Whoa—machine learning strikes again (in a good way)

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A picture of Mt Adams

A little R&R at a great treehouse (truly a treehouse) in White Salmon for a couple of days. Coffee and a beautiful view of Mt. Adams this morning.

And we did harvest Genomes drives. This is what over 400TB in drives looks like in my office.

May your cycles reverberate through the universe for ever.

In 2012 I received a $50k grant from the Murdock Foundation to build our computer cluster Genome that @jcatchen.bsky.social helped me build. After years of faithful service, dozens of papers and countless trainees using it we flipped the main power off to it for the last time.

Stephen Atkinson- very well done and I appreciate the microbiome shout out too!

Stickleback painting.

Visit to OSU for a grad student defense and ran into a familiar face in the stairwell of Nash Hall!

Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch

Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/s...

snputils (snputils.org): A High-Performance Python Library for Genetic Variation and Population Structure www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/AI-sandbox/s...

Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB). Hundreds of kids ready to match their reading chops. So cool.

Nice talk in the IE2 seminar series at UO about carbon in soils by @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social from Oregon State.

Evolution 2026 meeting logo. Clilp art of a globe and laptop showing a virtual presentation. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Global Meeting Participation.

SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Nominations are open to the annual 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲!
The award recognizes the work of outstanding scientists for their contribution to the field of molecular ecology. Nominations are due on 𝟮𝟰 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts!

careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...

I was sad to learn that my postdoctoral mentor, David Botstein, died yesterday. I started with David as a postdoc in 1998, and he had a profound effect on both my life and scientific career. He was a giant in the field of genetics, making seminal contributions in both yeast and human genetics. 1/

We are all Claude.

Shakshuka.

An image of a large protest in Eugene.

Several thousand patriots speaking up and protesting peacefully in downtown Eugene.

📡🧵 Excited to release an updated version of our preprint: Zebrahub-Multiome: Uncovering Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics During Zebrafish Embryogenesis
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doi.org/10.1101/2024...
A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!

Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

PEQG! My favorite conference ever*. Single session, fantastic talks, great discussions. Only once every 2 years. And in the best conference location too! Abstract deadline coming up Feb 5!

*Disclosure: I am required to say it's the best conference because it is and I told my mom I wouldn't lie.

Well put grasshopper.

Yum

I love when the prep is all done for dinner and everything is laid out and ready to go. Oregon sole with olives and rosemary and garlic and wild rice.

Cool bay pipefish exhibit at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport Oregon.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

🎁 gift link to #science funding article about cuts to research grants 🧪🧬🔬🔭🥼

“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote.

Follow the lead the rest of you.

‘A whole body of health-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH As federal support vanishes for research addressing the root causes of health disparities in the United States, we are left with a dangerous void and an urgent need to rethink science funding.

Excellent piece from a former NIH colleague and #BethesdaDeclaration co-signer.

She highlights the ongoing censorship at NIH and calls for the following three actions:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mmm- I asked in my browser what one dollar of Apple stock purchased in 1999 would be worth today. The AI answer - “
If you had $1 in Apple stock bought in 1999, it would be worth approximately $1.04 trillion today based on the average annual growth rate of Apple's stock” real answer ~ $160

a man in a suit and tie is dancing . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing .

Sorry, I meant he starts 11th grade in the Fall!