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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Aug 29

What the actual fuck.

Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Aug 29

I remember reading the study this is based on somewhere (preprint, maybe), and worrying a lot that it was perhaps very overparameterised.

Honestly can't recall details, but would be interested to know others' thoughts. Will re-add the primary study to my reading list.

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · Aug 26

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University Lecturer in Biostatistics

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders!

Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹5-year renewable appointment
🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches
🔹Collaborate across disciplines

Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Aug 26

Let's find leaders for ANU who act as if higher ed actually matters.

www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Petition to ANU Council

In support of our petition, we observe that:  • ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...

www.megaphone.org.au

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Aug 25

I just love this paper. If you are interested in germlines, go read it.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Early germline sequestration in a basidiomycete fungus

In sexual organisms, inheritance of new mutations is highly dependent on the timing of germline definition. Here, we used the fairy ring–forming fungus Marasmius oreades to challenge the general assum...

www.science.org

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Jul 7

It's so bad. Obviously impossible to know for sure, but one develops a decent radar after years of looking at undergrad work. And parts of the review are just so 'off' in that tricky to nail down way.

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Jul 7

Right now I'm responding to grant comments, and one of the reviewers appears to have mostly relied on AI to generate their (sometimes hilariously off-base) critiques.

I am not enjoying this.

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Andrew Rambaut @arambaut.bsky.social · Jul 2

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be...

Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Jul 2

Same in Science. And the VC won't even be there. It's a joke.

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Jun 27

Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org.

Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social ‬🧪 #evolbio

The two Mesquite logos. At left, a mesquite tree leaf is against a black background. At right, a leaf is against a blue sky and sun.

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Jun 7

Would be very interesting to work in the Perth office for a bit. Maybe you’d get hired to write a speech or two!

Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Jun 4

I get it.

The absolute state of #ourANU. It's a mess.

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Jun 4

Charge that right back to ANU. They should bear the cost, not you.

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Marnie Blewitt @marnieblewitt.bsky.social · May 13

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Jun 4

Love it! I still use "ham", "cheese", "egg" etc. because of a programming book I read maybe in the last century.

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · Jun 4

I do hope you are working from the very nice and recently refurbished ANU office there!

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · Jun 2

look at how they're geared up to arrest unarmed civilians. Fucking absurd. And hats off to the people who backed them down.

Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · Jun 2

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · May 29

so much this. My experience of current grading is that even when the citations are real the information is often made up. One student acknowledged they didn’t read stuff, just got AI to (drastically incorrectly) summarise papers.

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · May 29

This is why productivity is declining.

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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · May 28

We will send the open letter to ANU executive and Council today at 3pm.

At 7.30am, we have 434 signatures. How high can we get before 3pm?

Tell your colleagues, spread the word!

Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · May 26

Open letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances.

ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.

Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts

Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 __________________________________________________ Letter to AN...

forms.gle

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · May 28

Is this related to why announcements for Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowships are delayed?

Maybe RMS couldn’t handle new grants being awarded when the other changes were being made?

Why doesn’t the ARC tell anyone what’s going on?

Simple transparency & expectations management would be nice.

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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · May 26

Time to speak up again. Here’s our latest open letter against unnecessary and damaging cuts and redundancies: forms.gle/SmuBaMz6PPGT...

Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts

Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 __________________________________________________ Letter to AN...

forms.gle

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · May 24

I liked this one a lot. I'd love to grab a coffee and chat about strategies for HE inspired by this.

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Rob Lanfear @roblanfear.bsky.social · May 23

Same for me. IT seems very unstable at the moment, presumably because of understaffing thanks to precisely the subject of the document none of us can read.

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