Graham Coop
@gcbias.bsky.social
Population and evolutionary genetics @UCDavis. Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book https://github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
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ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
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If you want to read something completely nuts from the unregulated world of direct to consumer genomics, look no further.
And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.
And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.
"Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics", by X account @sichuan_mala
totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/11/21/c...
totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/11/21/c...
Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics – Total Health Optimization
totalhealthoptimization.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
If you want to read something completely nuts from the unregulated world of direct to consumer genomics, look no further.
And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.
And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.
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"Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics", by X account @sichuan_mala
totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/11/21/c...
totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/11/21/c...
Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics – Total Health Optimization
totalhealthoptimization.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics", by X account @sichuan_mala
totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/11/21/c...
totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/11/21/c...
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3 infant #pertussis deaths this year in Kentucky. "Of the three infant deaths reported over the past 12 months, all three were not vaccinated, nor were their mothers."
We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.
We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.
www.wowktv.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
3 infant #pertussis deaths this year in Kentucky. "Of the three infant deaths reported over the past 12 months, all three were not vaccinated, nor were their mothers."
We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.
We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.
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Please note that we already have 130+ people signed up and we will limit the sign up at 160. Don’t dawdle If you want to attend. Registration is free but required. forms.gle/M5BSyAaeUggn...
Registration for BAPG 2025, Stanford Dec 6 2025
Talk submissions are now closed, but poster submissions are still open.
forms.gle
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Please note that we already have 130+ people signed up and we will limit the sign up at 160. Don’t dawdle If you want to attend. Registration is free but required. forms.gle/M5BSyAaeUggn...
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Super excited about our schedule for BAPG at stanford on Dec 6. bapg2025.github.io/bapg2025stan... Amazing talks, a fabulous keynote, a lively poster session. A brilliant and interactive community. What’s not to love? 1/2 @sophiejwalton.bsky.social
BAPG Fall 2025
Bay Area Population Genomics Conference @ Stanford
bapg2025.github.io
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Super excited about our schedule for BAPG at stanford on Dec 6. bapg2025.github.io/bapg2025stan... Amazing talks, a fabulous keynote, a lively poster session. A brilliant and interactive community. What’s not to love? 1/2 @sophiejwalton.bsky.social
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Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Seeking a postdoc position?
Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Post-doctoral fellow (M/F): Assessing the power of current methods to detect balancing selection in population genomic datasets
urlr.me
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Seeking a postdoc position?
Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
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This policy comes as they 1) install cronies as Institute Directors - eg, JD Vance's old roommate is NIEHS Director 2) reject Council slates & 3) ignore scientific program staff.
In sun, politicos (rather than scientists trained in the appropriate field) can skip applications with no justification
In sun, politicos (rather than scientists trained in the appropriate field) can skip applications with no justification
This is concerning.
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
1/2
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
1/2
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This policy comes as they 1) install cronies as Institute Directors - eg, JD Vance's old roommate is NIEHS Director 2) reject Council slates & 3) ignore scientific program staff.
In sun, politicos (rather than scientists trained in the appropriate field) can skip applications with no justification
In sun, politicos (rather than scientists trained in the appropriate field) can skip applications with no justification
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Hayfork Bally Lookout 1, Trinity County, CA
🗺40.6588, -123.2190 🧭125° ⛰6224 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16672
🗺40.6588, -123.2190 🧭125° ⛰6224 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16672
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hayfork Bally Lookout 1, Trinity County, CA
🗺40.6588, -123.2190 🧭125° ⛰6224 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16672
🗺40.6588, -123.2190 🧭125° ⛰6224 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16672
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This version isn’t complete either, but you can see that offspring are in the lower part. Doesn’t quite make sense, in that the upper ancestral part is where you would expect more detail…
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This version isn’t complete either, but you can see that offspring are in the lower part. Doesn’t quite make sense, in that the upper ancestral part is where you would expect more detail…
Settling into Sunday afternoon with a cuppa tea and @matthewcobb.bsky.social's Crick. Just got my copy from @avidreaderdavis.bsky.social (along with bunny vs monkey for kids).
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Settling into Sunday afternoon with a cuppa tea and @matthewcobb.bsky.social's Crick. Just got my copy from @avidreaderdavis.bsky.social (along with bunny vs monkey for kids).
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of CYCLOIDEA expression during early floral development in monkeyflower www.cell.com/current-biol...
Spatiotemporal dynamics of CYCLOIDEA expression during early floral development in monkeyflower
Bilateral floral symmetry is a repeated evolutionary innovation governed by the CYCLOIDEA-dependent
program, yet how the dorsal-specific CYC expression is initiated and maintained remains
elusive. Min...
www.cell.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Spatiotemporal dynamics of CYCLOIDEA expression during early floral development in monkeyflower www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Read my full story here!
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Read my full story here!
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Editors! @ucanr.edu is hiring an editor for peer-reviewed materials produced by @uofcalifornia.bsky.social scientists. First application review date is Dec. 5
@sciencewriters.org See careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucanr/EM... 📚https://ucanr.edu/careers
@sciencewriters.org See careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucanr/EM... 📚https://ucanr.edu/careers
Careers | UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Working at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Collaborating to solve problems. Connecting to serve communities.UC Agriculture and Natural Resources brings UC information and practices to all 58 Cal...
ucanr.edu
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Editors! @ucanr.edu is hiring an editor for peer-reviewed materials produced by @uofcalifornia.bsky.social scientists. First application review date is Dec. 5
@sciencewriters.org See careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucanr/EM... 📚https://ucanr.edu/careers
@sciencewriters.org See careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucanr/EM... 📚https://ucanr.edu/careers
I have an audience with the Pope
And I’m saving the world at eight
But if she says she needs me, she says she needs me
Everybody’s going to have to wait.
And I’m saving the world at eight
But if she says she needs me, she says she needs me
Everybody’s going to have to wait.
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I have an audience with the Pope
And I’m saving the world at eight
But if she says she needs me, she says she needs me
Everybody’s going to have to wait.
And I’m saving the world at eight
But if she says she needs me, she says she needs me
Everybody’s going to have to wait.
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Applications due by Dec. 1st.
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Applications due by Dec. 1st.
The kids got to watch Chinook salmon in putah creek this morning. [https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/restored-stream-supports-new-wild-salmon-run]
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The kids got to watch Chinook salmon in putah creek this morning. [https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/restored-stream-supports-new-wild-salmon-run]
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Big beautiful stand of #small Purplelip Pansy Monkeyflowers (Displacus angustatus) for #BlueSkyArtShow. 💚
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Big beautiful stand of #small Purplelip Pansy Monkeyflowers (Displacus angustatus) for #BlueSkyArtShow. 💚
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷
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Breckenridge Peak 2, Kern County, CA
🗺35.4529, -118.5914 🧭191° ⛰7520 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1854
🗺35.4529, -118.5914 🧭191° ⛰7520 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1854
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Breckenridge Peak 2, Kern County, CA
🗺35.4529, -118.5914 🧭191° ⛰7520 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1854
🗺35.4529, -118.5914 🧭191° ⛰7520 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1854
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Dr. Cheeto would like a word. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeto_...
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Dr. Cheeto would like a word. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeto_...