René Malenfant @ReneMalenfant
Associate Teaching Professor @BiologyUnb - Interests in molecular ecology and mammalogy rmalenf1.ext.unb.ca Fredericton, New Brunswick Joined January 2008-
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Space-use strategies drive diet composition of Baffin Bay polar bears esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…
Global assessment of effective population sizes: Consistent taxonomic differences in meeting the 50/500 rule | Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…
Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…
Pleiotropy, epistasis and the genetic architecture of quantitative traits nature.com/articles/s4157…
Genetic architecture of inbreeding depression may explain its persistence in a population of wild red deer | Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…
The post-emergence period for denning polar bears: phenology and influence on cub survival academic.oup.com/jmammal/advanc…
Our paper on heritability is out (open access) at PNAS! I think it really improved through the review process, and we're glad to have this out there! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Our paper on heritability is out (open access) at PNAS! I think it really improved through the review process, and we're glad to have this out there! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Short tandem repeats — how microsatellites became the currency of forensic genetics nature.com/articles/s4157…
Giraffe lineages are shaped by major ancient admixture events cell.com/current-biolog…
Early career researchers in an unethical publishing system in @Ecology_Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…
Estimates of heterozygosity from single nucleotide polymorphism markers are context-dependent and often wrong onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…
mapmixture: An R package and web app for spatial visualisation of admixture and population structure onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…
Reciprocal cooperation can be advantageous, but why it is more common in humans than in other social animals is a puzzle go.nature.com/3T7cjfP
Dissecting the genetic architecture of quantitative traits using genome-wide identity-by-descent sharing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…
A demographic survey of the Davis Strait polar bear subpopulation using physical and genetic capture-recapture-recovery sampling onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
A simple and effective method to enrich endogenous DNA from mammalian faeces onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…
Estimation of inbreeding and kinship coefficients via latent identity-by-descent states academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…
Next-generation species delimitation and taxonomy: Implications for biogeography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…
New polar bear paper is one of the most insightful ones I've seen in years. Video links are great too. All in all, confirms what we know about the challenges the bears face with sea ice loss but the elegance of the study is very cool. nature.com/articles/s4146… [open access]
A major update to our @ecoevorxiv preprint "Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms: A general framework for labile traits" is now live! From my PhD work done in collaboration with @ArayaYimen, @DingemanseLab, @ali__wilson, and David Westneat. (1/3)
Cathy Cullingham @catcullingham
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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant
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You never forget the first time you learn universities’ overhead rates on external grants.
Hey everyone. Apropos nothing in particular, did you know that if you hate a social movement, you’re much more likely to perceive it as violent? Even to the point of “remembering” violent acts that never really happened? It’s true! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
Canadian economy on track for it’s 7th consecutive per-capita decline. Fairness for every generation!
The One Thing No Politician Can Ever Say: House Prices MUST Come Down Because that's the only rational solution to the Canadian disaster we exist in Naturally it is never said: it would mean the end of that Politician Boomers are still the most important voting block 2/
"Please input your target species and target genes" CRISPR-GPT is an LLM agent that helps humans design and implement gene editing experiments, providing expert guidance across the entire experimental pipeline. This is both what speeding up science looks like & a potential risk.
When it comes to problems with academic publishing we are in fact the baddies. So many scholars really think pre-pub peer review works as quality control & published stuff is trustworthy. There is no easy fix to the quality problem, but ending publication as target is a beginning
This post is getting a lot of attention. I usually agree with Brian, but I disagree here in a couple issues. Not accounting for (1) growth in the number of active scientists; (2) ignoring the democratization of the participation and access to science. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/the…
Thank You Federal Government & Bank of Canada For Making More Canadians HUNGRY Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’ Batshit Crazy House Prices, Sky Rocketing Rents & unaffordablity 2/ | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/10447112/…
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
One hundred Nobel laureates agree: The campaign against biotech-enhanced golden rice is a "crime against humanity." reason.com/2024/04/25/gre…
I think too many people think only of AI use in places where errors are not tolerated. It isn't good at that. LLMs hallucinate & make mistakes. But for a huge amount of work, human error is tolerated, and the question is whether AIs (working with humans) make more or less…
Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers apnews.com/article/net-ne…
It sucks defending the free speech of people who themselves loathe the liberal conception of free speech itself, but it's what you gotta do!
Dan Dennett on postmodernism From my Top 10 Daniel Dennett Quotes collection stevestewartwilliams.com/p/top-10-danie… #RIPDanielDennett
Defending Academic Freedom in Higher Education and Medicine : my new piece @Quillette quillette.com/2024/04/25/aca…
My advice to university presidents is that your policy should be as follows: We honor freedom of speech and therefore do not impose and will not impose viewpoint-based restrictions on speech. We will, for the sake of protecting everyone's rights to teach and learn, strictly and…
Moderna has deployed 400 GPTs for things like contract checking & research. I spoke to a couple other Fortune 1000 firms that have also deployed GPTs internally. I am actually a bit surprised at how much internal experimentation is happening.
Some remarkable points: 100% adoption of ChatGPT in the legal team. Integration into core processes like dose distribution. A ton of custom GPTs for specific work flows. Scaling up necessitates AI assistance in lieu of hiring 100.000 employees. youtu.be/t3UHnKLVS1M?si…
Concerns over the use of AI software in schools atlantic.ctvnews.ca/concerns-over-…
"You can't even keep the streets safe at night." 💀💀💀
'Stay the hell out of it.' Andrew Neil's advice on what the government should do with the media
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