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Noah Whiteman@nkwhiteman.bsky.social |
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Genetics & Evolution Professor + Essig Museum of Entomology Director at UC-Berkeley / Author of the book MOST DELICIOUS POISON: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noah-whiteman/most-delicious-poison/9780316386579/ š³ļøāš
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S.S. Julian
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Save the date and reserve a ticket, because Iām speaking at @nerdniteSF ! This May 22 at the @rickshawstopsf, Iāll be giving a talk on āHow to Draw an Octopusā. Also look forward to talks from speakers Stepy Kamei and Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social
#octopus #octopolis #nerdnitesf
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Benjamin Wolfe
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The Camembertpocalypse is fake news! Also proud of my āsweet buttery flatulenceā quote. Enjoy your cheese and worry about the big stuff!
www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/03...
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD
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Happy Birthday to Charles Darwin, whose words and work are as relevant today as ever.
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Samridhi Chaturvedi
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Are you interested in evo. genetics, collecting butterflies and assisting in genomic data generation from field and museum samples? Look no further - I am looking for a lab tech/research assistant to start in my lab in March. Official link to follow but please spread the word!
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Noah Whiteman
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Delighted to share that I will be a Miller Research Professor at the UC-Berkeley Miller Institute next academic year! Thrilled to have the opportunity to engage with Miller Postdoctoral Fellows, Miller Research Professors & Visiting Miller Professors. I will also be exploring new research avenues.
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Noah Whiteman
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Slight correction, the GRS, which includes only doctoral and postdoctoral scholars will be Feb. 8-9. It will be led by the fabulous Jessica Kansman and Gauri Binayak! Applications due in about one year for both events.
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Noah Whiteman
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šØSave the date! The Plant-Herbivore Interaction Gordon Research Conference and GRS will be held February 9-14, 2025. Co-Vice Chairs Betty Benrey and Micky Eubanks and I (Chair) are planning a cutting-edge program centered on co-evolution. Stayed tuned! www.grc.org/plant-herbiv...
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Jannice Friedman
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Most Delicious Poison by @nkwhiteman.bsky.social is chock full of interesting plant biology bsky.app/profile/nkwh...
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Sarah Boon
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Yesterday my first review for @thetls.bsky.social came out! It's about @nkwhiteman.bsky.social 's book MOST DELICIOUS POISON. www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/mos...
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eric lai
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PRAISE for @nkwhiteman.bsky.social #mostdeliciouspoison
daughter: that book about toxins was SOOOOO COOL! i wonder how you get to have a job like mr. whiteman and write about things like this."
spoiler alert, i have some idea about that...
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Seth Finnegan
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Pleased to announce that we are organizing a session at the upcoming 2024 NAPC to celebrate the scientific legacy of the late Jim Valentine āif you plan to attend the meeting and do research in one of the many areas influenced by Jim's work, please consider submitting an abstract!
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Holger Jacobsen ę±ęµ©å²
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Most Delicious Poison - The Story of Nature's Toxins - From Spices to Vices - Noah Whiteman
www.audible.de/pd/Most-Deli...
The origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals. The mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them
www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0BV...
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C. Brandon Ogbunu
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"Who knew that such a weird, wonderful game of life lurked in our latte?"
From my new review of @nkwhiteman.bsky.social 's tremendous "MOST DELICIOUS POISON" for the journal Evolution:
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Noah Whiteman
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Humbling to have the brainpower of Prof. C. Brandon Ogbunu (Yale) focused on my new book MOST DELICIOUS POISON. Here is his incisive and beautifully written review that was just published in the journal Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Noah Whiteman
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Iām so glad you did! Thank you for sharing.
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Corrie Moreau
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Come work with us! We are hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Insect Biodiversity and Conservation in Cornell Entomology! Applications are due Jan 26th. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26806
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Noah Whiteman
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Noah Whiteman
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Congratulations!
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Noah Whiteman
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Thrilled that Most Delicious Poison made Science Fridayās Picks for 2023! Nice to see it alongside so many titles I admire: www.sciencefriday.com/articles/202...
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David Ho
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Wisdom the Laysan albatross ā the world's oldest known wild bird ā is back at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge!
She was banded by the US Geological Survey (USGS) in the 1950s. š§Ŗ
earthsky.org/earth/oldest...
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Leslie Rissler
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Iām excited to share Jen Wisecaverās link to the LIFE synthesis report that she and colleagues developed after 2 NSF national scoping sessions.
Check it out. Lots of interest in this theme. Stay tuned for more.
LIFE: Leveraging Innovations From Evolution ag.purdue.edu/department/b...
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Noah Whiteman
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Thrilled that my new book Most Delicious Poison was selected by @sciencenews.bsky.social as one of 12 top science books of 2023! www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...
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Noah Whiteman
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Delighted to read this review of my new book (what a cool illustration too!) in The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/b...
