Evolutionary biologist + conservation geneticist + aspiring bioinformatician. #Fulbright 🇨🇴 #NatGeoExplorer No longer active here. @cassinsackett.bsky.social
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#ScientistsTakeAKnee @USouthFlorida to speak up against state violence against people of color. Kneeling=Step 1. 1/
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Bueno, migremos antes de que arda este platanal. Nos vemos allá!
Well, Let’s move before this whole thing blows up. See you over here!
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If you’re voting Republican for your wallet, you’re voting wrong.
"Trump's plan would cut the GDP by 8.9 percent. Let me put that in perspective for you: This is roughly twice the amount the GDP went down during the financial crisis. So we would be looking at something between a recession and a depression." @SteveRattner on.msnbc.com/3UjW4Mo
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I did Nazi that coming
JUST NOW: @realDonaldTrump leans heavily into race science by telling @hughhewitt that you can tell whether migrants are predisposed to committing murder by "their genes."
"We got a lot of bad genes in our country right now," he adds.
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Este es el plan de deportaciones masivas incluido en el Proyecto 2025. univision.com/amp/noticias/i…
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By the way, the “Marxist” “communist” smear is also a dog whistle used to discredit Black movements by the FBI, segregationists the and the people who wrote Project 2025
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The chronospace R package is now published!! I hope it'll provide useful tools for visualizing and exploring sensitivity in estimates of divergence times. A really fun project with lifelong friend @millacarmonia
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I love @Seagate drives but why do we need to actively generate more trash for the landfills? Would it be so hard for a buyer to select the type they need from a drop-down menu during purchase? 😭😭😭
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Genome size expansion in the SA lungfish lineage "is by far the fastest rate of diploid genome expansion reported, exceeding those known for any other vertebrate lineage by adding more than the equivalent of the human genome size every 10 Myr" ‼️‼️ Fig. 2:
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The sheer amount of sequence data generated here is totally nuts. Can't believe we now have South American Lungfish (~90Gb‼️). What a cool look at genome evolution in tetrapods. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
“Elsevier says it determines fee reductions on a case-by-case basis.” 😱
The tragedy & humiliation of trying to publish #OA for us folks in lower-mid income countries:
🇧🇷's Kowaltowski "emailed journal 12 times asking for a discount ... #Elsevier threatened Kowaltowski with legal action if she didn’t pay the quoted fee." 👉🏽
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My last conference as a postdoc 😊#evol2024 . Also, if you would like to be added to the John Edmonstone Slack channel for BIPOC scientists in Evolution, Ecology, and Systematic Biology, please send me a DM! The channel will open next week.
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Anyway, more about Project 2025:
Did y’all know that FAFSA and Pell Grants ($ for students from low-income families) are issued by the US Department of Education?
Project 2025 will eliminate the US Department of Education, FAFSA, and Pell Grants. This is a Trump-Vance policy.
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BREAKING: This Kamala Harris ad from 2020 still goes hard. Retweet to ensure every American sees it. nitter.cf/AdamJSmithGA/status/18…
Expecting students to eat these costs for months is totally insane and has to stop
I often talk about how important I think it is to end Reimbursement culture and it’s obvious that some people don’t understand how transformative that could be in graduate education and retention of UR individuals. So, let’s talk: (1/n)
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One of my favorite parts of #ASMboulder was the strong representation (and excellent talks!) of Latin American scientists! So happy to have seen old friends and met new ones & I’m looking forward to next time!
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If you haven’t been following the news from North Carolina about public mask bans, read this *wonderful* thread. Scientific/medical tools should NEVER be politicized like this. So many vulnerable people just want to protect themselves.
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We should ALL be pushing back because if this passes it’ll end up in other States - and it will embolden those who seek to harm ppl who are still masking and/or disabled. It’s going to further divide & segregate society along health lines - a very slippery slope into eugenics /14
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I urge everyone to call their local officials and tell them they won’t stand for the banning of medical masks with or without an exemption. If you don’t live in North Carolina you can still call and say you will never visit or spend a dollar in the State if this bill passes /13
Five squirrel genera in one day 🤩
Superb #mammalwatching out to Rocky Mountain National Park. Thanks @LorenCSackett for taking @mekisus & me out at #ASMBoulder!
We saw 32 elks, moose, mule deer, golden mantled ground squirrel, Wyoming ground squirrel, black-tailed prairie dog, chipmunk sp., and a fox squirrel.
ALT Moose, mule deer, elks, and a prairie dog burrow.
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