Dr. Sarah Signor
@signor_molevol
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Assistant professor @ NDSU Opinions are my own
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This students mom keeps emailing me about his grade and she's gone from Dr. to Ms. and "I see you're an assistant professor, I realize learning to be a professor is hard but" and I 🫠
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Did... Did someone 3D print a dachshund tube rack and leave it in my doorway?
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AAAAAAAHHH my grant is getting funded AAAAAAAHHH what do I even do
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My lab will be hiring at all levels soon - postdoc, grad, and tech. Formal ad soon but if you're interested in the evolution of transposon defense reach out! Please RT
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uploading data to the SRA is like punishment for finishing a project
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Really quick because this got a little traction I haven't said anything to her but FERPA
This students mom keeps emailing me about his grade and she's gone from Dr. to Ms. and "I see you're an assistant professor, I realize learning to be a professor is hard but" and I 🫠
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Our grant submission system has two factor identification, which is unfortunate because if someone wanted to log in and submit my grants for me I'd be ok with that
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The run completely failed but I will now be putting 'can load nanopore one handed while baby wearing' to my resume
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I am really excited today to have been awarded a little grant from the USDA to study small RNA in bees. Diapause, maternal effects, small rna, here we go! 🐝🐝🐝
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Hey that's me!
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My review paper on the evolution of gene regulation in cis and trans is now available, it was so much fun to write!
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I'm all for a little fun in the Internet but complete strangers looking up my PhD thesis wasn't on my bingo card
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If you need a break from COVID-19, I looked at how transposable elements vary in individual genotypes within and between populations of D. simulans! The answer is lots!
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This paper is so freaking cool! Wish I had thought of it first?
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Its out in the world and I am so excited!! This was my pandemic baby in collaboration with
@KoflerRobert
@lucksmith
@Anti_Sense
@Bernard_Y_Kim
@filwierz
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Hello out there! Just a heads up I'm looking for students (Ph.D. and Masters) to work on transposable element evolution, TEs & stress, and TE pop gen in Drosophila and/or some solitary bees!
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-45 wind chill warning and 3-5 more inches of snow. North Dakota stop north dakotaing please
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So proud of this collaboration with
@KoflerRobert
@r_pianezza
@Almoro_Scarpa
and Prakash Narayanan. We found a new transposon that invaded D. melanogaster worldwide in the 1990s!
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I am recruiting graduate students (Ph.D. and masters) if you have an interest in TEs, mRNA processing, diapause, or even have cool ideas of your own. NDSU is a great place!
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I'm recruiting Masters and Ph.D. students to work on adaptation to heterogeneous landscapes in Drosophila. Open to developing projects with student interests. Please RT!
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My graduate student
@_jk_george
got to meet Svante Paabo at
@CSHL
Biology of Genomes! I'm so excited for him!!!
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Getting a new citation notification after citing your own paper
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Today is my birthday. Exactly a year ago I was dropping my two week old infant off with her grandparents to leave for my first on site faculty interview. This has been a crazy year, but I'm pretty sure this is what the good life looks like.
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Man I just wanted some breakfast and now I know what an asshole you are and
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This is still a work in progress, but I'm super proud of this manuscript on the duplication and functional diversification of flamenco in the simulans clade with
@lucksmith
@Anti_Sense
@KoflerRobert
@filwierz
:
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I spent three years fighting for a paper, and its FINALLY accepted 💥💥💥🎉🎉
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It has taken 5 years as a PI for a students mom to email me which honestly seems like remarkable restraint
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A decade ago
@yanivbrandvain
borrowed my copy of Gillespie's Population Genetics and never gave it back, is this how scientific feuds start?
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The Signor lab is two years old, mostly trying to run during a pandemic. I don't know what year three holds, but I did show up to a meeting with only a crayon today.
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Listen, it may have been a bad proposal. But I turned it in ten days before having my son in a pandemic and I'm just done with all this
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That's from my manuscript lol
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Are you a Drosophila geneticist who is having a baby? Here are some nice Drosophila names to choose:
Lush
Pinocchio
Ken and Barbie
Boss
Clown
Cheap date
Shavenbaby
Sonic hedgehog
Radish
Slowpoke
Doublesex
Sex lethal
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Seeing everyone talk about all the papers they are writing in quarantine is so stressful. I'm barely getting my infant out of pyjamas every day.
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The Signor lab is representing at
#TAGC24
! Come check out our posters or stop in for a chat!
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No don't touch that, we don't know where that came from - me talking to my kid about food on the sidewalk and my graduate student about SRA data
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how, how do you travel to conferences when you have young children. does everyone just sit them out until they are 2+?
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I was hired without a CNS. I am actually three sponges in a coat.
