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Author Archives: Laetitia Wilkins
Happy Thanksgiving: COVID-19 style
It was the Ides of March in 2020 when I moved from California to Europe. Thanksgiving marks March 271st. I was still a postdoc in Jonathan Eisen’s lab at UC Davis and my contract would have ended in the end … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, career, postdoc
Tagged COVID-19, pandemic, postdocs, Thanksgiving, travel
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The last Last Dance
A faculty job application trilogy! Have you also been reading Katie’s recent blog posts on the costs of applying for a faculty job? One is about the workload of applying, the second one about the financial cost, and the last … Continue reading
It's all because of the holobiont
It’s conference season at the Molecular Ecologist. I went for the first time to a Gordon Research Conference (GRC). GRCs @GordonConf are well known for their efforts to foster an informal and inclusive atmosphere where frontier research in the biological, … Continue reading
Posted in Coevolution, community ecology, conferences, conservation, ecology, evolution, Symbiosis, Uncategorized
Tagged conferences, ecology, Evolution, holobiont, nested ecosystems, symbiosis
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Where credit is due
I am trying to keep this short. You might remember my recent blog post on data sharing. I basically wanted to point out that data acquisition can be an art on its own. It can take months of planning, applying … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, career, community, data archiving, genomics, science publishing
Tagged authorship, co-author, public database
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Towards unrestricted use of public genomic data
Last week, a friend sent me this policy forum article published in Science. Fifty co-authors, mostly tenured and from prestigious universities, some of them among my dearest idols, have written this piece to call for publicly available genome data. What … Continue reading
Posted in career, community, data archiving, genomics, science publishing
Tagged career, genomics, open science
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Do we need to get to Mars first before we start understanding change in our oceans?
The current American administration is excited about its space program on extraterrestrial exploration and discovery. A mission to the moon, several ones to Mars, and perhaps others someday to other planets are part of the current funding plan. NASA has … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, evolution, journal club, population genetics, Science Communication, Uncategorized
Tagged Evolution, Global Change, journal club, marine, ocean
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Not my problem
Do American scientists know that doing research in America is a necessary step for many scientists from other parts of the world in order to get a permanent job in academia in their home country? Once in the US, these … Continue reading