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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 3d

very much enjoying this new greet death song about greeting death

Greet Death "Emptiness Is Everywhere"

YouTube video by Deathwishinc

www.youtube.com

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 6d

is your friend jesus?

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 7d

this is beautiful

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 7d

did it come with the costume or do you buy those and switch them out

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emlowz @emlowz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Barren Planet (Part 1) - Sopranos: The Next Generation #startrek #sopranos #edit

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 18d

Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!

The Anderson Lab at Georgia Tech

my academic website

seanasanderson.github.io

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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 18d

This is truly an incredible breakthrough IMO. Really exemplifies what you get when deep domain expertise (popgen/evolution/disease genetics in this case) fuses with cleverly crafted ML. What u get r sleek, well thought out architectures that absolutely destroy the behemoths. Wow!! 1/

Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 18d

We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · 18d

Good lord what a garbage piece of writing

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 24d

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 24d

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

Colin Wright
@SwipeWright
X.com

Convincing my left-wing former close friends on
Facebook that Charlie Kirk wasn't a Nazi or a
fascist is completely futile because I can't even
convince them that I'M not a Nazi or a fascist, and
many have known me since early grade school.
1:20 PM • 9/15/25 • 850K Views

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · Sep 10

Oh goddamn hell yea they got the dome-a-dillo

Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Sep 10

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age out later this year... such a thrill to put this series together, oh my goodness are you in for a treat :) Hopefully news on events and publicity coming soon! Sloths, cats, rhinos, glyptodonts AND SOOOO MUCH MORE!!

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age homotheres, white and touching faces together.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age Woolly rhino old adult and youngster.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age Glyptotherium.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age sloth mother with juvenile on back.

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · Sep 10

Not technically what the post is discussing but using this opportunity to bring up the end credits song for Deep Blue Sea, a rap from the perspective of the mutant shark that goes incredibly hard youtu.be/6cYcdBVQ8NM?...

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Guy who allegedly saw a deer captured in a net:

Petroglyph of a weird wicker man many legged looking thing that apparently is a deer in a net

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Rachel Moran @rachelmoran.bsky.social · Sep 4

First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Top left: Results of genome-wide association study (GWAS) for sex in E. caeruleum, E. radiosum, and E. spectabile showing sex chromosome turnover has occurred repeatedly. Top right: Phylogeny showing sex chromosome turnover in darters and non-darter percids. Chromosome 9 is the putative ancestral sex chromosome, shared by Perca flavescens and multiple members of the orangethroat darter complex (e.g., E. spectabile, E. pulchellum). Bottom: Schematic depicting repeated turnover of sex chromosomes as a mechanism to resolve mitonuclear conflict and promote speciation.

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just catching up – good grief. This man is unfit for office, as he has been since Cassidy voted to put him into it.

Please call your congresspeople about this – this kind of nonsensical waffling on life and death matters, with no attention whatsoever to facts, will cause needless death & suffering.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 4

Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Do you agree with me that President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?"

RFK: "Absolutely."

Sen. Bill Cassidy: "But you just told Sen. Bennet that the Covid vaccine killed more people than Covid?"

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Justin Conover @conjustover.bsky.social · Sep 2

New Preprint! This one led by Sam Gibbon, an outstanding undergrad I've worked with for the past year. We take a look at whether segregation patterns in tetraploids (disomic v polysomic) affects mut-sel dynamics. We found some surprising results, and some subtleties: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bistable Mutation-Selection Equilibria and Violations of Fisher's Theorem in Tetraploids: Insights from Nonlinear Dynamics

Polyploidy and whole genome duplication (WGD) are widespread biological phenomena with substantial cellular, meiotic, and genetic effects. Despite their prevalence and significance across the tree of ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · Sep 2

The cool thing is their pee

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Aug 27

I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:

Beneath the surface of the sum

When genetic interactions matter and when they don't

open.substack.com

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Anton Suvorov @antonsuvorov.bsky.social · Aug 23

My very first post on here.
I am stoked to share lab's latest paper led by @ethantolman.bsky.social. Ethan developed a highly scalable pipeline to differentiate between various gene flow models, including ghost introgression in phylogenomic datasets. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

GhostParser: A highly scalable phylogenomic approach for the identification of ghost introgression

A growing body of empirical research shows that interspecific gene flow is a widespread biological force that shapes evolutionary histories across the Tree of Life. Computational approaches designed t...

www.biorxiv.org

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Thank Zenithar it's Fredas

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · Aug 21

Cal Ripken Jr.

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James Kitchens @kitchensjn.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so
@yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958

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tskit_arg_visualizer: interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs

Summary: Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) are a complete representation of the genetic relationships between recombining lineages and are of central importance in population genetics. Recent brea...

arxiv.org

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Will Booker @wbooker.bsky.social · Aug 15

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want more info about the role, or apply on linkedin via that link.

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