Vince Buffalo
Postdoc in evolutionary genetics. ♥s biology, probability, statistics, climbing, fly fishing, backpacking. Author of the book Bioinformatics Data Skills. he/him
Last synced from Twitter 123d ago
Daisy (advertisement) - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 124d 1 tweets
Vince Buffalo I think this ad will stand as one of the most terrifying and devastating political ads in history — it's our generation's "Daisy" (). Well done, . 124d
What Can You Do If Trump Stages a Coup?
The New Yorker 127d 8 tweets
When the President started warning that he might not concede the election in November if he loses, several citizens’ groups began planning for the worst.
Vince Buffalo Also, I guess I am somewhat tentatively back on Twitter — in part to keep track of the election and be informed and coordinate with others in the event of a coup attempt (never thought I'd say that!). 125d
The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights
PNAS 129d 14 tweets
Humans and viruses have been coevolving for millennia. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19) has been particularly successful in evading our evolved defenses. The outcome has been tragic—across...
Genome Sequencing Shows Climate Barrier to Spread of Africanized Bees
UC Davis - UC Davis 130d 1 tweets
Since the 1950s, “Africanized” honeybees have spread north and south across the Americas until apparently coming to a halt in California and northern Argentina. Now genome sequencing of hundreds of bees from the northern and southern limits shows a...
Space is the Place: Effects of Continuous Spatial Structure on Analysis of Population Genetic Data
Genetics 240d 2 tweets
Real geography is continuous, but standard models in population genetics are based on discrete, well-mixed populations. As a result, many methods of analyzing genetic data assume that samples are a random draw from a well-mixed population, but are...
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Vince Buffalo What is Felsenstein's Pain in the Torus? What does it look like? Back in early pandemic times when 's lovely "Space is the Place" paper came out (), I wrote some d3/javascript simulations to visualize this effect: 191d
Isolation by Distance and the Pain the Torus
Observablehq.com 191d 1 tweets
An Observable notebook by Vince Buffalo.
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Vince Buffalo What is Felsenstein's Pain in the Torus? What does it look like? Back in early pandemic times when 's lovely "Space is the Place" paper came out (), I wrote some d3/javascript simulations to visualize this effect: 191d
The Problem of Detecting Polygenic Selection from Temporal Data
Vincebuffalo.com 191d 1 tweets
Why is detecting polygenic selection from temporal data difficult?
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Vince Buffalo In an effort to better communicate my research to a broader audience, I have written two blog posts about my recent paper with . The first post explains why detecting polygenic selection from temporal data is difficult 191d
The Genome-wide Signal of Linked Selection in Temporal Data
Vincebuffalo.com 191d 1 tweets
An overview of Buffalo and Coop (2020).
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Vince Buffalo The second post goes into detail about our recent PNAS paper, providing an overview of our temporal covariance approach and what we found in re-analyzing these evolve-and-resequence studies. I hope you enjoy! 191d
Estimating the genome-wide contribution of selection to temporal allele frequency change
PNAS 200d 2 tweets
A long-standing problem in evolutionary biology is to understand the processes that shape the genetic composition of populations. In a population without migration, two processes that change allele frequencies are selection, which increases...
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Vince Buffalo My latest work with is out in PNAS! 199d
Black in Nature
Integrative and Comparative Biology 264d 2 tweets
A #BlackBirdersWeek Conversation By Alexus Roberts and Shaz Zamore For many nature lovers, a good day in the field means successful observations: spotting their favorite organism, or witnessing a r…
Which Experts Should You Listen to during the Pandemic?
Scientific American Blog Network 265d 21 tweets
It should be a no-brainer: your best bet is to follow those who have actual expertise
Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism
Science 265d 2 tweets
Contemporary race relations are marked by an apparent paradox: Overt prejudice is strongly condemned, yet acts of blatant racism still frequently occur. We propose that one reason for this inconsistency is that people misunderstand how they would...
Justice: Stories about righteous determination — The Story Collider
The Story Collider 268d 1 tweets
After a car crash alters Emily Winn's life forever, she must relive the trauma when she testifies in a deposition, and black geneticist C. Brandon Ogbunu contemplates the role race has played in his academic career after he gets confronted by the...
Implicit bias puts lives in jeopardy. Can mandatory training reduce the risk?
latimes.com 596d 4 tweets
A California law would make implicit-bias training mandatory for police, judges and doctors. That's a laudable idea. But there's no clear evidence it works.
Audubon Action Alert: Administration Continues Effort to Strip Away Bird Protections
National Audubon Society 267d 2 tweets
It’s time for Congress to respond to this attack on America’s birds.
Stolperstein - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 1207d 8 tweets
Vince Buffalo I think we do need statures and stones to remember history, but more of the Stolperstein type 268d
Sign the Petition
Change.org 269d 26 tweets
Rename The Fisher Lecture After David Blackwell
Lancelot Hogben - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 269d 2 tweets
Vince Buffalo Meanwhile Lancelot Hogben was ardently anti-eugenics (and seriously a cool sounding guy — check out his Wikipedia ). Source: Kevles 1995, p. 123. 269d
8 Can't Wait
8 Can't Wait 270d 31 tweets
Cities that enact these eight use-of-force policies can reduce police violence by 72%. Look up your city and contact your mayor now.
Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police
Palgrave Communications 270d 5 tweets
Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police