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Galen Martin

@galenm.bsky.social

Evolutionary geneticist/professional tourist

72 Followers  |  147 Following  |  1 Posts  |  Joined: 25.09.2023  |  1.5136

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Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!

academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

10.08.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 93    ๐Ÿ” 47    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

HPLC (high-performance liquid computing)

07.07.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.

This is infuriating.

And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.

26.04.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1064    ๐Ÿ” 330    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Are you at #PAG31 ? Like grapes and crop wild relatives? Come see my talk today in the Grape Genome Initiative workshop in Pacific H-I at 2:10PM!

14.01.2024 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A non-adaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellulari... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

We have a new preprint up. This one is a hypothesis paper, addressing one of the bigger unanswered questions that people have been asking me for the last 15 years: why has complex multicellularity only evolved in eukaryotes, never in prokaryotes? 1/33

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

14.11.2023 22:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 98    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

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