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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

@jrossibarra.bsky.social

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evolutionary genomics of maize and wild relatives. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof and HPC director at UC Davis. not actually a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. views, especially bad ones, mine only (he/him)

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Jul 22

Something something Panglossian paradigm

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 3h

This is my kinda college hotel. My room has a coffee table book of all the plants on campus, organized phylogenetically! At Huazhong Agricultural University.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 3h

Hey @elpais.com how do you write a whole article on Columbus without even hinting that maybe he did some bad stuff?

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 8h

We haven’t because we wanted to avoid mapping to whole genome.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12h

7 weeks is way to long for a class. I hope you give them bio breaks every hour. Do they sleep during the zoom in shifts or something?

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 22h

Or if Jeff’s too corny for ya, come work with me in more messy plant genomes! ;) JK - I’d run to work with either of us.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet pdoc fellowship! Would be really excited to work with someone interested in applying ancestral recombination graphs to messy, real-world data in plant genomes. Happy to chat if you might be interested!

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah maybe 10-20?

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14h

Right for PCR free should be ok. We see >50% variation just due to library prep though

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Wolfgang Busch @rootstrapping.bsky.social · 1d

🌿 Amazing opportunity for scientists from any field to move into plant biology! I might host a fellow in the area of root-microbe or root-environment interactions (DM me). 👉 simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology

#PlantScience #ClimateChange #HarnessingPlants

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

simonsfoundation.org

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d

You couldn't have a revolutionary innovation like a stalk until you put your roots underground instead of above ground.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d

Top notch, for sure.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d

I also actually like the book smell of books. I don't want them to smell of lavender or mayonnaise or anything else.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah we should have listened to you.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve never tried to read a Yorkshire pudding.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

The final form has lodging problems the others don’t. Nice balanced center of gravity.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a croissant. (Kidding I don’t have the page it’s at my folks house)

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

not to be pedantic, but with the advent of ancient DNA and modern genomic studies of maize, we now know Cthulhu died quite a bit southeast of R'lyeh, and sometime after maize domestication

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

My lab was also bothered by the cheap toupée

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

Each year CIMMYT has a competition in the town of Jala for the longest ear. They're not quite at 48 inches yet, but getting there.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

I had a Pokemon that did that once.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Carolyn, now I won't sleep for weeks.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

Right? I'm so far behind AI I didn't even know eveertaliaton was a phase of domestication!

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

Distressed to see I guess I'm out of a job. AI has figured out everything there is to know about maize domestication. (Found this online when looking for images for a talk)

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2d

Family popover recipe turns 100 soon. I make it almost every weekend, with only the changes suggested by my grandmother (handwriting).

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