| lab website | www.guinwogan.com |
| job | Assistant Professor |
| pronouns | she/her |
TL;DR. ChatGPT, can you summarize?
"Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research"
by Peters and Chin-Yee (2025, RSOS)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241776
New publication out 🆕 📤
"No evidence of transposable element bursts in the Galápagos Scalesia adaptive radiation despite hybridization, diversification and ecological niche shifts"
https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13100-025-00362-z
🔍 Despite rapid speciation, niche shifts, & hybridization, we found no significant TE accumulation differences across species or hybrids.
🌵 Even in arid-adapted lineages—where genome downsizing may be expected—TEs didn’t decline.
#TransposableElements #Speciation #AdaptiveRadiation #Genomics
#Jackrabbits with higher variability in color #genes may be better prepared for snow loss due to #climate change.
#evolution #phenotypic_variance
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-jackrabbits-higher-variability-genes-loss.html
A team of climate scientists and biologists from Universidade do Porto, in Portugal, working with colleagues from the University of Montana and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, both in the U.S., has found that jackrabbits living in mountainous areas, such as the Rockies, that have higher variability in color genes may be better prepared for snow loss due to climate change. In their study, reported in the journal Science, the group compared coat color variability and genetic predisposition in white-tailed jackrabbits living at different elevations.
World: Can the US please just use the metric system, instead of making up weird measurements no one else understands
US:
From insects to birds to bats to frogs, little loudmouths have found ingenious ways to deliver their messages at high volume 🐛 🦇 🐸
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.
Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.
Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.
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