John Stinchcombe

Sleepaway Camp for Scientists - Macleans.ca At the Koffler Scientific Reserve’s new operations centre, researchers can stay where they study

UofT's field station, @ksrjokershill.bsky.social , in the news:

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The logic is the same about differences in relatedness.

But I'd avoid it & these 'twin' calculations entirely. Tons of hidden assumptions baked in: dominance, epistasis, G*E, shared environments being equal, interactions between additive effects and any of these, effects of assortative mating...

One of America’s Great Traditions Is Dying. I’ll Never Let It. Not Now That I Have Proof I Was Right All Along. There’s still time to get on the right side of history.

Dan Kois deep dive on … bar soap? Heck yeah

The humble bar of soap used to define the American way. Now it’s dying. I will not let it go down without a fight. slate.com/life/2026/02...

Not genomics, but I **LOVED** a versatile piece of software for matrix operations, life cycles, permutation and randomization testing, and basic stats... PopTools, an add-in for 32 bit Excel on Windows.

It was great for teaching and early students, user-friendly, and efficient.

You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.

Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files PALO ALTO, CA - The generative artificial intelligence Grok, which recently made headlines for creating user-directed underage pornography, has expressed "profound uneasiness" at being associated with...

Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.

The ass kissing of Trump by execs of Apple and Amazon and others coupled with ongoing silence from many in the tech and biotech and science areas about ICE and related evil activities is extremely disappointing.

thanks.. so kind, and glad it made an impression!

The Spandrels paper should only be read with Mayr's Am Nat response, How to Carry Out the Adaptationist Programme, and of course: Lande and Arnold 1983.

L & A '83 was a direct antidote as far as selection is concerned. It can be measured, correlated traits distinguished, we can do experiments..

Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

Super intuitive to have the configuration options spread across 5 locations, with partial redundancy, and some of them opening a web-browser with a slightly different set of options.

I'd like to thank Slack for hiding configuration tools in : 1, the workspace name & its menus; 2, the gear icon next to the workspace name; 3, the Admin gear icon in the left navigation panel ; 4, the three horizontal lines on the top left (on a PC); 5, the question mark icon on the right.

Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies WASHINGTON D.C. – Following a whirlwind week at Davos, and despite backtracking on threats to annex Greenland, US President Donald Trump is still threatening to tariff Champagne to keep people from pa...

Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies

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Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?

"The power of the less powerful begins with honesty."

Bravo, and well-said, Mr. Carney.

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

A pattern of escalating, unnecessary violence:

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New paper in Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻

Andrew Gelman: “I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing…has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root.”

A resurrection experiment reveals reduced adaptive potential in a common agricultural weed Adaptive evolution is critical to population responses under accelerating anthropogenic global change. Although theory and some empirical work suggest that contemporary rates of environmental change c...

Newly posted updates to recent resurrection work from the lab, led by Sasha Bishop (w/ @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social )

International Research Recruitment | Vice-Principal (Research) Join Canada’s next generation of research leaders  In response to the federal government’s suite of international talent attraction initiatives, Queen’s University is actively recruiting outstanding i...

Canadian universities received a big federal funding package to recruit international research leaders. Here is the call at my university, Queen's University, Ontario. If you are looking to move to Canada, this is the time!
First round of review begins January 9, 2026
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The Entomological Society of Canada is a fantastic supporter of grad students. Congrats Yaseen 🎉 @canentomologist.bsky.social
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Mitchell-Olds and Shaw pointed this out in the context of estimating selection gradients years ago....

yep, and how often does it need to be pointed out that without randomization and replication, those cov terms cannot be safely assumed away to zero.....

Took me a year (😱), but I finally published a blog post about our article on the #quantgen variance partition of phenitypic plasticity with @lmchev.bsky.social, published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social.

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Postdoctoral Fellowship - DSI DSI Postdoctoral Fellowships support multi/interdisciplinary training and collaborative research in data sciences.

Data sciences postdoc fellowship in EEB @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 23 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
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