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Monthly Archives: September 2012
What we're reading (and watching)
In the journals From a couple of our contributors: Gilbert, K. J., Andrew, R. L., Bock, D. G., Franklin, M. T., Moore, B., Kane, N. C., Rennison, D. J., et al. 2012. Recommendations for utilizing and reporting population genetic analyses: … Continue reading
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Genes … in … space!
It’s something of a classic result in human population genomics: Go out and genotype thousands of people at thousands of genetic markers. (This is getting easier to do every day.) Then summarize the genetic variation at your thousands of markers … Continue reading
What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time: In the journals Travisano and Shaw 2012. Lost in the map. Evolution (accepted) DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01802.x. Genomics is detailing the molecular signature of … Continue reading
Let's push things forward
We at Molecular Ecology think archiving data at publication is really important, chiefly because it means that all these amazing datasets are preserved for future generations of researchers. Who knows what questions they’ll be asking fifty years from now? (That, … Continue reading
Posted in data archiving, science publishing
Tagged Data Accessibility Statement, Data archiving, Dryad, JDAP
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Making Maps with R
First off, thanks to Tim and Jeremy for the invitation to write a guest post here on using R to make maps! As a brief introduction, my name is Kim Gilbert, and I am a Ph.D. student at the University … Continue reading
What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time: Scientific publications Lau, J. A., and J. T. Lennon. 2012. Rapid responses of soil microorganisms improve plant fitness in novel environments. PNAS … Continue reading
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The MEC symposium Online Forum: October 24th
We had a great turnout for the Molecular Ecology symposium at the Joint Ottawa Evolution meeting in July, and it sounded like people found the talks and discussions really useful. The videos of all the talks and the accompanying slides … Continue reading
Posted in community, Molecular Ecology, the journal
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Give the NSF a piece of your mind
Cross-posted from Denim and Tweed. This last year, the Biological Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation—one of the biggest single funders of ecology and evolutionary biology research in the U.S.—introduced a new process for reviewing grant proposals. Lots of … Continue reading
Posted in funding, NSF
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Approximate Bayesian computation without the wait
Approximate Bayesian computation (abc) is arguably one of the most exciting, and quickly developing, tools available to modern population geneticists . Requiring a combination of large scale simulations and the evaluation of summaries of simulated datasets and an observed dataset, … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, software
Tagged approximate Bayesian computation, Bayesian population genetics, methods
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New to the blog: Peter Fields
Greetings fellow molecular ecologists and other interesting people! I’m Peter Fields, a recent recruit to the roster of contributors at the Molecular Ecologist. I’m currently a graduate student with Douglas Taylor at the University of Virginia. My dissertation research has … Continue reading
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