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Justin Blumenstiel

@bdelloid.bsky.social

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Evolution, Genomics, Genetics, Epigenetics, Transposons, Small RNAs, Meiosis, Politics, Music, Kansas....AND DROSOPHILA!!! Freaked out ribosome and DNA truther doing my own research. "We are our own reviewers" - Alejandro Montenegro‬ ‪

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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 8h

Durable epigenetic silencing with a TALE-based editor www.nature.com/articles/s4...

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Luisa F. Pallares @luisapallares.bsky.social · 1d

We have put together a comprehensive eQTL map for D. melanogaster using thousands of genetically diverse flies 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 We hope this helps -as similar resources have done in yeast and humans- to understand how genetic variation 🧬 regulates complex traits variation 🪰 via transcriptional regulation ⬆️⬇️

Saturating the eQTL map in Drosophila: Genome-wide patterns of cis and trans regulation of transcriptional variation in outbred populations

Pallares et al. collect over a thousand RNA-seq and DNA samples from Drosophila melanogaster flies to investigate the genetic basis of gene expression variation. They find eQTLs for 98% of the genes a...

www.cell.com

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 2d

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 2d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 2d

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 3d

Rosie the Ribbiter

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Robert Manchild @robertmanchild.com · Aug 18

had to quit my job so i could read emails from my kids' schools full time

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JettedBunny @jettedbunny.bsky.social · 3d

They're dressing like sharks,
They're dressing like frogs.

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for noticing. I thought I was the only one!

Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 5d

As an evolutionary geneticist, I can say you are 100% correct. This is complete nonsense.

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 5d

Is this fake? I think it is. Never seen this before. Reporting.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 5d

“Johnny Cash is cool.”

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 5d

Another great contribution from the team of Ana Llopart, Nikale Pettie, Abigail Ryon and Josep M. Comeron! Starting to really understand recombination maps in species close to mel: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

A high-resolution crossover landscape in Drosophila santomea reveals rapid and concerted evolution of multiple properties of crossing over control

Author summary Crossovers are points of DNA exchange between maternal and paternal chromosomes that are evolutionarily vital to the generation of genetic diversity and critical for proper chromosome s...

journals.plos.org

Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 6d

Rubio at 0:17. Chef's kiss!

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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 7d

graphic design and soy are my twin passions

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 8d

For you... @johnlogsdon.bsky.social

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 8d

Spare us the cutter!

Warning notice on the side of a jumbo pack of clingfilm: CAUTION: CUTTING EDGE IS VERY SHARP

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 8d

It's a solid commitment to listen in one block. But worth it over a period.

Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 8d

Have you listened to her United States Live?

It's so freaking great.

"He said, you know, to be really safe you should always carry a bomb on an airplane. Because the chances of there being one bomb on a plane are pretty small. But the chances of *two* bombs are almost minuscule."

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 8d

Shortbread data. Delicious, but useless here.

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 8d

Another great and hilarious line from that album (to me at least):

"Thanks for showing me your... swiss army knife "

Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 8d

Keep going until you hit the place where they're thinking of building that drive-in bank.

You can't miss it.

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David Enard @denard.bsky.social · 8d

I am convinced that we have massively underestimated the impact of substitution reversions on the amount of molecular positive selection that we are able to see. Large populations will readily have reversing mutations readily available, and gene flow will also reintroduce ancestral alleles.

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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 8d

So, we have an unhealthy fixation with fixation?

Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 8d

Hopefully, this will be an effective wedge in these conversations. Crossing fingers.