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I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

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Genetic improvement has been a key contributor to the sustainability of animal agriculture. Delaying access to genetic innovations is associated with a high opportunity cost "Current & future uses of genetic improvement technologies in livestock breeding" doi.org/10.1093/af/vfa…

When Norman Borlaug moved to Mexico in 1944, 60% of the wheat consumed in the country was imported….By 1963 some 95% of wheat sown in Mexico was Borlaugian, yields had sextupled and Mexico was self-sufficient! Thank you Norman! economist.com/science-and-te…

Our recent preprint on "High quality genome assemblies of African cattle breeds " lnkd.in/eFgdmDNM . Using PacBio HiFi sequencing, we generated de novo genome assemblies for five indigenous breeds: Lagune, Gudali, Iringa Red, Singida White, and Mpwapwa.

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degenerateconic.com/conda-plus-for… With the conda package manager and the conda-forge package repository, we now have have easy access to free compilers (gfortran, flang, ifx, lfortran) for the three major platforms (Windows, Linux, and Mac). Jacob Williams

AlphaSimR course edin.ac/3wfGSEj Week 2: Following the simulation of traits and their genetic and phenotypic values for a trait, we close this week with independent exercises and weekly interview about breeding.

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This is a black-and-white photo; only the lines have color. 😲 Great illustration of a general truth: Your perceptual system fills in the gaps in the incomplete data from your senses. [Link below.]

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In the right conditions, antibiotic resistance can happen extremely fast. Here is an example from my own work of bacteria overcoming an antibiotic in just eleven days in a giant petri dish: 1/

When should adaptation arise from a polygenic response versus few large effect changes? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

Fst is a widely used statistic in genomics. The increasing use of sequencing-based methods means there is a need to correct for errors associated with low sequencing depth. This new paper addresses that so as to allow appropriate inference in population studies. Given a constant

Sad and exciting day for large-scale genomics research:(

The productivity paradox nobody talks about: Yes, ChatGPT makes you 60% faster at completing tasks. But it reduces the "germane cognitive load" needed for actual learning by 32%. You're trading long-term brain capacity for short-term speed.