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Rafael Guerrero

@guerrero.bsky.social
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Population genetics, evolution | Assoc Prof @ NC State | 🇨🇴

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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Brutal review, wow... "The book reads like an Eat Pray Love of biotech grifting, designed to make her into a public figure based on her personal journey, now presented as the living impetus for her advocacy."
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Natural Election | Los Angeles Review of Books
Kathryn Paige Harden’s new book offers a defense of a kind of Scientific Calvinism that converges with the eugenicist ideals of the contemporary Far Right.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one
Big Think article header: How the metaverse will revolutionize K-12 and higher education
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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus
Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…
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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/03/2026
Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.
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UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says
The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Colossal about to announce another timely de-extinction project
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If you’re about to make fun of Colin Wright, I implore you to stop and come up with something 10x meaner
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Neural posterior estimation for population genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is horrible news. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
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OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
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Temporary Plant Evolutionary Ecology Field Technician
The Sheth plant evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) is currently seeking field technician to participate in an NS...
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
graffiti of the army of the 12 monkeys, reads "we did it!" (from the 1995 movie)
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/10/2025
If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.
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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We have 60 students signed up and 42 mentors so far.
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hand holding a frying pan with a fried egg in it, with the words “This is your university if you sign” at the top. Image is from the 1980s “This is your brain on drugs” campaign.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/10/2025
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
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Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 20/09/2025
Colbert resurrected his character from "The Colbert Report" and it's glorious www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxL...
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The Word: Shhhhhh!
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.
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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Fellow academics: Have any of you heard about concerns regarding the use of NIH funds to support travel to trainee-focused conferences like SACNAS and ABRCMS (e.g. on an R25 where travel was budgeted)? I have heard indirect rumblings about concerns, but have not gotten any specifics. Thanks!
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Are scientific societies (that own their journals) keeping an eye on the Anthropic settlement? Maybe the settlement could fund at least a travel award!
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Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors - The Authors Guild
Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over w...
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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I think we've figured out the right solution at the Evolution Meetings: Bang for your buck, a virtual meeting two weeks before the in-person is the most cost-effective way to involve remote participants. A couple thoughts 🧵
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This mammoth is a huge blow for Colossal
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Good morning, America
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Hexagonal @hexagonal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"You're taking civilization for granted and not contributing" says man whose only contribution is doing youtubes and tweets as a job.
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
An authoritarian, corrupt president who changed the constitution to get reelected 20 years ago was just sentenced to 12y for fraud and bribery. This seemed absolutely impossible in Colombia at some point! Seems like relevant optimistic news for other countries
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Jesse Lasky @laskyjr.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
look who crawled out from under a rock
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
💯
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”
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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)
figure showing nine data points (each for a distinct publisher) in a graph where Y-axis is our open science index and X-axis is academia friendliness (=proportion of published journals co-owned by an academic entity); strong positive relationship
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2025
1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
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Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Bumpy road for this one, happy to be able to share Eugene's work. Comments welcome, of course!
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I can’t believe this account is still doing this numbers station bullshit.
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Fifty-two.
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM & Everybody can reply
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Today in History: July 10th 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3
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Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The #GENETICS July cover shows male (top) & female (bottom) cichlid fish of the species Aulonocara koningsi at Mbenji Island in Lake Malawi, East Africa, key in revealing the genetic basis of gut length variation associated with trophic level in Lake Malawi cichlids. 1/2🧵
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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It's risky as an academic to publish outside your area of expertise. But telling the story of my family's experience of the Mexican repatriation in the 1930s seemed important, so I dropped what I was doing last summer and wrote this. Please read & share. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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“Despedida”: My great great grandfather’s corrido about the Mexican repatriation - Latino Studies
Latino Studies -
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Wooohoo!! @emjo.bsky.social 🎉🌿
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
ugh
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Can we write grants about biological 'divercity'? maybe 'd1versity'?
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought
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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Colossal Bioscience is a dark look at the future of science in the US as federal funding declines and dependence on philanthropy increases. Incentives to impress the investors of a $10 billion private valuation drive the need for flashy press over quality science.
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Arun Durvasula @arundurvasula.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our review of recent Sequentially Markovian Coalescent methods is up on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.00692 (based on last year's @official-smbe.bsky.social symposium)
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Not Just $N_e$ $N_e$-more: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies
Genomes contain the mutational footprint of an organism's evolutionary history, shaped by diverse forces including ecological factors, selective pressures, and life history traits. The sequentially Ma...
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Ben Langmead @benlangmead.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Industry friends, now is the time for MUCH more speaking out on behalf of academic colleagues under duress. Here are core open source methods that many of your products doubtlessly depend on either directly or indirectly (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMMER) being abruptly defunded. Make noise.
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HMMER - Wikipedia
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for ECR in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have the data in 3 fishes & amphioxus, just waiting for your expertise and enthusiasm! tinyurl.com/3aewk286
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Opportunités de carrière : Postdoctoral position in evolutionary genomics (22280)
Saisissez une liste de termes, que nous allons rechercher dans le titre du poste et sa description. \nAstuces\xa0:\n\nNous rechercherons tous les mots figurant dans la recherche.\nLes r\xe9sultats…
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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NCMA’s visionary new exhibition explores the Black figure as seen by some of the most important Black artists of our age. indyweek.com/culture/now-...
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Now Is the Time for The Time Is Always Now
NCMA's illuminating new exhibition explores the Black figure as seen by some of the most important Black artists of our age.
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Rafael Guerrero @guerrero.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
For your slides on species concepts
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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Amy Angert & I are recruiting 2 field technicians for demographic surveys of scarlet monkeyflower in late summer-fall. Please spread word to any potentially interested candidates! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/217...
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Temporary Plant Ecology Field Technician
The Sheth evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina; USA) and the Angert Lab in the Departments of Botany an...
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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Check out the latest @evolletters.bsky.social cover article: Parallel and convergent evolution in genes underlying seasonal migration, by Zamudio-Beltrán and colleagues academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
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