Moritz Blumer
@MoritzBlumer
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@SecRubio This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.
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The AfD - the very political party Elon Musk prominently supported during the German election campaign - has now been classified as right-wing extremist by Germany's federal office for the protection of the constitution. This is how bad it is. And people should know.
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These aren’t dire wolves. Dire wolves are a completely different genus that originated in the Americas. These are just gray wolves with a handful of dire wolf genes. The genetic science here is cool, but presenting it this way is incredibly dishonest. But hey, that’s Colossal!
SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024. The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using
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After 9/11, NATO's Article 5 was invoked for the first (and only) time ever by the United States. Troops from the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Poland, Norway, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine,
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I have no words for this other than that it hurts incredibly to witness what is happening to the US. https://t.co/AVQZBdoukx
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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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I wonder: Are the people of the proud democracy and great science nation USA just going to sit back and watch as it is dismantled by a bunch of rampant billionaires? https://t.co/7WcjV1HDl2
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An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”
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@c_lindner Hoffen und Beten als Antwort auf die größte Gefahr unserer Zeit. Hoffen und Beten, dass die nächsten Fluten nicht kommen. Hoffen und Beten, dass bei der nächsten Hitzewelle nicht Tausende sterben. Ich weiß ja nicht.
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Preprint is out! We investigated the genomic diversity and evolutionary history of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes, one of the main species transmitting human malaria across Africa. Here’s a visual summary. Art by @petrathepostdoc . 1/8 https://t.co/D08iLpuIGG
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In this preprint, Regev Schweiger, Richard Durbin and I discuss ancient (>5 million years ago) hominin demography https://t.co/aMlZEsf63H
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Coalescent-based methods are widely used to infer population size histories, but existing analyses have limited resolution for deep time scales ( > 2 million years ago). Here we extend the scope of...
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New publication alert! I am thrilled to announce that my new paper has just been published, and is open-access! It presents the first survey of variation in much of the cichlid skeleton behind the head. https://t.co/ZwaaJ6jDCx
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The first paper from my PhD "A whole-body micro-CT scan library that captures the skeletal diversity of Lake Malawi cichlid fishes" ( https://t.co/s9KjHTI86p) has been published in Scientific Data! Thank you to my supervisors @BertaVerd and Roger Benson for their support!
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Scientific Data - A whole-body micro-CT scan library that captures the skeletal diversity of Lake Malawi cichlid fishes
My first manuscript (!) is now ready and accessible here: https://t.co/sM74lgkaOz. We describe a whole-body uCT-scan dataset of 56 species (116 individuals) of Lake Malawi cichlid fishes. It's been a huge effort and I'm really happy to finally be able to share it.
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Species limits and hybridization in Andean leaf-eared mice (Phyllotis) https://t.co/HmJIqoWExF
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Few days left to apply for PhD or Postdoc positions on comparative genomics to understand long healthspan and disease resistance in bats, as part of our ERC synergy #BATPROTECT.
#JobAlert. PhD and Postdoc positions in comparative #genomics. Join our #ERC synergy project #BATPROTECT to uncover the mechanisms behind bats' long healthspan & disease resistance. More info https://t.co/OdzEmrd8kn *Please RT.* #ResearchOpportunity #ScienceJobs @LOEWE_TBG
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What a day 🤗 discussing cichlid research with close collaborators across the UK, Switzerland and Malawi. A big thank you to Bettina, @richard_durbin and @MoritzBlumer for organising! #cichlidscience @Cambridge_SBS @CamZoology @GeneticsCam
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Gene Myers just released super fast whole genome aligner https://t.co/BE5j13d9Q7. He and @c1zhou and I have lots of ideas for downstream use.
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Our new preprint is up - “Insights into non-crossover recombination from long-read sperm sequencing”! https://t.co/uNpDjrMDwq Thread: 1/
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Meiotic recombination is a fundamental process that generates genetic diversity by creating new combinations of existing alleles. Although human crossovers have been studied at the pedigree, popula...
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Check out our new preprint about the role (and origin) of large polymorphic inversions across dozens of Malawi cichlid species! 🐟🧬
Our new preprint is out: Introgression dynamics of-sex linked chromosomal inversions shapes the Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation https://t.co/dTjPpBQZcz
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