Last week was Jeli’s public PhD defence! The defence went really well and we wish Jeli all the best of luck in the future as she starts her postdoc with Tanja Schwander.
Congrats!
Jeli graduates!
Popgroup!
Last week was Popgroup 57 up in St Andrews. It was really good to attend one of these in person again to chat science and catch up. The quality of the talks was also really high, leaving us full of ideas for the future!
Looking forward to next year!
New Preprint!
The genome of the dyeing poison frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) is riddled with TEs!
Our fly room is up and running!
After *quite* a long wait our fly lab is now ready for use!
Excited to get some projects going at last!
New preprint!
Our new preprint looks at how differences in decision-making by researchers influence the results they report. This paper had 100s of researchers independently analyse two datasets and report their findings. Surprisingly, this resulted in a nearly continuous set of reported effect sizes across a wide range!
What to do about this problem is less clear – maybe multiple analyses per dataset? Model averaging? Have multiple researchers analyse each dataset?
Each of these solutions is far from perfect and it will be interesting to see how the field reacts to this paper.
New students!
Two new MRes students start in the lab this week!
Ian Green – who will be identifying genes that change in expression in response to cold in Drosophila.
Willow Legg – Willow will be looking at phenotypic plasticity in sun beetles (Pachnoda marginata).
A big welcome to both!
Our preprint has now been published in Proc B!
Our preprint on cryptic sex in Timema populations has now been published in Proc B!
A number of media outlets including Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and The Times picked up this paper.
Congrats again to all authors for getting out this super cool paper!
Our preprint has now been published in Nature Communications!
Our preprint on the consequences of nematode infection on ants has now been published in Nature Communications.
Congrats to all authors on producing such a cool paper and thanks to Zimai Li and Yuko Ulrich for letting me be involved!
Preprint now published in the Peer Community Journal!
Our preprint on Facultative parthenogenesis in Timema is now published in the Peer Community Journal!
Congrats again to Chloé Larose and Guillaume Lavanchy for leading this super-cool paper!
New incubators arrive!
After a long wait, my new incubators arrived yesterday! Now we just have to wait until the new insect room is ready for them…