“I’m reminded of the book The Selfish Gene by Dr Richard Dawkins…‘Well, with Phoenix and the shark DNA we have created the ultimate selfish gene—and one that presents a terrible threat to us all.’”

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Seasonally variable thermal performance curves prevent adverse effects of heatwaves
#conservationbiology 🌎🧪

www.proquest.com/openview/43b...

"Major developments in the research we examined
included the discovery that genes with large effects on run
timing may have evolved only once and could easily be
lost by extirpation of the few remaining populations that
harbor these alleles"

An excerpt from a book that is very relatable

"When researcher Greg Cooper is hired to analyze DNA for the Keller Corporation... After a few days of crunching data, though, he realizes that his dream job is more of a tedious grind than anything else." #genomics 🧪🧬🖥️

www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQ3MRR...

nice figure on documented extinctions attributed to recent temperature rise. Caveat "for most of these extinctions, climate change played an uncertain, interactive, subordinate, and sometimes controversial role relative to traditional threats" 🧪🌏#conservationscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Chemical Terrorism Assessment from the National Academies. it's interesting to see the chemical classes and the education level of the perpetrators
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2715...

one of their results is a headscratcher: fipronil + microplastics reduced embryo mortality at higher doses (way beyond what's environmentally relevant). The dose that really matters here is what's being uptaken by the animal but no tissue chemistry was done. What are the microplastics doing?

The challenge is to partition the variation you are interested in. It looks like the cluster analysis was done across all days so you get gene groups that reflect time-points and not treatment (look at all that variation across controls!), which doesn't seem helpful

Seattle

if you live in California and are interested in clean water science/politics/regulations/permitting, etc., this map shows the boundaries of the nine regional water boards in California.

They roughly correspond to major watersheds
gispublic.waterboards.ca.gov/portal/home/...
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Reminds me of this oldy