With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

Gilia Patterson Peter Ralph Andrew Kern and I just released our neural network that infers spatial maps of dispersal and population density using SNPs:

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

'Il y a 35 756 de bachelières scientifiques en 2022, elles représentent 35,9 % de l’ensemble des bacheliers scientifiques ; elles étaient 47,9 % en 2020 et 36,3 % en 1965.' theconversation.com/comment-la-ref…
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😅 Almost there!

After 5 months of work, productive-r-workflow.com launches in 10 days!

🧪An elixir of the best #RStats tips I know. A few hours to:

- Write better code
- Create stunning reports
- Share and collaborate efficiently

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What genes have been lost or gained during grape domestication? This question has been addressed based on high-quality assemblies for population samples of domesticated grapes and their wild progenitors. #Grape ASPB Plant Physiology ASHS news_grapevine
academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

🚨 Exciting news! The Ancient Arabia website is now online! Two of my articles on Inqitat and Dhofar are featured on the platform, along with much other interesting content. Take a moment to explore - it's definitely worth it! 📷 ancientarabia.huma-num.fr

A beautiful view of the Old Town of AlUla in 1970 🤩

The postprint version of this paper on somatic mutations in tropical trees is now out in PNAS:
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
What an incredible collective adventure with Sylvain, Myriam, Niklas, and myself, alongside all our other collaborators in French Guiana and Europe.
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We publish today the first ancient whole-genome sequences from Arabia and show how they inform on ancestry and disease in the Middle East 🧬☠️ #aDNA #MiddleEast #Bahrain cell.com/cell-genomics/…

I just logged back in after literal ages and figured I should highlight a couple of updates to the slendr popgen simulation package 📦: it has received a new release with bug fixes and additions every other month or so. Nothing too dramatic, but things are continuously improving.

🔃 Today the Quarto tip is about Reproducibility 🔃

1️⃣ Use the _sessionInfo()_ function at the bottom of your document.
It tells you all the packages in need with their version.

2️⃣ Wrap the result in an accordion to save real estate!

Dear all, Vekemans Xavier and I are looking for a Ph.D. student to study the evolution of self-incompatibility systems and self-fertilization in neo-polyploid populations. A mix of theory and empirical works. For further details have a look at :

eep.univ-lille.fr/wp-content/upl…

Also, trying to improve on scripts sharing/reproducibility. Thanks to the positive influence of people from nearby desks... Orjuela Julie, Cécile Triay, Muriel Gros-Balthazard 🌴🧬🏺, Francois Sabot (@[email protected] ) among others....
github.com/YannBourgeois/…

Back to Réunion...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

I quit as a Frontiers editor and refuse to review papers for them because of how difficult the journal makes rejecting a paper. You essentially can’t, you can only get stuck in endless reviewing loops. Still shame on everyone involved, but this is what the Frontiers system allows

A study by the new Crop History Consortium (CHC) offers an archaeological perspective on 'forgotten crops'. Their cultivation, conservation and reintroduction may have implications to the global agrobiodiversity and #food production sustainability. arch.cam.ac.uk/news/orphan-cr…