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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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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

With a massive budget deficit, and in the middle of huge layoffs, good to see ANU investing in cleaning up some minor protest graffiti before most people get to work. #ourANU

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

On top of everything that is incredibly fucked, this is incredibly fucked too. It's not possible to do science if you are told not to interact with almost 20% of the global population.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Sketch, capture and layout phylogenies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/husonlab/phy...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

1/3 How long do you think it takes for highly pathogenic avian flu H5N1 sequences to be uploaded to GISAID after collection? How long should it be? In this commentary, we find a median delay of 228 days, with half the countries taking more than 6 months. rdcu.be/eeZGU @naturebiotech.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Extract any file on Linux!!! 🤩

submitted 125 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 131 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 132 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 133 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 134 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 136 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 139 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 143 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 143 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 143 days ago • 6 comments

The caption of this image seems like a stretch.

submitted 145 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 146 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 512 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 149 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 151 days ago • 0 comments

WTF?

submitted 152 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 153 days ago • 4 comments