Ricardo Azevedo
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September 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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🚨Our new preprint is out! 🤩
🌟 Mutation rates vary widely across taxa, and decades of research have sought to explain why.
♀️♂️ Reproductive modes, and evolutionary shifts between them, could help explain some of this variation.
❓ So what does the evidence tell us?
👀 Read our preprint to find out!
🌟 Mutation rates vary widely across taxa, and decades of research have sought to explain why.
♀️♂️ Reproductive modes, and evolutionary shifts between them, could help explain some of this variation.
❓ So what does the evidence tell us?
👀 Read our preprint to find out!
Reproductive mode and the evolution of mutation rate
doi.org
September 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
🚨Our new preprint is out! 🤩
🌟 Mutation rates vary widely across taxa, and decades of research have sought to explain why.
♀️♂️ Reproductive modes, and evolutionary shifts between them, could help explain some of this variation.
❓ So what does the evidence tell us?
👀 Read our preprint to find out!
🌟 Mutation rates vary widely across taxa, and decades of research have sought to explain why.
♀️♂️ Reproductive modes, and evolutionary shifts between them, could help explain some of this variation.
❓ So what does the evidence tell us?
👀 Read our preprint to find out!
"He also intended to leave $5 million to Martin Nowak, a Harvard University math professor Mr. Epstein was friendly with for years. Mr. Nowak, whose name was misspelled in the document, did not return an email request seeking comment."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...
Epstein’s Trust Reveals Who Would Inherit His Fortune
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:24 AM
"He also intended to leave $5 million to Martin Nowak, a Harvard University math professor Mr. Epstein was friendly with for years. Mr. Nowak, whose name was misspelled in the document, did not return an email request seeking comment."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...
UH Biology & Biochemistry out in force...
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 AM
UH Biology & Biochemistry out in force...
French 75. Happy new year!
January 1, 2026 at 12:57 AM
French 75. Happy new year!
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Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
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If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
Trump during his Thanksgiving call with service members: "We're ordered a lot of Coast Guard cutters. Brand new, beautiful, the best machines in the world. I'm a looks person. I wanted the hull to be perfect. You know, I sort of redesigned the hull a little bit. The hulls. But we ordered a lot."
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
Closed Canyon, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas.
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Closed Canyon, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas.
A new scam. (For me…)
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A new scam. (For me…)
Turn of phrase of the day: truffling thuggishly www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling
He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholi...
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Turn of phrase of the day: truffling thuggishly www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4 #smbc
October 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4 #smbc
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HOLD UP. George Santos is the lead story on the @nytimes.com website on Saturday night? Not the millions of Americans protesting Donald Trump today at 2,700 events in all 50 states? Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
HOLD UP. George Santos is the lead story on the @nytimes.com website on Saturday night? Not the millions of Americans protesting Donald Trump today at 2,700 events in all 50 states? Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...
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Some of my favorite signs of the day. No Kings!
October 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Some of my favorite signs of the day. No Kings!
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About 1,000 people lined the edges of Watson Park and spilled throughout the surrounding sidewalks of downtown Lawrence today to protest what they argue is an overreach of power by the Trump administration. lawrenceks.news/4ovnfAM
Hundreds push back against authoritarianism at second No Kings protest in Lawrence
About 1,000 people lined the edges of Watson Park and spilled throughout the surrounding sidewalks of downtown Lawrence on Saturday to protest what they argue is an overreach of power by the Trump adm...
lawrenceks.news
October 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
About 1,000 people lined the edges of Watson Park and spilled throughout the surrounding sidewalks of downtown Lawrence today to protest what they argue is an overreach of power by the Trump administration. lawrenceks.news/4ovnfAM
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And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
October 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
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We planned a trip to Point Reyes 6 months ago but didn't want to miss the protests today. Luckily we were able to join the #NoKings protest in Point Reyes Station! The turnout of 500+ was approximately the size of the town
October 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We planned a trip to Point Reyes 6 months ago but didn't want to miss the protests today. Luckily we were able to join the #NoKings protest in Point Reyes Station! The turnout of 500+ was approximately the size of the town
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October 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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No Kings protest, Houston, TX 10/18/25. Pretty good turnout I'd say 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy looks like!
October 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
No Kings protest, Houston, TX 10/18/25. Pretty good turnout I'd say 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy looks like!
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Houston ..crowd building at Discovery Green ..then 12.30 heads to City Hall for the 2 pm protest , and another march
October 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Houston ..crowd building at Discovery Green ..then 12.30 heads to City Hall for the 2 pm protest , and another march
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No Kings-Houston, TX
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
No Kings-Houston, TX
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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“This year’s award comes at a time when funding for scientific research is under threat in the US…. “It’s a very timely message when we’re seeing the US undermining so much of its science base,” says Coyle. Aghion said, “Openness is a driver of growth. I see dark clouds accumulating.”
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
go.nature.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“This year’s award comes at a time when funding for scientific research is under threat in the US…. “It’s a very timely message when we’re seeing the US undermining so much of its science base,” says Coyle. Aghion said, “Openness is a driver of growth. I see dark clouds accumulating.”