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10 years ago these crazy kids went to the courthouse
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Hey there, undergrad first author Zach Tiedeman and I checked out TEs in D. serrata. Tons of variation between individuals!
The transposable elements of the Drosophila serrata reference panel
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It is
@julia_saltz
birthday today and in honor I give you this photo of the UCDavis PopBio 2006 cohort
@mobilepurin
@mor
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My mom gave me a 1908 copy of Origin of the Species that belonged to my great grandfather so I'd say its been a pretty good Christmas 🦗🐍🦎🐦
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We characterized TEs in the D. serrata reference panel to better understand the tempo and mode of TE transposition within populations! Shout out to the undergraduate first author Zach Tiedeman!
@GenomeBiolEvol
@NDBiolog
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Universities pushing in person teaching during a pandemic is an excellent reminder that this is just a job - when you die they will replace you. Go home. See your family. Don't brag about working till the middle of the night - you look stupid.
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Remember when we had popgen_googling and epigenetic hulk? Really the golden age of Twitter
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Is there a secret club at evolution meetings you can only enter if you've published a 'genomic islands' paper
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CALLING RESEARCH DESCRIPTIVE IS NOT A VALID CRITIQUE
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Hello out there! Just a heads up I'm looking for students (Ph.D. and Masters) to work on transposable element evolution, TEs & stress, and TE pop gen in Drosophila and/or some solitary bees!
#GradRecruitWeek
@youinthelab
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I am a part of such an amazing department. It's only been a few months, but I can't imagine a better place to be.
@NDBiolog
@NDSU_ECS_GSA
@NDSU
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Frustrated with paper reviews? Cioppino. ND grant? Cioppino. Literally any situation. Cioppino.
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Today's serendipity: fell asleep while washing a nanopore flow cell. Left 2x the recommended time. Total pore recovery compared to almost none when done according to protocol.
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We are going to be saying goodbye to our dog Bob soon. He has Canine Cognitive Dysfunction. Its heartbreaking to make this decision, but he is suffering so much. He has been the best boy, giving us 12 of his 16 years. This is him in better days.
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It sure is an extra thrill to see a paper in its final form! This manuscript was quite an effort, and I think it really highlights the often overlooked complexity of splicing and splicing evolution!
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Rebecca Tarnopol from
@NKWhiteman
lab giving a fascinating talk on the horizontal transfer of parasitoid defense genes
#TAGC24
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my friend sent me all this cheese for my 40th birthday and its honestly the best present I got and if thats not just a little window into getting older
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I would like to announce that I received my first Not Discussed and I am not at all excited or proud
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Hey bird app, we have a new paper where we look at the regulation of transposable elements during different environmental and physiological states!
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If you need a little timeline cleanse my son is a year old and these are his little thighs
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The last Human Biomedical Genetics exam I gave asked students to find a silly GWAS and they did not disappoint. Also you all need to stop it.
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Condemning the harassment of your team of men while being complicit in the harassment of a young female research tech is......not the best look.
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Check out this elegant work and remind yourself to check your assumptions!
The yellow gene influences Drosophila male mating success through sex comb melanization
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I'm going to do a quick thread on the advice I give my students. I feel like its good life advice in and out of the lab.
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The Signor lab is recruiting paid masters or phd students for fall
@NDBiolog
! Bioinformatics or biology. We have tons of data and excitement for mRNA processing and transposons! Please RT
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I moved to NDSU to start a lab 8 months before a global pandemic, with a toddler.
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Happy mother's Day out there to all the moms who just want paid maternity leave not this stupid day
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Check out our latest manuscript! We were able to replicate the evolution of plasticity by genetic accommodation!
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I may be too tired to remember my own name after a night up with a two month old but we got up to a paper acceptance and that feels pretty great
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"FLIES DON'T CARE ITS SATURDAY" she screams into the night air
Like a scientist
At a stockroom with no weekend hours
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The Melt is upon us here in Fargo. Time to air out your offspring and get out of the lab!
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4 months: I am going to write this grant proposal before I go on maternity leave
5 months: I am going to write this grant proposal before I go on maternity leave
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8: I am going to write this -
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My graduate student George is giving his first lecture in my genomics class. Wish him luck!!
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@lucksmith
@joshdubnau
I've been salvaging from the recycling at work, my daughter is currently doodling on the output from some mysterious geosciences machine from 1999 🤣
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New preprint out, comments really welcome and appreciated, "Evolution of phenotypic plasticity in response to ethanol between sister species with different ecological histories (Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans)":
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an IT guy complimented me on securing our lab server, saying I did a better job than the sys admins on campus. My brother in christ, I know.
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I woke up today and chose violence. I tried to fix a minor permissions problem on our lab server and suffice to say it did not go as planned.
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Paper out today: Population genomics of Wolbachia and mtDNA in Drosophila simulans from California
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