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Greg Owens

@gregowens.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Victoria. Plant genomics and plant genomics jokes

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Greg Owens@gregowens.bsky.social · last mo.

It feels a bit anticlimactic in the end, but I'm happy to announce that I'm now an associate professor! I would say I'm updating my email signature, but I never got around to making one in the first place.

Greg Owens@gregowens.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m always impressed with the cool genomics stories coming out of Wes’ lab. This would be cool job for facilitating genomics on a scale beyond most academic labs

Wes Larson@wes-larsonak.bsky.social · last mo.

We're hiring a genetics lab manager position at NOAA in Juneau, Alaska! The successful candidate will oversee day-to-day laboratory operations and contribute to the development of new molecular methods. Salary is $75-145k/yr. Email wes.larson@noaa.gov with questions www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewD...

Rachel Nuwer@rachelnuwer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

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Greg Owens@gregowens.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Does anyone know of a method for testing GO enrichment in the context of the genome structure? For example, I have a highly significant GO category because my significant windows hit a cluster of 8 copies of a gene family. I could do a permutation, but seems like there must be a better way.

Justin Merondun@merondun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6

Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos

Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-ad...

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Greg Owens@gregowens.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I want to highlight the weirdest neighbourhood in Greater Victoria. In Langford, if you take exit #15 you enter a 6-lane road surrounded by a classic mix of strip malls and big box stores. Nestled of all of this, accessible only through a parking lot, is a small street of 16 single family homes.

Google maps of neighbourhood in langford
Tyler Kent@tylervkent.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social! We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Demographic history, genetic load, and the efficacy of selection in the globally invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti

Abstract. Aedes aegypti is the main vector species of yellow fever, dengue, Zika and chikungunya. The species is originally from Africa but has experienced

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Greg Owens@gregowens.bsky.social · last yr.

Does anyone have an insight into why overhead rates are so different between US and Canada? Canadian rates are generally around 25%. Is it that Canada just provides more government base funding so they can accept lower overhead rates?

Per Ahlberg@perahlberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

An intriguing new evolutionary story has just dropped, from my friend and colleague Leif Andersson: a discrete population of large predatory herring in the Baltic Sea, apparently in the process of evolving into a new species. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolution of fast-growing piscivorous herring in the young Baltic Sea - Nature Communications

The Atlantic herring is one of the world’s most abundant vertebrates and a typical plankton feeder of major ecological importance. This study shows that a piscivorous (fish-eating) ecotype of herring ...

nature.com

Darren Irwin (he / him)@darrenirwin.bsky.social · 2y ago

OK folks this is my first announcement of a lab publication on Bluesky: Congrats to PhD Candidate Rashika Ranasinghe on today's publication of her paper "Cryptic Hybridization Dynamics in a Three-Way Hybrid Zone of Dinopium Flamebacks on a Tropical Island." Happy holidays! doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Cryptic Hybridization Dynamics in a Three‐Way Hybrid Zone of Dinopium Flamebacks on a Tropical Island

This study explores population divergence and hybridization dynamics across the golden-backed (Dinopium benghalense) and red-backed (D. psarodes) flameback woodpecker hybrid zone in Sri Lanka. The ge...

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Jeff Spence@jeffspence.github.io · 2y ago

What do GWAS and rare variant burden tests discover, and why? Do these studies find the most IMPORTANT genes? If not, how DO they rank genes? Here we present a surprising result: these studies actually test for SPECIFICITY! A 🧵on what this means... (🧪🧬) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Specificity, length, and luck: How genes are prioritized by rare and common variant association studies

Standard genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and rare variant burden tests are essential tools for identifying trait-relevant genes. Although these methods are conceptually similar, we show by anal...

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