jim mallet
@WTF_R_species
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Natural history, PhD Texas, Londoner, book review editor - "Evolution." (Profile pic from Mauro Cutrona https://t.co/OyVrrvZNfk)
Joined June 2011
Neil Rosser, the best field worker I've met, has a new paper on the Amazon river as a suture zone for butterflies due to a partial barrier effect. Collaborative effort with Brazilian colleagues. Part funded by NatGeo - movie too
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A fascinating study! Over 100 potato species radiated out from a single homoploid hybrid speciation event around 8-9 My ago. The parent taxa were ancestors of the "Etuberosum" roup of Solanum (with 3 spp. today), and of the tomatoes (16 species today).
theguardian.com
Hybridisation event took place about 9 million years ago, helping to ‘spark the emergence of a new organ’
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RT @DrNeilStone: New study from Denmark 🇩🇰 of over 1.5 MILLION people who received an mRNA Covid vaccine . NO increased risk of 29 differen….
jamanetwork.com
This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.
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RT @phylogenomics: Me and my brother @mbeisen from a few weeks ago. I note - the fact that I won the competition to get the most parrots w….
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RT @highbrow_nobrow: Trump's "God Bless the USA" Bibles were printed in China despite his anti-China trade rhetoric. Around 120,000 copies….
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In my experience, paid-for blue check-mark posts are often HIGHLY deceptive, amounting to mis-information or political propaganda. Blue check-marks are a badge of dishonour among most of my twitter contacts. Stay clear of them!.
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on the legacy policy, please click here). Now, following the changes implemented to !!democratize!! the platform, accounts that have an active subscription to X Premium and are complete, active, secure and non-deceptive. .
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"About X’s blue checkmark.As has been widely reported, on 1 April 2023 we began winding down Twitter's legacy verification program. Previously, to receive the blue badge, accounts had to be authentic, active, and deemed notable by Twitter staff (for more information. .
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Harvard welcomed Ali G 21 years ago!.
21 years ago! This is mental!
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RT @eratosignis: In spite of year-to-year glitches, the trend in ice sheet cover is clearly declining since 1980.
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I didn't have time to read the article itself. If only headlines could be more informative with less.
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