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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 1d

There's an updated version!!! I bought it for my kid and she loves it.

Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 4d

One of my fave things about Lauren's talk is how she showed that so many of ecology's big problems can be solved with clever data collection, whether from a 100s of AstroTurf squares or a really really tall windsock :)

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 4d

This photo does not capture the amazing energy & enthusiasm of @llseedsull.bsky.social's amazing tenure talk today!!! (Although I did manage to get the Capsella cameo & @andreacase.bsky.social's "not a threat I promise" blouse

A woman giving a talk with a slide that says "how can organisms respond to change? Adapt, move, die". Another woman in the front row wears a blouse with skulls on it.

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 9d

Hey sorry for the slow response -- send me an email josep993 at msu . edu and I can share our syllabus. Yaniv Brandvain also teaches an undergrad biostats class that I borrowed a lot from when I was developing my section

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · Aug 11

Applications are now being accepted for the MSU EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship. We’d be happy to sponsor your application so please get in touch!

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 10d

And also fwiw this is what I replaced HWE with.

Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to both for this great resource

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 10d

Another year using @kitchensjn.bsky.social + @gcbias.bsky.social's intuitive circle plots to discuss human genetic variation in my undergrad genetics class james-kitchens.com/blog/visuali...

Visualizing Human Genetic Diversity

A key insight from human genetics is that, as a species, we are all very genetically similar to one another and share much of our genetic variation. Our genome can be depicted as a string of letters (...

james-kitchens.com

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 11d

I'll add here that MSU's Plant Biology Dept is world class, has a great chair, and is full of excellent scientists. #scijobs

Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 11d

Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 11d

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 11d

Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 11d

The Coughlan lab is on 🔥🔥🔥

Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 12d

We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 11d

For example bsky.app/profile/henr...

Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social · 11d

k-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant species.

academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

k-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant species

Abstract. A key prediction of neutral theory is that the level of genetic diversity in a population should scale with population size. However, as was note

academic.oup.com

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 11d

This is so so cool and really neat to see evidence of some of the stuff @milesroberts.bsky.social was thinking about when he started working on non-reference-based pop gen approaches.

Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 15d

Now published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 12d

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.

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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 13d

This was a HUGE effort, taking years of diligent work. Hongfei was a true leader, and I'm really proud of this cool piece. We'd love any feedback y'all might have. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials

Understanding evolutionary repeatability is a central question in biology, as it informs how predictably organisms respond to similar selection pressures. However, the extent to which phenotypic repea...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 13d

Late to the party, but I'm so excited about the first paper from our lab: ✨Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials ✨

This work was led by the ABSOLUTE ROCKSTAR Hongfei Chen!

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 13d

Our EEB core also has a year long stats course that I coteach, happy to share more info about it.

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 13d

We have this, @jeffreykconner.bsky.social, @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social, + @elenalitchman.bsky.social are some of the instructors

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 18d

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 21d

ht to @gcbias.bsky.social for this one

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 21d

btw, you may have seen this already but it has nice context on 1st cousin marriages, why they've been stigmatized, why it's hard to know what the effects are on traits: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 29d

Cover of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy"!!! published by @henryholtbooks.bsky.social.
I can't tell you all adequately how proud of & eager I am to share this with the world!!!
Coming January 20, 2026
Pre-order NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/when...

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 27d

Agreed. The 3% comes from a survey of people who did direct-to-consumer genetic testing, who might not be representative of the general pop (cited here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)

The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answe...

www.newyorker.com

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 27d

In fact, @ngerlach.bsky.social, who's chimed in on the thread, is an actual expert on bird extra pair paternity :)

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