Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler
@rejectresubmit
Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | phylogenomics, genome evolution | EIC at Frontiers in Posting
When you ask Claude to run a preliminary literature survey for some specific info and it misses a bunch of stuff because it's reading Google's AI search summaries instead of the actual papers
POV you are writing a paper about plant sex chromosome evolution
Going from Rochester winter to Baton Rouge winter
When you look at your old code and you're impressed that past you was able to figure all that out
The Board of Coalescence is nearly full
Finally tried a garbage plate. I have been Baptized
My partner when I ask if we can restart our Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough for the 5th time so I can play a different class / race while she makes yet another elf cleric
Plant genomes are the gift that keeps on giving
Me watching Rochester get a bunch of lake effect snow on the weather radar while Toronto gets nothing
The last paper from my PhD is finally out in Bulletin of SSB with @3rdreviewer.bsky.social! We used theory and supervised machine learning to learn how to disentangle uncertain histories of speciation and introgression. ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...
I am absolutely thrilled to share that in July 2025 I'll be moving across the lake to the University of Rochester to join the Department of Biology as an Assistant Professor!
big revelations happening in the lab slack
not sure how many more big red blobs I can handle