Thanks so much to @adamrutherford.bsky.social, Alex Aylward and Mark Thomas for the fantastic supervision and making this a great first PhD project!
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As a geneticist by training it was daunting setting out to write a paper about the history of science, but it has been really thought provoking considering how theoretical models are conceived and what embedded assumptions we continue to apply.
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The history of panmixia is a 200 yr tour from Darwin to the usual PopGen suspects - Galton, Pearson, Hardy and Fisher. We argue that the assumption of random mating wasnβt just a mathematical simplification and had already become embedded in the field by the Modern Synthesis.
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One of the most common assumptions in population genetics models is that organisms mate with each other totally at random (or βpanmixiaβ). However this almost certainly isnβt the case in nature, so we wanted to find out where this assumption came from.
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Much of how we study evolution and the genetic diversity in nature is through mathematical models. These simplify the complexity of the natural world by making assumptions about it.
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DOMESTIC
book launch + performance + discussion
#sciencebluesky New here π
Really excited to be speaking at the launch of Katrina Stamatopoulos's amazing DOMESTIC this evening! Please do come along if you're interested in art, #genetics and #Evolution.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/domestic-t...
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Instructor at Johns Hopkins University (USA), Associate Researcher at Uppsala University (Sweden), and Editorial Board Member at Communications Biology (UK).
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Professor, Geneticist, Human Evolutionary Biologist, Wife, Mom
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Statistical geneticist. Associate Prof at Dana-Farber / Harvard Medical School.
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Postdoc at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance interested in population genetics & conservation genomics https://chriskyriazis.weebly.com/
PhD student at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen || interested in human evolution, genomics, culture and information
Associate Professor (U. of Pittsburgh). Lab studies reciprocal interactions between rapid evolution and ecology using experimental evolution in duckweed. Exploring species coexistence, polyploidy, and ecotoxicology⦠www.martinturcotte.net
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
PhD human genetics and immunology
Imperial College London
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Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility
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I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL
Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +β=Γ·Γ
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Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of polyploids at RBG Kew | science & society | opinions mine
Mizzou, Fulbright Belgium, and Michigan State alum. Here because of medicaid, public universities, and pell grants
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Associate professor in Universite Laval in Quebec City, QC, Canada. I am interested in ancient/environmental DNA, sequencing and population genomics. Bayesianist. βοΈ addict & avid traveler. husband, dad of 3
Molecular biology lab based at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Researching insect epigenetics and epigenetic inheritance. Actively recruiting!
Ad Astra-Assist. Prof at UCD. Young Academy Ireland. https://t.co/ZQ4XYYxM7H
Ancient DNA, goats, sheep (begrudgingly), pathogens, climate, MTG, The Traitors.
I watch too many films: http://letterboxd.com/GingerHowley
He is openly gay (citation needed)
Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London.
Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
I like statistical genetics, forensic science, housing abundance (go YIMBY), getting around by bike & PT, sustaining democracy against plutocracy, fascism & Murdoch media, avoiding catastrophic climate change and drinking beer. Live in Melbourne, Australia
Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow.
Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute
