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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉

@seananderson.bsky.social

Assistant Prof at Georgia Tech. Computational biology 🤝 field biology. Evolutionary ecology 🤝 evolutionary genetics. Thinking about how one species splits into two. https://seanasanderson.github.io/ | Views mine

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Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 2d ago

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 2w ago

Billionaire logic is that it makes more sense to terraform Mars rather than to stop venusifying Earth, and that it is a better strategy to build underground bunkers than to make the whole planet a better place to live for everyone.

Kate Wong@katewong.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today at 10 AM EDT Sotheby's will start the live bidding on its natural history auction featuring one of the largest, most complete skeletons of T. rex ever found. It could fetch $30M+ and go to a private collector. Here's what science--and the public--stand to lose. My story for @wired.com 🧪

Sotheby’s Big T. Rex Auction Raises Concerns Hype and Wealth Are Upending Science

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. That’s making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past.

wired.com

Tom Near@tjnear.bsky.social · 4w ago

🧵 1/11New paper alert! One of two out today from #NearLab Ever heard of the Holiday Darter? These beautiful freshwater fish are hiding a big biodiversity secret in the rivers of Georgia, Alabama, & Tennessee and new genomic data is revealing it. A thread 👇

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Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last mo.

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

Kevin Bennett@kevinfpbennett.bsky.social · last mo.

My paper with @davetoews.bsky.social was featured in the cover story for the latest issue of Living Bird magazine @cornellbirds.bsky.social. Check out the lovely accompanying artwork, too. Well-told by @rheisman.bsky.social.

When Evolution Painted Warblers Yellow

Millions of years ago, rare hybridization events ignited the genetic sparks that contributed to the bright yellow colors of some birds in the modern wood-warbler family.

allaboutbirds.org

Milton Tan@mtanichthys.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy to see the new publication of our study on the Ironcolor Shiner and understanding its genetic diversity using population genomics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unique genetic diversity and differential demographics revealed in peripheral populations of a North American minnow, the Ironcolor Shiner (Alburnops chalybaeus) - Conservation Genetics

Peripheral and disjunct populations are often the result of historic geological changes in the landscape and because of the long temporal span of colonization or vicariance, they are often genetically...

link.springer.com

Benjamin Freeman@benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

fantastic! @jameststroud.bsky.social doing it Georgia Tech style - collabs with engineering + computer science expertise to turbocharge ecological studies.

James T. Stroud@jameststroud.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Two new preprints from my lab, both putting computer science approaches to work for ecology & evolution 🦎 Each tackles the same old bottleneck — turning huge piles of digital images into usable data — and each is a free, open-source web tool you can actually use 🎉 Quick threads on both below 🧵