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C. Brandon Ogbunu

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Scientist + Humanist + Pugilist. 70% Smoke. 30% Stack. "Tip your hat; pop the chain; short Joe Louis; then wipe his nose with the hook. It's that simple." (c) Brother Naazim Richardson https://linktr.ee/chike98

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · Jul 27

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter):

Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 2h

I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.

www.quantamagazine.org

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 21h

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In vivo directed evolution of an ultrafast Rubisco from a semianaerobic environment imparts oxygen resistance | PNAS

Carbon dioxide (CO2) assimilation by the enzyme Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase (Rubisco) underpins biomass accumulation in photosy...

www.pnas.org

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 1d

#MammothMonday factoids: A comparison of 23 woolly mammoths (how cool is it to have that many mammoth genomes!) and 28 living elephants identified at least 1.2 million mammoth-specific genetic changes, including 4,786 amino acid substitutions in 3,097 genes 1/n 🧪 🐘 🦣

PMID: 37030294

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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Less than six months after Misere Connect Four was solved [1], we now have a solution to Chess on Half the Board! 👏

→ bowaggoner.com/papers/2025/...

[1] arxiv.org/abs/2410.055...

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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 2d

In Ch 19 (nyu-cdsc.github.io/learningr/as...) of his 2nd edition, Kruschke used *residual* SD as a standardizer for group differences from a multilevel ANCOVA. Is there any precedent for using a *residual* SD as a standardizer for a standardized mean difference effect size? #RStats

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Dec 22

I'm so happy to see this paper published in QSS!

When it comes to MDPI, many people in academia are still playing the lost game of allowing them the benefit of doubt.

This figure had been faithfully killing those ridiculous demagogic attempts for over a year now 🙌

#ScientificPublishing

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 5d

Red Sox fan friends not answering they phones (again)

Interesting

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 6d

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not about the order & whether I agree; they really did a nice job of exploring a lot of music.

And ‘’The Infamous’ (#1) is unquestionably one of the most haunting and beautiful albums in music history.

Not mad one bit.

Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 8d

Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time

The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time

We rank the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form.

pitchfork.com

C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 6d

True! And then there's this problem.

You submit. Then you make the mistake of taking a look after you hit the button. The typos appear like:

a close up of a feather on a rock with the words `` hello '' written in white letters .

ALT: a close up of a feather on a rock with the words `` hello '' written in white letters .

media.tenor.com

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 6d

I'm wrestling with one now...I mean EVERY TIME I open the file, I rearrange whole sections...what is happening

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 6d

Subscribe to my YouTube channel
(Kidding)

C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 6d

When writing an article/book, you may experience the situation where you make a non-trivial change every time you look at it.

This means one of two things:

i) You're on the right track, so keep on editing (and presumably, improving) it.

ii) You should have submitted it a month ago (or longer).

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 13d

IOC-endorsed supplements that can give you a performance edge.

1. Caffeine
2. Creatine
3. Baking soda
4. Beta-alanine
5. Nitrate

Science!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

5 Workout Supplements Worth Trying

www.nytimes.com

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 25d

Genome-wide associations of fitness components reveal antagonistic pleiotropy and sexual conflict in the Florida Scrub-Jay https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.673786v1

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 25d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27d

And yes, now is the right time.

New for @undark.org

"The fundamental problem with the tenure process is that it has struggled to recognize that knowledge is curated, created, and consumed differently today than even a decade ago."

undark.org/2025/09/11/o...

It’s Time to Rethink the Academic Tenure Process

Opinion | To fight the war on science, higher education needs to reimagine the most important career milestone for faculty.

undark.org

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks, didn't know that server took them, this is helpful.

C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 29d

OSF Preprints seems to be no longer accepting preprints in their general section.

Where are scientists sending preprints not eligible for Arxiv or Biorxiv (non-standard data manuscripts, perspectives, reviews, other sorts of scholarship)?

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 29d

In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and *Prevention* (at least until the fascists change the name) highlighted the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. Trump's people are undermining ~all~ ~of~ ~them~. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

Ten Great Public Health Achievements -- United States, 1900-1999

www.cdc.gov

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simine vazire @simine.com · Sep 4

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 3

Nature research paper: Crystal structures of agonist-bound human cannabinoid receptor CB1

go.nature.com/425sdLC

Crystal structures of agonist-bound human cannabinoid receptor CB1 - Nature

Crystal structures of human CB1 bound to two cannabinoid agonists reveal key features, including a twin toggle switch and binding pocket reduction, advancing understanding of receptor dynamics and guiding cannabinoid drug design.

go.nature.com

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Sep 1

Cells swapping their #mitochondria - this sounded like science fiction 🧪 when the first studies started coming out!

But now this has been observed in #cancer, #yeast, #molluscs, and under normal physiology - as a way to regulate energy demands, metabolism, cell fate & much more - true #powerhouses!

Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?

Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases.

www.nature.com

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you!