Thomas Bataillon

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Population geneticist @AArhus University,

The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evl3.308

New @EvolLetters by John Kelly.

📷: Julius Mojica

Looking for a new PhD student on project “Modelling temporal genome evolution in experimental microbiomes” (DEADLINE is Aug 1).
Project is in collaboration with Isabel Gordo (IGC, Oeiras, Portugal)

Read more here on the project & how to apply:

https://phd.nat.au.dk/for-applicants/open-calls/august-2023/modelling-temporal-genome-evolution-in-experimental-microbiomes#c166398

 🦠 🐭 🧬 #EvolnHi #microbiome #genome #EvolutionaryBiology

Modelling temporal genome evolution in experimental microbiomes

Demographic History Inference and the Polyploid Continuum
A neat paper ...by @RyanGutenkunst and coworkers
https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyad107
pendingpublications

Pending Publication

A Selective Bottleneck During Host Entry Drives the Evolution of New Legume Symbionts https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad116 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
Selective Bottleneck During Host Entry Drives the Evolution of New Legume Symbionts

Abstract. During the emergence of new host–microbe symbioses, microbial fitness results from the ability to complete the different steps of symbiotic life cycle

OUP Academic

Ultra-realistic simulations of 1.4 million human genomes generated by using a detailed pedigree of French Canadians as input to #msprime! These simulations are hugely useful for large-scale genomics methods development, because they are freely available, easy to download (2.8G for chr1), and efficient to process using #tskit. I hope they will become a standard benchmark across all sorts of methods.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5300

Scientific illustrator Mark Balen of @artscistudios has a wonderful new infographic out: The Global Biomass of Mammalian Life

And Earth is full of cows. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/biomass-of-mammals/ #SharedPlanet

Visualizing the Biomass of All the World’s Mammals

When the world's biomass—the stuff we're made of—is tallied up, humans and cattle outweigh wild mammals by a massive margin.

Visual Capitalist

I really enjoyed talking with the crew at 'The Politics of Everything' for this podcast. Had no idea until it posted today that Ted Chiang was also interviewed!

https://newrepublic.com/article/172454/great-ai-hallucination-chatgpt

The Great A.I. Hallucination

Is the hype (and doomsaying) around generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT obscuring what the technology actually does—and its genuine limitations and dangers?

The New Republic

Join us for an engaging community webinar on the latest updates and developments in eDNA and GBIF's new data model! 🧬

Hear from expert speakers and engage in discussions on the future of eDNA data publishing.
🗓️ Save the date: 8 JUN 2023 at 15h (UTC+2). #eDNA #GBIFNewDataModel

✍️ https://www.gbif.org/event/27AZfLbRYUIStXi6zsbdPd

New data model: Exploring eDNA data

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data.

I can't recommend this short #film enough.

The Great Simplification - Film on energy, environment, and our future.

"We're all alive during the #carbon pulse" 🛢️ ⛽

We are draining Earth's "energy battery" 🔋 millions of times faster than it was trickle charged by photosynthesis ☀️ 🌳. https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/animations

#history #future #FossilFuels #EnergyBlind #GDP #power

#wisdom #sustainability #degrowth #EnergyEfficency

#biology #psychology #tribalism
#behaviors

#consumption #AI

Animated Series | The Great Simplification

The Great Simplification

Really nice opinion piece from Kelley Harris on the recent ARG needle paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01389-9

Using enormous genealogies to map causal variants in space and time - Nature Genetics

A new method infers huge gene trees and tests the tree branches for phenotypic associations. This improves power to map the effects of rare variants that are missing from genotype arrays and imputation panels.

Nature