tomomi parins-fukuchi

i use computers to answer questions about evolution. asst. prof. @eebtoronto he/him

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

@LabSpiritu @phylieu Well it is unfortunate things didn't go differently. I hope that you feel satisfied in having said your side with the counter-reply (which I agree, also raises fair points) as well and thanks for engaging me here in good faith

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

@LabSpiritu @phylieu I can understand that frustration. I think with these kinds of situations, it's easy to get caught up in the argument and forget that there are people behind these papers that we agree or disagree with. All of our work is flawed, and discussing this publicly is hard

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

@phylieu @LabSpiritu The suggestion is that extant phylogenies are ill-suited for this type of inquiry due to their fundamental lack of information on extinction. This is a reasonable statement that the authors have not really meaningfully rebutted beyond defensiveness and name-calling

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

@phylieu @LabSpiritu I agree that it is rude, but it is also unfounded. I don't think there is anything in the critique that is anti-curious, but rather offers several very reasonable critiques of the particular means of addressing the curious question of the KPg in plants

[Nat Walker-Hale @phylonatworks]

Really excited to join @Chomicki_G @DurBiol and get stuck in to a fascinating new system!

[James G. Saulsbury @jgsaulsbury]

New 📰 out in @PNASNews! Age-dependent extinction and the neutral theory of biodiversity (w/ greats @tomopfuku, Connor J. Wilson, Trond Reitan, & @lhliow)
https://t.co/G2HKAoeiLi

[Kjetil Lysne Voje @KLVoje]

I am very proud! The Phenotypic Evolution Time Series (PETS) database is now online!

https://t.co/bOsquEhUxM

PETS is a public database containing data on phenotypic change within (fossil and contemporary) lineages.

Why did we make it? A short 🧵

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

@pastramimachine i think that would depend on the probability of budding. i would guess that usually that is the process people are invoking when they make such claims. i'm sure there is a lot to discuss there, but i'm not sure that it is useful to flippantly dismiss such things.

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

Super stoked to welcome you to the lab and @eebtoronto community @EricHagen19!!!

[Eric Hagen @EricHagen19]

I’m extremely happy to announce that in August I’ll be starting a postdoc with @tomopfuku at the University of Toronto! I’m excited for the adventure of working on really cool new projects in a new country 🇨🇦

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

I am excited about this one. It covers some ideas I've been kicking around about how we might integrate pop gen concepts and tools to get a bit closer to process in the fossil record. It also integrates both fossil crinoids and mammals, which are pretty cool.

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

New preprint! "Sorting of persistent morphological polymorphisms links paleobiological pattern to population process" https://t.co/iXJE7DHkcR

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

@DevoEvoMed Hard agree. So many of my students seem to come up with mentors repeating this axiom to them, but I think the biggest factor holding us back rn is that we are not yet good enough at interrogating patterns from complex and large data (i.e., step 1)

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

@PhillipCompeau Serving the job market is not the most aspirational, or even most important, goal of an undergraduate degree. The increasingly myopic focus on technical skills and disregard for intellectual depth/breadth are equally (imo far more) troubling

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

I am recruiting a postdoc to work on an NSF-funded, multi-institutional collaborative project developing new computational approaches to understand the drivers of phenotypic innovation in Cretaceous plants!! Details here: https://t.co/h4qCdqpJqz

[Alvarado-Serrano Lab @AlvaradoS_Lab]

I'm also recruiting motivated grad students (Master and PhD) interested in spatial population genetics, conservation genomics, and/or evolutionary responses to environmental change

[Jeremy Beaulieu @phylieu]

A new preprint from my group examining the interaction between climate and life-strategies across a large number of independent clades. Really nice work from @jboyko21 @ehagen and @TNCVasconcelos !

https://t.co/A2doXJcTgo

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

apply to work with an excellent scientist doing cool stuff in a great department!!!

[Jacqueline Sztepanacz @jsztepanacz]

My lab @eebtoronto is recruiting a postdoc to study the evolution of genetic variation using Drosophila as a model system. Full ad here: https://t.co/PqsOhpqpBZ. Thanks for RT #quantgen #drosophila #evolution #genetics

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

quick personal interjection for those who don't know yet-- i now go by my japanese given name, tomomi, and he/him pronouns.

[Jake Berv @jakeberv]

Happy to share a new pre-print with Sonal Singhal, @fieldpalaeo @phylonatworks @sean_w_mchugh J. R. Shipley @EliotITMiller @RKimball_UF @EdwardLBraun1 Alex Dornburg, @tomopfuku Richard Prum @Friedman_Lab and @evoblackrim
🧵 @UMichEEB @UMichPaleo
https://t.co/5anC4NogLi

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

@phylieu best i can do is $11k canadian. so about $10 american

[tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku]

anyone have leads on where/how i might be able to acquire a stash of old (70's-80's) paleobiology back issues?