Benjamin Furman

I like frogs.

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

@IanDworkin @overleaf I agree that editing bst files looks like a nightmare, and something I have successfully avoided during my LaTeX life...by mostly avoiding it with biblatex.

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

@IanDworkin Here is an @overleaf project using it in the wild. Perhaps it is conflicting with something in a more realistic complicated project like yours. I could also provide a biblatex style that mimics Evolution pretty well, if you'd like.

https://t.co/NAqRdsONyK

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

I think it's genuinely hard to appreciate just how destructive Bd has been. Imagine how people would react if a new disease started wiping out 6.5% of mammal species. That's roughly everything with hooves plus everything with flippers. We'd lose our shit. https://t.co/IwR6H6C15b

[Iulia Darolti @IDarolti]

Check out our work! Extreme variation across poeciliids in the degree of sex chromosome divergence and Y degeneration https://t.co/2HOLBcwd8L

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

@bewickaj Yeah, that one took a looooong time to get out.

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

@scotiabank your robot has hung up on me when it tries to transfer my call to a rep 5 times now. Any other way to get through your impenetrable call center? Calling about a scotiabank visa.

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

@bolkerb yeah, platypus are pretty cool...but frogs hold the title here with more sex chromosomes (12) than autosomes! https://t.co/gxbSxMOkIa

[WWF-Canada @WWFCanada]

Where does road salt go? Usually in our lakes & rivers. Today we found this Mississauga creek had at least 20x the chloride levels that is safe for aquatic life. #StopWildlifeLoss

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

What What! Early access on my latest. Divergent evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes. Widespread recombination suppression in a young system w/minimal divergence, minor recombination suppression in an older system. All #Xenopus. https://t.co/Sg6331vnhW

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

@bewickaj https://t.co/P1BHkMuN1n

[Guillaume Devailly @G_Devailly]

I've seen a lot of tweets about this preprint by Frod et al.:

"Frequent lack of repressive capacity of promoter DNA methylation identified through genome-wide epigenomic manipulation"
https://t.co/nbRaGQrK0o

An interesting read! Thanks for the link. Thread 🔽

[Judith Mank @judithmank]

Good things take time! The long awaited vertebrate paper from the NESCent Tree of Sex Working Group.

Transitions in sex determination and sex chromosomes across vertebrate species https://t.co/wctnr7AjzH

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

https://t.co/vIbqpOI5Y2

[Stephen Heard @StephenBHeard]

People have covered the you-have-to-work-60-hours-a-week-in-science nonsense pretty thoroughly. Look: there are no guarantees, except that if you work more than you're OK with, you'll be miserable.

[@jdushoff.bsky.social @[email protected] @jd_mathbio]

Didn't know I was on @CBCradio this weekend, about why #influenza spreads west–east through Canada (Spoiler: I don't know) https://t.co/sZ2uw1ZTyP

[Trevor Branch (moved to Bluesky) @TrevorABranch]

Median 2013 annual earnings for US folks with PhD in ecology
Govt: $84,900
Self-employed/private: $82,900
Non-profit: $74,700
Academia: $62,500
Govt folks also spend the highest percentage of their time (82%) devoted to research.
https://t.co/hquiPbOycT
https://t.co/uv8xibCxSH

[Benjamin Furman @Xen_Ben]

https://t.co/1DJ3ubDgYG

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

Giving a professional talk later today, setting the tone with my 2nd slide. @FuSchmu & @ZachWeiner are the philosophers biology deserves.

[Dynamic Ecology @DynamicEcology]

The unbearable hypocrisy of being an ecologist* https://t.co/SjYv06w0iD