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I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Genetics at UGA as an Assistant Professor in January! @uga_genetics @universityofga
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Tauras Vilgalys
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Tauras Vilgalys
@TaurVil
Assistant Professor @uga_genetics. Evolutionary, functional, and immuno-genomics in primates and other mass-mortality events.
Athens, GA Katılım Mart 2015
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@AJamesMcCarthy I feel like the experience has gotten worse, but the cost has stayed remarkably stable. I think many travelers (myself included) are willing to put up with bad service for a cheap flight
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Every time I fly I feel like the airline industry could use a major shakeup. Like, where is the Steve Jobs or Elon Musk of aviation? It’s probably the one industry where the average user experience has gotten significantly worse over the last few decades.
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@BrentAWilliams2 Flashy stats, but the interpretation changes dramatically if that is lifetime or annual spending. I expect annual spending to be very skewed - most people are healthy. Over a lifetime, I would expect a lot of that variance to level out bc end of life care is so expensive.
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Facts:
Less than 5% of the U.S. population accounts for 50% of the healthcare spending.
Less than 2.5% of the U.S. population accounts for 50% of the prescription drug spending.
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Requiring normal people to do calculus at tax filing would be a nightmare.
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@ewarren I'm in favor of meaningful affordability changes, but continuing to incentivise consumer debt is quite low on the list. We should try to get people out of debt, not encourage it more.
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Capping credit card interest rates would save families $100 billion a year.
Keeping rates high helps pay the salaries and bonuses of credit card company executives.
By not capping credit card rates, Trump is choosing corporate CEOs over the American people.
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The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫
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@SynBio1 An interesting corollary is how much our understanding of the biology would be different. Are all effects the same regardless of system, or are there ways it would affect the output? Sometimes I worry how many effects in model organisms are species or even strain specific
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Imagine if, in 2016, 100% of biologists switched from E. coli to V. natriegens for molecular cloning and as a microbiology model organism
Culture times decreased from ~8 to ~3 hours. How much would this have impacted research productivity over the past 10 years?
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@iosif_lazaridis Couldn't difference in the ability to purge deleterious mutations also contribute to this observation?
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"By observing a 62% relative excess of AMH ancestry in Neanderthal X chromosomes, we characterized the interbreeding between the two groups as predominantly male Neanderthals with female AMHs."
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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@davidkmyang I ask them to walk me through how they troubleshoot a problem. Most people have a research experience to draw upon, but sometimes it's a class project or other scenario that they use
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What's the equivalent of the coding test for hiring in biology? Talking through previous research seems common but could result in false negatives among folks without meaningful past experience but nonetheless great
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@CHKFLA_if @atlanticesque Sometimes rideshare won't pick you up where you're going either. I like to hike and don't need a car for daily life, but good luck getting picked up at the trailhead an hour away from town!
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@atlanticesque Yeah Im sure the busses are less convenient by you, but for infrequent things sometimes inconvenience is worth the cost savings.
As for rideshares, I guess its just a preference thing, but its probably no more expensive at the end of the day. I get why you’d prefer driving tho.
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Before I lived in New York, I lived in a city where I could do 80% of my life without a car. I walked to work, I walked to the grocery store, I had things delivered, etc.
But that last 20% is a bear. I really did need my car, even though I only drove it 2-4 times a month.
Transportation Alternatives@TransAlt
If you go two and a half weeks without using your car, why do you have a car?
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@RoaringHammy Depending on where you live relative to your friends/family, it could also be similarly costed. My family and my partner's live on different coasts and we've moved around so friends are everywhere. No matter where we pick, most people are going to need to travel
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My cousin says people who have destination weddings are a bit selfish because it puts financial pressure on their relatives and friends. Do you agree?
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@anon61939162950 @Geigerman2 @BuckeyeNova @1davidj @iowahawkblog @bonchieredstate Don't quote him back to himself!
