Matishalin

Have you ever been confused about how to define and calculate relatedness? @matishalin and I try to offer some guidance in this @CSHLPress paper. In the special issue stemming from the Mendel at 200 symposium organized by @mendel_random

(2/2) A lot of graft and vision from @collectiveEcol and Kingsley (who is wisely not on X) biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/profile/… together with @DanFranksRsrch @FayeJThompson @DarrenPCroft @patrick_a_green @collectiveEcol

(1/2) Can peace evolve? Advantaged leaders prefer conflict and shunt the cost to followers. Increasing the democratic power of followers leads to less conflict: nature.com/articles/s4146… #ecology #evolution #gametheory

1/ 🤖 New paper hot off the press 🐜 Automated behavioural analysis using machine learning is great, but still needs lots of effort to curate training data. What if a computer could generate that data for you? Say hello to replicAnt nature.com/articles/s4146… #OpenSource

How is evolution like sharing a pizza? Tom Scott and I answer that deep (dish) question in our new Proc B paper. We use the zero-sum nature of evolution to develop inclusive-fitness models. Check it out at doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… @westernuMath @OxfordBiology

4-year #PhD studentship available. Using evolutionary game theory, mathematical modelling, and #MachineLearning to study multidrug adaptive therapy for #neuroblastoma. Waiver covers international fee. hull.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Work with us! We're hiring a Research Assistant or Associate to work with Senior Research Fellow @MartaHalina on 'The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Cognition' project. Find out more at: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/42780/ 🧠🐙🐦‍⬛

Cool approach to #LLM output optimisation. Do an evolutionary search using the LLM to evaluate fitness and generate variants. Not sure how to view the consequences of using the LLM to generate and evaluate. github.com/CarperAI/OpenE…

We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses! Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6

Today we're thrilled to announce our new undertaking to collaboratively build the best open language model in the world: AI2 OLMo. Uniquely open, 70B parameters, coming early 2024 – join us! blog.allenai.org/announcing-ai2…

👋 🧹📊 TidierPlots.jl for #JuliaLang A 100% Julia implementation of #rstats ggplot2. Powered by AlgebraOfGraphics.jl, Makie.jl, and Julia’s meta-programming capabilities, TidierPlots.jl is an R user’s love letter to data visualization in Julia. github.com/TidierOrg/Tidi…

We are hiring! We are advertising for 7 full time and permanent Teaching Fellow positions in #datascience #AI at @daimhulluni @HullUniScience @UniOfHull jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Closing date = 2/April/2023. This is in addition to the 17 #PhD. More opportunities will follow.

We are advertising for 17 PhD/GTA positions in data science! The deadline for applying is 27 March 2023! If you're interested read more under the link below! 😀 hull.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

dplyr 1.1.0 is out now! 🎉 This is a huge release, so we split the announcement into 4 posts to be released throughout the week. #rstats Today we'll focus on joins, including: - join_by() - Inequality and rolling joins - Two new quality control arguments tidyverse.org/blog/2023/01/d…

@BobMaline @StuWest8 Not sure exactly your question but yes changes in chromosome number can cause reproductive isolation. Usually ploidy changes tend to bad so it's relatively rare as a source of variation at least in vertebrates think it's more common in plants.

@matishalin @StuWest8 Hi. Non biologist here. Question that has long confused me, with small changes and each generation reproductively compatible with immediately prior and ensuing generations… Does evolution in number of chromosomes prevent reproductive compatibility? Is that a step change?

New paper out with @StuWest8 The first paper in my research plan to try flesh out the theory on between species major transitions. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

nature.com/articles/s4200… Paper on optic flow finally out! Trigger fish use visual density to estimate distance and control speed. And they do it in a slightly different way to terrestrial animals!

@NASA nice to have a kids question to the astronauts be cutoff so we could have 30 mins of hold music. Hope the kids got their answer at least!

I like how this adds to the confusion. theguardian.com/science/2022/j…

@befriendabacter Sounds good!