Dan Gates
@dangatesj.bsky.social
Plant biology, bioinformatics, data science, academia, and industry
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The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
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brown-ecology.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
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this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
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Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
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mods are asleep, post bored poutine
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
mods are asleep, post bored poutine
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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In case you thought I was kidding
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In case you thought I was kidding
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I've been neglecting to post about things I love and that bring me pleasure.
Such topics are a necessary counter-balance to ... you know.
This hot sauce is the best I've tasted in years! It's a bit hotter than my usual, but it has a unique, fruity, piquant flavor unlike any I've ever had before.
Such topics are a necessary counter-balance to ... you know.
This hot sauce is the best I've tasted in years! It's a bit hotter than my usual, but it has a unique, fruity, piquant flavor unlike any I've ever had before.
October 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I've been neglecting to post about things I love and that bring me pleasure.
Such topics are a necessary counter-balance to ... you know.
This hot sauce is the best I've tasted in years! It's a bit hotter than my usual, but it has a unique, fruity, piquant flavor unlike any I've ever had before.
Such topics are a necessary counter-balance to ... you know.
This hot sauce is the best I've tasted in years! It's a bit hotter than my usual, but it has a unique, fruity, piquant flavor unlike any I've ever had before.
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This is what future celebrities were supposed to be, not politics streamers
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is what future celebrities were supposed to be, not politics streamers
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apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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bro are you fucking kidding me
![quote from the Economist article which says "[study authors] are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ofjbklfvptnupad4lxumblw/bafkreia3yctiqd7ejumpd6novxjpiycphtfkc3bdgd573jw37faqdl7o7m@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
bro are you fucking kidding me
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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Turns out we can harness apomixis to develop self-reproducing sorghum hybrids. Our newly published paper with Corteva Agriscience @cortevaagriscience.bsky.social
Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪
Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Turns out we can harness apomixis to develop self-reproducing sorghum hybrids. Our newly published paper with Corteva Agriscience @cortevaagriscience.bsky.social
Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪
Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪
Kinda feels like Tadej Pogacar attacking on the Oude Kwaremont and watching group 2 processing their options in real time
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Kinda feels like Tadej Pogacar attacking on the Oude Kwaremont and watching group 2 processing their options in real time
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this is why god literally invented bicycles
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
this is why god literally invented bicycles
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Jalen Suggs pulls a Nick Young
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Jalen Suggs pulls a Nick Young
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If you delete the SNAP contingency fund language from the USDA site, what you’re really saying is that you know that you could feed people and you’d rather not.
November 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you delete the SNAP contingency fund language from the USDA site, what you’re really saying is that you know that you could feed people and you’d rather not.
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My former student Dr. Christine Ewers has started a biodiversity analysis consulting business, she has experience with the breadth of genomic data and a fabulous person to work with :) www.drchristineewers.org/biodiversity...
dr. christine ewers - Biodiversity genomics
My qualifications for genetic and genomic analyses
I have been conducting genetic work since my diploma thesis in 2008.
I have been analyzing genomic data and publishing scientific papers for 12 years...
www.drchristineewers.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My former student Dr. Christine Ewers has started a biodiversity analysis consulting business, she has experience with the breadth of genomic data and a fabulous person to work with :) www.drchristineewers.org/biodiversity...
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Spotted on the floor of the Senate: Sen. Kennedy is having a very John Kennedy moment shouting about "DEI Owls"
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Spotted on the floor of the Senate: Sen. Kennedy is having a very John Kennedy moment shouting about "DEI Owls"