Chris Lane

Studying biodiversity and comparative genomics with a focus on the evolution of parasitism in algae and protists. Department Chair. Co-Editor, J Phycol.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

It's just amazing to me that our senators, @SenWhitehouse and @SenJackReed talk about caring about America's military but can't find the fortitude to call for resignations in light of the recent Nat Sec scandal. When will they meet the moment?

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@SenJackReed Senator Reed, please stop tweeting tough and then voting for Trump appointments, as you did again yesterday. Your RI constituents would like some adult supervision on your recent voting record.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@SenWhitehouse Thank you for coming to this conclusion.

[Dr. Ad Hoc @Brotinus]

Sounds like a press release about a bird building its nest

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@HabeoCanceres Thanks.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

I know everything is on fire, literally and existentially, but I'm really proud of this paper out today, led by Kristina Terpis, with some amazing collaborators. We expanded sampling in photosynthetic stramenopiles and show total plastid loss twice!

https://t.co/A5BE1gA81I

[Nathan K. Lujan @DrNathanLujan]

New tribe-level classification of Loricariidae by Jon Armbruster and myself now out in Neotropical Ichthyology. We also assign these two upper Orinoco endemic species, formerly in Pseudancistrus, to new genera and a new tribe.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@emble64

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mbeisen @Patriots Not sure you could dial up a more frustrating season.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

Man, I would like one year as Department Chair where the college and/or university is not facing some existential crisis, but this is not the year. Luckily everything at the national level should be chill....

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@e_hehenberger @ERC_Research Congrats, looking forward to the work!

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mark_carnall @fburki https://t.co/elq7fSRG7q

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

LOL, the biases of your eukaryotic taxa of interest largely not even appearing on a list of taxonomic bias.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mark_carnall It’s already published. I’ll send a link when I’m not on my phone, but I think @fburki has an even more comprehensive analysis than the one we did on SAR. Those papers are out there.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mark_carnall You’re conflating different things.

Nevertheless, my original point was that a paper on taxonomic bias that ignores 70% of eukaryotic diversity is simply perpetuating the problem and is a ridiculous way to highlight a real issue.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mark_carnall Which is why teacher training and classroom visits are important. But we also can’t escape the fact that federal research dollars overwhelmingly go to animal work. NIH only funds non-animal research on parasites that infect animals.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mark_carnall But there are absolutely biases stemming from the fact that people relate better to what they see on a regular basis. And part of that is education. Some of us are doing the work to get K-12 kids looking at the real diversity of life instead of dismissing it.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mark_carnall For one, we stop using the absurdity of “top to bottom” because animals or not the “top” of anything in evolution.
I also think that federal agencies, like NSF, and doing great work to fund non-model organism research.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mark_carnall People are literally “doing it”. But those amalgamating research for major reports ignore the information.

And your argument about public engagement is super weird when using brown algae as an example. Find me a person who doesn’t know what a kelp forest is.

[Chris Lane @LaneLabURI]

@mark_carnall Do papers in Cell about the global importance of lineages you ignore excite you? https://t.co/2nkgB436GD

I’m sorry I treated you like a serious person for a minute.