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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to chat with any potential applicants who want to work in plant phylogenomics!

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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alex krokus @alexkrokus.bsky.social · 2d

tfw you think you're missing out on something but you're actually not

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 2d

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

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Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio · 8d

Most chromosomes of any animal on Earth so far!

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 8d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 11d

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac has entered the chat

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 12d

In defense of Taylor Swift...what's the best 12th album anyone has ever made?

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17d

Look the mayor of Vaughan and the Premier of Ontario have said drivers are hard done by. Give them a break.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 17d

She was thrown under a streetcar when a car driver knocked her off her bike. Her case was withdrawn.

The mass withdrawal of road safety-related charges has become routine, the result of an overwhelmed court system leaving millions in fines on the table and letting dangerous drivers off the hook.

She was thrown under a streetcar when a car driver knocked her off her bike. Her case was withdrawn — one of thousands tossed each year by a ‘system in shambles’

The mass withdrawal of road safety-related charges has become routine, the result of an overwhelmed court system that is leaving millions in fines on the table and letting dangerous drivers off the ho...

www.thestar.com

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Buffalo Bills @buffalobillsnfl.bsky.social · 13d

Ornithology is all about the process.

#GoBills | #BillsMafia

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15d

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 28d

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 28d

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms

Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high

edmontonjournal.com

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Sep 10

The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know.

Line drawing of a two story institutional building with a sign in front, "Welcome to the BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT. It has been 3 days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about abugs that make you question your whole reality."

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 27

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

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Jay @duniagamemaster.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

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Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · Aug 19

8 years of notes from research meetings, lab meetings, seminars, brainstorming sessions and to-do lists from 4th year undergrad to now. For most of this period finishing this PhD felt mostly impossible and overwhelming, glad to have made it through with the help of my slightly illegible scribbles.

stack of notebooks of various sizes and colours, the spines are labeled with dates from 2017-2024, along with the name of the post author

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Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · Aug 18

NO I don't want to pre-pay $11 for the world's saddest on-flight sandwich, especially not now!!!

Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · Aug 18

even more on the flight attendants' side after spending an hour on AC's website trying to rearrange my travel days

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Aug 18

Air Canada consoles stranded passengers with pictures of their executive bonuses

OTTAWA - With thousands of passengers still facing travel delays as flight attendants strike for fair working conditions, Air Canada executives have decided to comfort customers by sending photos of t...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you!!!

Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'm a Dr. now!!! Very grateful to my supervisor, committee, labmates and everyone else who helped me get to this stage!

Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 13

Presenting Dr. @bmsacchi.bsky.social !! Bianca successfully defended her thesis on Rumex sex chromosome degeneration and regulatory evolution today. Bravo!!

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Aug 8

#Viewpoint: Measuring #NaturalSelection on the transcriptome

John R. Stinchcombe & John K. Kelly 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#LatestIssue

Schematic depicting the mapping from genotype to fitness.

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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · Jul 25

Legend says the ancient Babylonians once tried to sequence and annotate God's own genome, and for their ambition and hubris they were forever cursed to have different annotation formats and standards so they could never do genomics with ease again.

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · Jul 16

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Marisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · Jul 16

chat are we cooked

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Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · Jun 20

glad it's not just me then! 😂

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