Political journalism, and the elite tier of journalism generally, got taken over by billionaire courtiers, conservative activists and sex-pest dipshits and those three groups have largely hounded the real reporters out of the profession as a matter of class self-interest.

Excited to share my new preprint developed with @matsen.bsky.social, in collaboration with Marius Brusselmans, Luiz Carvalho, @msuchard.bsky.social, and @guybaele.bsky.social, on the biological causes and impacts of tree space ruggedness in phylodynamic inference. 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#nokings Fairbanks Alaska

(This time closer to the people)

Google Earth thinks it's about 775 meters from Peter to Wilbur. There were basically people all along, and some places there were clumps. So I'm estimating at least 700 people, maybe even a thousand.

#nokings
Fairbanks, Alaska

#alaskasky

I suppose that I should use this account for at least a little self promotion. We recently published a paper about the difficulties placing aDNA reads into a phylogenetic tree

doi.org/10.1093/molb...

the moonlanding.exposed is ironic. The moonlanding was real.