@damonlisch.bsky.social
Here is how to kill a scientific field. Make it really hard to get into a good PhD program, then make it incredibly difficult to get a tenure-track academic position, then make a bunch of non-tenure track jobs available, then drain the funding and fire all the youngest people.
February 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Here is how to kill a scientific field. Make it really hard to get into a good PhD program, then make it incredibly difficult to get a tenure-track academic position, then make a bunch of non-tenure track jobs available, then drain the funding and fire all the youngest people.
Good old Oakland California.
December 26, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Good old Oakland California.
Hey fly folks, I recently remembered that I had made a hybrid lineage between D. melanogaster and D. simulans that could only interbreed and feature recombinant chromosomes. Now I'm kicking myself for not publishing in 1999 for reasons that must have made sense at the time. .
November 23, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Hey fly folks, I recently remembered that I had made a hybrid lineage between D. melanogaster and D. simulans that could only interbreed and feature recombinant chromosomes. Now I'm kicking myself for not publishing in 1999 for reasons that must have made sense at the time. .
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This might be the most exciting paper I've ever been a part of. With Robert Kohler, Ricardo Pianezza, Almoro Scarpa, and Prakash Narayanan we found a new transposon that invaded D. melanogaster in the 90s
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 2, 2023 at 3:42 PM
This might be the most exciting paper I've ever been a part of. With Robert Kohler, Ricardo Pianezza, Almoro Scarpa, and Prakash Narayanan we found a new transposon that invaded D. melanogaster in the 90s
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A colleague not on Bluesky alerted me to a TT Microbiology position at Eastern Michigan University, so I figured I'd pass the info along:
careers.emich.edu/jobs/6b7c192...
careers.emich.edu/jobs/6b7c192...
Assistant Professor (Microbiology) - Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
Title: Assistant Professor (Microbiology)
Employee Classification: FA - Faculty 16 and 24 Pay
Pay Grade: FA 01
Division: Academic and Student Affairs
Department: College of Arts and Sciences
Campus Lo...
careers.emich.edu
October 28, 2023 at 4:27 PM
A colleague not on Bluesky alerted me to a TT Microbiology position at Eastern Michigan University, so I figured I'd pass the info along:
careers.emich.edu/jobs/6b7c192...
careers.emich.edu/jobs/6b7c192...
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Genome Biology and Evolution is excited to now be on Bluesky. Please help us by recommending accounts and feeds for us to follow!
October 26, 2023 at 6:18 PM
Genome Biology and Evolution is excited to now be on Bluesky. Please help us by recommending accounts and feeds for us to follow!
We're hiring! Broad search for two assistant professor positions here at Purdue, one in Biochemistry and one in Botany and Plant Pathology. Come join us!
careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...
careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...
October 26, 2023 at 5:17 PM
We're hiring! Broad search for two assistant professor positions here at Purdue, one in Biochemistry and one in Botany and Plant Pathology. Come join us!
careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...
careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...
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One week left to apply! LSU Dept of Biological Sciences is searching for a population geneticist.
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...
Please spread the word!
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...
Please spread the word!
October 24, 2023 at 4:00 PM
One week left to apply! LSU Dept of Biological Sciences is searching for a population geneticist.
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...
Please spread the word!
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...
Please spread the word!
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New job opening at CU Boulder: Asst. Professor of Environmental Data Science. A great opportunity at a great place jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
October 12, 2023 at 10:00 PM
New job opening at CU Boulder: Asst. Professor of Environmental Data Science. A great opportunity at a great place jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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UC Riverside has a wonderful plant science community, exciting opportunity!
So excited to announce our search for an Assistant Professor focused on understanding plant response to climate change! Come join us at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01827
October 24, 2023 at 6:34 PM
UC Riverside has a wonderful plant science community, exciting opportunity!
I think it's incredibly important in any scientific writing to state up front and clearly what the null hypothesis is. It's counter intuitive, but it is a great way to show people why you think your hypothesis is likely and that you understand the alternatives to it.
October 24, 2023 at 1:56 PM
I think it's incredibly important in any scientific writing to state up front and clearly what the null hypothesis is. It's counter intuitive, but it is a great way to show people why you think your hypothesis is likely and that you understand the alternatives to it.
If you're in the Bay Area this week, check out my sister's art in beautiful downtown Oakland! mercurytwenty.com/exhibition/s...
October 24, 2023 at 1:47 AM
If you're in the Bay Area this week, check out my sister's art in beautiful downtown Oakland! mercurytwenty.com/exhibition/s...
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Calling all botanists! An unapologetic advertisement for my Dad's latest project--> a geobotanical inventory of the flora of the Rio Grande watershed in Colorado. **He would LOVE any collaboration or feedback!** Check it out below.
#plantscience 🧪🌱 #academicsky
floraupperriogrande.com
#plantscience 🧪🌱 #academicsky
floraupperriogrande.com
Flora Upper Rio Grande | Flora of Rio Grande Watershed
This project aims to catalogue the flora of the Rio Grande drainage that lies within the state of Colorado. Currently the database contains more than 1,200 Gymnosperms and Angiosperms authenticated by...
floraupperriogrande.com
October 22, 2023 at 10:38 PM
Calling all botanists! An unapologetic advertisement for my Dad's latest project--> a geobotanical inventory of the flora of the Rio Grande watershed in Colorado. **He would LOVE any collaboration or feedback!** Check it out below.
#plantscience 🧪🌱 #academicsky
floraupperriogrande.com
#plantscience 🧪🌱 #academicsky
floraupperriogrande.com
There is still no good substitute for one-on-one teaching. My writing class works not because I'm a great teacher or a great writer but because I meet regularly with each of my students and we go over their writing, line by line, over and over again, until we get it right.
