Don’t forget that an Australian mosquito, Aedes notoscriptus, has “invaded” California too (about 10 years ago); haven’t spotted any on this visit…yet! theconversation.com/aussie-mozzie-… #mosquitoweek 🦟

New work from the lab! We present a novel method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We found Kdr (!!!) in Anopheles funestus 🤯

work led by Joel Odero 🫡

A fascinating story. thread below 👇

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I don’t think there is a “humanities crisis” as such - there is instead a crisis of knowledge in general, in which the question of what counts as real knowledge has neither theory nor funding to back it, and focus lands on “applied research” 1/

🚨 Fresh off! Please check out our recent paper on #Wolbachia #phageWO proteins messing with sperm lncRNA and DNA integrity to eventually kill embryos.

#TAGC24 Genetics Society of America drop by my poster (P1266T) tonight to learn more about this work.

science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

This is a great (short!) read for anyone interested in isolation by distance, kinship, and neighbourhood size

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Hi all, the wifi in this fjord is not very good so I'll be slow to respond to emails until I return in a week or so

The Frontiers of science are now so far from the well-trodden terrain we craven skulkers inhabit that we could never hope to understand Figure 1. Our efforts to understand Figure 1 fail like those of a baboon contemplating linkage disequilibrium

🍄🍄🦟🦟The University of Melbourne's research team is testing an innovative mosquito control system, the In2Care station, which aims to significantly reduce mosquito populations and control the spread of diseases like Buruli ulcer in Victoria.
buff.ly/3UvqzjC

Brian Charlesworth on the political atmosphere while a postdoc in the Lewontin Lab at Chicago.

PSA, since I've now seen problems arising from this: As of Sept 2023, GATK no longer makes missing genotypes explicit in VCFs (i.e. './.' as in the VCF spec). Missing genotypes are instead coded as '0/0' with a DP=0 format field. See attached for examples.

Here's what our lab PEARG is doing to control mosquitoes and the diseases they spread in Melbourne Véronique Paris

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-b…

Mosquito fieldwork today with Eloïse Ansermin for Buruli ulcer control

After collecting in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Cairns, and the Mornington Peninsula, today I sampled 15 minutes from my house. Mosquito disease has come for Melbourne

Big congratulations to Peter Mee and co for this massive study!

Interesting implications for inferring invasion pathways

Well that took forever. But I finally finished my three-part essay on Stephen Jay Gould and punctuated equilibria. In Part 3: why did Gould change his mind about key features of evolution around 1977? Read to find out: extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/1…

We are hiring. Genome editing to decipher insecticide resistance in Anopheles funestus - oft neglected but the dominant malaria vector in many areas of Africa. One RA and one PDRA.
lstmed.ac.uk/vacancies-sing…
and
lstmed.ac.uk/vacancies-sing…

🔬 The ABRS National Taxonomy Research Grant Program 2024-25 opens today! The grant offers up to $2m annually to support research into taxonomy and systematics with between $10,000 for Honours & Masters - up to $300,000 for Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants. buff.ly/3NwmqYa