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Author Archives: Jeremy Yoder
Friday Action Item: Visit a natural history museum
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 weekend, take a break from the news, if … Continue reading
Population genomics in the "melting pot"
North America is full of new arrivals. Europeans colonized the continent starting half a millennium ago, displaced and eradicated native populations, and brought enslaved workers from Africa with them — and further immigrants have followed ever since. This mass movement … Continue reading
Friday Action Item: Remind your Senators to vote against Scott Pruitt
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! It’s been almost a full month since the inauguration … Continue reading
Friday Action Item: Time for another round of Donors Choosing
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 week the U.S. Senate approved Donald Trump’s nominee … Continue reading
Friday Action Item: Get ready to #MarchForScience
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! It’s been an exhausting two weeks. Since Donald Trump … Continue reading
The seeds of speciation
You don’t have to get very far into an evolution textbook before you bump into Darwin’s finches, the birds descended from South American finches that colonized the Galapagos Islands and “radiated” into an array of different species, each with a … Continue reading
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Tagged crossbill, lodgepole pine
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Saturday action item: March for science
While the current administration is in office we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better, every Friday. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? E-mail us! Today was the inauguration. Tomorrow, millions of people around … Continue reading
Friday action item: Put your Members of Congress on speed-dial
While the current administration is in office we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better, every Friday. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? E-mail us! The new Congress is just getting started, and its … Continue reading
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For these birds, isolation-by-distance is (almost) all in the family
Isolation by distance is one of the most fundamental processes of molecular ecology. In any finite population, the frequency of a genetic variant will change from generation to generation due to random sampling effects, which we call genetic drift. In … Continue reading
Friday Action Item: Science
Now that we’ve posted a few of these Action Items, I want to step back and add an important caveat to this idea of small things to do in the wake of a devastating political reversal. These posts are intended … Continue reading
Posted in Action Item, community, politics, United States
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