Tristan A.F. Long

A chronological archive of the ~180ish posters I have made (so far) for #LaurierBiology departmental seminars, since I began in 2014! #SciArt flic.kr/s/aHBqjCj3BL

Today’s journal club - interesting sounding paper by @darrenjparker.bsky.social about practical sessions affects on attitudes to insects. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today: submitted NSERC, submitted revisesd manuscript, attended departmental meeting, exec meeting, & 2 MedSci meetings, marked 3 honours proposals. Need to finish reading 6 AUPs. And a student just got another scholarship! #academicLife

Excellent dataviz

An #Inktober #linocut from the garden 🐡

So my advice to my biology colleagues and students is to “celebrate the anarchy”. Think of it as job security-ish.

Amen to this. My way of phrasing this is to remind students that “biology is a science of exceptions.” For any new principle one may discover, there’s probably some life form out there that breaks your rule and does things differently. Good luck training an AI model on exceptions.

RIP Walter❤️

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Update: press 🙂 for "duck tape" and ☹️ for "duct tape"

Spooky season!

Claudia's first PhD paper!! Check it out. 📸🫎📸 #WILDlab

I'm late to the scene (by months) but I'll still ping this to the top of your feed: Awesome paper by @rhohnen.bsky.social (now a @libererofellows.bsky.social) and colleagues, where we focus on managing co-listed threats of species at risk. Different approach, same game. #WILDlab

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Thanks to all @23andMe participants and our amazing co-authors: Yanyu Liang, Julie Granka, Xin Wang, Julia Sidorenko, David Evans and Peter Visscher. Please check it out and share! Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incredibly sad news. This is going to sound snarky but I swear it isn’t: we’ll always have “nuclear wessels”. Thanks, Walter. 🖖🏻

I'm hiring a postdoc for our NSF IntBIO project on songbird behavior, physiology and fitness! Start date as early as April 1 or as late as Sept 2027. Emphasis on behavioral endocrinology and transcriptomics, plus field ornithology based on applicant interests: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33216.

Teaching ANOVA at dawn with help from chocolate chip cookies in #BI393 Biostatistics class!

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Lovely!

Peak application of dendrochronology. 10/10, no notes.

Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

On a related note, King Street in Kitchener should be closed to cars all the time, not just when there are street festivals; it makes no sense as a thoroughfare for anything but bikes and pedestrians.

So, in a new NYT essay about May 13, 1986 (the day she was born), Lena Dunham suggests that, back then, nobody in Canada or the US knew or cared much about acid rain. I hate to get in the way of a good generational shaming, but she’s just…er, totally wrong?

Also lots of savings on our electricity bills due to frequent outages

New #rstats package: hybridclock dates hybrid populations beyond F2, with or without a genetic map, with calibrated intervals. Validated on 23 datasets, from F1s to 56 generations. Tutorial on five real datasets: paulmaier.github.io/hybridclock #popgen #hybridization

Excited that my THIRD book is now available for pre-order from #Searchpress It has templates, cards of my #botanicalillustrations, & a teaching book Links: UK: www.searchpress.com/book/9781800... USA: www.searchpressusa.com/book/9781800... Australia: www.searchpress.com.au/book/9781800...

Before people in Canada say US academics should just come to Canada, they should probably reflect on the fact that Canada has plenty of unemployed PhDs, and ask themselves why that is. Americans should do the same. This is the sum total of “history” jobs in Canada currently listed on the CAUT site:

We are searching for a curious and motivated PhD candidate to work on the biogeography of plant-associated fungi on the Galapagos: if you are excited to develop diverse skills in big data, bioinformatics, field work, and experiments, please apply! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/PhD-posi...

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Interested in sharks, fossils, or biomechanics? We're advertising a competitively funded @centa.bsky.social PhD at the Uni. of Birmingham, with the NHM, looking at form and function in living and extinct shark jaws🦈 More details here centa.ac.uk/studentship/..., please email me with any questions.

🌟 Cool new story: #AGING is lost in mis-translation! 🪰 A #Drosophila study shows how mistranslated "bad" proteins can increase #lifespan in mated females. Discover more from @flybehaviour.bsky.social in the October issue of #G3journal about the positive effect of mistranslation: 🔗 buff.ly/WeNNkDF

Please join us (if you dare!🦇) for a (spooky🎃) #LaurierBiology departmental seminar by Dr. Paul Craig from (the haunted 👻) @uwaterloo.ca! All (ghosts and goblins👹) welcome!

@asm.org President Vaughn Cooper and Paul Turner (who gave the Tom Whittam Memorial Lecture) from yesterday's wonderful celebrations with @msumgi.bsky.social

For #BlackHistoryMonth, we're highlighting the achievements of the Black scientists, mathematicians and engineers who have made their impact on the modern world. Read our thread below.

Size-dependent beak shape divergence between Parrot and Common Crossbills likely involves major developmental changes doi.org/10.32942/X28...

Vert-NSM: neural shape models for shape completion, classification, and landmark-free morphometrics of vertebrate specimens doi.org/10.32942/X2N...

Excited to announce that the paper that came from my Master’s research is now published in Ecosphere! It’s open access, so if you would like to give it a read, you can here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #research #birds #PublishedArticle @Wiley_In_Research

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Had fun colouring in this #LaurierBiology seminar poster! #SciArt

Check out these foreign exchange students! 🇨🇦🇺🇸 A few nights ago, we recaptured an owl originally banded across Lake Ontario by Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory. Last night we learned that they recaptured one of our owls! This is why banding stations matter!

This is so fucking disgusting. Imagine having a billion dollars and deciding that instead of curing disease you will torture dogs.

Had fun colouring in this #LaurierBiology seminar poster! #SciArt

wow birds do a lot of things (from the @science.org table of contents)

My department at GW is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor for Intro Bio. Apply here! www.gwu.jobs/postings/129...

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