Isabella Tomanek
@bellatom.bsky.social
(Micro)biologist🦠| μm + generations |
postdoc @univie.ac.at, previously @dunnschool.bsky.social, Oxford | Mama^2 | Life enthusiast | fan of duplications + deletions
bacterial ecology 🔄 evolution in the gut (and elsewhere)
postdoc @univie.ac.at, previously @dunnschool.bsky.social, Oxford | Mama^2 | Life enthusiast | fan of duplications + deletions
bacterial ecology 🔄 evolution in the gut (and elsewhere)
very awesome paper, btw!
January 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
very awesome paper, btw!
December 17, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Funny! this brings back memories of when Nüsslein-Vollhard told a fellow female graduate student that she wouldn’t hire a postdoc who wastes time putting on makeup everyday.
The one piece of advice by a Nobel laureate that didn’t improve my science, but my morning routine.
The one piece of advice by a Nobel laureate that didn’t improve my science, but my morning routine.
December 11, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Funny! this brings back memories of when Nüsslein-Vollhard told a fellow female graduate student that she wouldn’t hire a postdoc who wastes time putting on makeup everyday.
The one piece of advice by a Nobel laureate that didn’t improve my science, but my morning routine.
The one piece of advice by a Nobel laureate that didn’t improve my science, but my morning routine.
Reposted by Isabella Tomanek
This is exactly right. Population genetics has a reification of simple models problem. And we are weirdly non-Bayesian in that we do not check our simple - clearly too simple! - models against the priors generated through direct observation in ecology and other fields.
November 25, 2024 at 8:25 PM
This is exactly right. Population genetics has a reification of simple models problem. And we are weirdly non-Bayesian in that we do not check our simple - clearly too simple! - models against the priors generated through direct observation in ecology and other fields.
Interesting! Their theory seems to hinge on constant recombination (which in the face of niche overlaps forces low-diversity populations to increase their niche breadths instead of e.g. diversifying into more narrow but multimodal distributions). No such homogenizing recombination in Bacteria (?)
January 17, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Interesting! Their theory seems to hinge on constant recombination (which in the face of niche overlaps forces low-diversity populations to increase their niche breadths instead of e.g. diversifying into more narrow but multimodal distributions). No such homogenizing recombination in Bacteria (?)