Dan Schrider
@SamurSciCop
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An aquatic ape studying population genetics at the University of North Carolina.
Chapel Hill, NC
Joined April 2016
Latest (but not last!) from former postdoc (and former X user) Will Booker is now out at Am Nat. Polyploidy, range expansion, and genetic load! Check it out:
journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract Despite newly formed polyploids being subjected to myriad fitness consequences, the relative prevalence of polyploidy, both contemporarily and in ancestral branches of the tree of life,...
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RT @rachanadpradhan: "People will die". The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research are causing unprecedented upheava….
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The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded...
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RT @leo_speidel: Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! .Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - rang….
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RT @manorlaboratory: My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to shar….
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RT @ScienceMagazine: The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an….
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RT @AuschwitzMuseum: "Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silenc….
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RT @vikkypaedia: This is crazy…!😂. Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations. @Microbi….
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Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…
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RT @pastramimachine: Really excited about our lab's latest paper led by @KevinKorfmann. Here, Kevin has developed a deep, transformer-based….
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Probabilistic models such as the sequentially Markovian coalescent (SMC) have long provided a powerful framework for population genetic inference, enabling reconstruction of demographic history and...
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RT @dr_andrealove: Hodgkin’s lymphoma had a 56% survival in the 1970s. Today, survival rate is 87%. Thanks to:.Chemotherapies.Scientific….
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RT @pastramimachine: just released v0.1.7 of discoal -- a coalescent simulator that specialized in of models selective sweeps. huge perfo….
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v0.1.7 - Memory Optimization Release This release brings significant memory and performance optimizations to discoal while maintaining 100% backward compatibility. This serves as a transitional rel...
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RT @harrysiegel: “Far from being broken, New York is fundamentally a miracle, offering daily testimony to our ability to overcome the worst….
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RT @drugmonkeyblog: I am not that happy with those who are going to do things that support the attacks on science in a hope that their long….
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And yes I know things are already broken, but it WILL get worse.
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Now is the perfect time to cast yourself as the savior of science so that when the events already set in motion come to a head and the system completely breaks you can tell everyone "You should have listened to me!" even though this has nothing to do with your pet grievance.
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RT @TessaFerrari: Final version of our paper on scaling in SLiM now published in @GenomeBiolEvol !. We’ve added some new results comparing….
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Abstract. Scaling is a common practice in population genetic simulations to increase computational efficiency. However, few studies systematically examine
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RT @MikeMitchNH: DOGE tech bro admits that he wrongly assumed the government had lots of fraud because the big private sector companies he….
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RT @BenMazer: In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes….
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In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes
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RT @GeneticsGSA: New research in #GENETICS provides new insights into the origin and early evolution of de novo genes by leveraging large-s….
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RT @ras_nielsen: Preliminary program now available for ProbGen 2026: We have an amazing set of speakers let by our….
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