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Author Archives: Jeremy Yoder
This new review explains why soft sweeps are the bane — and the baseline — of ecological genetics
If you’ve done ecological genetics research in the last decade, you’ve almost certainly cited a series of papers by Pleuni Pennings and Joachim Hermisson, which broke down the problem of soft selective sweeps. Pennings and Hermisson have revisited soft sweeps … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, evolution, genomics
Tagged haplotype diversity, natural selection, soft sweeps
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No, I don't write for the Genetic Literacy Project (and I never will)
So yesterday I got a notification on Twitter that the Genetic Literacy Project had posted about my pushback on an account of scientific racism published by NPR. Well, nifty, I guess. I’d encountered the GLP before — it’s a news … Continue reading
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NPR's muddled take on scientific racism and direct-to-consumer genetics
NPR’s science blog Cosmos & Culture has a post up about a new book on scientific racism and population genetics, particularly in connection with personal genetic ancestry reconstruction like that offered by 23andMe and other “direct-to-consumer” (DTC) genetic testing outfits. … Continue reading
#Evol2017 catch-up — Wing shape evolution in non-migrating monarch butterflies
A week after the closing day of the 2017 Evolution Meetings, the Molecular Ecologists have all dispersed from Portland. Still, the conference was so big that there’s a lot we missed the first time around — many great talks were … Continue reading
Still alive from #Evol2017 – Tuesday highlights
A subset of the Molecular Ecologist team is attending this year’s Evolution meeting in Portland, Oregon. As part of our coverage of the meeting, we’ve been recapping the highlights of each day here on the blog, and occasionally previewing upcoming presentations. … Continue reading
Molecular Ecologists at #Evol2017 — see you in Portland!
Evolution 2017 — the joint annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution — is already underway in Portland, Oregon, and it’s looking like a terrific week … Continue reading
Friday action item: It's time to go local
On Fridays while the current administration is in office we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? E-mail us! This Thursday was not a good day for the … Continue reading
Posted in Action Item, politics, United States
Tagged climate change, Paris Agreement
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Nancy Moran awarded the 2017 Molecular Ecology Prize
The 2017 Molecular Ecology Prize will go to Professor Nancy Moran of the University of Texas at Austin. The Prize is awarded by the Editorial Board of Molecular Ecology to recognize “an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to … Continue reading
Posted in Coevolution, community, evolution, microbiology, Molecular Ecology, the journal
Tagged Molecular Ecology Prize, Nancy Moran
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Friday action item: An awful budget, now with detail
On Fridays while the current administration is in office we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? E-mail us! There’s a detailed Federal budget proposal out this week, … Continue reading
Posted in Action Item, funding, NIH, NSF, politics, United States
Tagged budget proposal
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The last of us, Ph.D.
I hear tell that there’s another movie in the Alien franchise in theaters, which makes this a fine opportunity to revisit the beauty and stupidity of the last one, Prometheus. In that previous instalment, we watched people who were, allegedly, … Continue reading