Took my frustration with current OMB/OSTP proposals and turned it into an op-ed for my hometown newspaper! Here's my better-late-than-never contribution to the #McClintockLetters: herald-zeitung.com/opinion/morr...

MORRISON: Federal funding brought me from Canyon H.S. to cancer research – cuts threaten the next generation

Cuts to federal funding for American science are disrupting research, halting clinical trials, and imperiling the next generation of scientists. As a scientist and a proud graduate of Texas schools,

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SFI is a blast and I have so enjoyed my first of three years on this fellowship. Please share with the quantitative, interdisciplinary, early-career researchers in your circles!

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Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes: www.aurorasaurus.org

Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up

Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!

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Northern lights over Santa Fe!

My little brother made the coolest thing you'll see all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULpN...

Procedurally Generating Infinite Marble Runs — Marble Fountain

YouTube video by Will Morrison

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How is functional variation at large-effect loci maintained in natural populations, even as environments change? In a paper led by @mkarag.bsky.social, we tracked known pesticide resistant alleles in outdoor 𝘋. 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 cages & inferred selection and dominance from temporal sequencing data.

Rank-choice voting AND a roadrunner sticker? NM has voting figured out.

1/9 Excited to share the preprint for the second half of my PhD with @mollyschumer.bsky.social: Connecting human environmental impacts to hybridization in swordtail fish through genomics, GIS, water chemistry, and histology. Thread below! #SciSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Increased rates of hybridization in swordtail fish are associated with water pollution

Biodiversity loss can occur when disturbance compromises the reproductive barriers between species, causing them to collapse into a single population through hybridization. Recent research has documen...

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🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him

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"The silence from the leaders of our university—at least in public—suggests the assault has already produced the intended chilling effect, but together we can overcome it." Good read from Stanford History profs Jessica Riskin and Priya Satia. stanforddaily.com/2025/03/17/i...

From the Community | Is it 1984 in 2025?

Stanford’s leadership must join with other universities to stand up and fight for American higher education, write Professors Riskin and Satia.

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1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I've been tremendously fortunate to work with @ksxue.bsky.social during her time as a postdoc at Stanford. She's not only a brilliant scientist and an excellent mentor/collaborator, but also a wonderful human being. You should totally join her lab!

Katherine Xue@ksxue.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n

I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines

Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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It's been easy to feel powerless these past few months, but the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in SF this afternoon was an important reminder that the fight is not over!

Today's small joy was discovering the latex package "etaremune," which you can use in place of "enumerate" to count in reverse

I'm stoked to be at #SMBE2024! If you're interested in variability/diversity, microbiomes, and/or non-traditional applications of FST, I would love to chat! Poster Weds #44, title: Quantifying the stability of microbiomes and the timescale of antibiotic perturbation with FAVA

Just bought some science stamps! Now we only need a theory edition... store.usps.com/store/produc...

It's conference application season! We in the Rosenberg Lab recently assembled a list of conferences and I thought it could be helpful for other folks doing theoretical population biology. List is below -- feel free to add any we missed!

my work on cultural evolution and transmission biases in chess is out today in Proceedings B! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... humsci.stanford.edu/feature/stud...

Study reveals how cultural factors influence chess move choice

A new Stanford study that used population and statistical models to analyze 3.45 million chess games by master players reveals how cultural biases can influence

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I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"

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Today I contacted authors of three papers asking them to share data with me. I wasn't optimistic after seeing various Twitter horror stories, but I've received two kind, helpful, generous replies in just a few hours! Cheers to reproducibility!