Happy to share that my PhD paper published in Systematic Biology. My paper explores the #Asymptotictheory of Bayesian rate model selection and explore how misspecified calibrations can affect this. Also test rate model selection with large #Phylogenomes Link below: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Frustrated that MCMCtree does not have complex substitution models? The IQ-tree team has now developed IQ2MC, an interface for seamless integration of IQ-tree's substitution models with MCMCtree's fast Bayesian pipeline for clock dating. Read the preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Join us for interesting discussions at the Computational Approaches to Early Evolution workshop next year in April at OIST in Onna, Okinawa! 🦠💻🧬 Registrations open until January 2nd '26, do not miss it! More info & registration details in the link below! 🔽 www.oist.jp/conference/c...

New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga). 🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

very glad to host the visit of @bqminh.bsky.social to my dept at #cuhk, fantastic talk on recent #iqtree development and its appl. on viral #phylo ; also a great experience to interact with people from #hku haogao_gu and to enjoy the nice view of sai kung from the mountain ma on shan 馬鞍山.

my great honor to host a successful symposium "efficient methods in #molevol" co-organized by xiyun and yuttapong, #asiaevo in kunming: 8 speakers from 4 continents, incl. 3 female scientists and researchers at diff. career stages with diverse backgrounds sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/s...

Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to [email protected]

Hybrid seminar. Inferring phylogenies for viruses: recent challenges and advances Speaker: Prof. Bui Quang Minh Time: Dec 15, 2025 11:00 AM Hong Kong SAR Venue: Room 38069, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin Zoom ID: 925 6769 4550 (Passcode: 902352)

#Archaea, #DPANN, #phylogenetic_reconciliation New preprint online! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SMBE2026 Symposium 12 | Reconstructing the deep Tree of Life: challenges and new approaches 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

🤝 In 2024, the 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Rori Rohlfs and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for their podcast ScienceWise! ✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project! 🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social

An interactive meeting budget calculator sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/a... some may ask if it's with the help of ai that i developed this. no, it's the opposite.

Excited to share my new preprint developed with @matsen.bsky.social, in collaboration with Marius Brusselmans, Luiz Carvalho, @msuchard.bsky.social, and @guybaele.bsky.social, on the biological causes and impacts of tree space ruggedness in phylodynamic inference. 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)

Really, really happy that our work on microsporidian genomes is now out in @plosbiology.org! A huge thank you to my coauthors, my supervisors @mblaxter.bsky.social & @marakat.bsky.social, the editors @roliroberts.bsky.social & Joseph Heitman, and the reviewers ❤️ plos.io/48HsAQJ

Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social

From "typhoon" to horizontal gene transfer (HGT) sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/f...

If you're interested in understanding discordance in phylogenomic analyses, the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social's special issue 'Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions' is for you! tinyurl.com/v2eces3s I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪

We had the best scientific time! Thanks @official-smbe.bsky.social for making this happen. We’ll try to repeat this in the future. Stay put! @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social

The next NZ Phylogenomics Meeting will be in Waiheke Island (a short ferry trip away from Auckland City) on February 10 - 13, 2026. It combines maths, computer science, statistics, and biology for phylogenetics, genome analysis and molecular evolution. compevol.github.io/Waiheke2026/

🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open. We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️Deadline: October 15th More info: smbe2026.org/symposia @official-smbe.bsky.social

❗REMINDER - the call for proposals for SMBE IDEA initiatives for 2025/2026 will close soon - apply by October 10th Categories: 💡 IDEA ($25k) 🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k) 🗣️ Outreach ($10k) More info smbe.org/idea-initiatives @smbe-idea.bsky.social

Last days for submission

The Eukaryotic Pathogen, Vector, and Host Informatics Resources (VEuPathDB) launched a subscription service to cover half its budget. If you feel the db is useful for your research, pls consider a subcription. veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app/

