Matthew Hahn

It's post-drinking food!

Is this a current photo? If so, you're about 6 hours too early for it to taste good...

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I am aware of the paper. Perhaps showing that there was introgression _into_ the potato lineage would have been a good first step?

Sorry, it's just the time lag in my responses--I'm not actually trying to be funny!

I was simply confused because the H. elevatus data seem very easily explained by introgression/gene flow/whatever-we-call-it. It is confusing to me that HHS is invoked.

No real idea, though I'd probably say yes as well

Maybe I don't get your definition of "hybrid species"--do you just mean one generated by homoploid hybrid speciation?

If so, I will stick with my original statement

“Hybrid species”? Does that include humans?

The world is so depressing, I had to do something to lighten the mood

Is it the one where one species contributed ~2% of ancestry?

Link?

There do seem to be more F1s in plants, for sure. But as you know that’s quite different than gene flow

No, I don’t think I said that…

(Also, my current guess is that more animal systems have gene flow than plant systems!)

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Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

Every other scenario? No.

Simple ones like post-speciation gene flow? Yes

Oh yes, that too!

Somebody said it was boiling--I was just checking in on it :)

How common is homoploid hybrid speciation? - PubMed Hybridization has long been considered a process that prevents divergence between species. In contrast to this historical view, an increasing number of empirical studies claim to show evidence for hyb...

Good question! My go-to guide is this classic from @mollyschumer.bsky.social et al:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24620775/

Oh, it’s simply that they admittedly don’t test the simpler hypothesis that there is gene flow post speciation

Yes, I know that paper :)

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Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

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He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

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I know exactly the movie you are alluding to with that last bit!

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This story is wild. The water in Bloomington, Indiana hasn't been consistently fluoridated since 2020, but the public wasn't notified. Even the Mayor didn't know. It only became public knowledge when IU chemist Dr. Katherine Edmonds* read a footnote in a report.
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