Scientist, Speciation Genomicist, & Population Geneticist | Postdoc in the Brandvain + Springer Labs | Equity in STEM | Higher Ed Policy | She/Her 🏳️🌈♑️
St. Paul, MN
Joined December 2017
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I had literally no idea what I was doing when I applied for this last year. Something that helped was looking at the applications of other folks. I'm paying it forward by making my (successful 😛) application publicly available: github.com/mam737/Applicatio… #NSFPRFB
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Last year, when we surveyed current and previous NSF PRFB Fellows, several respondents talked about how the lack of employee status many Fellows experience directly exacerbates these exact challenges. - 1/5
Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold.
Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI
Relatedly, w/o clear employment status, some Fellows who were trying to buy a house were explicitly told their income could not be considered in determining whether they qualified for a loan. Once again, this caused folks to leave the fellowship + sometimes academia entirely. 4/5
OH. MY. GOD. The sequel I didn't even know I was waiting for. Also, kudos on making 24 (~70%) of the new palettes colorblind-friendly. This is almost a 50% increase in the proportion of overall palettes that are colorblind-friendly compared to MetBrewer!
✨✨ New Package ✨✨
Happy to announce that I am soft launching another R color palette package, {MoMAColors} today! Currently has 35 palettes based around artwork at @MuseumModernArt.
Download Instruction and Palettes here: github.com/BlakeRMills/MoMAC…
#r4ds #dataviz #rstats
It’s that time of year again! If you’re thinking of applying for an #NSF #PRFB my application material can be found here - github.com/mam737/Applicatio…
A few things I didn’t know before applying… (1/4)
Many institutions DO NOT consider NSF PRFB Fellows employees. This has to do with how the fellowship is dispensed to awardees. This means that we are often denied key employee benefits (like health insurance 😬, retirement, even parking)… (3/4)
Hopping on the bandwagon. Find me so I can find you 😋 — manishamuna.bsky.social
Another very successful year at the MN State Fair! An AMAZING few days w/ @yanivbrandvain, @amartin18 , and @AndyRaduski (PC) even though I didn’t leave with an ornamental chicken
🚨New Preprint Alert 🚨 @yanivbrandvain & I ask when and how recessive lethality can adaptively evolve on a chromosomes that selfishly distorter meiotic segregation? More in the 🧵 - 1/14
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Our results support an adaptive explanation for lethal t-haplotype evolution. Reproductive compensation likely influences the evolution of other segregation distorters+meiotic drivers. Our results clearly demonstrate that inbreeding can further facilitate their evolution! - 13/14
