First time I get the cover of a magazine and it's in nature! Had this idea to illustrate the diversity captured by the MX Biobank across Mexico and brilliant designer Mauricio Guzman brought it to life inspired by indigenous Huichol art from near my home town. nature.com/nature/volumes…

Excited to share our latest work on the landscape genomics of deleterious variation in a wild grape species! Many thanks to Jonás Aguirre Liguori , Garren Gaut, and Brandon Gaut for making this possible! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Another plug -- lots of time still to apply. Happy to chat if you have questions -- DM me! Tons of data, lots of ideas, plenty of avenues to explore on contributions of teosinte to maize evolution!

MaizeGDB - both the database itself and the folks who continue to build & improve it - is an amaizing resource!

Sunday morning kiddo pirate ship.

If there are going to be climate-justified subsidies for owning electric cars, there should be subsidies for not owning cars at all.

I’m on the faculty job market this year! 🙌🏽 Please DM me any positions you think I might be a good fit for! 🙏🏽 My focus areas: evolutionary invertebrate zoology, genomics, transcriptomics, comparative physiology, development! Check out my CV for more info: rb.gy/2jutfh

Finally got a chance to start some of the Fast Flowering Mini Maize seeds, a kind gift from Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra. First goal is to make more seeds and benchmark growth under my lights. If you wanna try my falcoponic setup, link here: printables.com/model/451575-f…

🧵¿Sabías que los estudios genéticos en comunidades indígenas sudamericanas no sólo son esenciales para entender su compleja historia demográfica, sino que también son claves para preservar su cultura e identidad y proteger la biodiversidad?#HilandoCiencia2024

When the Oxford style guide takes it a step too far: “Comma comma comma comma no comma chameleon…”

If you’ve gotten an NSF PRFB and want to pay it forward please consider sharing yours publicly on my GitHub!

Lots of new grad students starting in research labs this month, including many who have been taught (in subtle or overt ways) that they need to fight to prove they belong. It’s an exhausting way to spend your career. So I’m re-upping this for anyone who needs to hear it today:

Happy little mini maize 🥰

Our latest preprint led by Akanksha Singh. After multiple domestications, amaranth was introduced to new places. We expected strong admixture. Instead differentiation even increased in India, suggesting ongoing speciation and reinforcement biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

I'm recruiting for a PhD position to study the genomic basis of repeated adaptation at the University of Calgary. We have a big multi-species dataset and aim to expand it, with many unexplored avenues to test fundamental theories of evolution yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/9/…

But I've lost count of the number of unpaid posts Derek hasn't done because I didn't ask him.

One thing that I really appreciate about UC Davis is that they have a whole building (Walker Hall) with resources for postdocs, including “study rooms” for when you really need to write that paper/grant without distractions! There’s even a room for parents and their kids.

I just finished my first presentation to campus fancy people. I have GANTT, pie, and org charts, a 5-year vision, a word cloud, a building blueprint, and multiple mentions of "AI". I think I may have successfully synergized my stakeholders to leverage robust impacts. Woot?

Fun outreach from our highland adaptation grant. A video game for primary school kids to learn about maize, evolution, and archaeology. play.google.com/store/apps/det…

.Elli Cryan keeps finding weirder and weirder stuff about this locus we are working on. Hybrid incompatibility. Long-range duplication. Paramutation. Multiple independent origins of structural variation. Super fun and super cool.