@vermiformes.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Biology - Wheaton College Massachusetts
Marine Parasitologist | Ailurophile | New Yorker | Horror-writer
Davinack Lab: https://departments.wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/davinack-andrew/
@tettrix.euReposted by @vermiformes.bsky.socialWP2 of TETTRIX will develop the GHOST framework for integrating dark taxa into biodiversity data and strengthen Europe’s nomenclature services 👻🌱
@calocitta.bsky.socialReposted by @vermiformes.bsky.socialUS has now eliminated essentially all primary research funding for the social sciences, including Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, Geography, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies. The only country in the developed world to have done this.
@vermiformes.bsky.socialPyPI link: pypi.org/project/Taxo...
GitHub link: github.com/parasiteguy/...
@vermiformes.bsky.socialTo all my #marinebiodiversity peeps, we've developed a new Python package called TaxonWeave which automates reconciliation of species names using the WoRMS and barcode repositories (GenBank). It returns reconciled sequence records with summaries of all the metadata. Looking for beta testers!
@vermiformes.bsky.socialWhat about those unread emails?
@tettrix.euReposted by @vermiformes.bsky.socialToday, TETTRIX officially begins. 🌍 🌿 Building on the foundations of TETTRIs, TETTRIX will strengthen Europe’s taxonomic capacity by connecting knowledge, expertise, infrastructure, and communities to generate reliable, actionable biodiversity knowledge for science, policy and society. 🫱🏻🫲🏻
@vermiformes.bsky.socialHot off the press. Just because Toxoplasma infected hosts are doing weird stuff in the wild, doesn't mean it's Toxoplasma pulling in the strings. Those individuals might just be weird. #parasites #Toxoplasma #mindcontrol
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@vermiformes.bsky.socialeDNA cannot solve the taxonomic impediment by sequencing around it. The rapid adoption of eDNA into large-scale biodiversity research is a terrible idea.
@vermiformes.bsky.socialExcited to share that I’ll be taking a leave from Wheaton this December to join NTNU in Trondheim through #TETTRIX. Years ago, I pitched very similar work to NSF and it wasn’t funded. Now I get to do it anyway, just by a different path. Life is funny like that. #biodiversity #taxonomy
@vermiformes.bsky.socialI’m so glad I moved to a PUI lol
@vermiformes.bsky.socialI have an honors student this fall exploring genetic variation in the terminal regions of #monkeypox viral genomes. We’ve been using AI to debug some of the scripting errors we encounter and some of our prompts were flagged by OpenAI. At least there are now guardrails on some of these platforms.
