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Jeff Dudycha

@JLDudycha

Evolutionary jack-of-all-trades in Soda City. Diversification, life history, phenotypic plasticity, & vision— mostly with Daphnia. Plus mutant music, & ethics.

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Joined October 2013
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I just reviewed a ms for a journal I wasn't very familiar with, but knew that it was a real, long-standing journal in a field adjacent to mine. I was gobsmacked to find that during review submission I had to rate the manuscript on a scale of 1-5 stars.
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Eric Topol
@EricTopolSep 2
Genetics and the big 5 personality traits: quantified and more heritable than generally appreciated, genomic loci (GWAS) identified for each —Extraversion —Agreeableness —Conscientiousness —Neuroticism —Openness to experience nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Our latest paper is out in Environmental #Epigenetics! We discovered unexpected crosstalk among the different classes of DNMTs, particularly with DNMT1 and DNMT3. Effects of RNAi-by-feeding on DNA methyltransferases in Daphnia pulex academic.oup.com/eep/article…
Effects of RNAi-by-feeding on DNA methyltransferases in Daphnia pulex

Effects of RNAi-by-feeding on DNA methyltransferases in Daphnia pulex

Abstract. DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) are well-characterized epigenetic enzymes responsible for transferring methyl groups to and from DNA. Three main D

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newsweek.com/america-lakes-s…
America’s lakes are shrinking. Data centers are being built nearby

America’s lakes are shrinking. Data centers are being built nearby

America's shrinking Western lakes are colliding with an AI data-center boom, fueling new concerns over water scarcity.

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Limnology meets national news: theatlantic.com/politics/202… Too bad @TheAtlantic didn't ask the right kind of scientist. The solution for a Scenedesmus bloom is simple: add large-bodied #Daphnia, then wait a few days. #AskALimnologist
Science Has a Name for What’s Plaguing the Reflecting Pool

Science Has a Name for What’s Plaguing the Reflecting Pool

Testing reveals that efforts to suppress one algal bloom seem to be fueling another.

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The title is a bit of a misdirection wrt the content of the interview. The interview is definitely worth reading. Opinion | Nicholas Christakis Doesn't Want to Talk About Halloween chronicle.com/article/nichol…
Opinion | Nicholas Christakis Doesn’t Want to Talk About Halloween

Opinion | Nicholas Christakis Doesn’t Want to Talk About Halloween

The Yale professor wants to be known for his scholarship. The culture war has other ideas.

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En su primera convocatoria, la Sociedad Chilena de Limnología anuncia la realización de su XVIII Congreso del 03 al 07 d3 noviembre de 2026 en la Universidad Concepción, Concepción. @NeolimnosRCL @AB_limno @RLimnologia
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Apparently, BlackBoard Ultra is so difficult to use that hackers didn't bother to try attacking it.
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First-author paper representing years of work on HPV16 — the most carcinogenic human papillomavirus — has been officially ACCEPTED at Nature Communications! So excited to share our findings once it’s out. These folks truly make the world go ‘round 💕
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Five Socratic-based questions to improve your thinking. 1/2 5. What would it take to change your mind? Be specific. 4. If your best reason for believing that was false, would you still believe? (That's called a "real reason check".)
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Must get #Daphnia from these lakes, declare them to be a new species, and name it Daphnia etalius.
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@theepicmapMay 3
Canadian lake naming is on another level in British Columbia.
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Genomes are not plastic. "Genome plasticity" is a misleading, confusing term.
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Congratulations to Hungary, one of my ancestral homelands
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Jason Locasale
@LocasaleLabApr 12
Biology is still mostly undiscovered. The hard part is asking better questions.
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USC biologist Beth Krizek shows that your major doesn’t have to define you. After earning a Ph.D. in chemistry, she followed her curiosity into plant biology and is now a fellow of the @aaas thanks to her groundbreaking research. @UofSCBiology Read more bit.ly/4mpK3SM
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ALT A person is carefully examining and tending to small green plants under a microscope in a laboratory setting. The individual is using a tool to adjust the plants, which are in a small container. They are wearing a denim shirt and a lanyard.

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I think my lab should cancel all of our planned research to start studying the disease Bixonimania. I'm sure RFKjr is going to allocate vast sums to research on curing this devastating, horrible, and just plain gross disease with apple cider vinegar and earthsalt.
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I think students fail to appreciate just how brave they are being when they submit a manuscript for review. It's like being a nude model for an art class... and then asking the artists to judge you.
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Only 58 generations? Shoulda been working with #Daphnia
Niko McCarty. (@NikoMcCarty) profile pictureNiko McCarty.
@NikoMcCartyMar 26
Scientists in Japan cloned mice for 58 generations. In other words, they cloned a mouse, took a cell from that cloned mouse, and repeated this again and again for 20 years. Clones were healthy through ~generation 28, but then the viability started to drop off.
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So does this mean that lesbians are more likely to have straight sons? Drill down and .... oh, look! It's a frontiersin dot org paper!
Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) profile pictureSteve Stewart-Williams
@SteveStuWillMar 28
A new meta-analysis canvassing more than 200,000 participants concluded that lesbians are typically exposed to higher levels of testosterone in the womb than straight women, whereas gay men are typically exposed to lower levels than straight men. [Link below.]
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Two days ago, I determined that this bottle of algae contained 2,843,000 cells/mL of Ankistrodesmus falcatus, thus advancing the frontiers of human knowledge into heretofore unknown realms. #Science #Philosophy #Quotidium
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