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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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...
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23.09.2025 20:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0super excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now inΒ Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy:Β doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
11.09.2025 19:36 β π 38 π 18 π¬ 1 π 1writing a phylogenetics-oriented grant without using the word "diversity" or any of its derivatives
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27.08.2025 12:09 β π 52 π 90 π¬ 1 π 3I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv.
We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!
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I learned a lot during my postdoc too, but it was kind of overshadowed by the stress introduced by the temporary nature of the position. Here it really feels like you're a part of building something meant to last.
25.08.2025 17:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Being a PI is definitely a step up in responsibility and workload but so far I am really enjoying it. I'm being challenged in an incredibly fulfilling way that I haven't felt probably since I was a first year grad student.
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25.08.2025 13:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!
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Wear sunscreen folks. I am Suffering
12.08.2025 01:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Old Man Yells At FASTA Headers
05.08.2025 19:46 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Seems like acceptable hangover fare also
05.08.2025 00:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Taking notes
05.08.2025 00:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Need a larger sample tbh. Poutine has a high variance. It's about as good as the average poutine imo, but I have had poutines that were better
04.08.2025 23:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Finally tried a garbage plate. I have been Baptized
04.08.2025 23:31 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Looks like a caddisfly larva to me but they are typically aquatic. Is that a dry stream/riverbed?
04.08.2025 16:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0(The first time)
30.07.2025 16:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Returning to the command line after a break of many months got me feeling like Jordan when he came back from retirement
30.07.2025 16:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Seeing the finalized plans for my lab space renovation has me SO hyped for the future
30.07.2025 14:08 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0new institution, new flavor of package dependency hell
28.07.2025 20:05 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You ever randomly get stressed about something and then completely forget what it was five minutes later? What a nice feeling. Like oh it couldn't have been that bad
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