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Jay Keche G.

@caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social

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Evolutionary genetics of plant-insect interactions. Sault Tribe Chippewa. Currently at Arizona State University

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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · Nov 19

I guess it's time to reintroduce myself:

I'm Jay. I study the ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions using a combination of omics approaches and field experimentation. I'm especially interested in how toxic plants in the nightshade family have co-evolved with specialist herbivores.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 15h

"who needs to learn"

Anyone who wants to be able to validate the code.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 15h

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

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Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 9h

Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Shahan Derkarabetian @sderkarabetian.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hello Bluesky!

Do you like Opiliones? I post (mostly) Opiliones, my macro photos, and research.

I’m an arachnologist, systematist, and evolutionary biologist. Expert in Opiliones. (soon to be) Curator of Entomology at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Also, Opiliones.

A macro photo of an Opiliones facing left, the view is from the side. The Opiliones is orange-yellow and brown. It is generally oddly-shaped, with large tubercles on its body and small spines on the appendages. The most striking feature is its eyemound which is rather elongate and pointing forward. It is sitting on a piece of wood and the background is black.

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Helen Brabham @helenbrabs.bsky.social · 10d

Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping

Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

Insects used in research are often excluded from legal and ethical guidelines designed to protect other laboratory animals.

Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/484NNUt

Insects aren’t ‘little robots’—so scientists are rethinking their welfare

Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects

www.science.org

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Samuel Church @shchurch.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Church Evolution Laboratory (CEL@NYU) will be official as of Sep 1st: shchurch.github.io. We are recruiting at all levels, including a postdoc to work on evolutionary patterns and processes via comparative genomics in Hawaiian Drosophila. Please share widely!

Church Evolution Laboratory

Department of Biology, New York City

shchurch.github.io

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 9d

A leaf mining #moth on a quaking Aspen, caterpillar apparently secretes cytokinins which suppress senescence in leaf sectors. Adaptive for the moth? #fallcolors

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 22d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

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Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 7d

There was so much hope in the 90s. Where did it all go? 😭

Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 7d

Nice! That looks good! How much evidence did you need for that result?

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Entomemeology @entomemeology.bsky.social · 7d

Happy weevil Wednesday!

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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 7d

I will add this to the list of reasons why I love Scotland 😅

Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 7d

I really should try BRAKER. Way back in my first postdoc, I wasted ~6wks trying and failing to get it running properly. Hopefully the more recent versions have streamlined the installation process 😅

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

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Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 9d

Galling #aphids on staghorn sumac make plump succulent galls full of aphids and predators - near Watertown, NY

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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 10d

Today is transatlantic flight #9 of 2025.

I am so over air travel...

Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 10d

Waffles usually 🧇

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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 10d

Their pancakes are also different. They're more like crepes. Brits don't really do the fluffy ones

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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 10d

Inverted refined sugar (cane or beat)

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 12d

Assistant Professor Plant or Fungal
Genomics. Univ of Wyoming. eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics

The Department of Botany and the School of Computing at the University of Wyoming invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. We in...

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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 13d

The thing is, I don't think it is. This is chump change compared to what drug companies make. These grifters are destoying civil society so they can afford a new car.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 16d

Fall Florals
Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe
2022

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 15d

Roughly the same data was used (~80X coverage with HiFi reads) and the quality of the assemblies are similar. Duplicated BUSCOs are appropriate (<2%) for all of them too, so it doesn't seem to be remaining haplotigs.

Anyone have any ideas?

Jay Keche G. @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social · 15d

Has anyone ever had helixer find way too many genes in a genome? I'm working on some Solanum assemblies (all same species). For only one of them, helixer is finding ~20k genes too many. For the life of me, I can't figure out why.