MSCA fellow, postdoc @uva.nl UvA Amsterdam, interested in the ecology, evolution, and behaviour of 🐜 and other insects; enjoys hiking in the mountains 🏔️👟; #scicomm; http://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org; www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-krapf-91918a413
Patrick Krapf
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postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!).
details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
2) We argue that global change does not just erode species barriers – it can also create conditions where hybrid lineages persist & matter for biodiversity.
At the “grey zone” of speciation, hybridization can create both costs and benefits for fitness, and global change can tip the balance.
Gideon Bradburd
3) We predict that when incompatibilities are purged and environments differ from parental habitats, hybrids’ higher genetic diversity and plasticity in the phenotype and behavior can let them outcompete parents or persist where parents become extinct, helping preserve genetic diversity.
A pancreatic cancer drug has been called "transformative" after it doubled survival time among people with a particularly severe form of the condition.
Patrick Krapf
Heute endet der meteorologische Frühling und er war der allerwärmste seit Messbeginn im Jahre 1850. In allen drei Monaten (März, April, Mai) lagen die Temperaturen über dem Durchschnitt, nur Mitte Mai gab es eine kürzere kühle Phase. Geregnet hat es nur 40-50 % der normalen Menge.
1) So happy to share our latest preprint 😀 🥳by Thomas Blankers, Jonna Kulmuni, and me:
“Do the benefits of hybridization outweigh the costs under conditions of global change?”
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
@uva.nl @helsinki.fi
#hybridization #globalchange #evolution
#speciation #biodiversity
Looks like one of those terrifying 2050 #climate projection graphics, but no, that’s a short-term forecast for France until… May 29th.
Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.”
When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything!
(Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us!
uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
Patrick Krapf
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
