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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Apr 8

Calm down everyone, apparently Ghost is coming. Probably still working out how to KO the howl.

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I Have a Bone to Pick With the Scientists Bringing the Dire Wolf Back From Extinction — Slate

Come on, do you even know your Game of Thrones lore?

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Mar 14

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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Mar 10

Yes! These days Huey is a strong advocate for conservation research in Montana. One of the good ones for sure!

www.umt.edu/news/2024/07...

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Jim Elser @drlimnology.bsky.social · Mar 8

Local coverage of the impacts of federal #science cuts in western #Montana. 🧪

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As DOGE Targets Federal Research, Scientists in Montana Fear Cuts to Critical Programs - Flathead Beacon

An air of uncertainty hangs over scientific research in western Montana as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) makes steep cuts to federally funded programs, prompting the region’s leading ...

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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Mar 1

The best!

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Feb 22

"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote.

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US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · Feb 19

Just be patient and kind to the remaining NSF folks. I promise you, they are still fighting for American science.

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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Feb 19

Matt I am so sorry to hear this. This is a massive loss for basic science, losing so many talented scientists dedicated to supporting the next big discoveries. Thanks for everything you’ve done, wishing you the best my friend.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Feb 13

It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races.

This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Feb 2

With all the bullshit coming soon, letting rodents predict the weather is going to seem data-driven in comparison.

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Jukka-Pekka Verta @jpverta.bsky.social · Jan 29

What do the molecular mechanisms of trait variation tell us about how evolution works?

A great commentary by @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Ping @fishcongen.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

Evolution of complexity through regulatory variation at a single gene

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Jan 29

Just FYI I’m not quitting

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Jan 24

Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night.

I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.

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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · Jan 22

Preprint finally out! I show that eco-evo feedback can drive a tipping point where genetic drift overwhelms adaptation. This can result in a contraction of a species' range border or range fragmentation. Fragmentation is abrupt and arises readily under rapid temporal change. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · Jan 12

Love this. And as a consequence aussies are some of the world's most hardcore commuters...

Source www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

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Erica Larson @ellarson.bsky.social · Jan 3

Very proud to share this outstanding work by @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social - now out in Genetics!

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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · Jan 3

It feels surreal to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Incredibly proud of the work that went into this. And so grateful for the opportunities, resources, support and mentorship from co-authors and my whole scientific community that made it possible

Pollination in walnuts (such as this Persian walnut, Juglans regia) and pecans occurs through a genetically controlled temporal flowering dimorphism. Two distinct morphs alternate their phases of male and female flowering across the season, promoting outcrossing that has maintained a stable equilibrium throughout tens of millions of years of evolution. See eado5578.

Photo: Philippe Clement/NPL/Minden Pictures

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Dec 21

Why we fund basic research

Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · Dec 21

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Dec 20

Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Dec 15

Suggestion: Search up Energy Share programs that help people stay warm in the winter. Katherine and I are making a $10,000 donation to Energy Share of Montana today.

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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Dec 13

Happy December 13th to all who celebrate!

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Dec 10

A workflow for Tidyverse-based local synteny visualization: Good for visualizing local synteny across species, genotypes, or acorss regions of a genome. Can be used to showcase copy number variation. Still need to write the tutorial, but will be on my GitHub soon. #Genomics #DataVisualization

Local synteny visualization of 3 species and 4 homologous groups.

Local synteny visualization of 5 accessions of beans, highlighting an array of TIR-NBS-LRR genes in this region.

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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Dec 7

Yep

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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Dec 7

👋 Would love to be included. Not from the global south but here are a few outstanding speciation colleagues that are:

@guillermodelia.bsky.social
@dortizba.bsky.social
@emilyroycroft.bsky.social

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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Dec 7

We’ve done faculty searches where we skipped letters altogether and just did phone calls with the shortlist refs. Shifts work to search committee but much better signal to noise. However, some refs *really* disliked this, as if it was a breach in the way things should be. It was illuminating.

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Dec 6

A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵

PhyIN: trimming alignments by phylogenetic incompatibilities among neighbouring sites

In phylogenomics, regions of low alignment reliability and high noise are typically trimmed from multiple sequence alignments before they are used in phylogenetic inference. I introduce a new trimming...

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