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Let's say, generously, those 130 flights all have 200 people on them, and a flight segment costs $200. For the $135 billion pricetag on you beloved choo-choo, you could fun 71 years of free flights between LA and the Bay.
Hayden@the_transit_guy
Today, Los Angeles and the Bay Area will see 130 flights in both directions, equivalent to a plane departing every 6.5 minutes for 18 hours a day. You might not like it’s implementation but to say California doesn’t merit high speed rail is just laughable imo.
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@Geigerman2 @bespokediogenes @iowahawkblog @bonchieredstate Free market arguments lose a lot of weight when we subsidize airlines and build airports with public funds.
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Post-docs - apply to speak at the Rising Stars in Genetics and Genomics Symposium at the University of Utah! Research areas include 1) Genetics of Health and Disease, 2) Computational Genomics, or 3) Evolutionary Genetics, 4) Functional Genetics/Genomics forms.gle/85NZaxFezUk8N8…
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@BarteltLab @manorlaboratory Incentives, but luckily we can change those!
It would also involve an overhaul of the journal model. Preprint servers seem ideal to host the small "results" papers, while the longer "story" papers would be submitted to (or solicited by) journals.
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@BarteltLab @manorlaboratory It's bad for the students, and it's bad for science to delay when results become public.
I think we could go the opposite direction. Publish smaller, more frequently, and with less administration. Write a story every few years on the cumulative (already public) work.
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@manorlaboratory He’s right, joke or no joke. The systematic pressure on science from reviewers, publishers, and especially university admin creates problems. TMO, one very good paper every few years is enough for the lab, but not for the many students striving.
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@anthony_berndt Don't worry, I'm sure they'll rediscover recombination, gene regulation, and a bunch of other fundamental processes biology has known about for decades 😂
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JFC it's going to be a bloodbath for the guys who haven't done their reading, isn't it?
Adib@adibvafa
Pivot into biology
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@OdedRechavi Wonderful idea, but that timescale is longer than the PhD of the trainees involved. I think you would also end up with monstrously huge papers which nobody can actually digest.
Alternate idea: we should favor short, easy-to-digest publications and published notes
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The way to accelerate science is to SLOW it down.
Fewer papers please! We’re drowning in meaningless text.
One GREAT paper per lab per decade is more than enough.
q.e.d 👇
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@psudmant Looks fascinating! Disappointed that I won't be able to make it.
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Registration deadline is fast approaching (Jan 31!) for the "Host adaptations to viral infections” Meeting May 10th-13th, 2026, - CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, Brittany, France! JOIN US and the many amazing speakers! sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/v…
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@blueskintroll @mortgagetruth Break even relative to what? I will have spent more money on my house than I sell it for. But less money than I would have spent on rent (even including the opportunity cost for the payments)
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@mortgagetruth I am surprised people don't look at the bigger picture. While your house value rises, your dollar shrinks but your interest and maintenance payments are clockwork steady. A $1M property @ 20% will cost you $2.5M when all is said and done. Be lucky you break even!
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If you're going to buy a home, please look at an amortization schedule before you do.
That way you can see the total amount of interest due over 30 years BEFORE you make the decision.
Don't do so afterwards and then go on social media and complain about all the interest you have to pay.
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@PracheeAC Completely agree. Disseminating research is a core competency of a PhD, which can be met by preprints or journal publications. However, I do think most PhDs should produce multiple products, creating a conversation with the field rather than a magnum opus.
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I prefer a 3rd solution: post preprints - those using public money shouldn’t torch taxpayer cash for individual enlightenment and enjoyment with zero to show for it. So yes stop forcing students to get through gatekeepers for prestige or the appearance of truth but do force them to share the outcomes with those who invested in their education — and understand that with great freedom comes a modicum of responsibility
Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD@acagamic
Forcing PhD students to publish before thesis submission created a predatory journal gold rush. Too many couldn't get into real journals fast enough. So they paid to publish garbage. Quality PhD work produces quality papers. Not the other way around.
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