Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
@jrossibarra.bsky.social
evolutionary genomics of maize and wild relatives. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof and HPC director at UC Davis. not actually a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. views, especially bad ones, mine only (he/him)
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Google street view of what @briandilkes.bsky.social likes to call (and I approve!) "The Church of Plant Biology" in Guatemala.
January 5, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Google street view of what @briandilkes.bsky.social likes to call (and I approve!) "The Church of Plant Biology" in Guatemala.
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Yay! Dr. Tanya Atwater finally getting public credit for her (very big) role in the plate tectonics revolution.
The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.
buff.ly/2vAwspH
buff.ly/2vAwspH
Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - High Country News
How the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology.
www.hcn.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Yay! Dr. Tanya Atwater finally getting public credit for her (very big) role in the plate tectonics revolution.
Lab keeping my weird addiction to toxic Finnish licorice fulfilled (thanks for that @pyhatanja.bsky.social ).
January 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Lab keeping my weird addiction to toxic Finnish licorice fulfilled (thanks for that @pyhatanja.bsky.social ).
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Open Book by Paul Klee, 1930
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137340
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137340
January 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Open Book by Paul Klee, 1930
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137340
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137340
Asked apple to play my radio station and it launches “federal funding” by Cake. I sure hope NSF is paying attention.
January 4, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Asked apple to play my radio station and it launches “federal funding” by Cake. I sure hope NSF is paying attention.
Finally convince 12yo to get the library app for her phone on Friday. She’s read 16 books on it since then!
Libraries FTW!!
Libraries FTW!!
January 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Finally convince 12yo to get the library app for her phone on Friday. She’s read 16 books on it since then!
Libraries FTW!!
Libraries FTW!!
A small but welcome respite from the horrors of <waves hands at everything> — a beautiful post-rain 22km ride with the kids. Massive row or ice cream sunday reward not shown.
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
A small but welcome respite from the horrors of <waves hands at everything> — a beautiful post-rain 22km ride with the kids. Massive row or ice cream sunday reward not shown.
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I personally favor the notion "peer-reviewed" just means a paper with peer reviews, as opposed to a paper that's deemed to have passed some (ill) defined bar as a result. But I'm skeptical the community will embrace that - and even if it does I suspect they'll want curation steps with bars. 5/n
January 3, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I personally favor the notion "peer-reviewed" just means a paper with peer reviews, as opposed to a paper that's deemed to have passed some (ill) defined bar as a result. But I'm skeptical the community will embrace that - and even if it does I suspect they'll want curation steps with bars. 5/n
One really understands the dangers of a mad dictator drunk on power when it’s family movie night and the 8yo gets a veto-free choice of movies.
January 3, 2026 at 4:02 AM
One really understands the dangers of a mad dictator drunk on power when it’s family movie night and the 8yo gets a veto-free choice of movies.
I had forgotten the hardest part of bioinformatics: spelling. Can't count the number of times this week I've been troubleshooting an error just to figure out I spelled something wrong or wrote the wrong Path. 🤦
January 2, 2026 at 2:48 AM
I had forgotten the hardest part of bioinformatics: spelling. Can't count the number of times this week I've been troubleshooting an error just to figure out I spelled something wrong or wrote the wrong Path. 🤦
Writing a short story about an oppressive regime of nightjars that rule over other birds. It’s whip-orwellian.
January 1, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Writing a short story about an oppressive regime of nightjars that rule over other birds. It’s whip-orwellian.
Many colleagues sending happy new years regards. Also some at 9am this morning slacking “did you try the LOOCV for FEEMS to select λ?”
(Tbf I was bugging colleagues at 5pm last night about ARG manipulation in python)
(Tbf I was bugging colleagues at 5pm last night about ARG manipulation in python)
January 1, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Many colleagues sending happy new years regards. Also some at 9am this morning slacking “did you try the LOOCV for FEEMS to select λ?”
