Prepping tiny insect samples from a collaborator destined for hifi and hic library prep, but realized that the males are all marked with whiteout marker. Does anyone know if this will inhibit DNA extraction or library prep?

@jby because it’s a smallish, relatively simple dataset, I’ve considered hosting it (maybe along with some nice narrative markdown?) on GitHub and versioning there with zenodo. 🤷‍♀️

I'm looking for the best, cheapest repository to host our long-term presence/absence observations of tamarisk beetles (small-medium sized dataset), mostly to make it citeable and improve stability/versioning. Is dryad the move? Any other suggestions?

@academicchatter @sociology Folks have been giving good advice to new grad students. I'd like to supplement with this advice: even if it is hard, try to connect with other grads and multiple faculty: don't let yourself be isolated into only one relationship with advisor or PI. A good graduate advisor/mentor is important and hopefully you get a good one, but there is danger if that is the only relationship you have. If something goes sour, you need other connections to help. 1/n

Good article about demise of #twitter / #X for #academia.

I'm happy to admit pre-Musk Twitter was broadly useful and engaging, but quality of the platform has suffered since.

Sad thing is that for now, the resulting #fragmentation will benefit no one.

Hopefully people disperse to various #ActivityPub connected services, such as #Mastodon or even #Threads. In the end we're a #community, and talking to each other should be facilated. #academicchatter @academicchatter

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

Wrote a bit about how I'm keeping up with The Internet these days, which is: Mastodon, Bluesky, and a pretty solid RSS reader, Reeder — almost but not quite recapturing some of the peak era Science Blogosphere

#reading #research #blogging

https://www.molecularecologist.com/2023/08/07/how-are-you-reading-the-internet-these-days/

Any recommendations for a recent or foundational, undergrad accessible journal article for my BIO105 (intro for majors) students? Ideally something in the cellular biology world, but not full-on genomics.

Just saw this sweet #bioinformatics #postdoc ad on #evodir with Catherine Cullingham at Carleton University and the TRIA-FoR project on mountain pine beetles:
The bioinformatician will investigate resiliency and risk in the context of mountain pine beetle-climate interactions by linking genomics with quantitative genetics, population genetics, physiology, phenomics and spread risk modelling.

https://www.catherinecullingham.com/
https://tria-for.ualberta.ca/

I am recruiting a new postdoc to study switchgrass evolutionary genomics in my group. Review of applications will begin on August 16th. https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/515633/research-associatefixed-term

Apropos of nothing at all - tell me what you *love* about teaching college students.

Do you need a primer on quantitative genetics and genomics in the wild? Start with our Editorial on the history, current state, and the likely future of the field. 2/16

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1930

And @Amandastahlke et al integrate a population genetics approach to investigate evolution in six populations of Tasmanian Devils in the face of transmissible cancer. 11/16

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0577