! Here is the application: airtable.com/shrdYOhKgPr0AJ…

Interested in single cell genomics but need help getting started? Check out the full agenda for our Single Cell Genomics Day next Friday (3/4). All talks will be live-streamed (no registration required) at satijalab.org/scgd22

🚨new paper and the last part of my PhD out -🚨 "The life history of Drosophila sperm involves molecular continuity between male and female reproductive tracts"- this is one of those epic, ever-changing and developing projects in CRE (Center for Reproductive Evolution) with Mariana Wolfner Lab pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Have you ever noticed how nature seems to love symmetry?🔺🟥🔴 Evolution has literally trillions of shapes to pick from, and yet, biological structures often show symmetry and simplicity. This is the story of the discovery that completely changed how I see biology. 🧵

Another remarkable example of tool use in ants: fire ants “paving” sticky surfaces. I’ve seen signs of this behavior, but I didn’t expect it to be so robust until my friend told me about it (Wang et al., 2021 Insect Science).

Good god, this is terrifying. GPT-3's answer to "what are some of the current limitations of population genetics?" is a little too good.

A weekend away from defending! Super excited to share my research about the fascinating interactions between the two distinct genomes in all our cells this Monday! PS: Times are in US Central TZ; please DM me if you'd like to join us virtually!

How does a small fragment of planarian regenerate an appropriately proportioned complete animal? As part of my PhD project I attempted to address this question with A. Sánchez Alvarado Frederick Mann, PhD , Eric Ross, & Sean McKinney Stowers Institute HHMI Preprint: tinyurl.com/2hvb9j4z

The Experimental Evolution course (#EECV22) was an amazing learning experience about using experimental evolution as a framework to investigate the adaptation of complex traits and build genotype-to-phenotype maps! Lots of stimulating discussions and immensely helpful workshops!

I rewatched some early Ted Lasso this last weekend. It's an amazing show, full of many lessons: the power of positivity, imperfection, the power of apology and accountability, approaching life with curiosity rather than judgement or defensiveness, benefits of therapy, etc.

Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵

#Today in 1894, "wireless" was born when Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmitted a radio wave three-quarters of a mile, having constructed his own “invisible wave”-generating equipment at his family’s estate in Pontecchio, Italy. He was 20 [read more: buff.ly/3NRC6q5]

It was great fun working with Flo on this miniReview about how natural selection acts on mtDNA across multiple levels! Thanks a lot to Judith Mank and Harmit S. Malik for putting together this special issue!

Have you ever seen an owls ear? Here is a Northern Saw-Whet Owl: their ears are huge in comparison to their body. You can even see the skeletal anatomy with the base of the eye [📹 calgarywildlife: buff.ly/43ZP9dH] x.com/tuidelescriban…