This remains to be the best comic ever made.
Just had another one of these moments today.
@mrlovenstein.bsky.social

I cannot post my slides on Canvas because *checks 📝* that DECREASES the accessibility score of my class on canvas.

That is because the canvas software has a hard time reading slides and assigns it 0 accessibility.

The only solution is to not post them.

The world is backwards in 1 additional way 🙃

As the end of the semester approaches and I feel overwhelmed even with my exceptionally light class load, I'm reminded of the old saying, "Work inevitable expands to occupy the entirety of the time allotted to it"

rows of corn plants growing in a field on a sunny day ALT: rows of corn plants growing in a field on a sunny day

What is “#pseudopersistence”?

It refers to contaminants like pharmaceuticals or pesticides with short environmental half lives that are continuously observed in ecosystems due to constant replacement from a source. In this case, Cry proteins leach year round from GE crops & detritus. (2/3)

New paper led by #RiceUniversity undergrad Ethan Bull & former PhD student @pedrobd.bsky.social in collaboration with @notredamescience.bsky.social assessing the role of a pseudopersistant contaminant, Cry1Ab leaching from GE crops, on aquatic caddisflies. @entsocamerica.bsky.social
(1/3)

Assessing morphological, developmental, and genetic responses of Hydropsychid caddisflies to Cry1Ab exposure Abstract. Transgenic crops expressing Cry proteins are widely cultivated to reduce crop damage from insect pests. However, Cry proteins can leach from tran

Transgenic crops release Cry proteins into streams.

But what does that mean for aquatic insects?🌱💧🐛

We measured and barcoded 1,800+ caddisflies across 25 streams.

Environmental factors like temperature, land use explained most patterns. Cry1Ab had limited impact.
academic.oup.com/ee/article/5...

Oh, lame!

Same!!!

I legitimately do not understand it. I think it was just some idea some top executive had and everyone had to nod along not to get fired or something.

I will choose a journal over another simply because it does not have graphical abstracts.

Nothing like spending several hours running an alternative statistical method/ different mathematical approach only to find the exact same answer.✖️

Yes, I should be happy. But it feels a bit like wasted time lol

🥲
Why?!

Seems less likely to gaslight me than ChatGPT.

Would be willing to try.

Am I allowed to complain if the journal sat on my paper for 3 months and rejected it without sending it to reviewers because the editor felt like it?

Name and shame? The journal is Biological Reviews.

Our eDNA survey has a US defaultism problem. 🌎

We started getting mysterious "Country" responses like "Jefferson" and "Maricopa."

Turns out people read "Country" and thought "County" which... only makes sense if you assume everyone is American.

We did this to ourselves.🤣

a man in a red suit and tie is wearing sunglasses and a red jacket . ALT: a man in a red suit and tie is wearing sunglasses and a red jacket .

Me when I look at my old classes / presentation slides that I proudly presented to a room full of scientists / students at some point

Being In an interdisciplinary field, it is easy to feel dumb because you are a "jack of all trades, master of none"

But that feel is greatly improved when you learn this sentence is often misquoted. The full version is:

"jack of all trades, master of none, but often better than a master of one"🎃

eDNA is Changing the Way We See the Ocean YouTube video by The Packard Foundation

Whales in a bottle of water? Yes… through eDNA. 🌊🐋

Nice feature on our research and the UW eDNA Collaborative by the Packard Foundation. @ednacollab.bsky.social

Learn more here:
www.packard.org/insights/gra...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0H8...
#eDNA #scicom #science #outreach

Estimating Organism Abundance Using Within‐Sample Haplotype Frequencies of eDNA Data Environmental DNA (eDNA) provides powerful insights into species presence and community composition but remains limited in its capacity to infer species abundance or population structure. Here, we sh...

🧬 My haplotype paper is out!

We show that deviations between within-sample and population-level haplotype frequencies can be used to estimate how many individuals contributed to an eDNA sample.

No tissue references needed, just metabarcoding data and some population genetics.

#eDNA #PopGen

Of course! Why did I expect it to be simple? 😂

Imagine the great quotes we would get if Darwin had to code!

I would see these guys on campus emerging out of the suspected N. valhalla twigs :)

Yes it is!

😂 right on! Luckily no Pikachu or Arrokuda hit me in the making of this video.

Babies may result 🥚🐣

The blue throat and the display of the Brandt's cormorants are pretty amazing.
#birding

Try working with 12S! It is a nightmare out here.

People insist on metabarcoding with 12S.

I cry "no, please, no, I cannot annotate these!"

But the cries are unheard. Family-level annotations follow;
Complaints come!

But what can I do? 1 SNP separates two paraphiletic genera.

And pseudogenes...

I have seen some convincing 3%'s

That would indeed save us some time. Great idea. I will start work now.

Please update me if you do it before me!

My high school math teacher was great but convinced I should not become a biologist because "my math intuition would be wasted!"

I just got a paper accepted with 10 equations plus more in the supplement 💀.

Pretty sure he would be happy but relieved they are printed and not in my handwriting 😄✍️📄

Integrating eDNA and acoustic-trawl data to provide small pelagic biomass estimates for fish stock assessment Abstract. Accurate abundance estimates of fisheries resources are essential for sustainable fisheries management. In response to the growing need for devel

New paper by Cristina Claver (@azti.bsky.social), published in @icesmarine.bsky.social JMS.

We combine #eDNA and acoustic-trawl data in a Bayesian joint model to estimate biomass of the European anchovy in the Bay of Biscay.

From the potential of eDNA to operational use

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Congrats!! Cool paper. Added to my to-read list :)