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Four science books for 2022
The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Amazon.com via links from this post. Books occupy a curious place in my reading life. I read a lot as an academic biologist, from research papers to grant proposals … Continue reading
Posted in book review, ecology, evolution, natural history, politics
Tagged forest conservation, J.B.S. Haldane, paleontology, sensory biology
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Falling through the gap
There is a hole. Right at the top of our science. In the introductions to our peer-reviewed papers, where we should explain the need for the new research results we are about to present, there is more and more often … Continue reading
Posted in community, journal club, modest proposals, Science Communication, science publishing
Tagged cliche, knowledge gap, phrasing, writing
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Recent reading: 18 Sept 2022
Los Angeles doesn’t really get full-on summer heat until September, after months of building warmth and time elapsed since that last gasp of winter rains and spring fog. This year we (and most of the rest of the western U.S.) … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, evolution, journal club
Tagged adaptive walk, geometric theory of adaptation, GWAS, Linanthus parryae
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Recent reading: 2 Sept 2022
It’s the end of the first week of classes on my campus, after a spring and summer of more or less successful, mostly in-person conferences (more on that later, I think). I’ve got two big lecture sections of Evolutionary Biology … Continue reading
Revealing the natural history of yeast
The following is a guest post by Matthew Vandermeulen, PhD, at the University at Buffalo. Matthew studies the regulation of responses to environmental variation; he is on Twitter as @mvandermeulen. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, baker’s and brewer’s yeast, may be one organism that could contend with dogs … Continue reading
Posted in domestication, ecology, evolution, genomics, microbiology, mini-review, yeast
Tagged Saccharomyces cerevisiae, yeast
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2022 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Kerstin Johannesson, for building big science to study a tiny marine snail
The Molecular Ecology Prize Committee has announced the 2022 recipient of the award, which recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to the still-young field of molecular ecology: The Molecular Ecology Prize Committee is pleased to announce that … Continue reading
2022 Harry Smith Prize awarded to Arne Jacobs, for revealing the role of alternative splicing in parallel evolution
This year’s Harry Smith Prize, which recognizes the best paper published in the field of molecular ecology by an early career scholar, has been awarded to Arne Jacobs at the University of Glasgow. Jacobs led the 2021 paper “Alternative splicing … Continue reading
Nominations open for the 2022 Molecular Ecology Prize
From the Molecular Ecology Prize Committee: We are soliciting nominations for the annual Molecular Ecology Prize. The field of molecular ecology is young and inherently interdisciplinary. As a consequence, research in molecular ecology is not currently represented by a single … Continue reading
Recent reading: 29 April 2022
How is this month already almost over? Four weeks ago I was just starting to realize that an unexpected, astonishingly good flowering season for Joshua trees meant I needed to shoehorn in some fieldwork, eyeing the data analysis I needed … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, evolution, genomics, horizontal gene transfer, journal club, microbiology
Tagged cuckoo, host-parasite, human diversity, rhizobia, Richard Lewontin
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Recent reading: 1 April 2022
April Fool’s Day is no one’s favorite holiday, as far as I can tell. I do remember a time when it was sort of fun to be listening to Morning Edition over breakfast and slowly realize that the totally serious-sounding … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, evolution, journal club
Tagged community genetics, landscape genetics, plant-pollinator interactions
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