mad neuroscientists marching in Berkeley

Retweet to save a life, this problem comes up a lot for everyone and Ben finally has a solution

Happy #WorldFrogDay ! Pics from annual herpetology class field trip to Chiricahuas ⛰️🐸

"Effect of breed on behavior. (A) Biddability is among eight behavioral factors defined from surveys. SE, standard error. (B) Dogs in some breeds tend to score unusually high or low for this factor compared with dogs overall. (C and D) Border collies score lower on average for biddability (vertical line at median) but vary widely (C), including genetically confirmed border collies (D). (E) In mixed-breed dogs, border collie ancestry has a small genetic effect on biddability. [Photo credits: K. Wirka (Sprocket); M. Wisniewski (Caboose); B. Hoadley (Molly); M. Logsdon (Hunter); A. Macias (Lily); S. Staples (TWooie)]"

Is your golden retriever friendly because of its breed? Genetics says: not really. A citizen science study of 18,000+ dogs found breed explains only 9% of behavioral variation in individual dogs. Personality predates modern breeds by thousands of years. #2026MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An emerald bowfin

Happy St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 from the emerald bowfin!

It’s not easy being green! How does it do it? We don’t know for sure, but suspect it is biliverdin. More research in the works… 🧪

#EndlessFishMostBeautiful

I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST WENT FUCKING BIRDING INSTEAD www.androidpolice.com/i-use-gemini...

Chelodina longicollis, Eastern Long-necked Turtle. Melbourne Museum. Photographer: David Paul, Source: Museums Victoria

I hear you want novelty🦎->🐢,
chromosome evolution 🧬,
sex determination🩷,
link population history📈 & climate🌏🌡️?

Or you share my love for wonderfully weird animals?

Side-necked turtle genomes reveal chromosomal dynamics, skeletal innovation and cancer resistance
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A 🧵

Spectacled bear I believe in you 👊

#ColossalBio keeps on keeping on with their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign. Their GMOs aren't #DeExtinct species; they're just making designer transgenic animals. 🦣 🦤🐺 🧟 🧪

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I looked it up later and it is supposed to help, I guess it kills bacteria? I think my ache was just beyond what garlic could do 🤷‍♀️

Before grad school I waited tables at a restaurant owned by an Ecuadorian family. One shift I had a gnarly toothache and the owner had me chew on garlic cloves. It did not help 😂

Disagreement among Genomic Markers Profoundly Influences Phylogenetic Inference in Squamates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...

Disagreement among Genomic Markers Profoundly Influences Phylogenetic Inference in Squamates Phylogenomic-scale studies of the same clades using different markers and methods often support highly confident yet different species trees, obscuring many phylogenetic relationships and hampering co...

New lab preprint! PhD work of @drsimonegable.bsky.social
- 12 million base pairs of DNA ✅🧬
- hundreds of species of lizards and snakes ✅🦎🐍
- biological, molecular, and artifactual factors confounding phylogenetic inference ✅💻
- most ‼️ for your 🦌➡️ protein-coding genes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I LOVE HIM

What about GRFP students?

While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual.

We do not consent to this lawless power grab.

Hey journals asking me to review a paper right now, could you maybe chill for a bit?

Also LOVE your nails

The racers always are 🙄

Centromere evolution isn't a sudden switch!

Our study shows centromere transitions are a step-by-step process driven by a combination of drift and selection. Discover how the kinetochore interface shapes this gradual change in our new preprint 🥳 doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.633479 🧵(1/8)

Huge thanks to Dr. Elinor Karlsson for her amazing session at PAG yesterday on whole exome sequencing in at-risk companion dogs and clonal hematopoiesis! 🧬 🐾 Thanks to everyone who joined us for the workshop and reception—we had a great time connecting and learning more about your research. #PAG2025

Jan. 16th’s 9am AEDT meeting includes a tag-team talk from Kate O’Hara and Stephen Zozaya from the Australian National University talking about hybridization in everybody’s favorite Australian gecko: Heteronotia.

Sure, you might find Heteronotia under actual garbage, but they’ve got secrets!

World Clock & Time Converter Effortless time conversion and world time. Schedule conference calls, webinars & online meetings, plan travel and track flight arrival time across time zones.

As a teaser, we’ve got an upcoming meeting January 16 at 9am AEDT (Canberra time) www.worldtimebuddy.com
We’d love if you could join.

Open Consortium of Squamate Genomics (OCSG) Sign-up/Contact Form The Open Consortium of Squamate Genomics (OCSG) is a new global initiative (2024) with an overarching goal of increasing both quality and quantity of lizard and snake genomic resources, as well as inc...

🐍 Do you talk about reptiles with strangers🦎

🧬 Do you lay awake thinking about N50 scores? Close your eyes and see Manhattan plots?🧬

Well, have I got the answer for you. Come check out the Open Consortium for Squamate Genomics (OCSG - that’s a mouthful).

Sign up here:
forms.gle/TTmTwAMUqzWJ...

We'd like to welcome Simone Gable to the EBP Secretariat team🥳

#earthbiogenomeproject #ebp #genomics #genome #postdoc

Freshly released article in @ScienceMagazine discussing Phase I & II of the EBP 🧬

#genomics #genome #science #biology #dna