Attendees of the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference are a creative bunch. Inspired by one of the PEQG Bingo challenges, they bombarded Twitter with more than 50 #PEQG18 haikus (and one limerick), providing poetic snippets of the meeting to those who couldn’t make it. Joining the 17-syllable summaries were fantastic sketch notes of the meeting by scientist/artist April Wei.
Below are a couple of the haikus, including a few of the non-tweeted bingo entries. Enjoy and feel free to share your own science haikus using #sciku!
Rats in NYC
able to follow their dreams
with selective sweeps—Markus Stetter on “How brown rats adapted to life in NYC’s concrete jungle“
Strange TE, new home.
Boy frog meets girl frog, hearts jump;
now let’s get hopping.—Emily Baker on “Hostile genomic takeover by transposable elements in the Strawberry poison frog“
“Bet on sparsity”
vast labyrinth of haystacks
sifting for needles—Kathie Sun
https://twitter.com/CristyGelling/status/996250105866084353
#PEQG18 #sciku
Sequenced genome, for
my genes. Sorry, I've found more
repeats. Sequenced ge-— Monika Cechova Mich (@biomonika) May 16, 2018
the neutral theory
does not fit the data well
cherry blossoms fall#sciku #PEQG18— Matthew Hahn (@3rdreviewer) May 16, 2018
Immortality?
That just means that we'll all die
In bike accidents#PEQG18 #sciku— Silvan R. Urfer (@SilvanUrfer) May 16, 2018
#sciku #PEQG18
Detect selection, identify sweeps!
CNV mimics the signal,
Laugh in the corner!— Wenbin Mei (@wbmei) May 16, 2018
Phenotypic plasticity*
Phenotypic plasticity*
Phenotypic plasticity**at 25degC, the phrase ‘phenotypic plasticity’ can have between 4-8 syllables. 5&7 most common. #sciku #peqg18
— Thom Nelson (@Genetreeclimber) May 16, 2018
My first attempt at a #sciku :
Grabbing DNA
Genes found in the fish schooling
Their wet past is known— Martha Burford Reiskind #BLM 🌻 (@MobReiskind) May 16, 2018
Talks are amazing
People are connecting
I am so delighted!#sciku #PEQG18 @GeneticsGSA— Dmitri Petrov 💔 (@PetrovADmitri) May 16, 2018
connections we found
inspired, inspiring
plane’s brakes not yet fixed #sciku #PEQG18 #tarmacwoes— tracey depellegrin (@editor_traceyd) May 17, 2018