Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler

remember when the boat got stuck

THE weirdest

Training until failure but it's your brain's ability to write words

Is the EM algorithm machine learning

Word is such an annoying piece of software but I am so glad they integrated LaTeX into its equation editor

sitting back, relaxing, and filling in my first annual activity report

I generally just contact their references to chat rather than asking for formal letters

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes Abstract. Evolutionary simulations of multiple chromosomes, even up to the scale of full-genome simulations, are becoming increasingly important in populat

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

TIL that in linguistics they have their own version of ancestral state reconstruction for languages that they also call the comparative method. Fun!

Has somebody tried telling the government that when people die they can't spend their money at businesses

Going from Rochester winter to Baton Rouge winter

Rapid evolution of synteny associated with multiple origins of dioecy and XY sex determination Chromosomal rearrangements are a major driver of evolutionary innovation, shaping processes including local adaptation, speciation, and sex chromosome evolution. Multispecies synteny datasets are rich...

Very excited to share the capstone of my postdoc work with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, co-led by Wright lab grad student Cassandre with contributions from many others.

We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.

Surely this is not the same amygdala my ancestors were using to fend off wolf packs and grizzly bears

There is a lot of stuff going on. I feel it would be nice if there wasn't as much stuff going on

When you look at your old code and you're impressed that past you was able to figure all that out

So far my experience of winter in Rochester is that it's basically a coin flip whether you're going to get pelted on the face with hail on your commute home from work

a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking up at the sky in the dark . ALT: a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking up at the sky in the dark .

I may have neglected writing the documentation for this R package for a bit too long

clouds 😑

i like snow

Still a few more days to apply to our open faculty position! This is a stellar department to be an evolutionary geneticist. I've really enjoyed my time here so far. Feel free to DM if you have any questions!

apply.interfolio.com/173431

I've seen riparian plots you people wouldn't believe

Not to post spoilers but the history of chromosomal rearrangements in Rumex is genuinely breaking my brain right now. Excited to share with y'all

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Oh jeez same

As a biologist I am pretty envious of the explanatory power of the "everyone is 12" theory

"Help you read faster" is so dishonest lol, like yeah if you consider "not doing the reading" as "reading faster"

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

Happy to chat with any potential applicants who want to work in plant phylogenomics!

the lion does not concern himself with factor of 2 errors

Estimating the rate of quantitative trait evolution in the presence of gene tree discordance by calculating likelihoods across trees Quantitative traits provide insights into how phenotypes evolve across species. However, standard comparative methods often assume a single species tree and overlook the discordant gene tree histories...

New preprint led by grad student, Yu Mo! We introduce new software to calculate evolutionary rates of quantitative characters in the presence of discordance

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First grant submitted 🙏