John Stinchcombe

Something that might help: change the culture where editors are expected to make decisions on resubmissions based on a revised manuscript & cover letter.

Most ms are sent for re-review, and if the original reviewers are unavailable (or fatigued), it gets new reviewers... and new objections.

Not angry at all at the advice, and my first post was an OOPS about the mistake I made about not keeping track of this stuff post-tenure.

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Have I been forced to do this, under duress? Yes.

Does it become a self-fulfilling prophecy if everyone does it and no one objects? Also yes.

Who is in a position on awards committees, tenure and promotion committees, grant panels, etc, to object? People like you, me, others w/ tenure.

I know this is a radical idea.... but we could show SCHOLARLY JUDGMENT.

I got my PhD in 2001. No one needs dates & titles of my conference talks. Literally, absolutely no one.

A post-doc applicant: titles, conferences, dates, might be relevant.

How do we know the difference? By not being obtuse.

Those of us w/ tenure & security should rebel against such minutiae being used for things.

e.g. regular conference attendance & service show contributions and participation in our scholarly community.

I don't need dates for a 15 min talk or poster prize judging to somehow believe your cv more.

Post promotion, I quit tracking conference presentations, titles of seminars, run of the mill service, etc.

OOPS! You'll eventually run into someone who cares what year you were on Grad Admissions or gave an SSE talk.

Asking people to track their years on the seminar committee is really stupid.

Its definitely Impatiens capensis, and a native species!

You already had a beard when you started, depriving you of that milestone.... If I had been thinking closely, I would have suggested a pre-Professorial shave, so you could go through another phase super quick.....

Hey #Botany2025 folks -- Asia Hightower @puffballove.bsky.social will be talking about leaf shape G x E x Development in Capsella bursa-pastoris. Tuesday Jul 29 at 9:15 in Mesquite B!!

Matt Elliott: Doug Ford helped usher in an era of outsourcing at Toronto city hall. Olivia Chow may be finally pushing back New reports suggest there are good reasons to question whether letting private companies carry out public services is the best for the city.

Please read this great piece by @graphicmatt.com about privatizing city services.
It's super relevant to Toronto residents, but applies to any city that has outsourced public services since the 1990s.
Privatization always ends up costing more.
(Paging #healthcare)
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

New preprint! We investigated the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum species that diverged ca 33 Mya. 1/8
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Evolutionary Ecologist - Williamstown, Massachusetts (US) job with Williams College - Biology Department | 674315 The Biology Department at Williams College, a premier liberal arts college with a strong commitment to excellence in the sciences, invites applicat...

🚨 TT JOB ALERT 🚨
Evolutionary Ecology
Williams College

In an especially cruel twist of fate, my email has glitched into this state where I can only receive but not send messages.

On the one hand: built in excuse for not replying.

On the other hand: I would soooo much prefer the opposite.

Utah penstemon (Plantaginaceae: Penstemon utahensis) inhabits dry areas of the southwestern US. The bright tubular flowers provide nectar for hummingbirds, who are the primary pollinators. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, 11 Apr 2014.

Utah penstemon (Plantaginaceae: Penstemon utahensis) inhabits dry areas of the southwestern US. The bright tubular flowers provide nectar for hummingbirds, who are the primary pollinators. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, 11 Apr 2014.

Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.

Model organism communities are fantastic. Good work, "Drosophilists"! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We still do not understand family resemblance ...

I wrote a little bit about a cool recent paper looking at heritability estimates from very large registry data, and how we still really don't understand why outcomes track in families. A short 🧵:

Vista of fields at the Koffler Scientific Reserve, University of Toronto.

A great day for field work.

Vista of a field site at the Koffler Scientific Reserve, University of Toronto

Prettiest view on campus! @utoronto.ca

A little teaser of some collaborative network graphs

I’ll be at #CSEE2025 talking about patterns of collaboration in the Canadian eco/evo research community 🇨🇦

If you’re a eco/evo prof in Canada, odds are you were one of my data points… so come check it out! Wednesday - 4:30 - Science in action

@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Hey #CSEE2025 interested in flowers, natural selection, urbanization or any combination of the three?
I’m presenting results of my thesis at 11am today in the urban ecology session (Rivière Coaticook)

The Meselson and Stahl experiment demonstrated in 1958 that DNA replicated semi-conservatively.

Meaning, each of the two strands of DNA serves as a template for a new copy to made of the complementary strand.

Foundational finding, elegant experimental design.

Repeated signatures of balancing selection in small and large populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.12.659363v1

🚨 My first first-authored paper is out on bioRxiv!

🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.

🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.

🧵 More below ⬇️

Left: An early-flowering plant in the wild (at the Angit site in Southern Italy. Right: Flowering time of progeny from wild plants and control genotypes in the greenhouse (22°C long days).

The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how #PanGenetics analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence?

Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue.

1/ A🧵on the danger.

Agree 1 billion percent. Its so stupid.

I think ScholarOne / Manuscript central at least has centralized login via ORCID. But the entire thing is dumb.

On a few occasions, I've emailed journals and asked them to simply delete my entire profile.

PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers **Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?

Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!

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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.