Rafael Guerrero
@guerrero.bsky.social
Population genetics, evolution | Asst Prof @ NC State | 🇨🇴
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Neural posterior estimation for population genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691638v1
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Neural posterior estimation for population genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691638v1
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We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
Temporary Plant Evolutionary Ecology Field Technician
The Sheth plant evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) is currently seeking field technician to participate in an NS...
jobs.ncsu.edu
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
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If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.
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We have 60 students signed up and 42 mentors so far.
Attending SACNAS conference? Sign up ->
10th Annual SACNAS 1-on-1 Mentoring Workshop. Need 100+ mentors. Oct. 30th, 5:30 - 7:00 PM, N. Short Ballroom
Mentors Link (Faculty/Postdocs/Staff): 1 min to fill out forms.gle/daTSoT8yniJ8...
Each mentor is assigned 1-2 students.
10th Annual SACNAS 1-on-1 Mentoring Workshop. Need 100+ mentors. Oct. 30th, 5:30 - 7:00 PM, N. Short Ballroom
Mentors Link (Faculty/Postdocs/Staff): 1 min to fill out forms.gle/daTSoT8yniJ8...
Each mentor is assigned 1-2 students.
Sign-up to be a MENTOR: "10th Annual 1-on-1 Mentoring with a SACNAS Leader" Mentoring Undergraduates using a modified-IDP
Meet for 35-40 minutes with an Undergraduate/Postbac/Grad student to discuss their career goals. You will meet with 1-2 individuals during the 90 min session. We have a much bigger space this year so ...
forms.gle
October 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We have 60 students signed up and 42 mentors so far.
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
www.aaup.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
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Colbert resurrected his character from "The Colbert Report" and it's glorious www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxL...
The Word: Shhhhhh!
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Colbert resurrected his character from "The Colbert Report" and it's glorious www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxL...
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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
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Fellow academics: Have any of you heard about concerns regarding the use of NIH funds to support travel to trainee-focused conferences like SACNAS and ABRCMS (e.g. on an R25 where travel was budgeted)? I have heard indirect rumblings about concerns, but have not gotten any specifics. Thanks!
August 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Fellow academics: Have any of you heard about concerns regarding the use of NIH funds to support travel to trainee-focused conferences like SACNAS and ABRCMS (e.g. on an R25 where travel was budgeted)? I have heard indirect rumblings about concerns, but have not gotten any specifics. Thanks!
Are scientific societies (that own their journals) keeping an eye on the Anthropic settlement? Maybe the settlement could fund at least a travel award!
Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors - The Authors Guild
Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over w...
authorsguild.org
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Are scientific societies (that own their journals) keeping an eye on the Anthropic settlement? Maybe the settlement could fund at least a travel award!
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I think we've figured out the right solution at the Evolution Meetings: Bang for your buck, a virtual meeting two weeks before the in-person is the most cost-effective way to involve remote participants.
A couple thoughts 🧵
A couple thoughts 🧵
There are too many reasons to have every meeting/session online for free: some can’t attend for health reasons, can’t afford it, don’t have childcare, etc., and everybody in the public should be invited to attend; open access doesn’t mean just publications; meetings can’t afford it? Figure it out.
August 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we've figured out the right solution at the Evolution Meetings: Bang for your buck, a virtual meeting two weeks before the in-person is the most cost-effective way to involve remote participants.
A couple thoughts 🧵
A couple thoughts 🧵
This mammoth is a huge blow for Colossal
🦣 "They've got rizz, as the kids like to say." A paleontologist weighs in on a mammoth moment in sports—and shares why his local mascot should be the Gainesville Gomphothere: buff.ly/APC55gt
📷 : The newly minted Moon Mammoth mascot, Erie SeaWolves
📷 : The newly minted Moon Mammoth mascot, Erie SeaWolves
August 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This mammoth is a huge blow for Colossal
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Good morning, America
August 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Good morning, America
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"You're taking civilization for granted and not contributing" says man whose only contribution is doing youtubes and tweets as a job.
August 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"You're taking civilization for granted and not contributing" says man whose only contribution is doing youtubes and tweets as a job.
An authoritarian, corrupt president who changed the constitution to get reelected 20 years ago was just sentenced to 12y for fraud and bribery. This seemed absolutely impossible in Colombia at some point! Seems like relevant optimistic news for other countries
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
An authoritarian, corrupt president who changed the constitution to get reelected 20 years ago was just sentenced to 12y for fraud and bribery. This seemed absolutely impossible in Colombia at some point! Seems like relevant optimistic news for other countries
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look who crawled out from under a rock
This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him.
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
Opinion | Cornell University Discriminated Against Me
I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an EEOC complaint.
www.wsj.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
look who crawled out from under a rock
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No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.
I just now realized that some guys think that fancy predictive text can make new scientific discoveries but that doesn’t even make sense.
July 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”
July 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”
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Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)
July 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)
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1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.
This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...
arxiv.org
July 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.
This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
Bumpy road for this one, happy to be able to share Eugene's work. Comments welcome, of course!
A network perspective on the evolution of hybrid incompatibilities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663985v1
July 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Bumpy road for this one, happy to be able to share Eugene's work. Comments welcome, of course!