John Stinchcombe
@johnstinchcombe.bsky.social
Ecological and evolutionary genetics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UofT. Dad, dog lover, unashamed coffee addict.
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Dan Kois deep dive on … bar soap? Heck yeah
The humble bar of soap used to define the American way. Now it’s dying. I will not let it go down without a fight. slate.com/life/2026/02...
The humble bar of soap used to define the American way. Now it’s dying. I will not let it go down without a fight. slate.com/life/2026/02...
One of America’s Great Traditions Is Dying. I’ll Never Let It. Not Now That I Have Proof I Was Right All Along.
There’s still time to get on the right side of history.
slate.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Dan Kois deep dive on … bar soap? Heck yeah
The humble bar of soap used to define the American way. Now it’s dying. I will not let it go down without a fight. slate.com/life/2026/02...
The humble bar of soap used to define the American way. Now it’s dying. I will not let it go down without a fight. slate.com/life/2026/02...
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You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.
February 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.
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Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files
Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files
PALO ALTO, CA - The generative artificial intelligence Grok, which recently made headlines for creating user-directed underage pornography, has expressed "profound uneasiness" at being associated with...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files
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Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.
January 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.
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The ass kissing of Trump by execs of Apple and Amazon and others coupled with ongoing silence from many in the tech and biotech and science areas about ICE and related evil activities is extremely disappointing.
January 27, 2026 at 2:02 AM
The ass kissing of Trump by execs of Apple and Amazon and others coupled with ongoing silence from many in the tech and biotech and science areas about ICE and related evil activities is extremely disappointing.
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Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has
AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
January 25, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has
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Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.
January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.
I'd like to thank Slack for hiding configuration tools in : 1, the workspace name & its menus; 2, the gear icon next to the workspace name; 3, the Admin gear icon in the left navigation panel ; 4, the three horizontal lines on the top left (on a PC); 5, the question mark icon on the right.
January 23, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I'd like to thank Slack for hiding configuration tools in : 1, the workspace name & its menus; 2, the gear icon next to the workspace name; 3, the Admin gear icon in the left navigation panel ; 4, the three horizontal lines on the top left (on a PC); 5, the question mark icon on the right.
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Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies
Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies
WASHINGTON D.C. – Following a whirlwind week at Davos, and despite backtracking on threats to annex Greenland, US President Donald Trump is still threatening to tariff Champagne to keep people from pa...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies
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We’ve updated Our System to become more *streamlined* and *efficient*! Learn more about it in our 43-page PDF document, or sign up for a two-day training session!
January 22, 2026 at 6:51 PM
We’ve updated Our System to become more *streamlined* and *efficient*! Learn more about it in our 43-page PDF document, or sign up for a two-day training session!
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Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?
January 20, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?
"The power of the less powerful begins with honesty."
Bravo, and well-said, Mr. Carney.
Bravo, and well-said, Mr. Carney.
This is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
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January 20, 2026 at 7:45 PM
"The power of the less powerful begins with honesty."
Bravo, and well-said, Mr. Carney.
Bravo, and well-said, Mr. Carney.
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New paper in Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Super-progenitor” species and the distribution of sampled descendants | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
“Super-progenitor” species and the distribution of sampled descendants
www.cambridge.org
January 6, 2026 at 6:08 PM
New paper in Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻
I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential
A capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognised as a global conservation priority. Adaptation requires additive (heritable) genetic variatio...
www.biorxiv.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:14 AM
A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻
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Andrew Gelman: “I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing…has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root.”
I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing, schoolyard evolutionary psychology, extra-sensory perception, magic golf balls, air rage, himmicanes, subliminal smiley faces, etc etc etc, has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Dale Lehman sends an email with subject line “A new low in science”:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
January 1, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Andrew Gelman: “I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing…has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root.”
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Newly posted updates to recent resurrection work from the lab, led by Sasha Bishop (w/ @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social )
A resurrection experiment reveals reduced adaptive potential in a common agricultural weed
Adaptive evolution is critical to population responses under accelerating anthropogenic global change. Although theory and some empirical work suggest that contemporary rates of environmental change c...
www.biorxiv.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Newly posted updates to recent resurrection work from the lab, led by Sasha Bishop (w/ @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social )
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Canadian universities received a big federal funding package to recruit international research leaders. Here is the call at my university, Queen's University, Ontario. If you are looking to move to Canada, this is the time!
First round of review begins January 9, 2026
www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...
First round of review begins January 9, 2026
www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...
