Reposting again, sorry! Also, Jason Weir is not on Bluesky.

Interested in the genomic, behavioral, and morphological drivers of bird evolution? The Weir Lab at UT Scarborough has PhD positions available!

Please share widely. As a current postdoc in the lab, I am happy to share my experiences with applicants.

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Reposting, sorry! Also, Jason Weir is not on Bluesky.

As an intermediate step in that process, I sometimes delegate a task to my future self (this ultimately changes nothing about the outcome).

The link is broken for me 😢

It's not widely known that the Middle Ages are so-called because every European was between approximately 45 and 60 years old during that period.

New lake sturgeon work out investigating transcriptional shifts in the gill during early development

mRNA changes associated with histone modifications, DNA methylation, and apoptosis were conserved across both populations, as well as population-specific processes

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tinyurl.com/bdekwzed

This is easy for me to catch, because my results are never good.

This experiment was fun to pull off! I'm glad it worked out so well.

*Sees Socrates themed intro slide...raises hand.*

Confucius?

Are gene expression responses to an immune challenge conserved over macroevolutionary time? Not so much... in a new preprint we measure & compare differential expression in response to an immune adjuvant, in 14 fishes sampled from across Actinopterygii
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread

Out in Global Change Biology,

We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the thermal tolerance and adaptive capacity of North American Sturgeons.

While sturgeons are incredibly thermally plastic, increasing temperatures limit their physiological capacity and likely recruitment🧪🐠🐡🌎
tinyurl.com/369edzft

Alternatively: "Thanks for taking this commission. You have seen a lake sturgeon before, right? I need my bros to see I was carrying a kickass one."

"...yeah. Totally. You bet. Lake sturgeon pro over here."

@eveliendegreef.bsky.social and I wrote a follow-up piece in @theconversation.bsky.social. It was great to write more about the context surrounding bowhead whale and narwhal genomics.
theconversation.com/commercial-w...

Excited to share our latest paper in Global Change Biology! 🐳Here we examined bowhead and narwhal genomics and the legacy of commercial whaling: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Collabs w/ C. Müller, @biomatt.bsky.social, S. Ferguson, C. Watt, M. Marcoux, S. Petersen, @colingarroway.bsky.social

Check our new paper in Global Change Biology by
@colingarroway.bsky.social
& I with many great collaborations! doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... 1/4