Galen Martin
@galenm.bsky.social
Evolutionary geneticist/professional tourist
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Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!
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August 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.
This is infuriating.
And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.
This is infuriating.
And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.
My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
April 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.
This is infuriating.
And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.
This is infuriating.
And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.
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Are you at #PAG31 ? Like grapes and crop wild relatives? Come see my talk today in the Grape Genome Initiative workshop in Pacific H-I at 2:10PM!
January 14, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Are you at #PAG31 ? Like grapes and crop wild relatives? Come see my talk today in the Grape Genome Initiative workshop in Pacific H-I at 2:10PM!
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We have a new preprint up. This one is a hypothesis paper, addressing one of the bigger unanswered questions that people have been asking me for the last 15 years: why has complex multicellularity only evolved in eukaryotes, never in prokaryotes? 1/33
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A non-adaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellulari...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
November 14, 2023 at 10:33 PM
We have a new preprint up. This one is a hypothesis paper, addressing one of the bigger unanswered questions that people have been asking me for the last 15 years: why has complex multicellularity only evolved in eukaryotes, never in prokaryotes? 1/33
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...