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Here is how to kill a scientific field. Make it really hard to get into a good PhD program, then make it incredibly difficult to get a tenure-track academic position, then make a bunch of non-tenure track jobs available, then drain the funding and fire all the youngest people.

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Good old Oakland California.

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Hey fly folks, I recently remembered that I had made a hybrid lineage between D. melanogaster and D. simulans that could only interbreed and feature recombinant chromosomes. Now I'm kicking myself for not publishing in 1999 for reasons that must have made sense at the time. .

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This might be the most exciting paper I've ever been a part of. With Robert Kohler, Ricardo Pianezza, Almoro Scarpa, and Prakash Narayanan we found a new transposon that invaded D. melanogaster in the 90s www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A colleague not on Bluesky alerted me to a TT Microbiology position at Eastern Michigan University, so I figured I'd pass the info along: careers.emich.edu/jobs/6b7c192...

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Genome Biology and Evolution is excited to now be on Bluesky. Please help us by recommending accounts and feeds for us to follow!

submitted 491 days ago • 5 comments

We're hiring! Broad search for two assistant professor positions here at Purdue, one in Biochemistry and one in Botany and Plant Pathology. Come join us! careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...

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One week left to apply! LSU Dept of Biological Sciences is searching for a population geneticist. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo... You'll have lots of awesome collaborators: www.lsu.edu/science/bios... Please spread the word!

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New job opening at CU Boulder: Asst. Professor of Environmental Data Science. A great opportunity at a great place jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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UC Riverside has a wonderful plant science community, exciting opportunity!

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I think it's incredibly important in any scientific writing to state up front and clearly what the null hypothesis is. It's counter intuitive, but it is a great way to show people why you think your hypothesis is likely and that you understand the alternatives to it.

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If you're in the Bay Area this week, check out my sister's art in beautiful downtown Oakland! mercurytwenty.com/exhibition/s...

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Calling all botanists! An unapologetic advertisement for my Dad's latest project--> a geobotanical inventory of the flora of the Rio Grande watershed in Colorado. He would LOVE any collaboration or feedback! Check it out below. #plantscience 🧪🌱 #academicsky floraupperriogrande.com

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There is still no good substitute for one-on-one teaching. My writing class works not because I'm a great teacher or a great writer but because I meet regularly with each of my students and we go over their writing, line by line, over and over again, until we get it right.

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We’re hiring! TT Plant Systems Biology position, apply at the site below. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

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A great group of plant biologists there.

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Come be our colleague! LSU is searching for a population geneticist. You'll have lots of awesome collaborators: www.lsu.edu/science/bios... Applications due Oct 30 lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0646... @brantfaircloth.bsky.social and I are on the committee - please reach out with questions

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Join me, Kelly Dyer, and Rich Kliman for an open Q&A about applying to graduate school in Evolutionary Biology! (pls RT)

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Interested in a PhD in Evolutionary Biology but unsure how to apply? Join an informal Q&A session that will cover the basics of applying to grad school in Evolutionary Biology. When: October 19, 2023, 7-8:30pm Register: umich.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Who: Regina Baucom, Kelly Dyer, Richard Kliman

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I turned 60 the other day and it struck me how incredibly lucky I have been. For 35 years I've been paid to do something that I love to do, and to find new things that I didn't know I'd love, but do. I know that academia can be difficult, but it does have its rewards.

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Chris is a great guy working on some fascinating questions and he's a terrific mentor.

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I have huge respect for bioinformaticians, but you really have to eyeball a subset of your outputs before you move on to the next task, especially if you are working with a complex (e.g. normal) genome and extraexpecially if you are dealing with TEs.

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Good morning!

submitted 516 days ago • 1 comment

I gotta say, I really am enjoying the whole AI thing.

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I'm excited to announce that the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology has TWO openings for tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and/or Microbial Biology. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...

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OK, just putting one out there to see if this works. Guess what this is:

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