akfraik.bsky.social
Research scientist | Evolution, pop gen & conservation genomics | views & typos are my own | 🐟🐺🧬
👤 Joined on 07 October 2023
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@akfraik.bsky.socialNow that we have moved coasts, I am thrilled to share that the ChromEvo (Raman) lab is officially open at UMass Boston 🎉 We ask how CHROMatin EVOlution leads to functional innovation and we are hiring at multiple levels. Read on and share with folks who maybe interested chromevoramanlab.github.io
Show PostTo be Young, Black and Gifted yall… Shout out to the students at North Carolina A&T University. They were stripped of their polling station on campus so they all marched together the nearest one to vote early. They are the future that gives me hope. 👏🏾🤩✨🇺🇸
Show PostDrone photographer Theresa Graham (tgraham.photography on IG) captured this Ornate Eagle Ray (Aetomylaeus vespertilio) off Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. These rays are called the "unicorn of the sea": fewer than 100 sighting have been documented. We suspect they're critically endangered.
Show Post📣 We have a new paper out! 📣 Multi-Taxa Genome-Environment Associations With Contemporary and Historical Climate in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A brief explainer 🧵
Show PostThis paper includes more: IRT linkage maps, local ancestry analyses to find introgression cold spots, and tests of recombination suppression across inversions and chromosome fusions! It provides a framework for studying intra- and interspecific hybridization when genome structure is known a priori.
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