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FOTJ In the App Store

FOTJ In the App Store

The first deployed application aimed at helping develop teamwork, participation, and belonging for STEM field students.

A light blueish background with some puzzle pieces on it; eight red ones in a group and one black one separated.

Characteristics of Successful Academic Leadership

Academic leadership requires a unique blend of skills and qualities. Here are some key traits that I associate with leaders who have had transformational impacts on their units, faculty, students, and academic programs.

A New Path

So, the end of my administrative role at VCU has necessitated reconfiguring my activities, output, and duties. Here is a short timeline. * Act I (2004-2015): Primarily as a tenure track faculty member, teaching and doing my research. You can see my research activities from my Google Scholar Profile. * Act II

Suck Reduction: A Life Philosophy

Suck Reduction: A Life Philosophy

This is a brief introduction to the mathematics of how to make your life suck just a little bit less—from the perspective of a Population…

2024—A Year forTool Deployment

2024—A Year forTool Deployment

This is the time of the year to reconfigure and figure out what is on the front burner for 2024! Finals are (finally) finished, projects…

Octocat from pngegg.com

Using GitHub to Teach Data Literacy

Collaborating as a classroom is significantly improved for both short and long-term knowledge persistence with the help of GitHub. This is…

Keybase Verification

Keybase Verification

Proof of Existence

Irreversibility of Structure & Diversity Statistics

population genetics

Irreversibility of Structure & Diversity Statistics

An estimate of the amount of genetic variation in a sampled locale is often based upon the standardized mean divergence in allele…

A Weekend Loaf of Substance

A Weekend Loaf of Substance

One of the things that I like to do is make some fresh bread for my family. I generally do this on the weekends, make some dough and cool…

Académie Confidential

In his inspiring book, Kitchen Confidential, author and chef Anthony Bourdain crafted a text which deftly described a breadth of…

ddRADSeq Demultiplexing

ddRADSeq Demultiplexing

Setting up the Ecosystem for running a de novo assembly for SNP identification.

Population assignment reveals low migratory connectivity in a weakly structured songbird.

Population assignment reveals low migratory connectivity in a weakly structured songbird.

DeSaix MG, Bulluck LP, Eckert AJ, et al. Population assignment reveals low migratory connectivity in a weakly structured songbird. Mol Ecol. 2019; 28: 2122–2135. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15083. Abstract Understanding migratory connectivity is essential for determining the drivers behind population dynamics and implementing effective conservation strategies

Updating R Package Libraries

If you work in R for very long on mac, there comes a time when you upgrade and the framework process looses all your libraries! In some sense this is pretty lame because you now have to install all these libraries again. However, it can be a blessing if you

Pollination graphs: quantifying pollen pool covariance networks and the influence of intervening landscape on genetic connectivity in the North American understory tree, Cornus florida L.

Pollination graphs: quantifying pollen pool covariance networks and the influence of intervening landscape on genetic connectivity in the North American understory tree, Cornus florida L.

Dyer, R.J., Chan, D.M., Gardiakos, V.A. et al. Pollination graphs: quantifying pollen pool covariance networks and the influence of intervening landscape on genetic connectivity in the North American understory tree, Cornus florida L.. Landscape Ecol 27, 239–251 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-011-9696-x Abstract How

Invasion genetics of Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae) within the James River Basin of Virginia, USA

Invasion genetics of Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae) within the James River Basin of Virginia, USA

Baker, S.A., Dyer, R.J. Invasion genetics of Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae) within the James River Basin of Virginia, USA. Conserv Genet 12, 793–803 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0186-0

A network of population genetic covariance, as defined using the PopulationGraphs approach.

Population Graphs: the graph theoretic shape of genetic structure

Dyer, R.J. and Nason, J.D. (2004), Population Graphs: the graph theoretic shape of genetic structure. Molecular Ecology, 13: 1713-1727. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02177.x Abstract Patterns of intraspecific genetic variation result from interactions among both historical and contemporary evolutionary processes. Traditionally, population geneticists