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Rafael Marcondes

@rafamarcondes.bsky.social

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Lecturer at Barnard College. College teaching, birds, evolution, life in NYC, and pics of my cat, Rosalind Franklin. 🇧🇷 (The R in Rafael is pronounced like the h in "hat")

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 14d

New office decor Ive long fantasized about having!

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 6h

Wtf

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not 100% sure exactly either tbh. I guess just a short, intuitive, verbal explanation?

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 7h

Sooo…?

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 7h

Right, and i go through some examples like that, and students seem to absorb the idea at a surface/memorization level, but they want to know WHY that’s true

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 7h

Stdts (freshmen) are having a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that genetic drift will *inevitably* lead to allelic fixation given enough time, and I’m having trouble helping them, except to say it’s a mathematical necessity. Anyone have good intuitive, plain language to explain that?

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 7h

A student told me today she’s adopting a cat because she was inspired by Roz and i!!!!! I guess that’s not THE way i would like to be remembered by a student for many years to come, but it’s A way 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 7d

Students asked for pics of Roz in every lecture. I'm nothing if not a servant of my students!

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Diego Paredes-Burneo @evoyeyo.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share I have defended my PhD dissertation.

Thanks a bunch to colleagues and friends that helped and collaborated along this journey!

Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so proud of my grad student @evoyeyo.bsky.social for defending his @lsubiosci.bsky.social PhD thesis on macroevolution of #Brachyotum and the broader Andean flora today. Felicidades, Dr. Paredes-Burneo!! ⛰️🧬🌻🥳👨🏽‍🎓🇵🇪

Diego and I posing next to each other after his defense in the LSU herbarium.

Diego in front of a slide that says “Plant evolution in the Andes is more complex than current phylogenomic models can explain” with lots of pretty plant photos around the text.

A celebration in Diego’s honor in the LSU herbarium.

Diego, family, me and other close friends celebrate at dinner.

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dea...

The Death of the Author - Wikipedia

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 1d

The Harry Potter series is actually pretty entertaining and shouldn’t be cancelled just because the author is a horrible person

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa your story is worse than mine ☠️

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 2d

Being from São Paulo, sadly i can report that not all gringoes know about it. Also, the number of times people thought Buenos Aires was in Brazil is nonzero 😩

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 2d

Loose object inside centrifuge (happened to me)

Scott Fabricant MD PhD @safabric.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Cefiderocol-resistant Pseudomonas osteomyelitis" 👻👻

Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Developed new species concept"

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 2d

But not being from Rio de Janeiro (people’s heads seem to bug a little when i tell them that)

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being an ornithologist AND being from Brazil

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 2d

It’ll never not feel unreal that i now live 20 min from here and can come literally whenever i want

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 2d

I interviewed for a job at an uni that wanted to start a PhD in biology, but neither the dept chair or the graduate program director even knew what the master's stipend was (or wouldn't tell me)

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 3d

Not as insane as it might sound. I live 6 blocks from Central Park and 1 block from Morningside Park. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

In a Milestone for Manhattan, a Pair of Coyotes Has Made Central Park Their Home

For six years, two photographers have carefully followed the canines and documented their secret lives

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure I'm hearing frikking coyote howls from my apartment in Harlem right now

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 3d

Yours truly aged 18 (from an old document i found today)

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 3d

Do publishers realize that the ultimate factor in determining which textbook we'll adopt is how easy it is to request an instructor copy?

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 4d

Plain bagel, lightly toasted, with plain cream cheese

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Jackson Roberts @jackson-roberts.bsky.social · Sep 1

Greetings! I am the Zoology Collections Manager at the Sternberg Museum! Here is a typical cold day in Kansas, flipping Great Plains Ratsnakes on a 32F day. Quick question: as a new(ish) PI that is new to BlueSky, what's one advice or musing for new users? Thanks, and come see us at the Sternberg!

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 5d

Dang. I’m hugging Roz a little closer tonight 😿

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 5d

It makes sense in my brain but not in my heart, if ya know what I mean

Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 5d

I need a physicist to explain how this can possibly be balanced

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