Matt Biegler 🪺🧬
@mbiegler.bsky.social
NHGRI K99/R00 Scholar exploring songbird reproductive biology and all its peculiarities. he/him. I enjoy things.
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If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals.
The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
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Every Christmas I think of economics’ measurement problem when it comes to quality. I grew up with trees that literally looked like this, and even the cheapest trees today are genetically modified to be greener, fuller and lose very few needles.
December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Every Christmas I think of economics’ measurement problem when it comes to quality. I grew up with trees that literally looked like this, and even the cheapest trees today are genetically modified to be greener, fuller and lose very few needles.
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after a lifetime of constituents being furious at them for doing nothing the democrats have decided to do something the one time everybody begged them to do nothing
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
after a lifetime of constituents being furious at them for doing nothing the democrats have decided to do something the one time everybody begged them to do nothing
Amazing tool. I’ve already done this with all my manuscripts it is a must try.
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Amazing tool. I’ve already done this with all my manuscripts it is a must try.
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A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
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September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
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How many chromosomes can an animal have?
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly
The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most
butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that
this extraordinary karyotype is ...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
How many chromosomes can an animal have?
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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The last passenger pigeon died 111 years ago today and not a day goes by that I don't think about how their flocks numbered in the *billions*, that their roosts covered 100+ square miles, that they collapsed trees with their nests. America is incomplete without them
September 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The last passenger pigeon died 111 years ago today and not a day goes by that I don't think about how their flocks numbered in the *billions*, that their roosts covered 100+ square miles, that they collapsed trees with their nests. America is incomplete without them
I know the eggs aren’t black (unlike the photo), but I’ve always wanted to know when they start to get their color in development-wise…
The Indonesian black chicken, rarest most expensive breed of chicken in the world, iLamborghini chicken, the price of its eggs can reach $2500. Everything in this chicken is black, its feathers, beak, tongue, nails, its flesh, eggs & bones. As for his blood, it is dark red, which tends to black.
June 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I know the eggs aren’t black (unlike the photo), but I’ve always wanted to know when they start to get their color in development-wise…
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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After my twitter departure I've been a bit quiet with the socials. But I wanted to start here with a bit of positive news that I was awarded a K99 from NHGRI this past month. I'm very excited to begin a new project exploring the songbird germline-restricted chromosome (GRC)!
February 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
After my twitter departure I've been a bit quiet with the socials. But I wanted to start here with a bit of positive news that I was awarded a K99 from NHGRI this past month. I'm very excited to begin a new project exploring the songbird germline-restricted chromosome (GRC)!