Andrés Parada

1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics.

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

It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.

Yakko (like that old cartoon)

spotify top artists a bunch of nostalgia

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross most listened artists 2024

big if true...

Here is a starter pack for scientists and others interested in trait-based ecology and evolution. Still trying to find everyone here. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/PThMXeX 🧪🌎🌾

🐐Or I could make a career of bein' blue
I could dress in black and read Camus
Smoke clove cigarettes and drink Vermouth
Like I was 17, that would be a scream
But I don't wanna get over you

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I used these little budding yeasts

I blended the orthofinder results with the ones from eggNOG mapper analysis (I annotated the whole genome of one species and then recorded the function of those duplications)

Yeah, it provides you an species tree and each individual gene tree, you can easily check the number of duplications shared in certain branches, within species duplications

For a demo in an Evolution grade curse I used 10 genomes of yeast and worked really good 1/2

Adaptive Radiation Losos 2010 DOI: 10.1086/652433

I just read the NPR article about this network and they mention 200 million users for threads, the turnover into daily users here is fantastic

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio

go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

Yeah I think going from particularly odd examples to general trends is useful, also picking one taxa and coming back to it in several instances to pick apart how certain adaptations or life stories are not easily predicted based on history, habitat or taxonomy

I wonder about these kinds of things and I wonder had what made them study Biology, we had the Cousteau/Sagan nurtured gen, the Discovery/Nat Geo gen and then the whatever biotech/entrepreneur reached them... The way to catch an audience has shifted dramatically and their expectations are very high

I am more inclined to Ecol& Evol as a framing device [and I work for an Evolution course!] but I think adding other concepts and using mammals as examples can work. btw, can you share a link to that article?

For phun I made a "starter pack" for people involved in developing phylogenetic methods. If you feel you should not be involved, or feel I missed you (it is difficult!), please let me know. go.bsky.app/D7LsGUM 🧪

I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!

Forgot the link go.bsky.app/27iKQ4H

Starter pack of ecological and evolutionary physiologists. Definitely missing people so let me know

go.bsky.app/N5Xvr8v

Nice idea @drelopara.bsky.social

Terrified (2017) Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

BTW a previous Rugna's movie hit the streamers a few years ago, it is more slow, really good practical effects letterboxd.com/film/terrifi...

for the way it was framed and since I was keeping tabs on [spoiler] I was really anxious... my reaction was "don't do that shot, don't go there... no... not so close to [spoiler]" It reminded me of reading Stephen King novels or watching the TV/movie adaptations as a teen.

A macro photo taken at night of a green-glowing, bioluminescent click beetle larva, partially outside its burrow in a red-dirt termite mound. The beetle larva has sharp, wide open mandibles, ready to snap shut on any insect that ventures too close, attracted by the light.

A photo at night of a tall termite mound on a grassland. The cloudy sky is faintly blue in the background. The termite mound is dotted with a few dozen green pinpoints of light, all from tiny bioluminescent click beetle larvae living in the mound's surface, giving the termite mound the appearance of lumpy, red-dirt Christmas tree.

An amazing sight from my recent Brazil trip: bioluminescent termite mounds in Emas National Park. Tiny larvae of click beetles (Pyrearinus termitilluminans) glow steadily, hoping to attract flying insects (like winged termites & ants), which they then grab with their sharp mandibles. #insects 🐙🌿

podes id/levantar lxs seguidores de tuiter con Sky Follower Bridge eso está muy bueno

We’ve put a lot of work into making Bluesky a healthier social network. This app is designed to give you a choice — in what you want to see, what you don’t want to see, and how you want to interact.

Some tips on how to customize your experience:

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I think now I will be more around here

A few things I've been working on lately:

elmer, elmer.tidyverse.org, is a new package to make it easier to work with LLMs (hosted and local) from #rstats. It includes helps for structured data extraction and tool calling, and an easy way to upload a plot. Joint work with Joe Cheng.

New postdoc position available! Evolution of mutation rates! 🚨🚨🚨

Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly.

(RTs [or whatevs] appreciated)

https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/19856