1) New paper out! Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue—do low-condition males that acquire matings by other means affect the rate of adaptation? Intuitively you'd think yes: some of these males will have poor condition because of maladaptive alleles or a high mutational load, so if the alternative tactic increase the input of their genes into the next generation that should be A Bad Thing

https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qrae010/7630433?searchresult=1

Did you know that SORTEE has a YouTube channel where you can (re)watch the plenaries from our past conferences?
Check it out here: https://youtube.com/@SORTEcoEvo/videos (and don't forget to subscribe and like to help us spread the word 😉) #openscience

Has there been a meaningful change in the number of black professors in the UK?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00249-8

Nature thinks so, but I think a 25% increase in a single year sounds huge until you look at the tiny numbers involved

@_wurli oh I understand it doesn't fit the remit of exactly what you were after. But I hope you will at least be able to stop 'abusing' poor facet wrap 🤞

@_wurli No need to abuse facet wrap - have you checked out nested facets in the ggh4x package?

Our new gene drive in Aedes aegypti paper is out now!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44956-2?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

I hope you don't need this, but here are some tips on organizing your -80.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00031-w

However, if you are like me, its a good reminder to clear out the 'It's 6:30, and I swore I'd be home at 6:00, but I just finished making this thing' tray in our -80.

Yes, we do have one, and it is useful because sometimes you have something that needs to go in the -80 right now, but you also need GO HOME RIGHT NOW!! Because it's a concrete location, it doesn't get too crazy.

#LabLife

Check out my friend Martin's adventures in bio-sonification. Making music out of the electrical impulses produced by living organisms!
https://revolutionarybiscuits.wordpress.com/

New Year, new papers!

Medfly gene drive paper is now out in Nature Comms!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44399-1

me too random appliance, me too

🌅 I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Daly Analytics (@dalyanalytics), a data science consulting company specializing in shiny app development, machine learning, predictive analytics & R programming! #rstats

☕️ Let’s chat dalyanalytics.com

Who will be going to PopGroup 57 in St. Andrews next week? I was planning on using BlueSky, but without hashtags such as #PGG57 #Evolution #PopGen, I'm not sure how it will work?

@davelunt @DarrenObbard
The oligarch name you are after is Jack Dorsey, the guy who sold twitter to Elon Musk. And has often publicly endorsed him!

I know I just boosted this — https://hachyderm.io/@zkamvar/111699279163834211 — but I am (a) not surprised and (b) super thankful @keyboardpipette boosted it so I could see it.

I saw a spate of "is now supporting”'s in my GH RSS feed and wondered why. Also, just tapped the 'support' button myself.

If you can spare either tier (or anything) please support Yihui.

I fear this won't be the last one of these.

who is at fault? #23andme

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/01/23andme-blames-negligent-breach-victims-says-its-their-own-fault/amp

QMUL has really earned its reputation as the worst employer in the UK Higher Education sector https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott?CMP=share_btn_tw

NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who published 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South.

NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03865-y

The EU Data Visualisation Guide was published last month

https://data.europa.eu/apps/data-visualisation-guide/

I wrote all the content for it, and I built the interactive publication in @sveltejs. It has 7 chapters and contains a ton of examples. You can search it for a topic, or use it as a guided course and browse from page to page. It basically condenses all I learned about data visualization in the past decade

Thank you so much to Oxford R User Group for the invitation to run an online workshop about making Christmas cards with R! 🎄

We built a snowman using {ggplot2} in tonight's workshop ⛄️ ⛄️⛄️

Slides: https://nrennie.github.io/oxford-RUG-christmas-cards/

GitHub: https://github.com/nrennie/oxford-RUG-christmas-cards

#RStats #DataViz #R4DS

#30DayMapChallenge Day 25! Antarctica. As an avid #rstats fan the {palmerpenguins} dataset is awesome, and Allison Horst's artwork is even better! So thought it was a good excuse to make a map (with art) of where these data come from (gleaned from the original paper FYI).