Alan Yocca

Cups of water, much to the annoyance of Jess. Lately burp cloths, pacifiers, and teething toys

The worst part about finishing a book is deciding which book to read next. I have decision paralysis

Saw this and saw the post you quoted start with "cow tools" and I thought it was a new bioinformatics program

Flyer for the "Application of Genetics and Genomics for Large-scale Breeding Programs" session at PAG 33 Monday in room Pacific C at 12:50pm

En route to San Diego for #PAG33 with several of my Bayer Crop Science colleagues. I'm excited to see what the genomics community has cooked up over the last year. Don't miss the Bayer-sponsored session on Monday! We have a great lineup of internal and external speakers

A haiku about my 10 week old son's favorite thing in the world:
"Watching you always
Calms me down when I am sad
Love you, ceiling fan"

Front page of a travel magazine advertisement reading, "We sent writers to track down unmatchable experiences. An overnight train ride from Venice to Paris. A virtually untouched island where you can actually have it all.

Got an advertisement for a travel credit card in the mail and uh... The editor must have missed this one

Google's AI summary has been mostly helpful with small coding questions but I did run into my first"ghost function" that definitely doesn't exist

I will NOT be voting for Mamdami today! Firstly because his name is spelled Mamdani. Secondly because I'm not a resident of NYC, but I would if I could. I'm excited to get out and vote in my local elections today though, and you should be too.

In my last week of paternity leave and I opened my work laptop to take a peak. 222 emails and 80 teams messages. Not too bad I guess?

Maybe try different ploidy levels, smdugeplot, or if you have enough compute k=55

"What do you mean I can't run this insanely inefficient program without interruption for 21 days?"

If the dot plot looks the same it's probably a long tandem duplicate, at least 3 copies. Check read coverage in this area also to see if it's real or possibly an assembly error

I'm no historian, but a deal for one country to extract natural resources from another country sounds a lot like colonialism

A short thread about how the VeRy EffIciEnT DOGE has affected me and my husband personally:

Indy was unlawfully fired. - February

Indy was rehired, placed on administrative leave, due to judges in California and NY recognizing what DOGE is doing is unlawful. - Mar

A meme photo of an Adelie penguin holding an AK-47.

Most birds have a fight or flight response.

He forgot we’re flightless birds.

Millions of people and so many amazing signs. #Handsoff2025

The penguin humor is really doing it for me lately, a lone bright spot

Rug hanging from the wall with flowers connected in what appears to be a phylogenetic tree. Colors of the flowers remind me of a gene tree showing a pattern of whole genome duplication followed by tandem duplication

Rug hanging in the Airbnb I'm staying at. I call it "recurrent whole-genome followed by tandem duplication"

"A person once received treatment at a hospital when they didn't need it, MASSIVE FRAUD!! So we've decided to fire all nurses and cut funding to hospitals by 548%"

I was slightly favoring the Chiefs for Sunday, then I remembered Harrison Butlicker existed. #FlyEaglesFly

A flyer announcing the next polyploidy webinar on February 5, 2025, at 11 AM PST. Links to sign up for the zoom at barkerlab.net/polyweb. Featuring Charity Goeckeritz from the HudsonAlpha Institute on Genomics of triploid apples narrow the search for the genetic basis of apomixis in Malus, and Christoph Rosche from the University of Halle on Herbarium specimens reveal a cryptic invasion of polyploid Centuarea stoebe in Europe.

Join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have @cherrityg.bsky.social on apomixis and polyploidy in Malus and Christoph Rosche on herbarium specimens and invasive Centaurea! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

"I think we don't think often enough about their work because it's easy not to celebrate the folks who are protecting you from that which doesn't appear because of the work that they're doing"
- Senator Warnock

"The CDC is an agency filled with hard working dedicated public health servants. They wake up every single day working to keep us safe."

Dog chewing a toy shaped like corn

Downloaded the B73 genome for the first time, am I a Maize biologist yet? My dog thinks he's one at least

Ingredients gathered and sitting on the counter while preparing dinner

Made "Coconut Red Curry Sauce and Noodles" I saw on Worst Cooks in America. The reviews said it was a bit bland so I doubled the amount of red curry paste. Its also the first time I've cooked with tofu. Overall id give it a 7/10

Sunset on Mission Beach in San Diego. My dim silhouette sits idly left of center frame, forgotten adjacent to the setting sun

Another year, another successful trip to #PAG32. Attended several talks that will affect the way I carry out my work for the better. Meeting old friends and making new ones also brings me joy. Though I had a lot of fun, I can't wait to see my dog again 😭. Until next year ✌️

Table display of botanical legos

Stop by the Bayer booth at #PAG32 and try to solve the Bayer puzzle hunt for a chance at some sweet botanical legos

Be sure to check out the "Application of Genetics and Genomics for Large-scale Breeding Programs" session organized by Samantha McConaughy and myself Monday at 12:50pm.

I'm excited to attend #PAG32 along with several Bayer Crop Science colleagues. Stop by our booth #318 to chat about Health for All, Hunger for None. I would love to chat about anything Eukaryotic genome assembly/annotation, gene regulation, and disease resistance.

Had enough doom scrolling for the day so I muted "T**mp" and "Zuc**rb**g" and "Me*a", now my discover feed only has 5 posts on it