Tim Webster
timwebster.bsky.social
Tim Webster
@timwebster.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at the University of Utah. Genomics, evolution, primatology, anthropology, herpetology, bioinformatics, social networks.

All opinions are my own.
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February 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Very excited to see our study published today, joint effort with @benmpeter.bsky.social group, co-led by @leonardoiasi.bsky.social & Manjusha Chintalapati. Excitedly, @arevsumer.bsky.social et al. in Nature today show similar timeline of N gene flow. Details👇
December 12, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Why do AI studies in genomics focus on the scale of their analysis rather than the new discoveries made? #bioinformatics
December 3, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture | Science

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of chimpanzee cum...
www.science.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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First major paper from the lab! The work was led by super talented postdoc Maria Akopyan. She explored how reference bias skews estimates of diversity, demography, divergence & recombination rate with help from @elliecat.bsky.social
& awesome ungrad Matthew. Full thread coming soon 🤓
December 1, 2024 at 2:52 AM