Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

Postdoctoral Researcher - Evolutionary Genomics and Population Genetics Position Title: Postdoctoral Researcher - Evolutionary Genomics and Population Genetics Appointment Type: Post Doc/Trainee Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: We are seeking a Pos...

Postdoc in evolutionary genetics with @mbhufford.bsky.social isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Integrating ecological release into the domestication equation The ancient domestication of plants and animals permitted the agricultural yields necessary to feed higher densities of humans, leading to urbanism an…

Love this kind of thinking about domestication from an ecological perspective. Excited to read this. H/T @mgstetter.bsky.social for sharing this.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This looks neat, actually does a formal analysis of what I've suspected for a long time -- ΔK is an odd way to decide number of pops. H/T @biologyjoe87.bsky.social for the paper. (Personally I think K=0) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Recently we're working with SNPs from whole genome assemblies to estimate ARGs. It's a pain to go from alignment files to vcf, keeping track of masked and invariant sites. So we wrote a snakemake/SLURM pipeline. Hope it's useful to others, and don't hesitate to post issues if there are problems!

I have a big stash of pink and just haven’t gotten around to doing it again. I should!

What kinda silly person gets their hair dyed hot pink just to celebrate a paper. Certainly not me in 2021.

Good question! First and fourth were the same annual conference just 11 months apart. The third was in fact sort of a recombination of the first and second!

Well said!

I just got back from what I hope is a record: in the last 12 months I’ve been to four maize genetics conferences. In theory five would have been possible!

we talk about carcinization, but never about the many, many times plants have invented the “tree.”

Tree is not a kind of plant, it is a thing plats do, and they are by and large unrelated.

Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am!

We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal.

His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!

Ridiculously brilliant! Parents are terrible, fickle, thoughtless creatures. (My kids tell me this all the time). Need to have written evidence of their criminal uncaring.

I think you could, but as a computational plant biologist I'm the wrong guy to ask.

Consuming too much leucine is bad for your mental health. Makes you go CUU-CUU.

You wrote them both, didn't you Michael.

That's a lot to be wary of.

Yes!!

Please tell me someone has written a paper about autophagy titled "Caveat mTOR"

In the fossil record it's when the tunic 8's turned it up to 11 and got the first spinal tap.

Plants are plugged into the ground. Vertebrates, however have gone wireless, saying no to chord.

To be fair, what even is a vertebrate? Asking as a botanist.

Wow, you coming back from the maize genetics meeting too?

NOT IN TERMINAL 8 JOHN, NOT IN TERMINAL 8.

Now I know you’re just setting us up for the big reveal in Nature.

< read Kid Rock badly lip-synching his own lyrics>

Look Karolina haven’t you done enough damage telling us things that shouldn’t have CAM, actually have CAM? Can’t you just leave penguins out of this?

As long as you sprinkle some truth in there!

In spite of my glazed look, there's nothing like an old-fashioned apology.

You were a brother to me, Brian, but we are done, kin.

Pretty small in the grand scope of AI hallucination problems, but I've been traveling for 17 hours and just lugged my crap across two terminals at JFK because an LLM told me Dunkin' Donuts was open at 3am. I wish someone had told the staff. And before you say so, yes, I should have known better.