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andrewjroger.bsky.social
deep-time evolution, phylogenetics, anaerobic protists, the tree of Life. Science depends on vigorous respectful debate and evidence-based reasoning. This is my personal page and what I post here has nothing to do with my employer.
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[taps sign] Cancelling these grants is illegal under the 1974 Impoundment Control Act *and* unconstitutional under Congress' Article I spending authority.

What is the 'state-of-the-art' set of bioinformatic tools to do metabolic pathway prediction for eukaryotic genomes (microbial eukaryotes)? Is it still KEGG Mapper...what are some others?

Wow!

I think this is the first lawsuit challenging the NSF's reduction to a flat 15% grant indirect (facilities & administration) costs. It was filed yesterday (2025-05-05). More info and full filing here: www.aau.edu/key-issues/l...

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Straight from the autocratic / fascist playbook...

A beautiful sunny day to GET OUT AND VOTE! Remember it is 1000 times easier to stop a tyrant being elected than to remove a tyrant and 1000000 times easier to stop your country being occupied than to fight to get it back. Vote today, vote carney - and let’s stand strong against American jackboots.

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

The page for the EMBO multicellularity meeting organized by @multicellgenome.bsky.social , @martaalvarez.bsky.social and colleagues is online! #multicellularity #protists meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...

Tomorrow’s ProSE Seminar features Dr. Devlina Chakravarty (@devlinac.bsky.social) presenting “Mutations Switch Folds in Proteins”. Don't miss out! April 8, 3PM GMT Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar3 🧪 #MEvoSky

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🤖📈🧬💻 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 Do you have a background in math, stats or computation & considering grad studies in the life science & biomedicine? Western University will hold an Open House with talks from researchers who use/develop quantitative methods in their research. western-bioinfo.github.io/events/open-...

@amoebadiscovery.bsky.social made an iteresting interview with me about #heliozoa and #centrohelids - I think these organisms are really important, understudied and gorgeous 😍 Also lots other intresting reading and beatiful pictures! #protistsonsky link: tinyurl.com/adiscovery1

Very interesting thread on protein structure dynamics

BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned.

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Interesting paper alert! #eukaryogenesis www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Cross-kingdom-mediated detection of intestinal protozoa through NLRP6 #protists #protistsonsky #symbiosis #microbiome

Asgard Arf GTPases can act as membrane-associating molecular switches with the potential to function in organelle biogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Cultivation of Ancyromonas melba, and Reclassification as the Type Species of Divimonas gen. nov., a Phylogenetically Important Ancyromonad Lineage Kate M. Barkhouse, Yana Eglit, Elizabeth J. Weston, Adriana B. A. Jenkins, Alastair G. B. Simpson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #protistsonsky

Cool story!

Fun interview with Julius Lukes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HqE... #protistsonsky

Hello origins of eukaryotes enthusiasts! @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy and I are excited to announce an interdisciplinary discussion meeting in Heidelberg May 19-20! #protistsonsky Places are strictly limited. Register here to avoid disappointment! www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-...

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Here's a super helpful site called Signal in the Storm that is automated to keep track of federal policy changes (EO's and Ed dept) and news re: academia. Also includes suggestions on what to do, and a faq's page about indirects, etc. Pls RT! signalinthestorm.org/index.html

Canadians too are being detained in US immigration

How do we organize/ respond/ resist as these things happen? "A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the US, even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion." 🧪 #MedSky #highered

As @amoneyresists.bsky.social pointed out, Elon Musk is a mass murderer.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...