Heidi Yang
@heidiyang.bsky.social
PhD candidate at UCLA. Studying evolutionary and conservation genomics of California oaks 🌳
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Nature research paper: An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals
go.nature.com/47UiBWa
go.nature.com/47UiBWa
An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals - Nature
Deep learning methods identified a large and evolutionarily conserved X-linked low recombination region in placental mammals that serves as both a barrier to gene flow in hybridizing lineages and an accurate phylogenomic marker.
go.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Nature research paper: An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals
go.nature.com/47UiBWa
go.nature.com/47UiBWa
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NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Heidi Yang
Vaccines do not cause autism.
But some people will never stop trying to prove that they do.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
But some people will never stop trying to prove that they do.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
But some people will never stop trying to prove that they do.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
But some people will never stop trying to prove that they do.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I tried to explain university finances, indirect costs, and the extortionary demands that the Trump admistration is making of many universities.
The landscape of US #highered is changing. @jrothst.bsky.social breaks down the conditions attached to donations, how endowments can be managed, and how research funding negotiations between universities and the federal government are unfolding in @laist.com:
What goes into a university budget? And how do endowments work? Let an expert be your guide
Million dollar settlements to regain federal funding? Rising tuition, but layoffs and course cuts? We're here to help.
laist.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I tried to explain university finances, indirect costs, and the extortionary demands that the Trump admistration is making of many universities.
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I'll be posting a Patreon post later today, but while I was writing it, I realised that I needed to produce an additional diagram because.... not many people seem to know how #Ginkgo actually grows!!!
Anyway, here's that diagram:
Ginkgo long shoot development.
#paleobotany #botany #plants #trees
Anyway, here's that diagram:
Ginkgo long shoot development.
#paleobotany #botany #plants #trees
August 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'll be posting a Patreon post later today, but while I was writing it, I realised that I needed to produce an additional diagram because.... not many people seem to know how #Ginkgo actually grows!!!
Anyway, here's that diagram:
Ginkgo long shoot development.
#paleobotany #botany #plants #trees
Anyway, here's that diagram:
Ginkgo long shoot development.
#paleobotany #botany #plants #trees
Reposted by Heidi Yang
Bracing analysis from Columbia Law School’s David Pozen about the significance and implications of Columbia’s settlement with Trump. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
July 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Bracing analysis from Columbia Law School’s David Pozen about the significance and implications of Columbia’s settlement with Trump. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
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Each Friday I summarize what happened in science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 28:
- $300M frozen at UCLA + updates on university “deals”
- jobs report, Bureau of Labor Statistics firing & data quality fears
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
+ more at buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
- $300M frozen at UCLA + updates on university “deals”
- jobs report, Bureau of Labor Statistics firing & data quality fears
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
+ more at buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 28
July 28 - Aug 1, 2025 - failing down the garden path
buttondown.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Each Friday I summarize what happened in science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 28:
- $300M frozen at UCLA + updates on university “deals”
- jobs report, Bureau of Labor Statistics firing & data quality fears
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
+ more at buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
- $300M frozen at UCLA + updates on university “deals”
- jobs report, Bureau of Labor Statistics firing & data quality fears
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
+ more at buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Reposted by Heidi Yang
ICE on campus? Know your rights. www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights with ICE - Immigrant Defense Project
www.immigrantdefenseproject.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
ICE on campus? Know your rights. www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/know-your-ri...
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"One thing is certain: The changes we make ourselves will be healthier than the ones our adversaries demand."
New work for @undark.org:
undark.org/2025/02/06/o...
New work for @undark.org:
undark.org/2025/02/06/o...
The End of Science’s Peacetime
Opinion | Defending the practice of science from its adversaries will require dealing with some uncomfortable truths.
undark.org
February 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"One thing is certain: The changes we make ourselves will be healthier than the ones our adversaries demand."
New work for @undark.org:
undark.org/2025/02/06/o...
New work for @undark.org:
undark.org/2025/02/06/o...
Reposted by Heidi Yang
The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation
The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation
Abstract. Environmental heterogeneity can lead to spatially varying selection, which can, in turn, lead to local adaptation. Population genetic models have
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 10:48 PM
The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation