Dr. Alex Walton

Alex Walton the Evolution Sultan. Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta. For tweets about movies/pop culture see my other account: @MaltyWalton

[Malty Walty 🪳 @MaltyWalton]

They don't make it easy to cancel your @StreamOnMax account.

[Amy Lynn Toth @Amy_L_Toth]

New paper! We can do functional genomics to study how genes affect behavior in wild, non-model organisms— but it takes lots of dedication.

Congrats to @evolutionsultan and kudos for the dedication to making this possible in social wasps!

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@GangloffLab_OWU True, I remember that! I was thinking more fictional (or based on someone) characters in a story.

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

Has there ever been a postdoc in a movie?

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@BobLiterman Who me???

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

If you’re into scary movies, listen to ⁦@GreenLeftArrow⁩ and I discuss The Exorcist III in the latest episode of ⁦@guyswerescrewed⁩! https://t.co/lZJXZ3c8Sl

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@IDsignals Thank you!

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

To celebrate my b-day, look at our manuscript in @InsSociaux! We report our successes and less-than-successes when developing RNAi in paper wasps. Of special interest to anyone considering RNAi in non-model systems. @Amy_L_Toth @IDsignals @AndrewGuinness
https://t.co/INPA8ILmnP

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@IDsignals If you need to speed along one of the dinners so you can get back to the other, ask if you can have a bite of their dinner and then quickly scarf down the whole meal.

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

Blinding reviewers to a manuscript's authors is a nice idea, but it's nearly impossible to not figure out whose paper I'm reviewing from the species, location, and questions being addressed.

[Malty Walty 🪳 @MaltyWalton]

Free promo poster for Scream VI: Ghostface Takes Manhattan

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

I got a job offer and a paper accepted and my lab mates and I just won the departmental biology trivia night! Good day!

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

My top 10 comedy series

[Malty Walty 🪳 @MaltyWalton]

My top 10 comedy series:

10. Venture Bros
9. I Think You Should Leave
8. Cheers
7. Workaholics
6. Party Down
5. Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
4. Seinfeld
3. Arrested Development
2. Frasier
1. Curb Your Enthusiasm

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@bhjuarez Crap probably, haha. I basically just advertised to all the editors desperately looking for reviewers that they can guilt me into doing it.

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@bhjuarez That's true. If I know the editor, I have a much harder time saying no (and by "hard time saying no", I mean I always say "yes").

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@bhjuarez I still end up reviewing more than I publish, but I'm adopting a '23 policy of only saying yes to free reviewing for society journals (especially societies I'm a member of).

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@bhjuarez Journals have enjoyed being the key-holders of our most important currency for long enough that they know they can keep us hostage to their system. Refusing to review for free is one of the better tools we have to force a change!

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

@GreenLeftArrow And I’m the ultimate bug guy

[Dr. Alex Walton @evolutionsultan]

Comedies are a thing of the past.

[Malty Walty 🪳 @MaltyWalton]

Cool pinned tweet. Yet they couldn’t even wait until the end of Black History Month to cancel South Side @southsidechi.