Interviewer: "Can you perform under pressure?"

Me: 'No, but I do a passable Bohemian Rhapsody'

Yesterday my salmonid genomics PhD student Paolo Moccetti passed his viva - congratulations! Thank you Jamie Stevens for externalling and Jon Bolland for being a fab co-supervisor. You can find Paolo's chapters in preprint/published here, and if he didn't already have a great job to go to, I would be recommending him for post docs :)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=jAmAZ-cAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

#fishsci #salmon #genomics #BrownTrout #EvolutionaryBiology
@EvoHull #PanoramaDTP #NERC

1) New paper out! Alternative reproductive tactics and evolutionary rescue—do low-condition males that acquire matings by other means affect the rate of adaptation? Intuitively you'd think yes: some of these males will have poor condition because of maladaptive alleles or a high mutational load, so if the alternative tactic increase the input of their genes into the next generation that should be A Bad Thing

https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qrae010/7630433?searchresult=1

Tonight while out on my walk, I came upon a small snake, belly up and silver in the moonlight.

At first, I did not realize it was a snake at all. It was glinting like the thick chain of a snapped necklace. I went to pick it up, and two seconds before I touched it, I realized what it was and pulled back to investigate more carefully with a little distance. It’s in perfect shape, so I’m not sure how it met its end, except that we had a heavy rain earlier today and it may have drowned. 1/

I am very happy to share with you our latest publication:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 ✨𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬✨ 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥-𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐬.

https://academic.oup.com/isd/article/7/5/3/7310975?login=false
#gall #wasp #insects #venom #spooky
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