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• The not-so-glamourous part of my job

  Grading, grading, grading… 90 Regression Modelling final exams.
  9 Nov, '23

• In between plant and animal breeding 1: economic weights

  Unless you live in paradise and you have a single objective trait—so your whole breeding objective is “more X”—you have…
  7 Nov, '23

• Carbon

  I am fascinated by trees, those cute and enormous organisms made out of air. The idea that I can hug…
  4 Nov, '23

• Even worse than pedigree errors: selecting for the wrong thing

  Imagine this: you have been patiently assessing trees for wood density (selection criterion) thinking that you’re improving wood stiffness (objective…
  3 Nov, '23

• In between plant and animal breeding 1

  Let’s start with the obvious: trees are plants and—unless you are breeding Ents—they do not walk around. Therefore, the first…
  2 Nov, '23

• Do I have pedigree errors?

  We just finished a genetic analysis, got breeding values for all our selection criteria, combined them with genetic parameters and…
  31 Oct, '23

• How old is your favourite language?

  We often forget for how long we’ve been writing code in specific languages. For example, I started using SAS in…
  31 Oct, '23

• All that glitters is not GxE interaction

  We are going over the fifth version(*) of a manuscript with a Ph.D. student and colleagues, polishing some details before…
  27 Oct, '23

• Chromatic

  皿 When in doubt, play chromatic Joe Pass
  23 Oct, '23

• Early selection: how early is early enough? Part 4

  In the previous post we were able to screen trees for wood properties at 2 years of age, separating normal…
  21 Oct, '23