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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 2d

There's no consensus. Guardian panned it; Rolling Stone loved it. Fans (casual and obsessed) are split.

My take was it was mean-spirited and out-of-touch pop yacht rock.

Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 5d

Sympathy is a Knife makes me feel so seen.
Because when you go to work and no matter how creative or how much unique energy, when your contributions are overlooked, passed over for leadership and raises and every day you are the less than girly; it is so deeply demoralizing.

Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 5d

This says so much better than I'm able why the TS diss track is so deeply tasteless and pure mean girl behavior.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Taylor Swift’s Charli xcx hit job misses the point – and underscores her tedious obsession with conflict | Laura Snapes

Sixteen months after Charli used Brat to air her anxieties about Swift, the US star’s graceless response is a missed opportunity for growth – and betrays her vengeful side

www.theguardian.com

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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)

The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies

Abstract. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the accurate inference of large-scale genealogies. Through modelling the impact of recombination on the correla

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13d

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 9d

Trying to lighten the cortex so that we can see the medulla.
Most bears have a medulla, except for polar bears; but we found a strange population of brown bears, hence the lightening.

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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 9d

We want to see the structures inside of #bear hair, but it's too pigmented. So off to the beauty supply store we went!
Fun day in the lab 🐻
#overlyhonestmethods

Lightening some brown bear hair. A piece of silver tin foil sits on top of a black lab bench, with hairs smeared with the cream and powder combination lightener which was applied with a violet sparkle brush. A man's digital watch is to the left counting 6 minutes 8 seconds, as the lightening process is to be checked every 5 minutes according to the knowledgeable woman at the beauty supply store.

Supplies from the beauty supply store: 40 volume cream lightener, a packet of powder lightener, and a violet sparkle application brush.

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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 24d

I aim to recruit and mentor a #FirstNations scholar interested in #conservation #genomics for the Am. #blackbear project given the focal geography and ultimate translation of the science back to the Nations.

Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 24d

I'm recruiting two PhD positions in my lab for Fall 2026. 1) evolutionary genomics that will focus on constructing and utilizing pangenomes; 2) conservation genomics focused on pop structure and adaptation of Pacific coast Am. black bears.
Details: puckettresearch.org/people/posit...

Positions in the Lab – Puckett Research Lab

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · 26d

☠️🧬 2-yr Postdoc in in Genomic Simulations and Extinction Risk Modelling!
Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD

Reposts appreciated 😁

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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 29d

I didn't really like ChatGPT until it started helping me write polite emails asking students to explain why they cheated on the low stakes assignments.

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · Aug 23

This grizzly bear in Wapusk National Park is not aware that the species is actually extirpated from Manitoba.

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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · Aug 20

🐼🐻🐻‍❄️ Bears please

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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · Aug 19

The men in our dept complained when they found out the women had a Slack where we went to support each other/hype our successes. The Slack was taken down.

That the guys couldn’t see their sexism was the kicker.

Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · Aug 19

For 15 yrs, I’ve co-organized informal, volunteer, peer mentoring for women in my college to help them navigate being outnumbered in dept, sexist colleagues, or professing while pregnant.

We’ve been told to stop b/c it’s exclusionary.

No word on if sr men vs jr men’s tennis matches also cancelled.

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · Aug 17

We must preserve the US Postal Service because UPS or FedEx would never do this.

Photo of the USPS commemorative Good Night Moon forever stamps.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · Aug 15

Chancleta heard you were thinking about work. he posits, what if you didn't do that and instead did literally anything else

An orange and white cat doubts your capacity to govern your own life.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Aug 16

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

www.compactmag.com

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Charikleia Karageorgiou (Clio) @evobioclio.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our latest preprint explores the evolution of the primate amylase locus, uncovering structural innovations, regulatory shifts and molecular convergence.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Convergent evolution through independent rearrangements in the primate amylase locus

Structurally complex regions of the genome are increasingly recognized as engines of evolutionary convergence due to their propensity to generate recurrent gene duplications that give rise to similar ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Bryanna/Brioche, Angry Noodle @theangrynoodle.com · Aug 8

The idea of networking genuinely makes me want to die.

I get that it's kind of expected, especially in this job market. But I'm a social anxiety-ridden introvert. LinkedIn is the bane of my existence.

The world favors extroverts, and you cannot convince me otherwise. 😭

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Chris Kyriazis @ckyriazis.bsky.social · Aug 4

I am thrilled to share this paper outlining some ideas I’ve been thinking about for a little while on a simple but powerful approach for predicting risk of inbreeding depression from long runs of homozygosity and non-ROH heterozygosity. 1/n @klohmueller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · Aug 2

It DOES happen, but not often enough. #Caturday

Cat in black-tie collar standing on tile with two wet-floor warning signs saying "CAT VOMIT--CAUTION"

Chyron below: Cat throws up on tile instead of carpet! Developing story. Why did he do it? Is he even a cat? More at 8.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · Aug 2

Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...

Apply Now: Michigan Society of Fellows 2026-2029 Postdoctoral Fellowships – University of Michigan Society of Fellows, Established 1970

societyoffellows.umich.edu

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · Aug 1

Ember Jane has Opinions.

Photo of a beautiful light brown sheep with curling horns, her mouth open because she is bleating.

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