DJ de Koning

DJ de Koning

@djdekoning.bsky.social

Professor in animal breeding at Swedish University of Agricultural Science. Also Pro Vice-Chancellor with reposibility for research infrastructure. Will write about research and academia. opinions are my own!🧬πŸ§ͺπŸ„πŸ·πŸ”πŸ₯šπŸŸ

203 Followers 269 Following 223 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 week ago

An old adage is that there are reasons for war and there are causes. The reasons are what people in power tell the people.

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3 weeks ago

Just rename the baysitter as "chaperone for the evening"

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A short note to Kristi Noem To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

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3 weeks ago

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1 month ago

Success ermee, Ik denk dat het zeker gaat lukken met een huisje.

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1 month ago

De meeste attracties zijn goed aangepast en ook het openbaar vervoer. Hetzelfde geldt voor winkels en koopcentra.
Als het geen hotel moet zijn, wat dan wel? Een huisje op een camping?
Een airbnb?
Ik denk dat je met zoeken op internet het verste komt.

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1 month ago

and fruit flies like a banana

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1 month ago

Should have had your first date at a classier establishment than McD...

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1 month ago
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Vacancy at Wageningen University: Assistant Professor Economic Modelling of Farms and Firms in Food Supply Chains

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...

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1 month ago
Arjen Lubach, a Dutch comedian, wearing a white chortle and a dark tie, putting on a red cap with white letters NAAGGA, meant to look like a MAGA cap worn by Trump supporters. More red caps on the desk.

Brilliant idea by @arjenlubach.bsky.social:
The NAAGGA hat.
β€˜Naagga’ means β€˜No’ in Greenlandic.
Sold out already!

lubach.shop/product/naag...

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2 months ago

Wonderful, thanks for sharing!

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3 months ago
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Genomic selection and reproducibility: are complex models distracting us from true scientific validity in the presence of genotype-by-environment interaction? Genomic selection has revolutionized plant breeding by dramatically accelerating the pace of genetic improvement. By utilizing genome-wide markers, it allo

Are we trying too hard with overly complex models? Alex Lipka and Reeka Howard argue that we do when it comes genomic prediction!

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Open Access:

G3 Genes Genome Genetics, jkaf244, doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

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3 months ago

Proficiat! welverdiend!

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3 months ago
Genetics of digital phenotypes of keel bone in layer chickens and correlations with keel bone fractures and deviations

New paper claxon, together with @mrtnj.bsky.social. Final paper of the PhD project of Mohamma Sallam! πŸ§¬πŸ”
rdcu.be/eR4Tl

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4 months ago

Irritating that the article still refers to him as "professor"... Nope: "former professor" or "disgraced former professor"
maybe"high school teacher"?

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1 year ago

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

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4 months ago
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Monty Python understood p-hacking

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5 months ago
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🎡 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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6 months ago
Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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5 months ago
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Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

I totally recommend this position on @trstngnthr.bsky.social lab. Great place to do science, and amazing people to do it with! #aDNA πŸ§ͺ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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6 months ago
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Associate Professor in statistical genetics or health data science at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Health Administrative Centre - Health HR, Aarhus University

We are looking for an Associate Professor in statistical genetics or health data science (fixed term 36 monts).

The position will be in our Aarhus hub at the National Centre for Register-Based Research at Aarhus Universitet.

Read more here: international.au.dk/about/profil...

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6 months ago

This man on every news show everywhere please.

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6 months ago
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Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

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6 months ago

Take a dentastick instead?

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6 months ago

I could not agree more. As Mike Ritchie said in his #ESEB presidential address: learned societies have never been more important than now! @eseb.bsky.social

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6 months ago
Photo of Lysekil (city in Sweden) from the coast, with the church in the center Lysekil from the coast. Three colleagues from SLU in the photo Swedish sign that says " you do not have to be proficient to start, but you have to start to be proficient" SLU coastal laboratory in Lysekil, photographed from the seaside

Having a great time with the SLU leadership on our kick-off retreat in Lysekil. Setting our focus and agenda for the autumn term. The environment certainly helps our sunny disposition!

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7 months ago
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Estimating allele frequencies, ancestry proportions and genotype likelihoods in the presence of mapping bias Abstract. Population genomic analyses rely on an accurate and unbiased characterization of the genetic composition of the studied population. For short-rea

Results of our (extremely long-term) side project with @amygoldberg.bsky.social and @jgschraiber.bsky.social out now in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

We benchmarked methods for estimating ancestry proportions under mapping bias and present an adjusted GenotypeLikelihood to mitigate its impact (1/2)

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7 months ago
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Discontinuous ridiculous stools – a preprint full of tortured phrases and stolen data β€œPatients with provocative entrail illness unclassified gave to crisis division a 3-day history of sickness, retching, migraine and irregular stomach torment alongside discontinuous ridiculous stoo…

Incredible! Fascinating piece by @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Discontinuous ridiculous stools – a preprint full of tortured phrases and stolen data
scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/28/d...

h/t @retractionwatch.com

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7 months ago

what’s needed is to end crime and disorder in the White House

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7 months ago

Must-read poetry

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