I cannot express how humbling it is to be joining the PBS lineup. So much great programming highlighting so many climate and environmental issues. Working with Day'sEdgeProductions on this series has been incredible. Keep an eye out for #HumanFootprint, premiering this July on PBS!

Here is the description of the symposium that Georg Hochberg and I are organizing at #SMBE23! ShihLab and [email protected] will be speaking. Please share with friends across disciplines, and send in your abstracts at smbe2023.org

Check out our new paper! We looked at migration timing and genomics in purple martins across North America. Thank you to collaborators Matt Thorstensen, Kevin Fraser, Kira Delmore, Alexander Suh 서상재! doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively. A list for those who write code: 1 of 16

joe biden has really messed up big time

The results of the world’s largest trial of a 4-day week (with no loss of pay) are out: ▪️ No drop in revenue ▪️ 65% fewer sick days ▪️ 71% less burnout ▪️ 92% of companies decide to keep the policy after the trial The conclusion is clear: we need a shorter working week.

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Elephantbird egg DNA!!

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Effects of lampricides on the gill and liver transcriptomes of a non-target teleost fish. New paper relevant for GLFC in the Great Lakes. Great work by @mjlawrence27 and Phil Grayson!! Margaret Docker Colin Garroway Jennifer Jeffrey sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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🐙 ALERT! So when you put an octopus in cold water it recodes 13,000 codons (1/3 of all recoding sites!) via massive RNA editing in the brain!! And this apparently alters the function of synaptic proteins! 🤯🤯🤯 That’s insane (but not for the octopus) cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

These clips are two of the best pieces of writing advice you will ever get about writing on the internet. I promise. It is so good we show it to our newsletter students. 1st: Most of us should write to help ourselves think.

The day has FINALLY come!!! I'm so excited to share this series with everyone tonight! Tune in at 9pm EST for the first episode of #HumanFootprint!

Y’all…some folks at NASA and NASA JPL started wandering the halls telling people I had cancer and collecting mission patches and pins and stickers and posters (not pictured) and sent them as part of a huge care package 😭

Ever heard about crazy hairworms that infect insects and make them jump into water so the worm can get out and find mates? Well, we sequenced the first genomes of this entire phylum of animals, and learned that they are even weirder than we thought! 1/N tinyurl.com/hairworm-genom…

🧵(1/10) I don't think many North-easterners know how close we are to completing a life-changing piece of cycling infrastructure. But once I found out, it completely captured my imagination. So I had to map it out and make this thread to share what I've learned.

First patient dosed with Beam-201! 💫 globenewswire.com/news-release/2…