Graham Coop

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Popgen @UCDavis @[email protected] . Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book https://github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases

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Shooting Stars roadside in North Park this afternoon (Primula pauciflora) 🌿

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Note also that being a US citizen from a socioeconomic disadvantaged background enables eligibility for this supplemental NIH funding, with clear definitions grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

US citizens or permanent residents from an under-represented group! You can contact any NIH-funded researcher you admire & suggest applying for this supplement to join their lab! High school thru postdoc/faculty. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

PA-23-189: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed)grants.nih.gov NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-23-189....

NOT-OD-20-031: Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversitygrants.nih.gov NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity NOT-OD-20-031. NIH

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The prolonged & intense Western U.S. heatwave continues. Last 2 weeks are now warmest late June through early July period on record across most of California (including some coastal areas), much of Arizona, parts of Nevada, and western Oregon. #CAwx #AZwx #NVwx #ORwx [1/2]

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Flamingo chicks for your timeline!

Happy birdday! The fabulous flamingo flock is 5 today 🦩

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Wow. "four out of 16 curators lost their jobs. Three other staff members in the division took voluntary buyouts, including the manager of the fish collection—one of the largest in the world.... One of the laid off curators had an endowed position"

California Academy of Sciences reeling from budget cuts

California Academy of Sciences reeling from budget cutswww.science.org A major natural history collection loses one-quarter of its curators

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My dept is hiring in Evolutionary Genomics psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Evolutionary Genomics Tenure Track Faculty Position in Biology Departmentpsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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We are on the look out for postdocs to join the Lieberman Lab at MIT. Areas include: -Connecting bacterial warfare to strain dynamics in vivo -Evolution and transmission of microbes in humans -Revisiting role of microbes in acne vulgaris Take a look at our recent preprints and reach out!

All the lab is off at SMBE so went up to the Sierras for the day. Nice to take a break from the valley heat at 7500 ft.

Coop Lab SMBE posters: 146-Mon Sam Snodgrass Maize and wild relatives show distinct patterns of genome downsizing following polyploidy 165-Wed James Kitchens Reconstructing the locations of genetic ancestors for a recombining sequence

Holy Moly. Davis ar 4pm (45C)

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Insights into gene conversion and crossing-over processes from long-read sequencing of human, chimpanzee and gorilla testes and sperm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.601967v1

Insights into gene conversion and crossing-over processes from long-read sequencing of human, chimpanzee and gorilla testes and sperm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.601967v1 www.biorxiv.org Homologous recombination rearranges genetic information during meiosis to generate new combinations

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Evolutionary new centromeres in the snowy owl genome putatively seeded from a transposable element https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.602039v1

Evolutionary new centromeres in the snowy owl genome putatively seeded from a transposable element https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.602039v1 www.biorxiv.org Comparative genomic studies in birds have revealed that bird genomes are relatively repeat-poor and

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Biding their time. At low tide, the voracious sea stars retreat to a wave-washed surge channel, but their high-tide ferocity is evident in the bare zone on the shore above them. 🌊⭐️🍽️ #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌿

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Nothing says #July4 like a juicy slice of watermelon. This delicious fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 lbs. It's 100+ degrees in Bakersfield today. Can you imagine harvesting them in high temps? #WeFeedYou

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Just cool natural history: encountered a large female dobsonfly at a gas station in Virginia just off an interstate highway. Larvae live in cool, fast, clean streams as aquatic predators ("hellgrammites"). [Yes, she could bite, but chose not to]

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest on recent papers and journal updates. ✅ Research on all areas of evolutionary biology ✅ Society-owned (Society for the Study of Evolution) ✅ Free publication for SSE members Read the latest papers and submit your research at academic.oup.com/evolut

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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.

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Denisovans lived for over 100,000 years on the Tibetan plateau, hunting snow leopards and golden eagles and other animals. Here's my story on these remarkable people [Gift link] 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/s...

How the Denisovans Survived the Ice Agewww.nytimes.com A trove of animal bone fragments from a cave on the Tibetan plateau reveals how Denisovans thrived in a harsh climate for over 100,000 years.

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Bird brains fit the bill: morphological diversification and the evolution of avian brain size https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.02.601652v1

Bird brains fit the bill: morphological diversification and the evolution of avian brain size https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.02.601652v1 www.biorxiv.org Brain size varies greatly across and even within lineages. Attempts to explain this variation have m

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Population genetic consequences of the seasonal migrations of birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.28.601242v1

Population genetic consequences of the seasonal migrations of birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.28.601242v1 www.biorxiv.org Differences in life history can cause co-distributed species to display discordant population geneti

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Estimating allele frequencies, ancestry proportions and genotype likelihoods in the presence of mapping bias https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.01.601500v1

Estimating allele frequencies, ancestry proportions and genotype likelihoods in the presence of mapping bias https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.01.601500v1 www.biorxiv.org Population genomic analyses rely on an accurate and unbiased characterization of the genetic setup o

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Short-term fluctuating and long-term divergent selection on sympatric Monkeyflowers: insights from decade-spanning reciprocal transplants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.26.600870v1

Short-term fluctuating and long-term divergent selection on sympatric Monkeyflowers: insights from decade-spanning reciprocal transplants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.26.600870v1 www.biorxiv.org Sympatric species often adapt to distinct microhabitats, leading to reproductive isolation and pheno

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@natanaels.bsky.social's work modeling how mutations accumulate with age and time, now out in PLoS Biology (joint with @marcdemanuel.bsky.social, William Milligan & Guy Sella): journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The clock-like accumulation of germline and somatic mutations can arise from the interplay of DNA damage and repairjournals.plos.org The rate at which DNA mutations accumulate varies substantially across cell types and tissues in the human body, but the origin of these differences is not well understood. This study develops a model...

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Our (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) edited volume Human Evolutionary Demography is now published by Open Book Publishers 🎉 32 chapters completely free to read, including an impressive line-up of researchers working in this area 😊

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Positive feedback between demographic and selective fluctuations can greatly amplify the random fluctuation of population size https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.13.598821v1

Positive feedback between demographic and selective fluctuations can greatly amplify the random fluctuation of population size https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.13.598821v1 www.biorxiv.org Population sizes fluctuate over time probably due to random variability in the external environment.

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Physocarpus intermedius, our native Midwestern Ninebark, blooming above the St Vrain outside Lyons this morning 🌿 Newly recognized in Colorado. 😎

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Remind me why we pay for journals to format stuff?

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The Roles of Drift and Selection on Short Stamen Loss in Arabidopsis thaliana along an Elevational Gradient in the Spanish Pyrenees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598645v1

The Roles of Drift and Selection on Short Stamen Loss in Arabidopsis thaliana along an Elevational Gradient in the Spanish Pyrenees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598645v1 www.biorxiv.org Traits that have lost function sometimes persist through evolutionary time. These traits may be main

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This is our latest foray into studying genetic variation in challenging parts of the genome that nevertheless encode important genes. We're very interested in what everyone thinks. One key realization we came to is that assembly isn't even the hardest part.

Genetic variation in recalcitrant repetitive regions of the Drosophila melanogaster genomewww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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The Genetic History of the South Caucasus from the Bronze to the Early Middle Ages: 5000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.11.597880v1

The Genetic History of the South Caucasus from the Bronze to the Early Middle Ages: 5000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.11.597880v1 www.biorxiv.org Archaeological and archaeogenetic studies have highlighted the pivotal role of the Caucasus region t