Vivek MutalikJan 19, 2023

Quantifying the local #adaptive landscape of a nascent bacterial community

#tnseq #evolutionarypaths
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35677-5

Quantifying the local adaptive landscape of a nascent bacterial community - Nature Communications

Fitness landscapes largely shape the dynamics of evolution, but it is unclear how they shift upon ecological diversification. By engineering genome-wide knockout libraries of a nascent bacterial community, Ascensao et al. show how ecological and epistatic patterns combine to shape adaptive landscapes.

Nature
personallyDec 21, 2022

Landing on the Wrong Note
Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203901007

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, “Landing on the Wrong Note” goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.

#jazz #music #criticaltheory #requiredreading #culturalpractice #dissonance #WyntonMarsalis #evolutionarypaths #thoughtprovoking #adventurous #newdirections #scholarship #improvisedmusic #socialchange #culturalchange #politicalchange

Landing on the Wrong Note | Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice |

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz

Taylor & Francis