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

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Tenured! Excited to build a bigger plant biodiversity genomics program here at @UaDeptBSC!.
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RT @mossMatters: Interested in target capture sequencing?. @madiraibullock and I are happy to announce a new service at TTU. Send us DNA, g….
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RT @szintri: How to effectively write in collaborative environments. (A rant).
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RT @hacquard_st: Our Tansley Insight is out @NewPhyt !!! From synthetic communities to synthetic ecosystems: explo….
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RT @JessicaSacher: 🧠 The system I WISH I'd had in year 1 for reading papers:. A thread about what actually works 🧵.
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RT @KathleenPryer: Harvard vs Duke: A study in contrasting views on biodiversity research
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RT @NewPhyt: Ancient large-scale gene duplications and diversification in #bryophytes. Shen et al. @ShenChao111 @HaoLi_Biology. 📖 https://t….
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RT @rborza_: ⚠️Here’s yet another option other than BioRender! ⚠️. 📢 SciDraw is a free repository of high quality drawings of animals, scie….
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RT @MushtaqBilalPhD: ChatGPT generates fake references to papers that don't exist. So, researchers at Stanford built Storm. It's an AI-po….
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RT @UA_AS: Check out the amazing work ceramics students showcased at the Kentuck Festival of the Arts!. Read more at the link below!🏺🎨. htt….
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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
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RT @mdancho84: This new R package is wild. It's called ggalign. Here's what it can do:
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RT @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….
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RT @zoemig: Please share--. I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab @AcadiaU. Background in genomics/bioinformatics, but study system is f….
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RT @szintri: How do sorghum plants adapt to different environments? Mapping the genes controlling phenotypic plasticity for flowering time….
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RT @paleoadiel: ‼️For the Fall 2025 semester, I am looking for a PhD student to study predator-prey interactions in fossil and modern mollu….
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RT @szintri: Procedurally generated 3D sorghum models produce training data that teaches AI models how to segment individual leaves in phot….
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RT @MExpositoAlonso: Very excited to see our @PNASNews paper led by @leg2015 on deep learning maps of plant species using remote sensing….
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Citizen scientists can help monitor the state's plants in the face of global change
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RT @NataliaPabonMo1: Dear botanical friends, in our new paper we show that Rafflesiaceae and Apodanthaceae come back together! using >1000….
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RT @CterminiPhD: More than just speaker panels: I'm tired of homogeny within leadership positions, grant awardees, new hires, scientists in….
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