Rasmus Nielsen
@ras_nielsen
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Evolution. Statistics. Computation. Genetics. UC Berkeley University of Copenhagen
Berkeley, CA
Joined February 2016
RT @weiwei_beijing: Very nice to have Prof Rasmus Nielsen commenting on our recent work on Epstein-Barr virus/nasopharyngeal carcinoma evol…
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RT @NTFabiano: Researchers paid $8.968 billion for their findings to be freely accessible. 🧵1/10
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CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments. Super proud to have made small contributions to this incredibly clever work by the amazing Chao Zhang and his PhD advisor S. Mirarab.
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RT @yun_s_song: Our work, which shows statistical issues with the previous claim of a severe ancient bottleneck in the ancestry of African…
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Many reasons to celebrate the fall of Assad - but also many reasons to worry about the new regime. As an example, the entire unit on evolution is to be deleted from the school curriculum. Evolution is not being taught many places in the MENA region anymore.
3️⃣ - Eighth Grade Science Curriculum:Removed the first lesson of the third unit titled "Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth." - First-Year Religious Education: Replaced phrases like "the cursed," "the misguided," and "stay away from the path of good" with "Jews and Christians." Changed "the path of good" to "the path of Islam." - Various Educational Levels: Deleted numerous Hadiths across different stages due to "weak chains of transmission" as per the ministry's decision. Replaced "Ali, may Allah honor his face" with "Ali, may Allah be pleased with him." - Historical Content: Mandated the removal of all paragraphs discussing the Ottoman rule period, previously described in Syrian curricula as "the oppressive Ottoman authority." Removal of Previous Regime Symbols and Nationalism: In the third-year literary secondary school History subject, deleted sections related to the "October Liberation War," including associated images and illustrations. Made similar changes in other texts within the book.
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RT @rafalab: Biologists, stop putting UMAP plots in your papers! UMAP is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, but without a clea…
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RT @YunDeng5: This work about the severe African bottleneck hypothesis is now published on Genetics at: More detai…
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RT @E_Cappellini: I'm hiring: 4 Postdoc positions (18-23 m) in Palaeoproteomics - 1: Palaeoproteomics mass spectrometrist - 2: Phylo(pala…
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The Tarichas are now slowly coming out in Tilden around Jewel Lake. Still a bit early, but the first ones are here. Thank you rain.
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@pastramimachine @alexeyguzey We complain about it all the time - but the truth is that it is far superior to any other system that has ever been invented.
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RT @vsbuffalo: Fantastic exit seminar by labmate @YunDeng5 on his pioneering work on ARG inference and his software SINGER. I’m looking for…
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RT @lpipes: 🌺 Join us in a place where innovation meets inspiration, and your work can make waves globally—all while living in paradise 🌴🌊…
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In other news: the Ensatinas are out in Tilden now. So at least there is that. No Tarichas yet, though.
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@wc_ratcliff Except if they are present at low frequencies in geographically adjacent ramets in all tissues but then are selected in leaves. Something similar seems to be going in on in liver tissue in humans for certain heteroplasmies. Not impossible - but maybe not likely.
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@wc_ratcliff Which process generates more allele sharing in nearby leaves than in other tissues?
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