International Research Recruitment | Vice-Principal (Research)
Join Canada’s next generation of research leaders In response to the federal government’s suite of international talent attraction initiatives, Queen’s University is actively recruiting outstanding i...
www.queensu.ca
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Canadian universities received a big federal funding package to recruit international research leaders. Here is the call at my university, Queen's University, Ontario. If you are looking to move to Canada, this is the time!
First round of review begins January 9, 2026
www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...
First round of review begins January 9, 2026
www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...
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The Entomological Society of Canada is a fantastic supporter of grad students. Congrats Yaseen 🎉 @canentomologist.bsky.social
www.stfx.ca/news/Yaseen-...
www.stfx.ca/news/Yaseen-...
Master’s student earns national scholarship for ladybug research
Research exploring how ladybugs cope with Nova Scotia’s warming winter climate has earned StFX master’s biology student Yaseen Ginnab a national scholarship.Mr. Ginnab, originally from Nashville, Tenn...
www.stfx.ca
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Entomological Society of Canada is a fantastic supporter of grad students. Congrats Yaseen 🎉 @canentomologist.bsky.social
www.stfx.ca/news/Yaseen-...
www.stfx.ca/news/Yaseen-...
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Took me a year (😱), but I finally published a blog post about our article on the #quantgen variance partition of phenitypic plasticity with @lmchev.bsky.social, published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social.
🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative...
🇫🇷 devillemereuil.legtux.org/fr/genetique...
🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative...
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Quantitative genetics of reaction norms: an onion partitionning – Pierre de Villemereuil
devillemereuil.legtux.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Took me a year (😱), but I finally published a blog post about our article on the #quantgen variance partition of phenitypic plasticity with @lmchev.bsky.social, published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social.
🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative...
🇫🇷 devillemereuil.legtux.org/fr/genetique...
🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative...
🇫🇷 devillemereuil.legtux.org/fr/genetique...
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Data sciences postdoc fellowship in EEB @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 23 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - DSI
DSI Postdoctoral Fellowships support multi/interdisciplinary training and collaborative research in data sciences.
datasciences.utoronto.ca
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Data sciences postdoc fellowship in EEB @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 23 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Check out @ent3c.bsky.social and @sashagusevposts.bsky.social 's posts. Good stuff there
My guess is there's a generation of evolutionary biologists who read David Houle and Derek Roff's work from the 80s and early 90s who look at h2 = 0.3, and are thinking "what did else did anyone expect?"
My guess is there's a generation of evolutionary biologists who read David Houle and Derek Roff's work from the 80s and early 90s who look at h2 = 0.3, and are thinking "what did else did anyone expect?"
Blog post: A Missing Heritability Update. Three legs and other problems. I follow up on the recent excellent post on the subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...
Missing Heritability Revisited
Following up on Sasha
ericturkheimer.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Check out @ent3c.bsky.social and @sashagusevposts.bsky.social 's posts. Good stuff there
My guess is there's a generation of evolutionary biologists who read David Houle and Derek Roff's work from the 80s and early 90s who look at h2 = 0.3, and are thinking "what did else did anyone expect?"
My guess is there's a generation of evolutionary biologists who read David Houle and Derek Roff's work from the 80s and early 90s who look at h2 = 0.3, and are thinking "what did else did anyone expect?"
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Treating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptation
Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits
Microbiomes, the complex communities of microorganisms associated with multicellular hosts, play a vital role in shaping host traits and fitness. But how d
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November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Treating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptation
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"Her wit was as sharp as her convictions, and her honesty was refreshing and rare."
A wonderfully written (by @gbaucom.bsky.social) obituary for my grad school friend and Auburn University Prof. Vanessa Koelling, who passed away last week.
www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/m...
A wonderfully written (by @gbaucom.bsky.social) obituary for my grad school friend and Auburn University Prof. Vanessa Koelling, who passed away last week.
www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/m...
Vanessa Koelling Obituary - Montgomery, AL
Celebrate the life of Vanessa Koelling, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Leak Memory Chapel.
www.dignitymemorial.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Her wit was as sharp as her convictions, and her honesty was refreshing and rare."
A wonderfully written (by @gbaucom.bsky.social) obituary for my grad school friend and Auburn University Prof. Vanessa Koelling, who passed away last week.
www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/m...
A wonderfully written (by @gbaucom.bsky.social) obituary for my grad school friend and Auburn University Prof. Vanessa Koelling, who passed away last week.
www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/m...