April Jauhal

PhD / Data Scientist

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

Latest paper from my PhD is now out in @molecology! To investigate whether baleen whales have the genetic capacity to smell, I developed a gene mining pipeline and explored the forces shaping whale olfactory receptor evolution. Check it out here: https://t.co/ikFFMer1Hp

[Liat Shenhav @LiatShenhav]

🧵 Exciting news! Our paper, "Microbial colonization programs are structured by breastfeeding and guide healthy respiratory development," is out today in @CellCellPress ! 🎉 Amazing collaboration with @MeghanAzad and @CHILDSTUDY
https://t.co/QQxw483ECk

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

GMPipe code for mining olfactory receptor repertoires from whole genomes regardless of annotation status can be found here: https://t.co/HOnAbPkek8

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

Latest paper from my PhD is now out in @molecology! To investigate whether baleen whales have the genetic capacity to smell, I developed a gene mining pipeline and explored the forces shaping whale olfactory receptor evolution. Check it out here: https://t.co/ikFFMer1Hp

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@mikejg84 Also interesting that they note that primary cilia could have a role in the circadian rhythm and that 5-HTR6 was identified in a GWAS study for bipolar, especially due to the prevalence of circadian rhythm disturbances in patients with bipolar disorder.

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@mikejg84 Intriguing, I wonder what specific purposes axo-ciliary synapses serve. Sounds like they could be a more direct route to modulating gene regulatory and epigenetic changes.

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

An issue when comparing the average carbon footprint of food is that it hides the variation *within* a given food.

But the key message doesn't change: the 'best' (lowest impact) meats still tend to emit more than the 'worst' plant-based foods.

https://t.co/xslz3mXDMg

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@CourtneyOgilvy @MMEG_UoA @EmzLCarroll @AucklandUni @ScienceUoA @womeninmmsci That's awesome!! Congrats Courtney!

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

When people think of melting ice, they think about the poles and sea level rise—it also means less snowmelt for lakes, rivers, and resivoirs. It means more drought and aridity, and that is already affecting CA and other Western US states. https://t.co/l17FUTTSbe

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@AkshayBirdwatch @PhDVoice @PhD_Genie @AcademicChatter Its great writing advice, but building a narrative and considering your audience are super important as well.

[Mosè Manni @mmanni_bio]

#BUSCOv5 (v5.4.2) now provides additional #genome assembly metrics such as assembly size, contig/scaffold N50 and %gaps to facilitate the overall quality assessment. No more need to run separate scripts to calculate these ;)

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@choldgraf @ProjectJupyter Jupyter does have its limitations for R, like not supporting the View function—its a bit of a hassle when working with large dataframes

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@looyenyi @ke_cain @mc_stanley1 @ScienceUoA Congrats Yen!!

[Rockefeller University @RockefellerUniv]

In a @ScienceMagazine perspective, the @genomeark group (@SadyePaez, @erichjarvis, @ofedrigo) discusses how high-quality reference genomes for non–model species can benefit conservation:
https://t.co/Qr3qzZBOwp

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@virginiahanusik @KendraWrites I think a lot of people also mistake hope for naïveté or toxic positivity when it comes to climate change.

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@KWhiteheadLab Its a horrible system that incentivizes exploitation, as professors have to somehow get enough “work” out of their underpaid students to justify the cost of supporting them, and makes it harder for labs to support international students who don’t qualify for national grants.

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@JacquelynGill It also reduces lives to our outputs, implying people only have worth as far as they fit into a narrow version of “productive.”

Besides, great scientists don’t act in isolation, they’re supported by mentors, peers, and students/staff who deserve freedom over their live choices.

[April Jauhal @apriljauhal]

@strnr Seconding the “Building Habits” series that @notadiabatic mentioned— it focuses on mastering the fundamentals first which is really important. Also try looking for recordings on youtube where chess streamers (eg Anna Rudolf) train others for tournaments.

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

A reminder that the megaheatwave engulfing much of the world is happening during a La Nina "cool cycle." God help us when the next El Nino hits

[Edin Whitehead @edinatw]

This morning I chatted to Kathryn Ryan about my research and the impacts of climate change on some of our seabirds. Wrap your ears around it here: https://t.co/mWyvrRy6NG