I’ve gotten a lot of questions about what to include in DEI statements given my previous tweet. Here are my thoughts for people of various demographic identities 🧵🪡

I dressed up as HBG today and she enhanced my costume by adorning me with her own tattoos Heather Bracken-Grissom

So proud of my amazing colleague and friend Michael McKain. His speech brought tears to many an eye 💙

10 courses/books to learn bioinformatics 🧵👇

I know that bash scripting is the missing link for a lot of bioinformaticians.

My book 'Bash for Bioinformatics' (in draft form) aims to give you essential bash skills that are useful in running cloud compute jobs.

laderast.github.io/bash_for_bioin…

I'm super excited to announce the 2023 Dauphin Island Sea Lab #Meiofauna Diversity and #Taxonomy Workshop! Students will learn all about meiofauna diversity and ID from world experts.
Dates: May 10-19, 2023
Application deadline: February 10, 2023
Website: kocotlab.com/2022-disl-meio…
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Welcome to phylogenomics, camel spiders!
Neglected no longer: Phylogenomic resolution of higher-level relationships in Solifugae
Big congrats to Siddharth Kulkarni and great team!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Invertebrates are cool

The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum is looking for a new Director!

wittkieffer.com/position/23821…

4 positions now open in this ✨brand new dedicated marine genomics lab ✨ No marine experience necessary. Deadlines 27 Oct and 10 Nov.

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Links below 👇

Big week for the lab! Among other things, we've been busy making cDNA, M. Carmen Cobo has been training us in histology of #Aplacophora and today UA Dept. of BSC did an outreach event at the The Univ. of Alabama homecoming tailgate. #sabbatical

Enoploides´ mouth, it has everything ever existed!

I'm super excited about this one! Pretty nice Cephalodiscus photo in there too ;)

It's application season. In just a couple years I went from a near total rejection rate to a 100% success rate for everything I've applied for.

In addition to luck + timing, one of the biggest changes I made came from letters of recommendation. Let me show you how. 🧵

I’m very pleased to see the first paper of my PhD published!
Finally, morphological data of lophopodids reveal unique characters + help ground pattern reconstruction of phylactolaemate bryozoans. #bryozoan #phylax Thomas Schwaha Kasetsart University Universität Wien
💪🥹👉bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

A research work led by my PhD student zhaoyan zhong and also collaborated with C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec on the mitogenome-based phylogeny in Cocculinida and Neomphalida. Our tree adds support to monophyletic Peltospiridae and Neomphalidae.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Leaf litter at the The Univ. of Alabama #Arboretum is teeming with life! We found heaps of mites, springtails, and even some symphylans in samples taken during the UA Dept. of BSC #BioBlitz . Here's some mite (Pergamasus?) mouthparts and a symphylan (Scutigerella) antenna.

I just ran across this guide to making study guides, and it's pretty nice. I think I will share it with students in the future:

usu.edu/academic-suppo…

Hemiarthrum con sus crías