I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:
mhibbins.github.io
I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
Developing a course is all about realizing how much stuff you take for granted / understand intuitively in your subfield that you didn't even realize you needed to explain
Factory resetting your computer these days means having to turn off like 10 different AI assistants every time you install something
Olivia was in the middle of her rotation project in my lab and we had to scramble to put a proposal together because of the rule changes this year. She wrote a great proposal in a relatively short span of time. Super proud!!
Huge congrats to my first PhD student Olivia Frary who was awarded an NSF GRFP!!!
Capitalism certainly has its flaws but one thing I do appreciate is the tremendous diversity of hot sauces it produces, which help keep me sane when I am trying to lose weight 😅
Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & more! Our high-quality pennycress pangenome is a striking example of genome architecture shaping different kinds of genomic variation, including some surprising centromeric movement
For anyone curious, I went with Cowen's History of Life 6th edition. Kinda pumped to read it. Will report back 🫡
coke zero is one of life's great joys
Okay hold up. We could be seeing a manned Moon mission in the next couple of weeks? Why am I just hearing about this now?!?!?!?
Can anyone recommend a good, modern textbook on the history and diversity of life on Earth? Something that covers major evolutionary innovations, systematics and the tree of life, key radiations and extinction events, etc. Ideally upper undergrad level. For course development!
POV you are writing a paper about plant sex chromosome evolution
"Weekends are sacred no work allowed" vs. "I often do my best writing on Sunday afternoon in a cafe"
Every year daylight savings provides fascinating insights into how much biological clocks rule over my daily activities
remember when the boat got stuck
THE weirdest
Training until failure but it's your brain's ability to write words
Is the EM algorithm machine learning
Word is such an annoying piece of software but I am so glad they integrated LaTeX into its equation editor
sitting back, relaxing, and filling in my first annual activity report
I generally just contact their references to chat rather than asking for formal letters
Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
TIL that in linguistics they have their own version of ancestral state reconstruction for languages that they also call the comparative method. Fun!
Has somebody tried telling the government that when people die they can't spend their money at businesses
Going from Rochester winter to Baton Rouge winter
Very excited to share the capstone of my postdoc work with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, co-led by Wright lab grad student Cassandre with contributions from many others.
We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.
Surely this is not the same amygdala my ancestors were using to fend off wolf packs and grizzly bears
There is a lot of stuff going on. I feel it would be nice if there wasn't as much stuff going on
When you look at your old code and you're impressed that past you was able to figure all that out
So far my experience of winter in Rochester is that it's basically a coin flip whether you're going to get pelted on the face with hail on your commute home from work