Aylwyn Scally

@aylwyn_scally

Human evolutionary genomics, Cambridge.

University of Cambridge, Darwin College
gen.cam.ac.uk/research-group…
Joined October 2012
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    Sep 23

    The feeling when you wake up and all your responsibilities and deadlines come flooding back.

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    22 hours ago

    Domesday Book, the Staffordshire Hoard, the Lindisfarne Gospels: come face-to-face with Anglo-Saxon treasures at our landmark exhibition. opens one week today!

    Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War
    Treasures and magnificent manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms are brought together for this major landmark exhibition at the Library.
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    Oct 9

    Heartbreaking. From Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée, waiting outside the Saudi consulate after the disappearance—and likely assassination—of her soon to be husband:

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  4. Oct 9

    I don't see much wrong with this. Monkeys are a paraphyletic group and it's quite likely that our last common ancestor with old-world monkeys, 25 Myrs ago or so, would be called a monkey. It is also believed that they did not have television.

    Explaining evolution to a 4-year-old proving to be beyond my abilities. Best moment is when he told me, having seemed to understand a long tortured monologue on DNA: “A long long long LONG time ago, when humans were monkeys, there wasn’t even any TV!”
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    Oct 9

    Postdoctoral position available in my lab, working on axonal ER in Drosophila! Closing date 30th October. For more details, and to apply, see:

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    Oct 8

    As a Tennessean who has already voted from abroad, I mostly want to underscore her point that registration ends Oct. 9 - that's TOMORROW! Anyone out there not yet registered to vote, you know what to do!!

    it may seem silly, but Swift has been in the public eye for 14 years and has never before been willing to jeopardize her popularity by taking a political stand. to the people who fought with their lives the last few weeks: you made a difference.
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  7. Oct 7

    Cricket can get quite statistical. It's great.

    Indeed this straight line hasn't been successful in these conditions. Against right-handers, off-spinners average 65.11 pitching in line with the stumps in the UAE - but they average 38.75 pitching wider, in that channel outside off. That's where Lyon needs to target.
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    Oct 4

    Unreasonably proud to see the portrait of Archie Mafeje up in the Cambridge University Library, . 1/2

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  9. Oct 4

    Agree 100% with this. Peer review is not about being the science police. It's a constructive process which aims to improve both the quality and the communication of research.

    I think I've worked out why these academic hoax papers bother me: I've stopped thinking of the role of peer review as a form of quality control, and more as a collaborative effort in helping each other with our work
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  10. Oct 4

    More power to these women.

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    Oct 4

    Oh goody, just saw yet another “does the species concept work for bacteria?” paper. I feel like this question was answered adequately by Maynard Smith et al 1993 and rehashing it over and over never seems to add much to our knowledge.

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    Oct 3

    Beautiful work with Gastruloids from in and colleagues from

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    Oct 1

    Do follow . Their beautiful feed of old scientific illustrations and texts is definitely one of the highlights of twitter for me & a great resource for teaching

    Replying to @Graham_Coop @WTF_R_species
    So thrilled to know our collections are so useful for you! We love learning about the many wonderful ways our library is being used! 😊
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    Sep 29

    New online: Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion

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  15. Sep 30

    If anything exemplifies why brexit happened and is such a problem, it's the wide-eyed naivety of English people on both sides of the debate finding out about their own nation and its recent history.

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  16. Sep 30

    Bit dismayed at the number of English people saying how incisive and brilliant this thread is. I mean, it's a very good explanation, of the sort I'd expect to have to give to a small child or someone who has never been to Britain or Ireland.

    Dear , There is no better Brexit when it comes to the Good Friday Agreement and Northern Ireland. As you still seem bamboozled by all this Paddywackery here’s a few pointers for your next stab in the dark -
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    Sep 29

    A tale of two testimonies (this is only part of the chart, the rest looks the same)

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    Sep 29

    “10x improvement over” BAM not backed by data; irreproducible and potentially biased benchmark; avoid CRAM the state of art; unavailable code and dataset; pending patents; no promised royalty-free. On the MPEG-G alignment format:

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    Sep 29

    Just ... wow ...

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    Rover-1B succeeded in shooting a movie on Ryugu’s surface! The movie has 15 frames captured on September 23, 2018 from 10:34 - 11:48 JST. Enjoy ‘standing’ on the surface of this asteroid! [6/6]
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    Sep 28

    Timely commentary on -g and standards by world expert on DNA compression techniques James Bonfield.

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