"The importance of a model is choosing one that allows you to address the question that you’re setting out to address." Sage advice from Prof. Judith Eisen (University of Oregon), Pioneer of Zebrafish Research & 2024 George Streisinger Award Winner. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

I am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com

Sometimes there is no better way to get to know an author except by their musical tastes. ICB co author, Tara Cronin, has the perfect playlist for lab work and even the drive home. integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/a... & read doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #science #music

New issue of #PhilTransB: Ecological #epigenetics at the intersection of behaviour and life history variation in non-model animals. Read #OA: buff.ly/6v4pqCo

Lineage-specific change in craniofacial genetic networks of syngnathid fishes revealed by integrating multiomics across fishes #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.738491v1

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Plasma signals of lung tumor promotion for molecular cancer prevention

A 14-protein plasma signature identifies individuals benefiting from anti-IL-1β-based lung cancer risk reduction and demonstrates how diverse tumor-promoting factors converge on the induction of an al...

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An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

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I have a set of inspirational sayings to guide my days. I have another.

One of my favorite days of the year- Undergraduate Research Symposium at @uoregon.bsky.social - Thousands of bright future (and current) problem solvers.

Watching a great talk by @marakat.bsky.social

mara lawniczak (@marakat.bsky.social)

senior group leader @sangerinstitute. evolutionary geneticist malaria & biodiversity. lifetime member of darwin's posse. obsessive tidepooler. hearts cephalopods. our lab leads the Malaria Cell Atlas...

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If you’re considering an EV here’s our testimonial. We just paid off the 5 year loan and I decided to calculate the amount in repairs and maintenance during that time. A whopping $0. We did replace the front tires, but that makes sense given that it’s about 50k miles now.

Whoa—machine learning strikes again (in a good way) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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A little R&R at a great treehouse (truly a treehouse) in White Salmon for a couple of days. Coffee and a beautiful view of Mt. Adams this morning.

In 2012 I received a $50k grant from the Murdock Foundation to build our computer cluster Genome that @jcatchen.bsky.social helped me build. After years of faithful service, dozens of papers and countless trainees using it we flipped the main power off to it for the last time.

Visit to OSU for a grad student defense and ran into a familiar face in the stairwell of Nash Hall!

Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/s...

Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch

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snputils (snputils.org): A High-Performance Python Library for Genetic Variation and Population Structure www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/AI-sandbox/s...

Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB). Hundreds of kids ready to match their reading chops. So cool.

Nice talk in the IE2 seminar series at UO about carbon in soils by @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social from Oregon State.

SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Nominations are open to the annual 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲! The award recognizes the work of outstanding scientists for their contribution to the field of molecular ecology. Nominations are due on 𝟮𝟰 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts! careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

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I was sad to learn that my postdoctoral mentor, David Botstein, died yesterday. I started with David as a postdoc in 1998, and he had a profound effect on both my life and scientific career. He was a giant in the field of genetics, making seminal contributions in both yeast and human genetics. 1/

We are all Claude.

Shakshuka.

Several thousand patriots speaking up and protesting peacefully in downtown Eugene.

📡🧵 Excited to release an updated version of our preprint: Zebrahub-Multiome: Uncovering Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics During Zebrafish Embryogenesis 🧪🧬🖥️🐠 doi.org/10.1101/2024... A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!

PEQG! My favorite conference ever*. Single session, fantastic talks, great discussions. Only once every 2 years. And in the best conference location too! Abstract deadline coming up Feb 5! *Disclosure: I am required to say it's the best conference because it is and I told my mom I wouldn't lie.

Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

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