Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler

Old Man Yells At FASTA Headers

Seems like acceptable hangover fare also

Taking notes

Need 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

Finally tried a garbage plate. I have been Baptized

Looks like a caddisfly larva to me but they are typically aquatic. Is that a dry stream/riverbed?

(The first time)

Returning to the command line after a break of many months got me feeling like Jordan when he came back from retirement

a baby is crying while sitting in a crowd of people watching a game . ALT: a baby is crying while sitting in a crowd of people watching a game .

Seeing the finalized plans for my lab space renovation has me SO hyped for the future

new institution, new flavor of package dependency hell

You 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

I have been growing it out, it's significantly longer than when you last saw me!

Day 15 of professoring: started drinking coffee again

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

I'm trying but then someone says it's gonna be 85 degrees tomorrow and I have to stop and think for a bit 😅

Finally making an effort to understand Fahrenheit

What's the academic version of aura farming

They should invent a type of printer that prints things

I'm drinking amounts of water you can't even conceive of

Really cool that there's a 4 billion degree heatwave on the precise days that I'm moving

I am gonna steer clear of both if that's cool 😅

Air conditioning is not enough. I need a personal walk-in freezer

Working with data in Rumex that looks even crazier than this on much shorter timescales. It's plants so a bit different but I have to imagine some kind of genome-wide chromosome breaking mechanism is involved

also for the systematics inclined folks, support early career researchers (ahem, like me) presenting in the Mayr Award Symposium on Friday, May 30!

(SSE has the Hamilton Award sessions the day before, on Thursday, May 29)

Imagine your 5 year old kid hates their birthday party and you have to explain to them that it was planned by a computer and not by you, their parent. Oof

Repeated behavioural evolution is associated with convergence of gene expression in cavity-nesting songbirds - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors performed phylogenetically controlled behavioural assays and analysed brain transcriptomes across five avian families, identifying convergent patterns of gene expression associated with aggression and nesting behaviour in obligate cavity-nesting birds.

Very excited to see this super fun collaboration with @jacanamama.bsky.social finally published!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I sort of knew this going in, but it is wild how much of being a PI turns out to be Budget Management

Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes Abstract. Sex chromosomes have evolved independently many times across eukaryotes. Despite a considerable body of literature on sex chromosome evolution, t

I was so fortunate to work with @rejectresubmit.bsky.social on wrapping up some work from my postdoc with @stepheniwright.bsky.social. Check out our very cool paper pulling apart the history of sex chromosomes in Rumex!

academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

For the past 2 weeks I've significantly reduced my coffee consumption and I'm excited to report I'm tired all the time and have seen no tangible benefits