Now a Featured article in the September issue of #G3
(@genetics-gsa.bsky.social)

academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

Help needed! Does anyone know of a lab that has glass (pigmentless) guppies? We are interested in getting them for a project

Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!!

Please spread the word and apply!

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591

Applications for the @sfiscience.bsky.social Santa Fe Institute's amazing Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships, including the Omidyar Fellowships, are now open. The deadline for applications is September 30th.

Thrilled to have my first thesis chapter published in @currentbiology.bsky.social!

We combine genomics, gene editing, and performance experiments to reveal the genetic basis and functional consequences of hurricane-induced trait shifts in island lizards!

Check it out:
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

The prestigious Miller Research Postdoctoral Fellowship is open!

University of California, Berkeley

This is a postdoc fellowship with substantial support and independence to be hosted at a lab at Berkeley, reach out with interests!

miller.berkeley.edu/nominate-app...

This is the key. Thinking up new ideas is never the bottleneck - it's all the institutional slow downs: Grants take years, purchasing approvals, sponsored projects office need so many docs & let's not forget how long it takes our animals to breed.

AI doesn't solve the most important bottlenecks

Everyone says AI will accelerate science. I don't think it will -- at least not in biology, and at least not soon.

New post where I explain why, and how the productivity paradox can be resolved:

blekhman.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...

I love cephalopods. Also this is a fun book.

Entered a Claude Science/Code hackathon last minute and snagged 3rd place for a pigmentation gene network project.

And I have some thoughts on the whole “is AI replacing scientists or is it slop?”-dichotomy

open.substack.com/pub/tinalasi...

First major paper from the lab! The work was led by super talented postdoc Maria Akopyan. She explored how reference bias skews estimates of diversity, demography, divergence & recombination rate with help from @elliecat.bsky.social
& awesome ungrad Matthew. Full thread coming soon 🤓