Bayesian Variable Selection Approaches to Identifying Selection in Evolutionary Datasets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.19.760252v1

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Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.

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Please help spread the word -- our UM-EEB museums is hiring a digital artist/graphic designer to work with our communications team and create scientific illustrations for publications. Come work with us! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Baldur's Gate 2: I really did NOT see this coming. The Yoshimo betrayal at Spellhold is a great rug-pull. Also SUPER annoying if he's the only thief in your party (Imoen is not sufficiently got at thieving to be a replacement).

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Our paper "Non-adaptive evolutionary forces predominantly shape nucleotide composition near human transcription start sites" has been published at PLOS Biology. We show that some of the main features found at the start of our genes are due to transcription-associated mutations and recombination.

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