very happy to have this work published in mbe @molbioevol.bsky.social can now use phyloHessian to get a (hopefully) improved div time & subs rate estimate, particularly for deep-time or fast‑evolving lineages github.com/evolbeginner... #julialang #iqtree #mcmctree #molecularclock

Newick-formatted timetrees of the α-proteobacteria (Wang & Luo 2021) and bTOL (Wang & Luo 2025) are made available separately, such that no need to download the entire online datasets in case you r interested in only the timetree files. sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/resources/ #phylo #molecularclock

Inviting anyone who is interested to come to my inaugural lecture, 'Why the Cambrian Explosion happened', on March 24 at the University of Leeds eps.leeds.ac.uk/faculty-engi...

Happy to share a recent publication to which I contributed as a corr. author: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This work is in collaboration with Dr. Yao Yu at Fudan University, where the team managed to transfer S. cerevisiae chromosmes into K. marxianus, a species diverged from Sc ~114 mya. (1/4)

I am happy to share the unfinished but nevertheless fascinating autobiography of the late Thomas Cavalier-Smith, written in 2020, shortly before Tom passed away in 2021. I thank Ema Cavalier-Smith for sharing the text with me. I recently finished curating […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting. More info: www.systbio.org/early-career...

meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... Announcing the 2026 EMBO course in Computational and Experimental Microbiomics, to be held at Bath. The course brings together experiments and bioinformatics to study host-microbe interactions and co-evolution. Register now, or at least by 11 May, if interested :)

Only one week left to register to MCEB 2026 in Crete! mceb2026.sciencesconf.org

We have a new Bayesian sampler of divergence times that is smoking fast! Benchmarking by the exceptional @lauramulvey.bsky.social

Systematic Biology’s January 2026 issue (75.1) is out! It launches our 75th anniversary series, debuts the new Invited Review article category, features a Tillandsia Spotlight, along with a nice mix of empirical & methods papers. Check it out: academic.oup.com/sysbio/issue... @systbiol.bsky.social

SMBE2026 Symposium 6 | Synthetic and systems biology approaches to dissecting the molecular mechanisms of evolution 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

If you’re conducting research in the relevant area and want to share your work, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch if you're interested in presenting or learning more. Abstract deadline: 19th January 2026! #MicrobialSymbiosis #CSEE2026 #Symbiosis #Parasitism #Mutualism

what is +ASC (ascertainment bias correction) and how to do it manually under JC69 #phylo sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/h...

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!