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squishy, crunchy, salty, or not - researcher
Dendraster Spring 2025 collection!
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Repurposing without Reinventing the Wheel - Ensemble Models for Differential Analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats pkg github.com/himelmallick...
08.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Brave's search AI is sensitive to the order of words in a query:
what is the iqtree2 -p option = Success
what is the -p option in iqtree2 = Fail
Of possible note - the order of words that worked is similar to the order of words on the command line / in code.
If you're into evolution and genomics, the EcoEvo Genomics GRC this summer is promising to be really good.
And I'm not just saying this because I'm speaking at it!
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I spent some time cleaning up my repo demonstrating how to use the NCBI Datasets REST API to do automated and/or bulk retrieval of genomes, by accession or by taxonomy. It's not super well documented but it does all seem to work :). Enjoy!
23.02.2025 01:42 — 👍 74 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2Dendraster excentricus 1-day juvenile - with adult sand used to induce metamorphosis from a swimming pluteus larva yesterday.
Tube feet for walking and spines for protection - speed is 4x.
Sand dollars and sea urchins are closely-related - you can see it in the young juveniles.
Jason Hodin and I did the fertilization two weeks ago - and Vannessa Valdez and Chloe Schwab in his lab cared for them - feeding fresh algae every two days - and then divvied them up for settlement - counting out 1800 larvae, 75 at a time. I did temperature treatments to look at resilience 5-30C.
30.01.2025 07:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Echinoderm echinoid Dendraster excentricus sand dollars!
11-day old larvae competent for settlement and metamorphosis - and mid-metamorphosis juveniles with larval arms still present - and skeletal rods poking out!
I was pipetting them and they stuck themselves to the glass with their tube feet.
Cellular and synaptic organization of the Octopus vertical lobe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635406v1
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Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
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#consgen #PopGen
Pteropod gastropod mollusc - the sea angel Clione limacina!
Collected off the UW FHL docks today. A tiny one - slightly bigger than a grain of rice.
Imaging on a microscope is tough - lighting and movement are challenges - need to develop a rig for swimming zooplankton / small pelagic animals!
NSF has created an Executive Order Implementation webpage to ensure the widest dissemination of information and updates. We will continue to communicate with you as we receive additional guidance.
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What was our common ancestor?! Mitigating sources of error @maxjtelford.bsky.social @anaserrasilva.bsky.social & colleagues cannot distinguish between monophyletic & paraphyletic Deuterostomia (#hemichordes, #echinoderms, #chordates).
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Star Power: Early life stages of an endangered sea star are robust to current and near-future warming https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.25.634808v1
28.01.2025 02:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Crustacean larva!
Scooped up off the floating dock at UW FHL marine field station today.
So much structural engineering. Great transparency!
1-2 inches ? It collapsed the legs to form a trailing tail when swimming - little nubbin body at the front.