(Tbf I was bugging colleagues at 5pm last night about ARG manipulation in python)
(Tbf I was bugging colleagues at 5pm last night about ARG manipulation in python)
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn’t.” [joanwestenberg.com]
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger. We’re hungry for more, but we have more than we need. We’re hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We’re hungry and we don’t have words to articulate why. We’re hungry, and we’re lacking and we’re wanting. We are
www.joanwestenberg.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn’t.” [joanwestenberg.com]
spending the last day of the year playing with data and listening to my favorites. here's one, "Soy o Estoy" from my favorite band Cafe Tacvba. I remember being excited when this came out as my Spanish was good enough to actually understand the whole thing.
soy o estoy-cafe tacvba°°°°°°
YouTube video by angelalets
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January 1, 2026 at 12:49 AM
spending the last day of the year playing with data and listening to my favorites. here's one, "Soy o Estoy" from my favorite band Cafe Tacvba. I remember being excited when this came out as my Spanish was good enough to actually understand the whole thing.
What's your dumb, bad, never-going-to-fix-it bad bioinformatics habit? One of mine is the use of my desktop to download and play with files. I end up so often with a file named "Desktop" on my desktop. yes I know how to fix this. no it ain't gonna happen.
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
What's your dumb, bad, never-going-to-fix-it bad bioinformatics habit? One of mine is the use of my desktop to download and play with files. I end up so often with a file named "Desktop" on my desktop. yes I know how to fix this. no it ain't gonna happen.
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this is how you science: "What’s True About the Evolution of Men’s Greater Average Height?- Why men are taller than women may have nothing to do with testosterone—or sexual selection." from @dunsworth.bsky.social and @prosocialworld.bsky.social www.prosocial.world/posts/whats-...
What’s True About the Evolution of Men’s Greater Average Height?
Why men are taller than women may have nothing to do with testosterone—or sexual selection.
www.prosocial.world
December 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
this is how you science: "What’s True About the Evolution of Men’s Greater Average Height?- Why men are taller than women may have nothing to do with testosterone—or sexual selection." from @dunsworth.bsky.social and @prosocialworld.bsky.social www.prosocial.world/posts/whats-...
There are many days when I think that "less" is the single most powerful bioinformatics tool. Just look at your data.
December 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
There are many days when I think that "less" is the single most powerful bioinformatics tool. Just look at your data.
OK, good news, it wasn't cordyceps. "Doing the dishes" meant what any normal parent would think, and the kitchen after looked like a tornado had hit it. Still, a wonderful and thoughtful treat from kids.
Kiddos made tacos for dinner, complete with wine, Mexican sweetbread and coffee for dessert, and brought our drinks to the living room while they did dishes. My only explanation is that this is the first stage of cordyceps colonization of their brains…
December 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
OK, good news, it wasn't cordyceps. "Doing the dishes" meant what any normal parent would think, and the kitchen after looked like a tornado had hit it. Still, a wonderful and thoughtful treat from kids.
Kiddos made tacos for dinner, complete with wine, Mexican sweetbread and coffee for dessert, and brought our drinks to the living room while they did dishes. My only explanation is that this is the first stage of cordyceps colonization of their brains…
December 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Kiddos made tacos for dinner, complete with wine, Mexican sweetbread and coffee for dessert, and brought our drinks to the living room while they did dishes. My only explanation is that this is the first stage of cordyceps colonization of their brains…
Reposted by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
SJUPP!
Carl Linnaeus's beloved pet raccoon, Sjupp, was a gift from the King of Sweden, and regularly stole snacks from Linnaeus's students. This drawing is thought to be Sjupp. (LM/PF/ALS/1) #EYAPets
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
SJUPP!
I’d like to say Graham and I never do this in person in the middle of meetings that are ostensibly to advise trainees. I’d really like to.
Like Mendel, it's abbot you go back to your day job. These puns are becoming a bad habit.
December 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I’d like to say Graham and I never do this in person in the middle of meetings that are ostensibly to advise trainees. I’d really like to.
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new and exciting lichen illustration
December 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
new and exciting lichen illustration
A game about validating plant phenotypes by making crosses? My ONE chance to make use of my PhD in plant genetics and what do I do? I play against my wife who is also a biologist… and lose.
December 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A game about validating plant phenotypes by making crosses? My ONE chance to make use of my PhD in plant genetics and what do I do? I play against my wife who is also a biologist… and lose.
Damnit. I am the most recent victim of this decade-long (or more?) running gag of slipping this awful elf into family luggage. Vengeance will be mine, however.
December 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Damnit. I am the most recent victim of this decade-long (or more?) running gag of slipping this awful elf into family luggage. Vengeance will be mine, however.