Tatum Bernat

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The 2025 #Evolution & #Ecology #Grad Preview Program is a great way for #prospective grad students to learn about grad school!

Gain one-on-one mentorship and learn how to write application statements!

Program dates: August 18th, 21st, 25th, & 28th
#phd #AcademicSky #science

I highly recommend this FREE virtual program for anyone interested in applying to graduate school in the fields of Ecology or Evolution!

❗❗🚨ATTENTION 🚨 ❗❗Our 2025 #Evolution and #Ecology #Graduate School Preview Program application is OPEN! Please refer to our website (link in bio) for more information. We especially encourage individuals from historically excluded groups to apply!

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This program is really great for those that interested in applying to graduate school but feel like the process is daunting!

Starting to dig into phylogenetic comparative methods for continuous traits…

PAML or HyPhy? Or both?

Would love some recommendations to guide my reading!📚

Congratulations to Jeff Groh on the publication of "The temporal and genomic scale of selection following hybridization" showing how wavelets an be used to determine the timing of selection & drift during hybridization www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Prosanta with a chameleon

Nesting sea turtle - picture by Jonathan Schmitt

Cute blue killifish

Besides the fishes I saw a troop of drills and other monkeys, nesting sea turtles, African Grey parrots, giant fruit bats, Xenopus, chameleons, and lots of other cool creatures thanks to the many local and international scientists there for the Conservation International rapid assessment.

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

#PhDsky

Looking for help from someone with experience using #RepeatMasker to #softmask a #genome:

How long did it take for your script to run? How large was your #genome? How many GB did you allocate?

Mine is taking what feels like FOREVER

#Academic #genomics

Super excited about the lineup of talks and posters at #BAPG at Stanford on Dec. 2 bapg-conference.github.io Special thanks to
@sophiejwalton.bsky.social and James Kitchens for putting together the website.

The origins of maize were the subject of controversy for well over a century. Even in the 1950's botanists like Edgar Anderson weren't totally sure what continent it came from!

We published today a new model for maize origins (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Let me tell you how we got here. 1/

Rough piddock clam siphons sticking out of rock next to algae

California Sandcastle Worms near algae on a rock overhang above water

A member of vermetidae amongst red algae on a rock

Two sunburst sea anemones waging war with their acrorhagi

My favorite place in the whole world is the intertidal❤️

#geoduck #roughpiddockclam #sandcastleworms #acrorhagi #seaanemone #vermetidae #marinelife

New lab logo just dropped 👀🔥🐟🧬

We finally have a lab logo - check it out!

FYI: we had this done through 99designs. Ran a contest, had about a dozen or so entries, after a few back-and-forth revisions of our favorites we picked a winner. This cost $300. Could have done cheaper with AI but I like paying people...

circular timetree of 344 true crabs, colored by superfamily and with line drawings of representatives around the circle that makes it look like a zodiac/mandala

Today we publish a new paper on a molecular phylogeny of true crabs. We find crabs transitioned from marine to non-marine environments 7-17x over 100+ myr! This culminates 15+ years(!) of effort from an international team! 1/4 (thread in replies)

academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

🧪🦀🦑#evosky

#R Package Update:

There are ~2x as many colorblind-friendly color palettes🎨 in ggpubfigs, which can help make your #figures📊 accessible to as many people as possible

Link to GitHub: github.com/JLSteenwyk/g...
Link to Publication: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

The American Ornithological Society Will Change the English Names of Bird Species Named After People AOS will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction—one step in an effort to address past wrongs & engage more people in the enjoyment, protection ...

BREAKING: AOS will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction—one step in an effort to address past wrongs and engage more people in the enjoyment, protection and study of birds. americanornithology.org/about/englis... #BirdNames

I want to see your science-y Halloween costumes! Repost with a pic!

Please help support this amazing program!!

STEM for Girls: Empowering Girls & Gender-Expansive Youth crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/project/3831... #CrowdfundUCDavis

🌊 Dreaming of a #Postdoc adventure? 🤿 Join us on a marine body size expedition at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette! Dive into this thread for all the details. 🐠🦑

One week left to apply! LSU Dept of Biological Sciences is searching for a population geneticist.

lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...

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Our lab is having a retreat this weekend!

For those of you who have hosted these previously, what activities (scientific and otherwise) did you find the most productive/fun?

#addOcean please!

Hi I’m Tatum and I’m an Ecology Ph.D. Student at UC Davis! I currently study the genomic architecture of euryhalinity (a type of reversible phenotypic plasticity related to salinity) in killifish🐟 interested in all things marine eco-evo!

Check out this interactive underwater experience showcasing our local National Marine Sanctuary, Cordell Bank!

Proud to be part of the Cordell Marine Sanctuary Foundation that helped support this project 🪸🐟🦀

sanctuaries.noaa.gov/vr/cordel-ba...