Tomos Potter

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

“auspicious set seed values” @popgengoogling.bsky.social

Do you like quantitative genetics, stats, experiments, and long-term studies? Check out this post doc opportunity with the wonderful Anja Felmy!

🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

It had been years since I started. Pretty sure pre-Covid.

still need to finish this book

Below Moose’s original picture, I see a post by the Journal of Animal Ecology which uses the same “overlapping ridges” style a.k.a a Joy Division plot to show how the date at which deer give birth varies across different parts of Europe

Some nice timeline synchronicity for me today

Below Moose’s original picture, I see a post by the Journal of Animal Ecology which uses the same “overlapping ridges” style a.k.a a Joy Division plot to show how the date at which deer give birth varies across different parts of Europe

Some nice timeline synchronicity for me today

This post makes me think of when I was desperately trying to finish my thesis and found myself changing the font on my to-do list.

And maybe ‘highly motivated’ is overrated. Isn’t there some (possibly apocryphal) quote from Bill Gates about giving the hardest problems to the laziest coders, because they will find the easiest way to get the job done?

YouTube video by owen reiser LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

Can confirm this is great. Like a skate/bmx/climbing road-trip film but about birding. Recommend.

Apparently the Romans had glass windows in 100AD, and I bet they threw people through them, and I bet someone wanted to tell people about it. I wonder how long after the word (or its ancestor) was coined?

Straight out of the Cambrian explosion

Good work, much more efficient.

Always open to constructive criticism of my sloppy code!

In community ecology, this is called the "Appendix XVII of a Peter Abrams paper" effect

See also: Antonovics

YouTube video by youpi444 Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper (HQ)

spoiler alert: youtu.be/w0N4twV28Mw?...

I have updated and improved the is.na() function in #Rstats.
You're welcome.

na.vibe.check <- function(x){
ifelse(table(is.na(x))["TRUE"]>0,
browseURL("https://tinyurl.com/muhjvec6"),
print("all good"))
}

A photo of the book “A Dominant Character” by Samantha Subramanian, on the life of JBS Haldane. The cover shows a photo of JBS with a distinctly bald head.

New book arrived! Looking forward to learning more about the bonkers life of JBS Haldane. I also note that he sports the same hairstyle that is (sadly) traditional among men in my family. Seems like we will have that in common at least!

I am recruiting graduate students to begin August 2026. Apply by Nov 15th!

To truly understand Tinbergen's behaviour here, you have to address four questions, starting with (1) what is the function of him making his own fish food? (2) how did his fish food making evolve... etc, etc

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Unfortunately, our invited speaker @colingarroway.bsky.social is stuck in Canada, but on the upside you will get to hear more about the work by Timothée Bonnet, who is taking over his slot, and from Lizy Mittell about her super relevant work on the invisible fraction! You won’t want to miss this!

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

Eagerly awaiting possibly, the most eco-evo-packed experience of my scientific career so far, at #ESEB2025!! Come by to my Poster P01.216 on 18/08, if you want to know about some previous work about population genomic inference of life history traits (1/2)

#eseb2025 come see bob's talk!

The title slide of the talk I'll be giving. It reads: Are mitochondrial sisters their own worst enemies? Testing for negative frequency-dependent selection via resource competition in Trinidadian guppies. There is a depiction of a guppy family tree.

What if your family members turn out to be your worst enemies? Come see my talk at #eseb2025 on using pedigree and mark-recapture data to explore how relatedness structures competitive interactions, and whether this maintains variation! Thursday, 11am, S48.02, meeting room 122+123