Patrick Phillips

@OdedRechavi and @pastramimachine, please turn off the lights when you are done.

Now that critical Science-Twitter mass has been achieved on BlueSky, it is time to delete X accounts. It is the only responsible action, although sad to throw away 15 years of engagement.

I have picked up 130 new followers on BlueSky in the last two days, so there is apparently a mass exodus and/or follower transfer apps. Now at 1/4 my nominal twitter followers, but probably all active vs a few dozen active. Please join us over there. Critical mass achieved.

Fwd: Workshop: Paris.PolygenicAdaptation.Mar10-14 ift.tt/e9TFVvm

@pastramimachine They were certainly CRE-ative

Wow. Great work Natanya!

@3rdreviewer Not in nematodes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Honest q: has anyone found a relationship between Ne and any of these things when analyzing only a group of eukaryotes? (i.e. no prokaryotes)

Happy back to school! Thinking about what comes next? I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join the Kasimatis lab at @uvabio @UVA! We study the genomics of sexual conflict & the evolution of reproductive traits. Please share widely. Details: conflictgenomics.com

@ClementYChow cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/101855…

Best sauce for a roast pork butt?

Super happy for Amy's next steps. She is setting up to do some very revolutionary work that integrates epigenetics, natural variation, molecular biology, and evolution. Very, very lucky to have her in the lab these past few years!

Nice story on the new research initiative on synthetic biology and aging that I'm helping to lead at the UO. Very exciting times ahead in this field, I think. oregonquarterly.uoregon.edu/researchers-de…

🚨 New preprint alert 🚨 We've generated a new gapless genome of Caenorhabditis brenneri🪱, one of the most diverse metazoans! We compared its genome and gene organizations with other nematodes with smaller population sizes. Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Knight Campus Dept of BioE Assistant Prof. @mhhettiaratchi will receive the @TERMISAM World Congress Young Investigator Award at a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in ballroom 6 B/C at #TERMIS2024. Congratulations, Marian!

How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words: ** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary ** arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016 1/11

My outstanding graduate student Rose Al-Saadi won the best student presentation award at the #AGE2024 meeting! @americanaging

@mbeisen Damn these things look similar. Non rhabdid pharyngeal bulb obviously 😜. But given your obsession, perhaps elegans counts a “brain worm” for some?

Now that’s a real worm!

@PSarkies @Timothy0Leary Also depends on your definition of “unit.” Worm neurons are highly multifunctional, especially the chemosensory system. So there is hardly an isomorphism with computational networks.

C elegans has 302 neurons. Show me an artificial neural net with 302 units that can do everything a worm can.

Our latest, in Lab on a Chip. Super cool and super high tech — and super hard to get right. 10 years of work to figure out a way of automating high precision demography in C. elegans: The Egg Counter! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…