Reporting live from the season opener for Prospect Park’s hottest fallen tree; every turtle worth knowing is here and unless you’re on the list, you’re not getting in

**we had to wait an entire 8 months for a study to wrap up before we could properly clap back to this*

BUT A LOT OF STUFF GOES ON HERE. 🧵

BARKING NEWS and BREAKING NEWS

The Red Wolf Recovery Program recently announced the birth of a wild litter of red wolf pups!

I had a random guy pull out and show me a gull dichotomous key while birding

Draft PacBio genome assembly of Northern Dusky Salamander, a plethodontid with relatively small genome at 'only' 16 Gb 🧬🧬🧬🧬
By Myers & Pyron of Smithsonian NMNH California Academy of Sciences GW University
bioRxiv preprint here 👉🏽 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📸 vtherpatlas.org

For anyone interested in drawing phylogenetic trees, here’s a new free and powerful tree-drawing software application called TreeViewer. Available on Windows/macOS/Linux, it lets you transform phylogenetic trees, add layers, map data to branches, align text, and much more! 👇…

New Paper!: Hay 2 cosas en las que muchos colombianos estamos de acuerdo, que definen nuestro país, la biodiversidad y el café. Les voy a contar sobre nuestra investigación, donde estudiamos la relación de los cafetales sobre la diversidad de anfibios y reptiles #cienciacriolla 🧵

Clarke et al. Molecular Ecology 2024. 'Global assessment of effective population sizes: Consistent taxonomic differences in meeting the 50/500 rule'
An interesting read! #conservation #genetics
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

New paper where we look at variation in phylogeographic structure signal across the genome of the Brown Creeper:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1j1oL3m3nNE2…

Nice review on plant domestication; doi.org/10.1093/plcell…

New version (with the right family for sunflower...)

If you want to use it for a lesson, link to high res picture:
github.com/BjnNowak/TidyT…

#RStats code to create the treemap (edited with Figma):
github.com/BjnNowak/TidyT…

We are extremely excited to announce the 3rd edition of the EvoBio Crash Course! 🥳

We focus on providing a thorough course on the basics of #EvoBio and tips to build a career in the field directed to students from the Global South 💚

Register here: forms.gle/tJ9kaM9GsM86mx…

lol who did this

The new #ZooTraits R Shiny app explore animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary studies. Dive into a universe of over 23,000 species traits across multiple ecosystems and taxonomic groups, now more accessible than ever. (1/7) #Ecology #Evolution #OpenScience

Impressive findings: exposing lizards to smaller cane toads teaches them to avoid (lethal) encounters with invading adult toads. science.org/content/articl…

Does conservation work? Our paper by Re:wild shows that it does: a global analysis of 665 trials (incl. several by RSPB Science) found that conservation improved the state of biodiversity or slowed declines in two-thirds of cases BirdLife Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

LongcallR is a SNP caller for long RNA-seq reads. It uses phasing to distinguish germline SNPs from A-to-I editing events which are frequent in RNA-seq data. It achieves decent SNP accuracy and reports the phasing of reads and SNPs. In Rust!

Happy #DNA Day ! 🧬 This is one of my favourite pieces I made for Scientific American about genome sizes across select species. Was really fun to make this!

#science #DNA #genome #infographic #sciart #genomics #genetics #genes

🚨New Course klaxon🚨

Interested in Manual Genome Curation?

Join us in November to learn about manual genome curation using PretextView with Camilla Santos 🇧🇷 and Michael Paulini from the Wellcome Sanger Institute

physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…