Vivaswat Shastry
@VivaswatShastry
average af. pop gen + comp bio. i like to make people laugh.
Only a brown munde with a skin fade from Traanto would tweet this
Kendrick can never out-bar Drake. Idc how many spiritual miracle lyrical concept albums he makes. Choose a beat and Drake is just rapping better plain and simple
Discourse idea: would Lisa Simpson believe in the Abundance agenda
Nobody wants to accept it, but this is absolutely something Lisa Simpson would have believed, as late as, like, 2022.
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Spatial selection paper from @ramencult now in ink academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42…
Your 20s are for situating your argument in the context of existing scholarship
every "new transplant" city in the US has taken on the same slop aesthetic. austin, nashville, scottsdale -- all of them embody the same kind of beer garden yuppieism. scooters and axe throwing, plastic apartments and group fitness. no history, just remote first jobs.
slop is the defining cultural export of the next decade. the industrialization of writing via LLMs will turn all writing into slop in the same way the industrialization of farming turned our food supply into slop. total slop. your only hope is to find the old, the durable
Work with @jnovembre on extending FEEMS to represent long-range gene flow on a background migration surface! The software for the method, called FEEMSmix, is readily available at github.com/VivaswatS/feems #popgen #Genetics #evolution
Jointly representing long-range genetic similarity and spatially heterogeneous isolation-by-distance biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio
I love writing because i'm either thinking about a different word for "however", or death
Harris madam don't worry I have one solid plan. You round up the electoral college members and book a resort. I will tell you the next steps of Operation Kamala
Nothing prepares you for the moment when you find out that Bernoulli's first name was Daniel "Oh, Daniel is too busy working on the foundational principles of hydrodynamics to text Magdalena back :/"
The University of Chicago has two faculty searches that should interest evolutionary biologists/geneticists. A fantastic university with lots of strong colleagues across departments. Get in touch if you have any questions! academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/1460… academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/1430…
Take a break from the science and enjoy the amazing local food options! The Chinelo Grill offers outstanding food (Molcajete highly recommended) and super friendly service #SMBE2024 facebook.com/share/ur16rs9U…
i don’t know who needs to hear this, but your job isn’t your identity. your identity is the interchangeable 3-4 month hyperfixation you make everyone’s problem
Excited for the 2nd annual PhD Info session with @UChicagoGGSB Sign up at bit.ly/GeneticsInfo20… for application tips from a diverse panel of current PhD students and faculty! @QuestBridge @ImFirstGen @LEDA_Scholars @TheJKCF @ReachHigher @FirstgenCenter @HSFNews @cokescholars
my girlfriend sold her prized barbie toy collection to get me a ticket to oppenheimer this weekend. and i sold my supply of highly enriched uranium to get her a ticket to the barbie movie 😔
I wanna be a sort of academic jester who doesn’t actually publish any scholarly work but shows up at conferences and knows the debates well enough to make jokes about the presenters and their research
#stachesofevolution23 mean mugging and mean mousers with @VivaswatShastry good work sir #Evol2023
Just learned today that Strategy is actually short for Stratopadhyay.