Last week, we released our preprint on Poseidon, which seeks to make archaeogenetic data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible, by defining a data package standard, software tools and public repositories and cloud infrastructure 1/12

matzoh lasagne

hot sauce on matzoh

The chaos of the Hebrew school pesach play

Asparagus bed doing its thing

I'm very glad to share our new work on the evolution of sex peptide and Sex Peptide Receptor interactions! Congratulations to Junhui Junhui Peng , Nicolas, and our collaborator from the Rockefeller Proteomics Core, Henrik.
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

Saw an awesome talk at #cephneuro by the author of this paper about cephalopod sex chromosomes: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
It's so neat that octopuses and moths have the same type of sex determination: two Z chromosomes makes male, one Z (plus zero anything else) makes female

The classification of ray-finned fishes monograph just dropped!

bioone.org/journals/bulle…

Thanks to Jenny Tung for inviting me to visit MPI-EVA Leipzig! Incredible place and I loved hearing about all the exciting science going on there.

Additionally I was floored to learn that ABI makes human-sized thermocyclers

big day for parents of sleep-deprived teenaged girls

Congratulation to Puneeth Deraje & James Kitchens on their preprint using ancestral recombination graphs to estimate the location of genetic ancestors

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thinking through the slide show I will give to my children taking them through my recent business trip- are the cool parents using PowerPoint for this these days?

diesel stick shift minivan 😍

lil rat bonfire on the B/C this morning WhatIsNewYork

We are leading a new initiative in Synthetic Biology and Aging and are recruiting multiple postdocs and research assistants/technicians to join us! Details and application links here. Please RT. #longevity pages.uoregon.edu/pphil/synbio.h…