Caroline Bartman @Caroline_Bartma@qoto.org

Sharing this in case it's useful: I find that students often have a hard time conceptualizing quantitative parameters in genomics and popgen.

Here is a draft version of a cheat-sheet that I put together for my winter-quarter human genetics class. It's also part of a book that I am slowly writing on human popgen.

Corrections and other comments very welcome

We finally have new drugs for sickle cell disease. Why are so few patients taking them?

https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/19/new-drugs-for-sickle-cell-few-prescriptions/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

On this day in 1922: Esther Lederberg born, key genetics pioneer http://whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Lederberg_Esther

I want to tell you the story of Vivienne Malone-Mayes, Texas-born mathemetician and professor, but I don't think you can understand her journey without talking about the #AcademicRacism in which she existed.

Hey guess what, it's a surprise pop-up tournament.

#GhibliBracket is a single-elimination tournament of the films released by Studio Ghibli. Each match is a Mastodon poll between 2 films. Matches will start on Monday, 12 December.

Voting is free, of course. To submit a bracket to the competition, donate equivalent of USD$10 to any charity (not to me). Submit your brackets by Sunday, 11 Dec via the link below.

Rules, details and links are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B9ZV5TU9sTECwkJC8AFno6a7lj2OfdZrO2WFbSyJRJU/edit?usp=sharing

#ghibli #StudioGhibli

BEHOLD

I have survived another year despite the machinations of my haters, which can mean only one thing:

It's time to BATTLE SOME JAMS

Welcome to the Third Annual

"24 Days Until December 25th"

Ranking of the Entrants in the Bonne Maman Non-denominational Calendar of Jams!

#jamvent

#Introduction

I'm a professor at a public university, cell biologist and geneticist who studies chromosome segregation in C. elegans during both development (mitosis) and sexual reproduction (meiosis).

I am also a passionate and committed advocate for equity in academic science

I enjoy my work, in all its forms, food (eating and cooking) and cocktails (in all its forms, but particularly the brown varieties 🥃 ).

What up, y'all?

Germinal centre of the day

3. CDC keeps pointing out that there hasn't been this level of #flu activity at this time in the year for more than a decade. Not sure that's terribly useful information. People interpret it to mean this could be a very bad flu year. And it could be. But it's too soon to say.
What's clear is that this is an unusually early flu season, a fact that's well illustrated by this graph. not yet.

Wait I forgot to do an introduction toot oops

Okay I’m really bad at these
Um

Hi- I’m Edward. My background is mainly in immunology and biochemistry and I’ve done a lot of scicomm focusing on vaccines since before the pandemic. I have pretty broad interests in medicine though but vaccine immunology probably has my heart. In the interim I’m trying to pick the best path forward for me which I’m still figuring out.

I post long blog posts at deplatformdisease.com on these things too

Deadline to apply for the HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is 12/7/2022 https://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program
Please apply - this is a great program!

In the meantime, check out our last episode with Dr. Chantell Evans: https://www.blackwomencompbio.org/podcast/episode/30f849e2/blackincompbio-a-chat-with-chantell-evans-phd

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/11/04/endangered-devils-hole-pupfish-is-one-of-the-most-inbred-animals-known/

Petition to make the Devil's Hole Pupfish a model organism!

Cyprinodon diabolis is a critically endangered, extremely inbred extremophile that lives in low oxygen and near starvation conditions in 93° F water. There is a captive population of 400 in a reserve, but their population shrank to as little as 35 in the wild at times.

During the population bottlenecks they've faced, they've lost genes involved in hypoxia. Yet they still live in hypoxic conditions. How?