One of the things I love about living on a farm is the wildlife I get to see. Spotted this coyote this morning. It took him a minute to spot me!

📢Excited to share our comprehensive review led by Esther HL on gene-environment interactions. Within, you'll find: 🛠️Summary of current methods by underlying hypothesis 🗺️Framework for considerate epidemiological modeling 🗣️Call for greater contextual diversity needed for GxE

There's a 1.5 year postdoc position working on msprime/background selection models open in my group in Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… Closing date is **June 12th**, so please do get in contact if you're interested, or send on to anyone who might be interested!

That's interesting. Talk by Jared Decker suggesting cow surface area might be a better phenotype than body weight when thinking about efficiency. #BIF2024

70% of animals registered with the American Angus Association are genomically tested. Slide from Darrh Bullock at #BIF24 #BIF2024

Just in time for BeefImprovementFed Symposium, new hair shedding fact sheet written by Jamie Courter. "How to Use the Hair Shedding Scale" extension.missouri.edu/publications/g… #beef #cattle #SustainableFarming #sustainability

“Hair shedding is an economically relevant trait” Jared Decker Jared Decker [Hair shedding directly measures animal ability to deal with heat stress and allows them to sense and respond to the environment (adaptability)] #beeftraits #phenotypeisking #BIF2024 BeefImprovementFed

Christine Baes BaesC speaking at the Beef Improvement Federation! 🧬 Our very own from Animal Biosciences CGIL! Many pivotal projects, novel traits, and recording being done in the Canadian Dairy industry 🐄 🧬 💯 🇨🇦 BeefImprovementFed #beefgenetics #livestockgenetics

Please RT - I want to hire a talented postdoc with experience in microscopy/cytology, to study adaptation to temperature of #meiosis in plants. Interested? Contact me directly (email, not here). Image is of a temperature stressed meiocyte, by Chris Morgan Chris Morgan

Congrats to Caleb Grohmann on his successful PhD defense!

This is the right way to police length of conference talks.

Ok #popgen tweeps- How steep is the learning curve for G-PhoCS? Is it the best option to infer populations splits and timing of migration bands of several populations?

I had no idea so many people were pro-HOA. “If you don’t have an HOA, will you do when your neighbor neglects their lawn?” Why?!?! would I do?!! anything?!?!? I literally cannot fathom something that would concern me less.

Would you like to work in our group? We have a 16 month postdoc position on recombination landscape variation in wild vertebrates (lots of data ready and waiting). Please DM or email [email protected] - I'm happy to chat. Deadline 22nd July. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

It’s finally out! 🥳 Today @cellcellpress we report non-mineral fossils of ancient chromosomes in skin from a woolly mammoth that died in Siberia, 52,000 years ago. 🦣💨 Don’t miss our thread below! 🧵👇🏽

When I started in plant phenotyping we'd ask: How close can we get to human performance? Now Nikee Shrestha (Nikee Shrestha) is asking: How much better than humans are we doing?

The field's focus on sweeps feels like a form of observational bias. What is easiest to observe in genomic data captures our attention disproportionally to their importance in nature. Most fitness Va is polygenic and very likely the bulk of it is just mutation selection balance.

Me after my conference talk

We know that DNA introgressed from one population into another is often deleterious, but why? Carl Veller and I show that stabilizing selection, by itself, can induce selection against introgressed ancestry. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

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