Our paper on whether PC adjustments in GWAS and PGI prediction are picking up direct genetic effects is out on bioarxiv!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dartmouth just replicated Asch’s famous conformity research:

Got to see the fiancée’s office today.

the epistemology of machine learning doesn't usually allow for this type of thinking. Residuals are seen as a failure to predict rather than as a fact of nature. Residuals exist only to be reduced, not to be embraced and utilized.

This is interesting. Around minute 39 of this interview, Charlesworths say that re the study of speciation, while mechanistic work (molecular details) can be beautiful, insights gained don’t tell us anything fundamentally new about how evolution works. vimeo.com/312574773

In a perspective for Annual Reviews, Annabel Beichman, Luke Zhu, and I compare & contrast theories about mutation rate evolution rooted in population genetics vs gerontology: annualreviews.org/content/journa…

New fun paper: using ('classical') coexistence theory to predict how adaptive radiations unfold

cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Shoot me an email for a pdf if you can't get past the paywall...

Researchers have observed a Sumatran #orangutan in the wild repeatedly treating its own wound with a plant with several known medicinal properties - the first scientific record of this behaviour in a wild animal mpg.de/21886982/0429-… Isabelle Laumer PhD caroline…

Isabel Serrano is working with California State University, Fullerton, to give back to their community and help other students find out about the nascent interdisciplinary field of computational biology (CC: CCB UC Berkeley)
cdss.berkeley.edu/news/isabel-se…