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roblanfear.bsky.social
phylogenetics, molecular evolution, some genomes, kids, dogs, and eclectic hobbies none of which I am much good at but I think for me that's the point
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Extract any file on Linux!!! 🤩

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I estimate that for me this is less than 5%of my time. But I’m not particularly good at getting grants, so…

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

submitted 63 days ago • 24 comments

I think this place has doubled in size since last I posted this. If you are into the nuts 'n bolts of phylogenetics/comparative methods, these are some great people to follow. As always, if you'd like to be added to the list, just let me know :) go.bsky.app/D7LsGUM

submitted 64 days ago • 13 comments

Excellent holiday reading, from an experience my wife had many years ago… thetinctorial.blogspot.com/2007/05/grea...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Very good point. And it reminds me of something slightly macabre that a mentor once told me: papers won’t come to visit you when you’re on your death-bed…

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

Delighted to organize the Next-Wave Symposium again this year! If you are an awesome postdoc in genomics---very broadly defined---come tell us about your amazing science!

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

The enshittification of email continues apace! My institutional emails are now dominated by: CAUTION: THE SENDER IS NOT A MEMBER OF YOUR DIRECT FAMILY and THIS EMAIL COULD HAVE IMPORTANT SECRETS AND STUFF

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

The Hadamard conjugation is awesome. See also: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

What's a reasonable price to sequence a 96 well plate of ~3.5MB bacterial genomes to high quality? Links to service providers (especially but not uniquely in Oz) welcome! Please repost.

submitted 73 days ago • 6 comments

The caption of this image seems like a stretch.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

sometimes adulthood is just gaining more tools for dealing with even worse and more complicated challenges; as well as accepting you can no longer stay up late or avoid regular exercise

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC).  doi.org/10.18061/bss...

submitted 442 days ago • 6 comments

Reminded today of a long-past visit to a famous lab to discuss applying for a research fellowship to work there. After lunch one lab member pulled me aside on a false premise and said something like: "DON'T FUCKING COME HERE" and proceeded to reveal the horrors. Be that person.

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

The CZI have been invaluable for supporting the maintenance and development of IQ-TREE. But we still don't have a sustainable model that can keep it afloat. Ideas welcome!

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

WTF?

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

I keep finding myself suggesting this brilliant paper by John Welch, about why pointless debates in evolutionary biology + behavioural ecology. Maybe it is easiest if I just repost it here every so often? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

A quick walk in the reserve to look for christmas beetles with the kids. No luck, but lots of cool things to see. A question (maybe for @confuzzledpigeon.bsky.social or @americanbeetles.bsky.social): do you think the mating leafhoppers *meant* to line up their little stripe with the leaf vein?

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Phylogenetics. IYKYN.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

last couple days to apply (for free! from anywhere in the world!) to the Sanger 2025 PhD Programme — Deadline: 28th November 2024 (09:00 GMT) For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Grad student: I think this draft is ready for your read PI, after a quick skim: awesome, looking great I'll dig in now PI, after an hour: I'm moving these sections around and revamping the discussion PI, after several hours: I have made this paper into a boat and launched it into the moon

submitted 89 days ago • 7 comments