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Okay, cool, big move to Helsinki Fiinland in a few months! 🇫🇮

My PhD advisor is a pretty cool guy.

Another chapter of my thesis is out! We used genomic data generated from across the range of the Western Balkan highland endemic beetle Calosoma pentheri support the recognition of two distinct species. Biogeography, divergence estimates, phylo & population genetics, etc.

I realized I never shared this here. The first chapter of my PhD thesis came out in June! In brief, we used diverse publicly available data and refined locus recovery for target capture methods (both UCE and exon capture!) and used novel phylogenetic approaches. ssbbulletin.org/article/id/4...

Beetles!!

Bug stuff

Draft genome of Carabidae: Carabus depressus just dropped. Regardless of the high fragmentation we got a 98% Busco score from a specimen that was stored in Ethanol for almost 5 years. First a few days in a back pack and then at -20 °C until extraction. Pretty cool stuff! doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

Draft genome of the endemic alpine ground beetle Carabus (Platycarabus) depressus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from long-read sequencing of a frozen archived specimenAbstract. The rapid advancement of genomic technologies has enabled the production of highly contiguous reference genomes for non-model organisms. However,doi.org

Damn you Calosoma (Callisthenes) breviusculum & C. erwesemanni! Why do you gotta be like that?

Found a neat rust based tool. Maybe I'll try getting it running in one of my pipelines... Right after I do the 100 other things I need and want to do. github.com/zaeleus/nood...

GitHub - zaeleus/noodles: Bioinformatics I/O libraries in RustBioinformatics I/O libraries in Rust. Contribute to zaeleus/noodles development by creating an account on GitHub.github.com

Sculpturing is going to be the worst of doing all this. The balance between illustration and realism is hard

Working on a poster, and I may have spent a little more time than necessary on this beetle illustration. Theres only one blurry photo of a live Calosoma (Carabophanus) gestroi on the internet.

Ok, last bit of bike polo chatter for now. Plus I've never watched myself play, so I've gotta save this clip here. Still riding the high of winning a tournament! Best viewed full screen on mobile.

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So a non academic/entomology thing. I played in a Hard Court Bike Polo tournament today and our team (Brocolis) ranked 3rd and came first in the single elimination bracket! Super cool to actually be first place on the podium. Thanks a ton for hosting Lausanne! Go ride bikes with your friends

Lots of great talks and discussions had at #EntSoc24, I'm bummed it's over! Hopefully I can make it to another one sooner rather than later!

Omw to #EntSoc24 after a little vacation seeing friends and loved ones in the Midwest. Can't wait to see all that's going on with all the ento folks back state side!

I presented the important part of my thesis work at Biology24 in Zurich yesterday. It was great and I had a ton of interesting questions. A few other museum folk were very interested in my molecular lab methods!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... XKCD comic sums up this paper pretty well.