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Monthly Archives: November 2012
What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things that we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen time. In the journals Wilfert L., Jiggins F. 2012. The dynamics of reciprocal selective sweeps of host resistance and a parasite … Continue reading
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Knowing what I know now: Grad school (Sean Hoban)
Sean Hoban is a postdoc at the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he develops software and evaluates methods for conservation genetics, with Oscar Gaggiotti and Giorgio Bertorelle. Their user-friendly software for choosing the appropriate number of markers and samples for a … Continue reading
What we're reading. Well, eating, anyway.
Speller C.F., Kemp B.M., Wyatt S.D., Monroe C., Lipe W.D., Arndt U.M., Yang D.Y. 2010. Ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals complexity of indigenous North American turkey domestication. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 107:2807–12. Although the cultural and nutritive importance of the … Continue reading
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As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things that might be worth your screen-time. In the journals Shull, G. 1909. The “presence and absence” hypothesis. The American Naturalist 43:410–419. DOI: 10.1086/279073. The “presence and absence” hypothesis assumes that … Continue reading
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Knowing what I know now: Grad school (Aleeza Gerstein)
Here’s a new contribution to our upcoming Knowing what I know now carnival, from Aleeza Gerstein, who recently completed her PhD with Sally Otto at the University of British Columbia. She is currently splitting her time between Tel Aviv and … Continue reading
Knowing what I know now: Let's make it a carnival!
So, not long after I posted my advice for grad school, and said I hoped that we’d ultimately collect similar posts from a whole bunch of people, Scicurious e-mailed to point out that there’s a thing we do in the … Continue reading
Knowing what I know now: Grad school (Jeremy Yoder)
Unsolicited advice for every stage of a scientific career is a genre that predates the blogsophere — I well remember recieving Stephen Stearns’s “Advice for Graduate Students” in my e-mail, as a sort of PDF-formatted samizdat back at the start … Continue reading
What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things that might be worth your screen-time. In the journals Byers, J. and S. Dunn. 2012. Bateman in nature: Predation on offspring reduces the potential for sexual selection. Science 338:802–804. DOI: … Continue reading
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For your weekend reading list, a few items from ours: From the journals Boettiger, C. and A. Hastings. 2012. Early warning signals and the prosecutor’s fallacy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2085. Here, we examine a critical difference … Continue reading
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