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• Why did my breeding values go down?

  At first, the question may sound strange. You have been collecting data, running analyses using various acronyms (PBLUP, GBLUP, HBLUP,…
  30 Nov, '23

• I am a sucker… for interesting problems

  As a child and as a young person I moved a lot (schools, cities, countries). On one side it gave…
  25 Nov, '23

• Big blob thesis OR chapter = publication?

  I have a PhD student that should be submitting by approximately Christmas time, so the last week has been a…
  22 Nov, '23

• Are we working with a model organism?

  There are organisms that are highly popular in research, like fruit flies or mice in animals,Arabidopsis or poplars in plants.…
  18 Nov, '23

• Essentially

  A month ago I said “trees are much more than wood and one of our PhD students at the School…
  15 Nov, '23

• At the core of your breeding programme

  Surely you have been in this situation: meeting, there is coffee and biscuits at the back, some fruit if you’re…
  11 Nov, '23

• 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