science 🧵 on my FIRST first-author paper :) doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… Using a powerful approach combing RNA-Seq and common gardens, we found genetic adaptation and population differentiation in Kellet's whelks

Brown University invites applications for its 2025-2027 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a two-year program designed to support the development of early career #scholars from diverse backgrounds  who show promise as innovative scholars. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37709418/p…

A tool for more accurate multiple alignments of large protein families using a protein language model. Excellent job, Felix. academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Our new study led by brilliant PhD student Kelsey Williamson (along with many wonderful collaborators), resolves the root of the Eukaryote Tree of Life 🌍🧬 with unmatched precision! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Big paper I have been waiting for: what are the real impacts of AI on programmer productivity? It is a randomized controlled trial using the older, less-powerful GPT-3.5 powered Github Copilot for 4,867 coders in Fortune 100 firms. It finds a 26.08% increase in completed tasks.

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Bracewell et al. find a latitudinal gradient in successional dynamics: tropics are highly stochastic, and temperate zones show clearer progression influenced by early colonizers. This reveals biogeographic variation in community development. Read now! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Tables are about to get a whole lotta love in patchwork #rstats

R dtplyr: How to Efficiently Process Huge Datasets with a data.table Backend by Dario Radečić! 🚀📊 Read more: buff.ly/3AjEt05 #rstats #DataScience #BigData #DataAnalytics #DataEngineering #DataProcessing #DataManagement #DataVisualization #DataWrangling #DataInsights

Hey nerds, meet Astyanax Mexicanus. Surface dweller has eyes, bottom dweller not. Critter's brain cleared then imaged with a #lightsheet #microscope from 3i. Johanna Kowalko Lab Lehigh University. Sample courtesy of Renee Mapa. Keep your eyes on Renee. Happy #FluorescenceFriday

A reminder to share this job opportunity with your colleagues studying 🌹🌸🌲🍀🌴🌿🍘 Due date in a week!

The Pease Lab EEOBatOSU is looking for new PhD students interested in using computational models to study the evolution of complex traits in plants and animals. Students from evolution, genetics, bioinformatics, and other fields are welcome. peaselab.org for details.

Advertising this amazing tutorial that Rob Lanfear (no longer on this site) put together: "For phylo nerds interested in concordance and discordance: iqtree.org/doc/recipes/co…"

BioRender finally made some changes to their license conditions and now claim their product is compatible with Open Access. Sorry to say that these conditions are legally invalid and don't fix anything. 1/

Look at this mudpuppy Gideon Bradburd found while I was at UM Biological Station. What is it? A salamander that is aquatic for its whole life and keeps the larval gills normally lost by salamanders when they move into land (and some salamanders on land have secondarily lost gills altogether!).

So CFANS gave us the tall poster from their Minnesota State Fair gar exhibit, and obviously I was compelled to do this 😂👍 Star Wars? Gar Wars:

A New Record and Species of Pygmy Pipehorse of the Genus Cylix (Teleostei, Syngnathidae) from South Africa and the African Continent by Graham Short Dr Richard Smith Dave Harasti and Louw Claassens IUCN Seahorse OPEN ACCESS DOI link: doi.org/10.1643/i20230…

Killifishes in the family Rivulidae are usually small (adults 3-6 cm) but the two known species of Titanolebias are relative giants, growing to 15 cm (top) and 22 cm (bottom). Q: Why does a hand-sized fish have a rounded caudal fin? A: Because it is a rivulid.

The most extreme bone architecture I know of: This is a CT-scan and 3d reconstruction of a humerus of the giant pterosaur Arambourgiania, a giraffe sized active flyer (scale bar 5mm). These bones had a ~20mm wall reinforced with ridges and were 70-90% air by volume! And this 1/2

Earthworms have scrambled genomes?!?!?! Check out this article in Science Magazine featuring Darwin Tree of Life discussing how chaotic rearrangements of chromosomes helped leeches swim into fresh water and other worms wriggle onto land bit.ly/3ARZLSL