When you don’t have any new data to present at the lab meeting.

#evol2022 it's that time a year I use twitter again to tell people to come check out my talk Sunday in the Gene Expression II session at 10:30am

Our new perspective paper on selection across gene regulatory networks, led by Jeanne McDonald, is out! With methods like ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq becoming more widespread, we need to start thinking more about how selection is distributed across GRNs. authors.elsevier.com/c/1eyvH3si8Pr8…

Meet one of our new #EECG awardees #EECG 2022 Omid Saleh Ziabari -
Evolutionary genetics of wing dimorphisms in aphids

i know i'm late to the mendeley wrapped for 2021 but better late than never, right Jeanne McDonald?

anyone have any recommended readings in the social sciences literature on stem mentorship pedagogies?

#EntSoc21 if you're still around on the last day, check out my talk 'Gene duplication and the evolution of wing dimorphisms' around 2pm today. Come just for these cute cartoon aphids

Second bloom of the jack o'lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus olearius) this year

I keep reading versions of the statement that genetic differences within a human population have no implications for genetic differences between populations, alongside strong statements about what we know about the causes of differences within a population. 1/n

#Evol2021 if you can eventually login, check out my work on the macroevolutionary patterns of the wing polymorphism in aphid males today at 2:30 EST in 'Convergent Evolution'

In 1875, a series of locust swarms the size of California ripped through the Western frontier

Blotting out the sun and causing the modern equivalent of $4 billion in damages, major famines followed in their wake

In 1902, just 25 years later, the species went extinct

#DeepDive

Check out my lab's first paper, out today in PLOS Pathogens ~ we test the hypothesis that variation in heritable bacterial symbiont density among aphid hosts is linked to intraspecific differences in the immune response to harboring microbes
journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

can yall stop publishing so I can catch up on my reading

I like my writing like I like my coffee: Motivated by crippling guilt and deadline anxiety.

me: is this a blessing or a curse
god, muffled in the distance: it's a curse, bitch. i cursed you

Aphids might be alien robots, video evidence 👇

Has anyone participated in a qualifying exam this painful?

For #InverteFest , a virgin birth. Aphid mother gives birth to genetically identical daughter by apomictic parthenogenisis (punch up of video recorded in May). Speed: 10x-64x. #Aphididae

In an effort to better communicate my research to a broader audience, I have written two blog posts about my recent paper with Graham Coop. The first post explains why detecting polygenic selection from temporal data is difficult: vincebuffalo.com/blog/2020/08/2…

My favorite plant, the Indian ghost pipes. Monotropa uniflora, with no chlorophyll, gets its goodies from the roots of other plants. I still haven't figured out what to do on twitter.