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Paula Adams, PhD

@peadams.bsky.social

Postdoc in biology education PhD in bioinformatics and genome evolution #firstgen | she/her/hers | Roll Tide 🐘

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Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

Auburn Board Takes Curricular Control, Dissolves Senate

The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.

insidehighered.com

Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH@socialepi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years. #AcademicSky

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty - Nature Human Behaviour

Studying socioeconomic backgrounds and intergenerational transmission in the US academia, Morgan et al. find that faculty have a parent with a Ph.D. degree a striking 25 times more often than the gene...

nature.com

Micah@rincewind.run · 10mo ago

like basically everyone who works in software I embody this tweet and do not under any circumstances want to talk to my computer

Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize.
Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

There are a bunch of people who are live in western Alaska showing the flooding. It's calming down, but dang... I haven't heard much from Kotzebue. This one is Bethel: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTH74wUUXq...

Smith Bee Lab@smithbeelab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝 - Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date) - 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026) No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply! (no jerks, plz)

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Matt Rockman@wormsrock.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Surprisingly, the phylogeny implies (equivocally, to be sure) that the Elegans Supergroup of species, which includes C. elegans, is derived from American ancestors, and that a lot of the groups diversification may have taken place in Oceania, prior to subsequent invasions of Asia.

Biogeographic ancestral area reconstruction, with pie-charts at the nodes of a phylogeny indicating estimated marginal probabilities for each region. This phylogeny excludes a bunch of species whose distributions reflect human activity and whose pre-anthropogenic-movement distributions are unknown. The main result is that there's a lot of red (Oceania) in the deeper nodes of the Elegans Supergroup. There's other colors too, to be sure.
Matt Rockman@wormsrock.bsky.social · 11mo ago

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]