Red eye flights - great in principle, terrible in practice.

A Muppet Family Christmas? Best Christmas movie? I’ll die on this hill.

One of your senior thesis students telling you that they got accepted into a PhD program is pretty cool!

Our new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution suggests that #aneuploidy can be an *evolutionary diversion* on the path to adaptation rather than a stepping stone. doi.org/10.1093/molbev… By Ilia Kohanovski & Martin Pontz, help from Anna Selmecki, Petra Vande Zande Tzachi Pilpel, Orna Dahan, Avihu Yona

-Omics friends, how are you storing and retrieving your data? I have external hard drive copies and Google Drive copies, but I feel like there has to be a better, quicker option. Has anyone tried AWS or other cloud services that you would recommend?

Congratulations to Anna Kazarina Anna Kazarina (on the right) for winning Michael Scot Watkins Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching! K-State BGSA Sonny TM Lee K-State Arts and Sciences K-State Research

Super excited to meet up with many of my favorite fungal people next month! There are still a few spots available- registration deadline is this Sunday! There are many fantastic speakers and more will be selected from the poster abstracts, so get yours submitted today.

Where do you post job announcements? SACNAS, GSA, and others all assume I have $500 to spend for a few weeks on their job boards. I want to reach applicants but so far have not found many viable options. #help Assistant Researchers Apply here: employment.ku.edu/staff/28121BR

Major thank you to Anna Selmecki and Nick Talbot for putting on an amazing #FungalGRC2024. My head and heart are so full from the cool science and wonderful community.

New #ProcB Special Feature - The other 1%: Showcasing #science and #scientists from the #GlobalSouth and #indigenous communities - find out more on how to send us your proposal ow.ly/TizI50SpZI1

How do yeasts resist oxidative stress? We used machine learning to identify gene families that are predictive of ROS resistance across the yeast subphylum. Check out the preprint led by UW–Madison Biochem undergrad Kat Aranguiz and postdoc Linda biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hot of the press from our lab (or let’s face it, from Nicholas Gervais), a dive into the fungal “hidden genome” and all the amazing things that lurk there!

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Minnesota can be cold, but we protect the rights of all people. My lab is hiring at all levels for folks interested in Polyploidy, Aneuploidy, and Drug Resistance. We welcome computational and experimental researchers from diverse backgrounds. Please email me and retweet!

Excited to have started our January intensive research project with students from Bard College and Dutchess Community College this week! Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and having a fun January doing research!

We are looking to hire two tenure track faculty at the Bard College Biology Program program! We are looking for people with a broad realm of expertise that will add new dimensions to an exciting group of researchers and educators! Please share! apply.interfolio.com/163756