Kyle T David
@kylethedavid.bsky.social
NSF postdoc in the Rokas lab at Vanderbilt university, interested in macro(ecology x evolution) 🧬 ➡️ 🦎 ➡️ 🌐
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Really had to scramble to replace all my juvenile T. rex with Nanotyrannus
October 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Really had to scramble to replace all my juvenile T. rex with Nanotyrannus
Grendel loves his Halloween costume!
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Grendel loves his Halloween costume!
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If the hardcore band's bassist looks like this, you're gonna die in that pit
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If the hardcore band's bassist looks like this, you're gonna die in that pit
when @haleybiont.bsky.social spots a barred owl she's gonna make sure the whole trail knows it
October 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
when @haleybiont.bsky.social spots a barred owl she's gonna make sure the whole trail knows it
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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We often talk about THE whole genome duplication in yeasts, but we find new evidence of additional whole genome duplications in other yeast species!
Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts
Whole genome duplication (WGD) has had profound macroevolutionary impacts on diverse lineages, preceding adaptive radiations in vertebrates, teleost fish, and angiosperms. In contrast to the many know...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We often talk about THE whole genome duplication in yeasts, but we find new evidence of additional whole genome duplications in other yeast species!
Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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August 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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An excellent article in the NYTimes about the impending demise of the last U.S. Antarctic research vessel, the N.B. Palmer, featuring US and overseas colleagues (including @polarrobs.bsky.social). Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship
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August 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
An excellent article in the NYTimes about the impending demise of the last U.S. Antarctic research vessel, the N.B. Palmer, featuring US and overseas colleagues (including @polarrobs.bsky.social). Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
I said what I said
August 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I said what I said
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Thrilled to share that the final chapter of my PhD with @rokaslab.bsky.social is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉
Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪
rdcu.be/eAToj
Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪
rdcu.be/eAToj
Population structure in a fungal human pathogen is potentially linked to pathogenicity
Nature Communications - Genetic diversity between clinical and environmental fungal isolates of Aspergillus flavus is poorly studied. Here, the authors analysed genomic data from a global set of...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Thrilled to share that the final chapter of my PhD with @rokaslab.bsky.social is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉
Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪
rdcu.be/eAToj
Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪
rdcu.be/eAToj
This weekend me and @evolutionvu.bsky.social collaborated with some local girl scouts to run an advanced evolution simulator, saw some cool convergence as well as a plesiomorphy that hung around way longer than I thought it would
July 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This weekend me and @evolutionvu.bsky.social collaborated with some local girl scouts to run an advanced evolution simulator, saw some cool convergence as well as a plesiomorphy that hung around way longer than I thought it would
When the final sentence of the abstract begins with "Taken together,"
a close up of a man 's face with a slight smirk on his face
Alt: Patrick Bateman "oooh" reaction gif
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July 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
When the final sentence of the abstract begins with "Taken together,"
Had a great time celebrating the centennial of the Scopes trial with a trip to Dayton, hallowed ground for an evolutionary biologist! Thanks to @evolutionvu.bsky.social for organizing!
July 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Had a great time celebrating the centennial of the Scopes trial with a trip to Dayton, hallowed ground for an evolutionary biologist! Thanks to @evolutionvu.bsky.social for organizing!
Plant grafting is so cool it makes me jealous. Like what do you mean you can just mash two species together
July 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Plant grafting is so cool it makes me jealous. Like what do you mean you can just mash two species together
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Kyle David @kylethedavid.bsky.social discusses two new genome 🧬 duplications 🧬🧬 in the yeast subphylum
With three WGD clades, we can ask what are the causes and consequences of WGD in yeast
@evolutionvu.bsky.social @rokaslab.bsky.social
#Evol2025 #Evol24
With three WGD clades, we can ask what are the causes and consequences of WGD in yeast
@evolutionvu.bsky.social @rokaslab.bsky.social
#Evol2025 #Evol24
June 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Kyle David @kylethedavid.bsky.social discusses two new genome 🧬 duplications 🧬🧬 in the yeast subphylum
With three WGD clades, we can ask what are the causes and consequences of WGD in yeast
@evolutionvu.bsky.social @rokaslab.bsky.social
#Evol2025 #Evol24
With three WGD clades, we can ask what are the causes and consequences of WGD in yeast
@evolutionvu.bsky.social @rokaslab.bsky.social
#Evol2025 #Evol24
Nice argument. Unfortunately, I've already depicted you as the fungal cultivating minima caste and me as the neuroparsin-A upregulated soldier major caste
June 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Nice argument. Unfortunately, I've already depicted you as the fungal cultivating minima caste and me as the neuroparsin-A upregulated soldier major caste
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“Shrimps is bugs” is a funny meme, but there’s some truth in the reverse version, “Bugs is shrimps” 🐛🦐 Since insects are literally a group of terrestrial crustacean. And among all the insects, bristletails are probably the most shrimp-like in my opinion!
June 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“Shrimps is bugs” is a funny meme, but there’s some truth in the reverse version, “Bugs is shrimps” 🐛🦐 Since insects are literally a group of terrestrial crustacean. And among all the insects, bristletails are probably the most shrimp-like in my opinion!
How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
May 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
Spot the difference
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Spot the difference
Get Me To God's Country
April 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Get Me To God's Country
Force A, Lynch M, Pickett FB, Amores A, Yan YL, Postlethwait J (April 1999). "Preservation of duplicate genes by complementary, degenerative mutations". Genetics. 151 (4): 1531–45.
March 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Force A, Lynch M, Pickett FB, Amores A, Yan YL, Postlethwait J (April 1999). "Preservation of duplicate genes by complementary, degenerative mutations". Genetics. 151 (4): 1531–45.