October 20, 2023 at 4:47 PM
There is still no good substitute for one-on-one teaching. My writing class works not because I'm a great teacher or a great writer but because I meet regularly with each of my students and we go over their writing, line by line, over and over again, until we get it right.
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We’re hiring! TT Plant Systems Biology position, apply at the site below.
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...
Assistant Professor of Plant Systems Biology
Position Title: Assistant Professor of Plant Systems Biology Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: As part of a campus-wide strategic faculty hiring initiative in the emerging research area of cl...
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
October 19, 2023 at 7:01 PM
We’re hiring! TT Plant Systems Biology position, apply at the site below.
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...
A great group of plant biologists there.
job at iowa state for a plant systems biologist
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...
October 19, 2023 at 9:07 PM
A great group of plant biologists there.
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Come be our colleague! LSU is searching for a population geneticist.
You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...
Applications due Oct 30
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0646...
@brantfaircloth.bsky.social and I are on the committee - please reach out with questions
You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...
Applications due Oct 30
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0646...
@brantfaircloth.bsky.social and I are on the committee - please reach out with questions
October 16, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Come be our colleague! LSU is searching for a population geneticist.
You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...
Applications due Oct 30
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0646...
@brantfaircloth.bsky.social and I are on the committee - please reach out with questions
You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...
Applications due Oct 30
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0646...
@brantfaircloth.bsky.social and I are on the committee - please reach out with questions
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Join me, Kelly Dyer, and Rich Kliman for an open Q&A about applying to graduate school in Evolutionary Biology! (pls RT)
October 11, 2023 at 6:57 PM
Join me, Kelly Dyer, and Rich Kliman for an open Q&A about applying to graduate school in Evolutionary Biology! (pls RT)
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Interested in a PhD in Evolutionary Biology but unsure how to apply? Join an informal Q&A session that will cover the basics of applying to grad school in Evolutionary Biology.
When: October 19, 2023, 7-8:30pm
Register: umich.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Who:
Regina Baucom,
Kelly Dyer,
Richard Kliman
When: October 19, 2023, 7-8:30pm
Register: umich.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Who:
Regina Baucom,
Kelly Dyer,
Richard Kliman
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Grad school Q&A. After registering, you will receive a c...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Grad school Q&A. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
umich.zoom.us
September 30, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Interested in a PhD in Evolutionary Biology but unsure how to apply? Join an informal Q&A session that will cover the basics of applying to grad school in Evolutionary Biology.
When: October 19, 2023, 7-8:30pm
Register: umich.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Who:
Regina Baucom,
Kelly Dyer,
Richard Kliman
When: October 19, 2023, 7-8:30pm
Register: umich.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Who:
Regina Baucom,
Kelly Dyer,
Richard Kliman
I turned 60 the other day and it struck me how incredibly lucky I have been. For 35 years I've been paid to do something that I love to do, and to find new things that I didn't know I'd love, but do. I know that academia can be difficult, but it does have its rewards.
October 5, 2023 at 1:33 AM
I turned 60 the other day and it struck me how incredibly lucky I have been. For 35 years I've been paid to do something that I love to do, and to find new things that I didn't know I'd love, but do. I know that academia can be difficult, but it does have its rewards.
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I lead the Quantitative Evolutionary Microbiology Lab at Rutgers, and we're looking for a Ph.D. student to work on the ecology, evolution, and systems biology of microbial communities, especially using theory/modeling. See the attachment or link for more! qevomicrolab.org/wp-content/u...
October 4, 2023 at 12:02 AM
I lead the Quantitative Evolutionary Microbiology Lab at Rutgers, and we're looking for a Ph.D. student to work on the ecology, evolution, and systems biology of microbial communities, especially using theory/modeling. See the attachment or link for more! qevomicrolab.org/wp-content/u...
Chris is a great guy working on some fascinating questions and he's a terrific mentor.
I'm Chris Oakley (Purdue University) and I'm recruit a PhD student interested in the genetic basis of adaptation to seasonally freezing environments, costs of plasticity, and climate change. More here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
Lab website: btny.purdue.edu/labs/oakley/
Lab website: btny.purdue.edu/labs/oakley/
October 3, 2023 at 5:38 PM
Chris is a great guy working on some fascinating questions and he's a terrific mentor.
I have huge respect for bioinformaticians, but you *really* have to eyeball a subset of your outputs before you move on to the next task, especially if you are working with a complex (e.g. normal) genome and extraexpecially if you are dealing with TEs.
October 2, 2023 at 8:56 PM
I have huge respect for bioinformaticians, but you *really* have to eyeball a subset of your outputs before you move on to the next task, especially if you are working with a complex (e.g. normal) genome and extraexpecially if you are dealing with TEs.
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These nucleases function to generate DNA break at point where transposon gets excised so mechanism for copying the transposon BACK to where it was is homologous recombination with the hopped transposon www.nature.com/articles/s41... this is very very cool 2/
Transposon-encoded nucleases use guide RNAs to promote their selfish spread - Nature
TnpB and IscB nucleases use transposon-encoded guide RNAs to target genomic sequences for cleavage, thereby favouring copying and spreading of transposable elements.
www.nature.com
October 1, 2023 at 10:19 PM
These nucleases function to generate DNA break at point where transposon gets excised so mechanism for copying the transposon BACK to where it was is homologous recombination with the hopped transposon www.nature.com/articles/s41... this is very very cool 2/
Good morning!
October 1, 2023 at 1:23 PM
Good morning!