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petrovadmitri.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist at Stanford. Rapid Evolution, Adaptation, and Genomics. Open Science advocate.
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Scientists warn of long-term damage as Trump’s orders slow research apple.news/AmRUHIHhlR62...

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To all people who value science as a source of truth, cures for diseases, and hope for our climate and future, here are 2 hard truths: 1) our current research ecosystem is already strained and very fragile; 2) If it gets broken it will take a generation or longer to repair. Here’s why: 1/n

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Great idea. I will start a thread!

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 9 days ago • 2779 comments

It is utterly shocking

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Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 15 days ago • 60 comments

Do journals have policies in place for when reviewers insist on scientifically accurate wording/analysis ("climate change," continuous variation in sex characters, etc.) but authors are forbidden by their .gov employment (or conditions of grants / university ... we know that's coming too)?

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Although it feels bizarre to be posting about research with what has been going on in the US this week, I want to highlight new work from graduate student @nemovrobles.bsky.social whose first-first author paper on mitonuclear incompatibilities in swordtails just posted on bioRxiv. shorturl.at/gC71V

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.

submitted 23 days ago • 400 comments

Thank you and hoping that you will attend! It is scheduled currently for August 9 - 14, 2026 at Waterville Valley, NH (www.grc.org/venues/north...)

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

We are thrilled to share that our paper entitled "Inference of the demographic histories and selective effects of human gut commensal microbiota over the course of human history" is officially out in MBE! academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

How is functional variation at large-effect loci maintained in natural populations? Thrilled to share our work showing how beneficial dominance reversal helps fruit flies maintain a resistance polymorphism as selection varies in their environment! A thread 🧵 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Thrilled to see this work, led by @lisacouper.bsky.social now out! We quantified variation in thermal tolerance in the mosquito, Aedes sierrensis, to quantify how adaptation may alter disease vector distributions under warming. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Hello Bluesky friends! I am a #newPI starting at UC Irvine in April, interested in gene regulation and functional genomics in stem cell models of development (esp neural crest). We are hiring at all levels – please reach out/spread the word! sskimlab.org

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

My book, An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design, is published! I’d really appreciate it if you could help spread the word, and I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I hope people will find it useful. It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Happy that this paper - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - was accepted at Mol Ecol Res and excited about the promise of this technology to measure pop sizes for such elusive species as snow leopards + learn about at least 1st-degree relationships + beyond? Congrats to Katie Solari and other authors!

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Hivemind: what are the best books on active inference?

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Friends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

Rule of thumb - always ask @elliecat.bsky.social first. Most likely you wont need to go any further. Thank you Ellie!

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for a review or just references to the most recent work on really recent demographic inference. Ie ways to infer population dynamics 1-50 generations in the past.

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Very excited to have this paper officially out. This one is pretty special... Unfortunately, @kevinwoodum.bsky.social passed away when this paper was in its final stages. He was my biggest supporter, and I miss him deeply as a mentor and friend.

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

A question for the hive mind: are there examples of bacterial species that primarily make a living by hunting other microbes the way some eukaryotic microbes do? Also what’s the current belief about the timing of the evolution of predator/prey interactions I would leave viruses out of the scope.

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

It feels surreal to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Incredibly proud of the work that went into this. And so grateful for the opportunities, resources, support and mentorship from co-authors and my whole scientific community that made it possible

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments