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bryangitschlag.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist | postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Lab | predictive modeling | cooperation & conflict | physiology & behavior | evolution of complexity 🧬🏳️‍🌈✊
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Happy Darwin Day! Enjoy some of my favorite excerpts from 'Origin'... 1st: he came this close 🤏 to figuring out Mendelian genetics. If only he had put numbers on those observations! 2nd: proposed the basics of inclusive fitness theory, now a leading explanation for evolution of animal altruism.

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Movie idea: remake of It’s A Wonderful Life, directed by Robert Eggers and featuring a biblically accurate angel played by Bill Skarsgård.

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Following up on the poor record-keeping at NHS to emphasize that the Cass "review" presents a woefully incomplete discussion of the state of the field. So far I've found dozens of topically relevant publications in the professional literature that Cass did not cite or discuss. 1/3

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I pray to robots to teach me how life got to be the way it is. (read: computational modeling of evolution)

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Join us for the 8th seminar in the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation @eseb.bsky.social STN lecture series. Talks from @bryangitschlag.bsky.social and Michele Hays. Thursday December 12, 11am Eastern!

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Ok I suppose this is still a small enough account to reasonably do this: 1 like = 1 piece of Bryan lore

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Our cockatiel Cici waltzed onto the cutting board. On Thanksgiving. Lookin’ at us like “hey! so what are we having?”

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