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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On a follow-up note, did y'all know that the chloroplasts of brown algae have four membranes and have an endosymbiont within an endosymbiont? Like you gotta laugh at this point

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

working on my lecture on the origins of eukaryotes and I feel like we all in evo bio kinda take endosymbiotic theory for granted, like that shit is crazy

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As is so often the case, I feel like Star Trek, and particularly The Next Generation, presents the best model for how humanity can coexist with AI systems. The Federation ship computers are basically more powerful versions of the LLMs we have today (give me a little rope here).

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate to do this with real data, but this is a persistent data vis issue in chromosome synteny riparian plots that we Need to get better at. Left, a synteny plot published today. Right, a rearranged version with exactly the same gross arrangement but with reordered chromosomes:

chromosome synteny riparian plot in which every chromosome has crossing lines

chromosome synteny plot in which no chromosomes have crossing lines. The underlying structure is identical.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New York City cab drivers have more stress resilience than a military general

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's so wild how NYC has all this density that you just don't see in any other major US city. It's like a whole other world here

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Yuval Simons @yuvalsim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Carlson Lab at the University of Rochester is recruiting researchers at all levels! Please reach out to Maryn (marync.github.io/carlsonlab/i...) if you are interested in groundbreaking problems in population and quantitative genetics. Maryn is brilliant and will be a great mentor!

marync.github.io

Carlson Lab

The Carlson Lab works at the interface of population and quantitative genetics, statistics, and evolutionary biology.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sometimes a typo makes you laugh, like yes Australia is definitely sending us meteors

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's always so interesting to fill out these quizzes as a Canadian. Like I get this area of NY / Vermont / NH along the border, which makes total sense, but then also California? I've had multiple people tell me I speak like someone from California as well lol. Wonder where that's from.

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Swedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You would repost a frog

a picture of a frog

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of my biggest pet peeves is the use of the word "paradox" to describe any unsolved problem, and not just inherent logical contradictions "Fermi paradox"? NOT a paradox. We just don't know why there aren't aliens. "Grandfather paradox" IS a paradox. It's a contradiction of the laws of causality

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Studying the coalescent so much that you start being able to see directly into the past and become the Lisan al-Gaib

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the existence of effective population size implies the existence of an ineffective population size

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm pumped to be teaching my new course, "Building the Tree of Life", starting next week. We'll be covering phylogenetic methods and how they've been applied to resolve the history and evolution of life on Earth.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is one of my favorite podcasts, fantastic listen

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When you finish the task you spent most of the day working on and you have an hour or two where you could switch to something else but you used up all your mental energy on the first thing so you spend the rest of your workday at your desk like this

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New review from me and @stepheniwright.bsky.social! We argue the time is ripe for a phylogenomic approach to the study of plant sex chromosomes: doi.org/10.32942/X2S...

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Plant sex chromosome evolution in the phylogenomic era

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Developing a course is the most work I've ever had to do on anything ever

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!

mhibbins.github.io

Hibbins Lab

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973

a matrix of 6 different Solanum (wild tomato) species with six different fruit colors, ranging from white to bright red.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When you ask Claude to run a preliminary literature survey for some specific info and it misses a bunch of stuff because it's reading Google's AI search summaries instead of the actual papers

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Working on a manuscript I hadn't touched in months and apparently I am perfectly able to hallucinate citations without AI's help

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!

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Elena Meyer @evoelena.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Excited to share some positive updates: I successfully defended my dissertation, and have accepted a postdoctoral position starting this fall at University of Rochester. I'll be working with Mark Hibbins (@rejectresubmit.bsky.social). A big thank you to everyone who has helped me on this journey!

A photo of me at my dissertation defense. I am standing at a podium in a conference room, in front of the title slide for my talk which reads "Sex in plants: birth, death, and trying to survive in changing climates."

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

PI life is all about deciding which thing you want to fall behind on this week

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I think it's so funny that the GSA meeting for C. elegans is just called "Worm Meeting". Like hello we are gathered today to discuss Worms

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Please don't be mean to Canadians we actually don't like breathing wildfire smoke either

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I still think the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference is the funniest thing that's ever happened

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I have to do a lecture on Bayesian Inference so it is finally time for me to understand Bayesian Inference

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Why is it so difficult for Microsoft Word to remember which font I am using

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Starting the work week off strong with a manuscript rejection 😤

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Trying this new thing where I deal with my fatigue by exposing myself to the sun instead of consuming more caffeine

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