I did all my RNA extractions today for an RNAseq project. Another step closer!

Great talk this morning from @levine_lab about genetic conflict in Drosophila with telomere-specialized retrotransposons. Made me nostalgic for my time in the Malik lab! #evol2018

Deer mice are a model for studying the evolution of many fascinating traits. See below. #UnscienceAnAnimal #evolution This was a collaborative effort by The Hoekstra Lab! Thanks @AndiKautt Jean-Marc Lassance Brock Wooldridge @Felix_Baier @nickjourjine @oliviameyerson

Welcome Rick McLaughlin Lab aka The McLaughlin Lab to Twitter, joining Malik lab alumni including Nels Elde Nitin Phadnis @levine_lab SaraH Zanders 🎃💀 Matt Daugherty @drinnenb (missing Sara Sawyer-CU Boulder, Maulik Patel- Vanderbilt)

A huge congratulations to an impactful mentor and scientist! Harmit S. Malik

Spotted this little specimen on display a couple weeks ago while visiting the Fish and Wildlife Services office near Oravando, MT. I was out for a film shoot as part of the IWFF Labs program.

Caught this squirrel rolling around in the dirt on campus and being cute. But don’t let the gray squirrels cute appearance fool you, they can actually be deceptive! If gray squirrels think they are being watched… instagram.com/p/BzIyoF0gJC-/…

Fifty years ago today the Apollo 11 mission launched and would go on to put the first humans on the moon. That’s really quite incredible!

A couple weeks ago I snapped this photo of an orchard spider tending her web.

I got married two weeks ago and these were the cake toppers I made for the wedding. I had to include a little study organism shout-out! #deermouse #nerd

Curiously, sea lions also have unique whisker pad patterns and patterns can potentially be used by conservationists for identification of individuals! #WorldLionDay #whiskers

Here is a little vignette of a Killdeer I filmed at my parent’s place. Allows me to practice a little filming and editing. Music by me. #killdeer #wildlifephotography

Been spending a lot of time in the lab working on whisker follicle histology. I was inspired to do a little self-portrait. #whiskerswednesday

Just because we do not have all the answers does not mean that those answers do not exist. They may just be yet unexplained. Lessons from bumblebees.

Ring-tailed lemurs live on the island of Madagascar and while they are deft climbers, they spend a lot of time on the ground. They mainly eat fruit and live in small groups called troops. The IUCN currently list them as vulnerable. #conservation #inktober2019 #ring

Beavers are industrious rodents who will build wooden dams from logs and sticks to block streams and transform the landscape into large ponds!

A short video I made of some of the wonderful creatures found at the New England Aquarium.

First morning at the Statistical Genetics UW summer institute! We had a good discussion on probability and prob distributions. #sumrinst

Why is environmental sex determination so rare, and sex chromosomes so common? Our paper now out in NatureEcoEvo! With Carl Veller rdcu.be/EL5w

It’s Darwin’s birthday! Like him, I too am interested in biological diversity and its origins. I am a grad student who studies the genetic and functional basis of forest adaptations in deer mice. #Istudyevolution