Perceptions of #dog breed temperments are ingrained in our culture. Breed #stereotypes play out in dog parks, show up in city ordinances & leases, are celebrated at dog shows, and infuse Hollywood movies... but what if I told you dog temperment doesn't work like that? 1/n ANNOUNCING OUR NEW, AT-LEAST-8-YEARS-IN-THE-MAKING-BUT-WHO'S-COUNTING, +FANCY-GENOMICS #DOG temperment PAPER!!!! @UMassChan @broadinstitute @karlssonlab @darwinsarkfnd #ScienceResearch @iaabc 2/n science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Ever shattered an orange using liquid nitrogen? That's how we get DNA out of ticks in our new @FrontiersIn article frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… @UMassMedical @broadinstitute @karlssonlab We have a lot of ticks. 1000s & 1000s of ticks. People send them to us as part of our #citizenScience #tick disease study ProjectAcari.org. The problem? getting the DNA out.

#scientist/#artists: can you help? Made 130 new mammal genomes for @genome_gov @scilifelab @broadinstitute #200Mammals project (#opendata @NCBI). Highlighting each species (list in thread) on new website - need photos! (will credit). DM me. Pls retweet #ScienceAlly @PAGXXVIII #200Mammals is global #collaboration. Inc @frozenzoo @bonesandbugs @EmmaTeeling1 @tmarquesbonet @nickcasewell @EIVertebrates @IanFiddes @LindaBGoodman @WHaerty @locus_lukas @apfenning @springer @Jalfoldi @BenedictPaten

We have a new paper out today in @Trends_Ecol_Evo (open access). "The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome" @Greger_Larson @UMassMedical @broadinstitute @karlssonlab sciencedirect.com/science/articl… It all started with an unplanned visit to a museum on Prince Edward Island by the late Dr. Raymond Coppinger, and ended with us questioning a widely accepted theory known as the domestication syndrome. @culturesside
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