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Tom Turner
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The Ecology & Evolution department at UC Santa Barbara is searching for an Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology. Please apply and/or spread the word! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635
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Noah Whiteman
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Iāll be on our local NPR station KQED tomorrow (Thursday) at 10am @KQEDForum to talk about my new book Most Delicious Poison: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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Noah Whiteman
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Ever wonder why a plant, a mushroom, or a toad would make a psychedelic compound? I explore this question in a new essay published today in TIME magazine @TIME and available here: time.com/6340163/evol...
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Noah Whiteman
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I hope you like it! The hardcover has 25 illustrations!
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Carl Zimmer
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Two years ago this week, scientists announced the arrival of Omicron. And two years later, the variant is still evolving. Hereās my second-anniversary take on this chillingly efficient pathogen. Ā
š§Ŗ Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/s...
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Noah Whiteman
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Wonderful
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Noah Whiteman
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Have a genome reference assembly ready for prime time? As Senior Editor for Genome Reports at G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics at the Genetics Society of America, I wrote an Editorial on our innovative peer review process. I am proud of our team. Please spread the word! academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
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Noah Whiteman
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Oh that is very touching for me to hear Dan.
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Noah Whiteman
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Iām so sorry to hear your dad passed away Dan. What an amazing life he lived! Thanks for sharing this.
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Noah Whiteman
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A generous review by Aaron Tremper at Science News: āPersonal and well-researched, Most Delicious Poison has wide appeal, in part, as Whiteman points out, because indulging in natureās toxins āis an essential part of what it means to be human.ā www.sciencenews.org/article/pois...
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Graham Coop
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Baby trying out @nkwhiteman.bsky.social's new book, luckily less toxic than title would suggest.
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Noah Whiteman
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Omg! This makes me so happy!
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Noah Whiteman
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The book: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noah-...
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Noah Whiteman
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I discuss the hawk-parasite work (enabled by pyrethrins from mums) in my new book, Most Delicious Poison, illustrated here by the fabulous Julie Johnson. The first chapter is āDeadly Daisiesā:
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Noah Whiteman
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For me to reach my potential and for the work to do the same, I needed allies who were also scientific collaborators.
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Noah Whiteman
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And maybe the coolest of all, eventuality it drove a collaborative study led by former postdoc now Professor Jen Koop that showed how individual hawks host genetically differentiated louse populations that tracked host demography over time and space: rsj.scienceconnect.io/api/oauth/au...
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Noah Whiteman
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It was all worth it. Allies ran interference and my research was rewarding: āthe first study linking inbreeding, innate immunity and parasite load in an endemic, in situ wildlife populationā www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... and an early co-phylogeography study people.clas.ufl.edu/rkimball/fil...
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Noah Whiteman
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Happy #LGBTQSTEMDay! Here I am as a 25 year old. I had amebic dysentery from Entamoeba histolytica (had lost 20 pounds), holding one of ca. 50 Galapagos hawks I sampled that year. These werenāt the only challenges. Like many, I feared being outed in the field. Stay strong!
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Noah Whiteman
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A nice review of my new book Most Delicious Poison out now in New Scientist: āWhitemanās passion and depth of knowledge shine through, making this well worth a read.ā www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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Noah Whiteman
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This book event is almost sold out but there are a few tickets left (for this Wednesday, doors open at 5:30pm, bring your book or you can buy one there)! It will be held at Julia Morgan Hall at the UC Botanical Garden--there will be drinks and snacks too. events.berkeley.edu/bot/event/22...
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Koenfucius
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The stench of death (rightly) keeps us away from corpsesābut chemicals like cadaverine and putrescine have another side, writes @nkwhiteman.bsky.social, with vital functions even inside our bodies: buff.ly/3FDDyXT
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Noah Whiteman
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Delighted that @dailycal, the independent student-run newspaper for @UCBerkeley, reviewed my new book. Beautifully penned by Nathan Martins: āFascinating, poignant and elegantly written, Dr. Whitemanās book is an engrossing interdisciplinary workā¦ā dailycal.org/2023/11/09/p...
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Hanna Kokko
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Celebration! Our GenEvo graduate school got renewed! Exciting interactions between molecular and evolutionary approaches ahead, without forgetting theoretical integration. Us being "56% international and 56% female" also feels like a healthy state to be in. There will be PhD positions offered!
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior.
I will be chairing the search; details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336
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Noah Whiteman
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Hopkins people! Iām excited to be the graduate student invited speaker for the Johns Hopkins University Chemistry-Biology Interface graduate program this Friday at 4pm Eastern: cbi.jhu.edu/event/cbi-st...
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Noah Whiteman
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Artemesia (several species) is the wormwood and Russet Sparrows are Passer cinnamomeus.
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Noah Whiteman
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Available at local bookstores in North America (tinyurl.com/2rzy7ztd), B & N (tinyurl.com/4amuwd7n), Amazon, (tinyurl.com/4w4y6ywz), Audible (tinyurl.com/5ah3udy5), and in Europe (oneworld-publications.com/work/most-deliā¦). ā ļø š± šø š
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