Maurine Neiman

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Only 38% of ecology and evolution journals mandate data sharing and just 27% mandate code sharing

New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

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Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).

Guns kill kids, and state firearm laws make a difference: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The J.J. Neiman-Brown Academic Caretaking Fund was established in memory of UI Biology Professor @maurineneiman.bsky.social's son J.J., a kind & inquisitive child who brightened the day of everyone he met with his smile. The fund supports child or other caretaking costs for UI faculty...

Preprints in comparative physiology – a guide for the preprint curious Summary: This Perspective explores the reasons behind the limited use of preprints in comparative physiology, addressing concerns and advocating for increased adoption to enhance transparency in scien...

Preprints in comparative physiology – a guide for the preprint curious url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A bibliography for the 2025 IDEA plenary The recording of my talk for the 2025 IDEA plenary is now posted over on the Evolution meeting YouTube channel (there’s a bunch of dead air at the start of the recording; the action starts a …

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

What I’m learning from MAHA And why public health needs to catch up with the curiosity-driven movement

Excellent resource for engagement with vaccine hesitancy, with concrete and actionable advice:
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What I’m learning from MAHA open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Variation in nuclear genome size in a freshwater snail model system featuring a recent whole-genome duplication | Royal Society Open Science Conspecifics often share—or are assumed to share—nuclear genome characteristics like nucleotide composition and genome size. These fundamental aspects of the nuclear genome can themselves be the objec...

Genome size is surprisingly variable even WITHIN species. Dunja Lamatsch, Martin Haase, Maria Pilcher, and I use flow cytometry to show a nice example of this variation in this new paper, perhaps connected to a resolving whole-genome duplication, in our snails. 💜🐌🧬 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes - Nature Characterization of the genetic architecture underlying the 7 pairs of contrasting traits studied by Mendel and the over 70 additional agronomic traits in pea (Pisum sativum) reveals their m...

New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles

159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist)

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Plots illustrating the results of an interrupted time series analysis of submission and acceptance rates, showing a decline in submission rates but little to no change in acceptance rates post-COVID-19 pandemic.

How did the #COVID-19 pandemic shape scientific productivity? Stephanie Meirmans, @maurineneiman.bsky.social, Shalene Singh-Shepherd @royalsocietypublishing.org and I crunched the submission and acceptance data for 25 journals in #Ecology&Evolution: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @uniexecec.bsky.social

Revising US MMR Vaccine Recommendations Amid Changing Domestic Risks This Viewpoint discusses updating the existing recommendation for an additional early MMR dose to infants aged 6 to 11 months traveling to any region with increased probability of measles exposure.

US measles outbreaks & abysmally low vaccination rates in some communities motivates recommendation to give infants 6-11 months old at risk of domestic exposure early first dose of MMR vaccine. I’d be first in line if I had a child in this age group.
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Celebrating science when it is under scrutiny Scientists discuss research and science backlash ahead of annual Darwin Day events. And we listen back to a conversation with one of Iowa's few scientific glassblowers.

How & why do we celebrate science, especially when it’s under attack? Check out discussion featuring Iowa City Darwin Day keynote speaker Tyrone B Hayes on @iowapublicradio.org! www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...

Understanding the value of science & scientists is more important than it’s ever been. The wonderful Charity Nebbe will be talking about the state of science w/Iowa City Darwin Day’s keynote speaker Tyrone Hayes (and me) on @iowapublicradio.org’s Talk of Iowa @10 AM April 3. Please tune in!

Iowa City Darwin Day 2025 is fast approaching! Join us in Biology Building East this Friday (4/4) at 3:30 PM for two phenomenal seminars from Chris Jones, PhD, and Tyrone B. Hayes, PhD! Cookies from Nodo and coffee will be available beforehand.

All Darwin Day events are free and open to the public.

Thursday: Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa, 15 S. Dubuque St, Iowa City, 7 p.m. (Part of Darwin Day Festivities in Iowa City)
Friday: University of Iowa, 101 Biology Building East, 30 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City, 3:30 p.m. (Also part of Darwin Day Festivities)
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Photos include images of the speakers: Tyrone Hayes, David Cwiertny, Chris Jones, and details regarding time and location of the talks on April 4 and April 5 in Iowa City.
All of this information can also be found on
@iowacitydarwinday.bsky.social's website! iowacitydarwinday.org/events/

Photos include images of the speakers: Tyrone Hayes, David Cwiertny, Chris Jones, and details regarding time and location of the talks on April 4 and April 5 in Iowa City.
All of this information can also be found on @iowacitydarwinday.bsky.social 's website! iowacitydarwinday.org/events/

Thank you for the reminder, and apologies for forgetting. Is there anything I can do to fix this post?

Celebrating science and scientists is more important than ever! Come join us for Iowa City Darwin Day's 2025 events! ❤️🧬🧫🔬🔭🥼🧪.

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European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief.

Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.

What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?

Column | Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.”

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For those interested, the assembly will be available at NCBI as soon as its done processing under accession JBMDTV000000000, but you can access it (and lots of other good stuff) at our Zenodo repo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and at our GitHub repo (github.com/jsharbrough/...)

Whole-genome sequence of Potamopyrgus antipodarum: a model system for the maintenance of sexual reproduction reveals a recent whole-genome duplication Key unanswered questions in biology center on the causes, consequences, and maintenance of sexual reproduction (sex). Genome-driven processes are central to the evolutionary and genetic mechanisms inh...

After 15+ years, our wonderful Potamomics team has completed a lovely Potamo genome assembly. It was VERY challenging & also super exciting. Here’s why ❤️🐌🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @jsharbro.bsky.social @johnlogsdon.bsky.social @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @peterdfields.bsky.social

Small, perky snail with head poking out between its two shells. The snail has a pair of long, tubular tentacles. The shells are like clam shells, except they are vivid green. The hinge is at the top. Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/166680082

In this photo, the snail is lying on its side with the hinge of the two shells pointing towards the camera. The shell and snail are both very bright green. The snail has white blotches on its back. Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/263219540

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole.

In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9)

Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

Fixed preprint team link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/preprints