Donovan Anderson
@scdja.bsky.social
Horwitz Lab | Inst for Stem Cell & Regenerative Med | Allen Disc. Center Lineage Tracing | U of Washington | Am I the master of my fate: Am I the Captain of my soul - Asking for a cell
- Posting in a personal manner.
- Posting in a personal manner.
This is amazing and well deserved! Joe is not only a seminal thinker, but a great historian of the field.
Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal!
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is amazing and well deserved! Joe is not only a seminal thinker, but a great historian of the field.
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How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
Measuring the Phylogenetic Information in Proteins
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
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Very excited for Jeannette Tenthorey! @packardfdn.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social
Jeannette Tenthorey • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
A staggering 8% of the human genome derives from endogenous retroviruses, ancient evolutionary fossils that have been dismissed as vestiges. Yet recent work has revealed that some of these viral genes...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Very excited for Jeannette Tenthorey! @packardfdn.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social
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Speaking of speaking: I will be giving a talk about a very intriguing population of neurons in zebrafish that are born during gastrulation and stay forever and ever 👀🧪
Who's going to the Gastrulation Reloaded meeting next week in Paris? Who am I going to see? #DevBio 🧪
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Speaking of speaking: I will be giving a talk about a very intriguing population of neurons in zebrafish that are born during gastrulation and stay forever and ever 👀🧪
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I am happy to share some good news from the lab! Our paper on the outcomes of Bivalve Transmissible Neoplasia is out this week in PLOS Pathogens!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
October 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I am happy to share some good news from the lab! Our paper on the outcomes of Bivalve Transmissible Neoplasia is out this week in PLOS Pathogens!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Still alive!
Skubal Friday for all salmon in Seattle.
Skubal Friday for all salmon in Seattle.
The Ump Cam view of Javier Báez's crush job is incredible 👀
October 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Still alive!
Skubal Friday for all salmon in Seattle.
Skubal Friday for all salmon in Seattle.
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Naive question for someone trained in molecular biology and infectious disease: What makes a question or a study ecology v. evolution or vice versa?
I find myself following interesting infectious disease questions into evolution and ecology and stepping on field boundaries without realizing it.
I find myself following interesting infectious disease questions into evolution and ecology and stepping on field boundaries without realizing it.
October 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Naive question for someone trained in molecular biology and infectious disease: What makes a question or a study ecology v. evolution or vice versa?
I find myself following interesting infectious disease questions into evolution and ecology and stepping on field boundaries without realizing it.
I find myself following interesting infectious disease questions into evolution and ecology and stepping on field boundaries without realizing it.
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Cat flea, homage to Hooke. Micron in Moleskine. 🔬🖊️
September 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Cat flea, homage to Hooke. Micron in Moleskine. 🔬🖊️
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From my sketchbook...
Have a nice, safe, peaceful weekend!
Thank you for following x
Have a nice, safe, peaceful weekend!
Thank you for following x
September 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
From my sketchbook...
Have a nice, safe, peaceful weekend!
Thank you for following x
Have a nice, safe, peaceful weekend!
Thank you for following x
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For #TrilobiteTuesday, here’s the aptly named Kayserops megaspina, a Devonian trilobite. First printed in castable resin, then cast in sterling silver and oxidized to yield blue highlights. Sculpted from scratch, no scans. #paleoart #sciart
September 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
For #TrilobiteTuesday, here’s the aptly named Kayserops megaspina, a Devonian trilobite. First printed in castable resin, then cast in sterling silver and oxidized to yield blue highlights. Sculpted from scratch, no scans. #paleoart #sciart
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Dramatic Poetry, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1896, 📸 by @MauleIan
September 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Dramatic Poetry, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1896, 📸 by @MauleIan
You can upload your own GIFs now @mads100tist.bsky.social ! I expect a 10-fold increase in game from you sir.
September 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
You can upload your own GIFs now @mads100tist.bsky.social ! I expect a 10-fold increase in game from you sir.
Friday inspiration.
Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
September 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Friday inspiration.
OK, let’s take 🧪🧬 Sky for a spin. GSEA has a known link btwn the FDR and the # of gene sets used in analysis. Depending on which MSigDB lvl you use it can range from 50-16K !
