1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08689-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08689-6
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WHAT
It is a more general complaint, that readers are so lazy, and software is so bad, that a 46 post social media thread is somehow preferrable to a blog post
it just seems wrong, like a violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics
:)
but the idea that it is better to communicate complex stuff in tiny bites that are hard to relate to each other
I'm sorry, I guess I'm just old or something, it seems crazy to me: on blog, you can scroll up or down, as needs, to understand stuff, etc
https://bsky.app/profile/wcratcliff.bsky.social/post/3ljo3yyymps2x
question: it is well known to old time yeast people (Fred Sherman) that many strains will grow in a clumps; I myself have seen mutants that grow in clumps a few mm across
so how did you avoid selecting for clumpy mutations ?
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/a-long-term-evolution-experiment-for-whole-genome-duplication?channel_id=behind-the-paper
It does a lovely job of telling a story of surprise discovery, inspiration, and the coordinated work of a dozen people as Kai raced against the graduation clock to get this project done