Paul Blischak
@pblischak.bsky.social
Genomics, Data Science, & Computational Genetics at Bayer Crop Science :: pblischak.github.io :: PhD + BSc at Ohio State :: Postdoc at U. Arizona :: (he/him)
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Paul Blischak
@pblischak.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hello Bluesky! I’m Paul, a Data Scientist and Computational Geneticist. I love programming, analyzing data, and building software tools – which means I spend a lot of my time battling bugs, but even more time battling my cat’s desire to sit on my keyboard
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Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
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I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
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The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!
Polyploidy Webinar Speaker Signup 25-26
docs.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!
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Phylogenomic challenges in polyploid-rich lineages: Insights from orthology inference and reticulation methods using the complex genus Packera (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676143v1
September 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Phylogenomic challenges in polyploid-rich lineages: Insights from orthology inference and reticulation methods using the complex genus Packera (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676143v1
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I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.
September 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.
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We hope that these open educational resources can be useful to those who work with natural history collections! There are four modules that this paper walks through. All modules are available on QUBES HUB :https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/bceenet/teaching_resources
September 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
We hope that these open educational resources can be useful to those who work with natural history collections! There are four modules that this paper walks through. All modules are available on QUBES HUB :https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/bceenet/teaching_resources
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I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!
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Please repost and amplify !
We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!
Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...
Deadline for applications is Oct 1
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!
Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...
Deadline for applications is Oct 1
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina
sc.edu
August 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Please repost and amplify !
We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!
Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...
Deadline for applications is Oct 1
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!
Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...
Deadline for applications is Oct 1
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
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🚨 Our GW paper is out in Nature Methods!🥲
GW is a fast genomics browser (up to 100x faster!)
github.com/kcleal/gw
Also, just released a Python interface for GW
github.com/kcleal/gwplot
📝 nature.com/articles/s4159…#Genomicsc#Bioinformaticscs
GW is a fast genomics browser (up to 100x faster!)
github.com/kcleal/gw
Also, just released a Python interface for GW
github.com/kcleal/gwplot
📝 nature.com/articles/s4159…#Genomicsc#Bioinformaticscs
GitHub - kcleal/gw: Genome browser and variant annotation
Genome browser and variant annotation. Contribute to kcleal/gw development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🚨 Our GW paper is out in Nature Methods!🥲
GW is a fast genomics browser (up to 100x faster!)
github.com/kcleal/gw
Also, just released a Python interface for GW
github.com/kcleal/gwplot
📝 nature.com/articles/s4159…#Genomicsc#Bioinformaticscs
GW is a fast genomics browser (up to 100x faster!)
github.com/kcleal/gw
Also, just released a Python interface for GW
github.com/kcleal/gwplot
📝 nature.com/articles/s4159…#Genomicsc#Bioinformaticscs
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I had a blast chatting with JoeySantore on Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t! We talked polyploidy, weird desert mustards, monotypic families, and Tiganophyton—a wild new species from Namibia.
🎧 www.podbean.com/ew/dir-en8pq...
#Botany #Brassicales #PlantScience
🎧 www.podbean.com/ew/dir-en8pq...
#Botany #Brassicales #PlantScience
A Clusterf*ck of Mustards - The Order Brassicales
Ad-Free versions of this podcast are available for $5 a month on the Crime Pays Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntIn this episode we talk with Makenzie Mabry, PhD, about the...
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June 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I had a blast chatting with JoeySantore on Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t! We talked polyploidy, weird desert mustards, monotypic families, and Tiganophyton—a wild new species from Namibia.
🎧 www.podbean.com/ew/dir-en8pq...
#Botany #Brassicales #PlantScience
🎧 www.podbean.com/ew/dir-en8pq...
#Botany #Brassicales #PlantScience
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Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust.
In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)
In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)
May 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust.
In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)
In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)
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ConfuseNN: Interpreting convolutional neural network inferences in population genomics with data shuffling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644668v1
March 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
ConfuseNN: Interpreting convolutional neural network inferences in population genomics with data shuffling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644668v1
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The collaborative paper on adding selection to stdpopsim is out! Learn about how to easily simulate realistic population genomic data with background selection and sweeps, plus some benchmarking of methods for demographic history, DFE, and sweep inference. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Accessible, realistic genome simulation with selection using stdpopsim
Selection is a fundamental evolutionary force that shapes patterns of genetic variation across species. However, simulations incorporating realistic selection along heterogeneous genomes in complex de...
www.biorxiv.org
March 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The collaborative paper on adding selection to stdpopsim is out! Learn about how to easily simulate realistic population genomic data with background selection and sweeps, plus some benchmarking of methods for demographic history, DFE, and sweep inference. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Low accuracy of complex admixture graph inference from f-statistics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642126v1
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Low accuracy of complex admixture graph inference from f-statistics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642126v1
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The National Science foundation has just updated their FAQ to say they are complying with the court order and has restored access to funds and the ACM$ platform new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
February 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The National Science foundation has just updated their FAQ to say they are complying with the court order and has restored access to funds and the ACM$ platform new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
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“Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025.”
new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
new.nsf.gov
February 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025.”
new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
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Update on the NSF PRFB stipend situation:
NSF is complying with the TRO. The money management system (ACM$) is back online as of today, and access to awarded funds has resumed.
new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
NSF is complying with the TRO. The money management system (ACM$) is back online as of today, and access to awarded funds has resumed.
new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
new.nsf.gov
February 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Update on the NSF PRFB stipend situation:
NSF is complying with the TRO. The money management system (ACM$) is back online as of today, and access to awarded funds has resumed.
new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
NSF is complying with the TRO. The money management system (ACM$) is back online as of today, and access to awarded funds has resumed.
new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
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Join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have @cherrityg.bsky.social on apomixis and polyploidy in Malus and Christoph Rosche on herbarium specimens and invasive Centaurea! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
February 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have @cherrityg.bsky.social on apomixis and polyploidy in Malus and Christoph Rosche on herbarium specimens and invasive Centaurea! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
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It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
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I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order
January 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order
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As of this AM, it is uncertain how NSF postdoc fellows will be impacted.
If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.
If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.
Has anyone heard anything about the impacts of the OMB memo on fellowships administered directly by federal agencies. E.g., NSF (at least used to) pay(s) postdoc fellowship stipends directly to the postdocs
Do you know anything about graduate fellowships administered by agencies?
January 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
As of this AM, it is uncertain how NSF postdoc fellows will be impacted.
If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.
If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.