Asst Prof at @UUtah. Genomics, evolution, anthropology, primatology, herpetology, bioinformatics. All opinions are my own.
Salt Lake City, UT
Joined August 2012
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I am looking for a graduate student to join my lab at the U. of Utah starting 2023! Candidates interested in ethnographic and biocultural research on human behavior, health and energetics especially encouraged to apply. More details: bioanth.org/jobs/3426/
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Our new genomics paper on the adaptive evolution of cebids (capuchin and squirrel monkeys) was published in PNAS today
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One of my dissertation chapters is now out at PNAS! Check it out 😎 pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pn…
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Happy to share a new preprint on the evolutionary history of bonobos and chimpanzees using genomic data. Brief thread to follow 👇 (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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I’ve been feeling pretty nervous about this blog post coming out
It took me months to put words to what I had to go through in grad school and this final draft still only represents a fraction of it
But I hope it's useful to anyone who’s going through something similar
New blog: Harm masquerading as help: Isolation, Abuse and Crisis in Grad School by Tina Lasisi (@TinaLasisi)
"They convinced me that I had lost my mind and that I couldn’t trust my own recollection of events."
#AcademicMentalHealth #AcademicChatter
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If you haven’t already checked out @TinaLasisi and colleagues brilliant new paper on hair phenotyping, I strongly suggest you do so! nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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New paper alert! Sifakas' leaf-eating habits run all the way to their genes, but a flexible diet may give them unforeseen advantages. Today in @ScienceAdvances. By @goguevara, with Lydia Greene and @theyoderlab @DukeBiology.
Paper: duke.is/9Ep1C6
today.duke.edu/2021/04/flexi…
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#Primate_omics journal club is back on 3/3 to discuss primate immune genes. I will highlight recent work on #Alouatta Toll like receptor 7 and 8 during the recent S American yellow fever outbreak by Nicole S Torosin @TimWebster17 and co. DM to join.
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And a reminder that in Utah you can do this in the morning and still make your lunch meeting (virtually and eventually in-person)
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New preprint is up! A huge thank you to my coauthors/mentors for all their help and support: Frances White, @MolecAnth, and @TimWebster17. Thanks also to @pastramimachine for answering my many bioinformatics questions 😅 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… – at Eugene, OR
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Dear colleagues in academia, if you’re frustrated about ongoing shutdowns and productivity loss in your lab this year (and next year), do me a favor: write it all down. Then look at these notes every time you review a grant or tenure case for a junior colleague for the next 3 yrs
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EXCLUSIVE: For the past 105 years, the team was called the Indians. That will be no more as Cleveland has decided to change its name. Announcement from team could come as early as this week. w/@DavidWaldstein nytimes.com/2020/12/13/sport…
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my code better start doing what i want it to do instead of what i'm telling it to do
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So this *finally* happened:
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New preprint led by @TinaLasisi, who did an incredible job developing a really cool new method for efficiently and objectively quantifying hair fiber morphology.
Article: doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.24.3…
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Incoming PhD students: joining a new PI's lab as their first graduate student could be one of your best career choices. Lots of 1:1 mentoring, seeing how a lab is built first hand, tons of other advantages. The opposite of a red flag.
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Apps due soon, spread the word!
The Ben Barres Fellowship is a $2000-$5000 award for professional development of trans, intersex, and non-binary graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in STEM.
The application deadline is September 30, 2020.
noglstp.org/programs.../ben-…
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A shoutout to join this wonderful journal club on Evolutionary Genetics (Humans/Primates) organised by @TimWebster17 and @alanrrogers. Had the pleasure with @kwangwangk yesterday to present our African aDNA paper. Great questions and atmosphere!
In case anyone missed our original announcements, @alanrrogers and I are hosting a journal club on the evolutionary genetics of humans and other primates. Meetings are on Mondays (via Zoom) and open to anyone who's interested. More info here: content.csbs.utah.edu/~roger… (1/2)
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At the start of the 2008 field season at El Parque El Piñalito in the Misiones province in NE Argentina, Ilaria Agostini knew something was terribly wrong. She knows El Piñalito's two howler monkey species—brown and black & gold howlers—better than anyone in the world. (thread)
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Paper #2 from my PhD research is officially published! @TimWebster17 authors.elsevier.com/a/1baBu…
#howlermonkeys #yellowfever #virus #selection #phylogenetics
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The AAAG commits itself to advocate for and enact structural change within our organization, the academy, and society. Read the rest of the exec committee statement here: anthgen.org/2020/06/09/a-sta…