Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler
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Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | phylogenomics, genome evolution | https://t.co/fHzrYV3gXC
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Joined June 2017
I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info:.
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RT @jacanamama: Happy to share our recent publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution, with @rosvall_lab, @reject_resubmit, and many more! h….
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I have some Neanderthal ancestry so actually I'm a Neanderthal and they're officially not extinct anymore. Hooray!.
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We thank the reviewer for their thoughtful comments. Unfortunately, when we attempted to implement the suggested analysis, our hard drive overheated after processing the first 60,000 rows.
@JuddLegum @elonmusk In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a.
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Human population geneticists:.
I want to know the Neanderthals so badly, with every fiber of my soul. God, I think about it all day, it's bizarrely clouding my thoughts - how much was lost? And how familiar or alien would their culture feel?.
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It's like data science 101 to not immediately jump to the conclusion of "massive fraud" whenever you see a table that looks a bit weird.
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!. Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣
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I have never been so frustrated with the TTC in my life. 2 hours to get home, much of which was spent outside on one of the coldest days of the year. Absolutely ridiculous @TTChelps.
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RT @snaild_it: Preprint with postdoc Kerry Cobb! When processes (e.g., ghost introgression) are omitted from training data, machine learnin….
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What is with all the horrendous neon courts this season.
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My postdoc work on phylogenomics of Rumex is out ahead of print in Evolution Letters!.
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Bluesky doesn't auto refresh when you're in the middle of reading a post.
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Reviewing emails from prospective grad students prompted me to go look at the emails I sent out in 2016, and that was quite an experience.
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That feels. extreme.
#Breaking: Ontario plans to bar international students from medical schools starting in 2026
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the only healthy setup for office workers is that tub of black goo the baron is always in in dune
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Bring back the Toronto-Rochester ferry for me specifically.
One potential solution to congestion and alternative transportation that doesn't get discussed enough in the Great Lakes area: the Great Lakes themselves. The region's home to 60 million people and choked with traffic. Let me get on a boat to another city. I wanna boat.
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Wait what happened at 23andme.
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RT @3rdreviewer: New review paper with @phylodrew, Mike Itgen, and @RD_Denton!. Reconsidering cytonuclear discordance in the genomic age.ht….
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I joined the professors subreddit hoping to get like, career guidance or advice but it's mostly just people complaining about how dumb they think their students are, so toxic.
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