Asst Prof @ UL Lafayette in evolutionary biology. Sex chromosomes, polyploidy, genomics. New Orleans native. Volleyball player. Travel and cooking enthusiast. Toddler wrangler.
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Melissa Toups
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NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university"
Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows
NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."
"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...
“If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lo...
www.mcsweeneys.net
David M. Perry
McSweeney's
#SMBE2026
S09: New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations
🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 10:20am - Part 1
🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 1:20pm - Part 2
🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
A big preprint from my group!
Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not...
Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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KamilSJaron.bsky.social
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
My kindergartener’s school was threatened Thursday. My sweet 6 year old was huddled in behind her teacher’s desk with her friends trying not to make noise.
The same day, an instructor at her dance school was murdered in a mass shooting.
My public research university literally has a cattle ranch
Melissa Toups
Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...
The Schrider Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a postdoc in population genetics and/or phylogenetics. The successful candidate will help design and carry out projects re...
About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner ..
Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN:
“This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”