Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler
Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | phylogenomics, genome evolution | EIC at Frontiers in Posting
- Reposted by Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes SwashbucklerSlim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
- TIL that in linguistics they have their own version of ancestral state reconstruction for languages that they also call the comparative method. Fun!
- Has somebody tried telling the government that when people die they can't spend their money at businesses
- Going from Rochester winter to Baton Rouge winter
- Very excited to share the capstone of my postdoc work with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, co-led by Wright lab grad student Cassandre with contributions from many others. We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.
- Surely this is not the same amygdala my ancestors were using to fend off wolf packs and grizzly bears
- There is a lot of stuff going on. I feel it would be nice if there wasn't as much stuff going on
- When you look at your old code and you're impressed that past you was able to figure all that out
- So far my experience of winter in Rochester is that it's basically a coin flip whether you're going to get pelted on the face with hail on your commute home from work
- I may have neglected writing the documentation for this R package for a bit too long
- clouds 😑
- i like snow
- Still a few more days to apply to our open faculty position! This is a stellar department to be an evolutionary geneticist. I've really enjoyed my time here so far. Feel free to DM if you have any questions! apply.interfolio.com/173431
- I've seen riparian plots you people wouldn't believe
- Not to post spoilers but the history of chromosomal rearrangements in Rumex is genuinely breaking my brain right now. Excited to share with y'all
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- As a biologist I am pretty envious of the explanatory power of the "everyone is 12" theory
- Happy to chat with any potential applicants who want to work in plant phylogenomics!
- the lion does not concern himself with factor of 2 errors
- Reposted by Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes SwashbucklerNew preprint led by grad student, Yu Mo! We introduce new software to calculate evolutionary rates of quantitative characters in the presence of discordance 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- First grant submitted 🙏
- Reposted by Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes SwashbucklerMemories of Lake Superior Old Woman Bay, Ontario July 2016 #WeekNforNights #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #sunset #ShareCanGeo #blueskyphotography #PukaskwaNP #LakeSuperior
- Looks like only first year grads can apply now
- It seems the GRFP solicitation is FINALLY released (like 5 minutes ago)! Due dates have also been pushed back, thankfully! 🧪 🔭 www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- The Board of Coalescence is nearly full
- UR Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor in mathematical/computational evolutionary genetics. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/173431
- too many documents
- Reposted by Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbucklersuper excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now in Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy: doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
- writing a phylogenetics-oriented grant without using the word "diversity" or any of its derivatives
- when the first September hits as a new PI
- I'm not even teaching yet!
- Reposted by Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes SwashbucklerPlease share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
- Reposted by Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes SwashbucklerI'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv. We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Being a PI is definitely a step up in responsibility and workload but so far I am really enjoying it. I'm being challenged in an incredibly fulfilling way that I haven't felt probably since I was a first year grad student.
- I learned a lot during my postdoc too, but it was kind of overshadowed by the stress introduced by the temporary nature of the position. Here it really feels like you're a part of building something meant to last.
- Real Northerners know that the two week stretch including the last week of August and the first week of September has the best weather of any time of the year
- I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!
- Reposted by Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes SwashbucklerPlease share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
- Wear sunscreen folks. I am Suffering
- Old Man Yells At FASTA Headers
- Finally tried a garbage plate. I have been Baptized
- Returning to the command line after a break of many months got me feeling like Jordan when he came back from retirement
- (The first time)
- Seeing the finalized plans for my lab space renovation has me SO hyped for the future
- new institution, new flavor of package dependency hell
- You ever randomly get stressed about something and then completely forget what it was five minutes later? What a nice feeling. Like oh it couldn't have been that bad
- Day 15 of professoring: started drinking coffee again
- Reposted by Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!
- Finally making an effort to understand Fahrenheit
- What's the academic version of aura farming
