@NESCent

NSF-funded science nonprofit dedicated to cross-disciplinary research in evolution. Jointly operated by Duke, UNC, and NC State. Tweets by Nicole Duncan.

 Durham, NC
nescent.org
Joined July 2009
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Runner-up of the @NESCent #evol2015 film festival: Alice and the Enigmatic Tree of Rabbits vimeo.com/129265142
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Winner of @NESCent #evol2015 film festival: Escaping the Sex Trap: Can Female Resistance Promote the Loss of Sex? vimeo.com/123792957

Escaping the sex trap: Can female resistance promote the loss of sex?

Almost all multicellular organisms reproduce sexually, but it isn’t entirely clear why this should be the case. Since sex is associated with a number of large costs, evolutionary theory predicts that...

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Faculty travel award for attending this year's #Evolution meeting in Brazil. Via @NESCent. docs.google.com/forms/d/1wMn…
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#sDiv:The International Synthesis Consortium synthesis-consortium.org @NESCent @sesync @nceas @ACEAS_Aus @eos_nerc @CEESUiO @FRBiodiv @usgsjwp
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@NESCent Good to see the NESCent logo has evolved from its ancestral form. I far prefer the derived logo.
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@NESCent comic sans FTW!
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@NESCent My eyes! The goggles do nothing....
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Ashu@ashu15 Jan 2015
Ocean giants relative to humans, fascinating! (via @NESCent)
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According to the best sources we have, how big do ocean leviathans really get? nerdist.com/2015/01/we-final…
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Accurate sizes of largest sea creatures revealed — bit.ly/1BlG6mh
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New research measures the largest mammals in the ocean: bit.ly/1xlxLIY #sizingoceangiants @NESCent @TrevorABranch @DrCraigMc
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Out of all these giants, the crab and octopus seem to freak people out. Guys, the SEAL is the terrifying one. phenomena.nationalgeographic…
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NESCent retweeted
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@io913 Jan 2015
This Is How Big The Ocean's Most Gigantic Creatures Can Really Get on.io9.com/sI6PmK0
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Sizing up giants under the #sea bit.ly/1BiCLVe from @NESCent on @EurekAlertAAAS
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New @thePeerJ article by @Conabio colleague resulted from work on @NESCent - @eol - BHL research sprint ow.ly/GSRdo #openaccess
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Seeds out of season bit.ly/1BBhOCq via @NESCent @EurekAlertAAAS -- Read more on eurekalert.org/climatechange
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@michaelgharvey @keholsinger @NESCent i use R all the time and I'm a population geneticist.
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The focus is on teaching #reproducibility at the @NESCent Reproducible Science Hackathon. #ImprovingScience
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@naupakaz @gvwilson @NESCent Links to notes will appear here soon: github.com/Reproducible-Scie…
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Working to develop lessons for reproducible research at @NESCent A great group & excited for what we can accomplish. Follow at #rrhack
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