Audrey K Ward

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

17.03.2025 22:59 — 👍 5588    🔁 1346    💬 3    📌 17

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

24.06.2025 18:09 — 👍 348    🔁 179    💬 20    📌 42

Audrey Ward @audreykward.bsky.social from the Bensasson lab @dbensasson.bsky.social explores the pop genomics of the yeast 🧫🧽 L. thermotolerans 🍷

They find five major divergence groups and intercontinental migration ✈️

#Evol2025 #Evol25

22.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Fluctuating reproductive isolation and stable ancestry structure in a fine-scaled mosaic of hybridizing Mimulus monkeyflowers Author summary Hybridization between species can create genetic novelty and promote adaptation, but can also erode species barriers and dilute genetic diversity. Climatic variation likely impacts the ...

My second dissertation chapter is now published in PLOS Genetics! A really fun study in which we examine hybridization dynamics across space and time between monkeyflowers Mimulus guttatus and Mimulus nasutus in the Columbia River Gorge. @plos.org journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

03.04.2025 02:22 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

So excited to have successfully defended my PhD - thank you to @dbensasson.bsky.social for your mentorship and encouragement over the years!!

25.03.2025 16:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Small grey kitten on a blue and grey quilted bedspread staring at a laptop screen.

i wish i could write individual scripts for multiple strains listed in this text file all at once!

the humble while loop:

08.02.2025 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Low level contamination confounds population genomic analysis Genome sequence contamination has a variety of causes and can originate from within or between species. Previous research focused primarily on cross-species contamination or on prokaryotes. This paper...

Our accidental finding that "Low level contamination confounds population genomic analysis” is on bioRxiv - a fun collaborative project with the @mcmomany.bsky.social lab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

23.01.2025 16:47 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0