Like cnts/feat/10K cells used for scRNAseq, is there a way to standardize the FDRs for something like 1K gene sets compared?
Like cnts/feat/10K cells used for scRNAseq, is there a way to standardize the FDRs for something like 1K gene sets compared?
September 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
OK, let’s take 🧪🧬 Sky for a spin. GSEA has a known link btwn the FDR and the # of gene sets used in analysis. Depending on which MSigDB lvl you use it can range from 50-16K !
Like cnts/feat/10K cells used for scRNAseq, is there a way to standardize the FDRs for something like 1K gene sets compared?
Like cnts/feat/10K cells used for scRNAseq, is there a way to standardize the FDRs for something like 1K gene sets compared?
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish.
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
August 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish.
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).
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Bummer of a week in Seattle—we are losing both an awesome coffeeshop, and one of the few open past 5pm (Distant Worlds) and an amazing toy store (Clover). You have until the 31st for both of these if you have never been.
Support the things you want to see in the world and in your neighborhood!
Support the things you want to see in the world and in your neighborhood!
August 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Bummer of a week in Seattle—we are losing both an awesome coffeeshop, and one of the few open past 5pm (Distant Worlds) and an amazing toy store (Clover). You have until the 31st for both of these if you have never been.
Support the things you want to see in the world and in your neighborhood!
Support the things you want to see in the world and in your neighborhood!
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So despite my wounds from my bike wreck I am off to Newport Beach for the Microbial Dark Matter Symposium. And Lo and behold it seems Sacramento Airport has a new unrooted Tree of Life display. So cool.
www.microbial-dark-matter-symposium.com
www.microbial-dark-matter-symposium.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
So despite my wounds from my bike wreck I am off to Newport Beach for the Microbial Dark Matter Symposium. And Lo and behold it seems Sacramento Airport has a new unrooted Tree of Life display. So cool.
www.microbial-dark-matter-symposium.com
www.microbial-dark-matter-symposium.com
“There are more-mythic American roads than Highway 89. It doesn’t have the Ken Burns PBS patina of Route 66, …”
“But. If you want one road that gives you the American West in all its beauty and mystery, this is it.”
I did more than grow-up along this highway. It shaped me. This is a worthy read.
“But. If you want one road that gives you the American West in all its beauty and mystery, this is it.”
I did more than grow-up along this highway. It shaped me. This is a worthy read.
"I want what only the best road trips give you: velocity and transcendence." — @peterafish.bsky.social hits the highway for @altajournal.bsky.social
www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
One Highway. A Thousand Miles of Western Wonder.
A 1,400-mile trip through several national parks takes a writer deep into his past.
www.altaonline.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“There are more-mythic American roads than Highway 89. It doesn’t have the Ken Burns PBS patina of Route 66, …”
“But. If you want one road that gives you the American West in all its beauty and mystery, this is it.”
I did more than grow-up along this highway. It shaped me. This is a worthy read.
“But. If you want one road that gives you the American West in all its beauty and mystery, this is it.”
I did more than grow-up along this highway. It shaped me. This is a worthy read.
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Reclining Nude (Babacar Mané), by Kehinde Wiley, 2022, 📸 by Garth Patterson
August 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reclining Nude (Babacar Mané), by Kehinde Wiley, 2022, 📸 by Garth Patterson
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Anna-Maria Schipper Vermeiren, contemporary quilt artist of Haaften, The Netherlands #UnravellingWomensArt
August 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Anna-Maria Schipper Vermeiren, contemporary quilt artist of Haaften, The Netherlands #UnravellingWomensArt
Happy Magnum P.I. Day to all those who celebrate at the Tigers game today!
August 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Happy Magnum P.I. Day to all those who celebrate at the Tigers game today!
This. As more and more genomes become available, more diverse phenotypic data is needed.
At #ESEB2025 Lisa Abbeglin presents data from the recent Cancer Prevalence across Vertebrates paper led by @zacharytcompton.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1158/2159...
doi.org/10.1158/2159...
August 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This. As more and more genomes become available, more diverse phenotypic data is needed.