Michael McKain

Evolutionary biologist|botanist|bioinformatician. Associate Professor @UofAlabama Biology. Curator @UofAlabama #Herbarium @CONSERVE_group Tweets are my own.

[Michael McKain @mrmckain]

Tenured! Excited to build a bigger plant biodiversity genomics program here at @UaDeptBSC!

[Matt Johnson, PhD @mossMatters]

Interested in target capture sequencing?

@madiraibullock and I are happy to announce a new service at TTU. Send us DNA, get reads enriched for your probes. Angiosperms353, GoFLAG, Compositae1061 & more!

Funds go to grad student stipends and tuition!

https://t.co/N6h13IbLFw

[James Schnable @szintri]

How to effectively write in collaborative environments. (A rant).

[Stéphane Hacquard @hacquard_st]

Our Tansley Insight is out @NewPhyt !!! https://t.co/Ph1e8iFk2A. From synthetic communities to synthetic ecosystems: exploring causalities in plant-microbe-environment interactions. Big congrats @Chesneau_G, @HerpellJohannes @mpipz_cologne #SynComs #SynEcos.

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

🧠 The system I WISH I'd had in year 1 for reading papers:

A thread about what actually works 🧵

[Kathleen Pryer @KathleenPryer]

Harvard vs Duke: A study in contrasting views on biodiversity research

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

Ancient large-scale gene duplications and diversification in #bryophytes

Shen et al. @ShenChao111 @HaoLi_Biology

📖 https://t.co/mkE8oWuW1I

[Razvan Borza @rborza_]

⚠️Here’s yet another option other than BioRender! ⚠️

📢 SciDraw is a free repository of high quality drawings of animals, scientific setups, and anything that might be useful for scientific presentations and posters.

🔁❤️Free Science! RIP BioRender!!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

ChatGPT generates fake references to papers that don't exist.

So, researchers at Stanford built Storm.

It's an AI-powered app that generates well-researched articles with references to published sources.

Here's how to use it:

[J. Frank Barefield Jr. College of Arts & Sciences @UA_BCAS]

Check out the amazing work ceramics students showcased at the Kentuck Festival of the Arts!

Read more at the link below!🏺🎨

https://t.co/73JdD2uxnv

[Michael McKain @mrmckain]

Come explore the spooky side of biology at the UA ArBOOretum on Tuesday, October 29 from 6-8PM! New activities for 2024! Return of the Trick-or-Treat Trail! @UaDeptBSC @UA_AS @uamuseums @UofAlabama @tuscaloosacity

[Matt Dancho (Business Science) @mdancho84]

This new R package is wild.

It's called ggalign. Here's what it can do:

[Xian Wu @Xiansonnet]

I’m joining @UT_Dallas as an Assistant Professor starting January 1, 2025, and I’m looking for 1–2 #PhD students to join my lab to study Climate Dynamics and Prediction. Feel free to reach out, and retweets are appreciated!

[James Schnable @szintri]

How do sorghum plants adapt to different environments? Mapping the genes controlling phenotypic plasticity for flowering time and plant height by testing 300+ sorghum varieties in eighteen different environments across the USA (14 to train and 4 to test).

[Evolutionary Genomics @evol_genomics]

Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses https://t.co/OXvCxJrbuf @systbiol

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

‼️For the Fall 2025 semester, I am looking for a PhD student to study predator-prey interactions in fossil and modern mollusks from the Isthmus of Panama as part of a collaborative @NSF-funded project. Please share widely, and get in touch if interested. @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS

[James Schnable @szintri]

Procedurally generated 3D sorghum models produce training data that teaches AI models how to segment individual leaves in photos of real plants. Really fun project with the Benes lab team at @PurdueCS. @UNL_PSI @unlagrohort (1/2)

[Moi Expósito-Alonso (#MOILAB) @MExpositoAlonso]

Very excited to see our @PNASNews paper led by @leg2015 on deep learning maps of plant species using remote sensing highlighted in Berkeley News!
https://t.co/5px7FAg9ic

@UCBerkeley @Cal #MOILAB

[Natalia Pabon Mora 🇨🇴🌿🌷 @NataliaPabonMo1]

Dear botanical friends, in our new paper we show that Rafflesiaceae and Apodanthaceae come back together! using >1000 single copy nuclear genes and rDNA. Check it out for historical facts and potential synapomorphies. #cienciacriolla #madeincolombia https://t.co/fnvggbuHf9