Working on a manuscript I hadn't touched in months and apparently I am perfectly able to hallucinate citations without AI's help
Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler
@rejectresubmit.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | phylogenomics, genome evolution | EIC at Frontiers in Posting
Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!
Excited to share some positive updates: I successfully defended my dissertation, and have accepted a postdoctoral position starting this fall at University of Rochester. I'll be working with Mark Hibbins (@rejectresubmit.bsky.social). A big thank you to everyone who has helped me on this journey!
PI life is all about deciding which thing you want to fall behind on this week
We've inherited Allen Orr's chalkboard
I think it's so funny that the GSA meeting for C. elegans is just called "Worm Meeting". Like hello we are gathered today to discuss Worms
Please don't be mean to Canadians we actually don't like breathing wildfire smoke either
Stay healthy with Nurgle, the Plague Lord
going beast mode. doing bayesian phylogenetics
I still think the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference is the funniest thing that's ever happened
I have to do a lecture on Bayesian Inference so it is finally time for me to understand Bayesian Inference
High key might have to hit up Botany next year
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last mo.SAVE THE DATE! #Botany2027 is heading to Buffalo, NY, July 31-August 4, 2027! Lake Erie shoreline, Niagara Falls nearby, and a rich variety of native flora await. Get ready to shuffle off to Buffalo with your botanical science community! More details soon. #IamaBotanist #BotanistsinBuffalo
Why is it so difficult for Microsoft Word to remember which font I am using
Starting the work week off strong with a manuscript rejection 😤
reporting in that cleveland has good tacos now
Trying this new thing where I deal with my fatigue by exposing myself to the sun instead of consuming more caffeine
Been thinking/wondering about this more recently!
Horizontal gene transfer is widespread in diverse eukaryotes - BMC Genomics
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transfer of genetic material between distantly related organisms. Although HGT is a pervasive mechanism of genetic exchange among prokaryotes, gene transfer event...
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Flying west to east when you're a natural night owl is just brutal. I had basically no jet lag in California but I've been back home for 4 days and still don't feel fully recovered lol
This was only possible because of congestion pricing
It's extremely funny that the only game the Knicks lost in the finals was the one Trump attended
For anyone else at #PEQG26 who might be confused, the "fireside pavilion" where the poster sessions are happening is parking lot D on your map
Traversing hundreds of miles of desert and then reaching the California coast must have felt like finding the Garden of Eden
I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here: mhibbins.github.io I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
Hibbins Lab
mhibbins.github.io