[conf alert] The 4th AsiaEvo Conf. in Kunming, China, Dec 8-11, 2025. Join scholars and young researchers to explore cutting-edge #evobio. Free registration for researchers from SouthEast Asia countries. For submission see instructions at 2025asiaevoconf.casconf.cn #AsiaEvo2025 #AsiaEvo

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

New preprint! phyloHessian enables complex subs models (e.g. C60) in molecular dating via MCMCtree. Sims & real-data analysis show profile-homogeneous models (LG+G) likely cause biased time and rate estimates for deep or fast-evolving phylogenies. #phylogenetics #JuliaLang doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are organizing a symposium in the 4th AsiaEvo Conferenence this December in #Kunming about #appendage featuring the Palentologist Xing Xu at IVPP, Dev. biologist Cheng-Ming Chung from USC and evodevoist @MonteiroLab Antonia Monteiro from NUS. Submit your abstract now!

🌏 Join us in Hong Kong this December for GIW / ISCB-Asia 2025! 🧬 Present your latest research and connect with the global bioinformatics and computational biology community. 📅 Submit by Sept 29: https://www.iscb.org/asia2025/call-for-submissions

Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669136v1

Check out our paper to explore how the evolutionary history of SELMA supports or challenges various hypotheses on the origin of red complex plastids. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

This is my first time to attend SMBE annual meeting and co-organize the Symposium. Thanks to @official-smbe.bsky.social and really enjoyed to discuss science with friends and colleagues during these days :-)

Dinner in Beijing local restaurant after day 3 poster session #smbe2025

Day2 #smbe2025 started!

Ziheng kicks off #smbe2025 with 6 impossibles before breakfast.

📑 New @genomics.peercommunityin.org recommendation, by @sishuowang.bsky.social genomics.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... On the work of David Robelin et al. (2025) localScore: an R package to highlight optimal and suboptimal segment in a sequence with associated p-values computation #OpenAccess

Coming to #smbe2025 by train transferring at guangzhou 广州with kid. Look forward to seeing you in Beijing. Thx @official-smbe.bsky.social for free day care.

during #smbe2025, hastag #smbe2025 will automatically be re-posted in this feed

There will be a special session during @official-smbe.bsky.social 2025 this year to introduce the Mol Biol Evol studies in China: smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index.... My student Huangyi and postdoc Jing Liu will be giving a talk in two other symposiums. See u in Beijing!

some thoughts on new methods to root a phylogenomic tree: the smart, the symbiotic, the violent sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/n... #phylo @tweethinking.bsky.social @andrewjroger.bsky.social

#smbe2025: train travel? note that in summer, train tickets only sold 15 days before in china. can book ahead, but no guarantee of success so do check its status 15 days before your travel.

The first Keynote speech of #SMBE2025 will be given by SMBE's President Ziheng Yang (@zihengyang.bsky.social). "Six impossible things to believe before breakfast, about gene flow" 20.07.2025 | 18h00

so pleased to host the visit of @mariodosreis.bsky.social to my dept. amaizingly great talk with many beautiful discoveries on positive selection and molecular clock! typhoon Wutip (the butterfly 蝴蝶) just grazed hong kong, so enjoyed a great hiking and much brainstorm in the tropical storm!

How does PAML read a rooted tree? sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/h... #phylo #PAML #iqtree

final version of our study "Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis" doi.org/10.1093/sysb... particularly thx to haiwei luo for his guidance during my postdoc! see sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/a... for a brief summary and comparison w/ others #phylo #molecular_clock

An animation of rejection sampling and MCEB2025 sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/s... #phylo #phylogenetics #mceb2025 #mceb

New preprint! We generate 40 new high-quality microsporidian genomes from infected arthropod hosts that were sequenced to create reference genomes by the Darwin Tree of Life project. 8 of our genomes are chromosome-level, and we’re able to generate Hi-C data for 7! 🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Group photo from #MCEB2025 at the foot of the Alhambra. thanks to everyone involved, particularly the committee @stephaneguindon.bsky.social, and local organizers Antonio Jesús Muñoz-Pajares and Mohamed Abdelaziz Mohamed #MCEB #Phylogenetics