We're delighted to announce Sarah Sanderson (McGill University) as the winner of the 2025 Louis Bernatchez Memorial Prize for the best student-led paper in Evolutionary Applications! Congratulations, @sarahsanderson.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

We are extending the deadline to our 'Time-dependency in Micro- and Macroevolutionary Rates' special feature. ⏰️ Deadline for proposals is now the 10th July. Find out more 👇 buff.ly/8eeEEjN

My new paper with @gdarlim.bsky.social and @hoehna.bsky.social is now out in Proceedings B! We set out to compare two different approaches to time-calibrate a molecular phylogeny: traditional node calibrations, and unresolved FBD... @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

My son is showing me what’s a reflective Brownian motion.

IQ-TREE 3 is now integrated with MCMCTree: That is, IQ-TREE's sophisticated substitution models can now be used for Bayesian molecular-clock dating analyses!

Congrats to Matt! 🎉 I worked w/ Matt at USC, during which time I started focusing on evolutionary theories and met amazing colleagues like @jgschraiber.bsky.social & @kylethedavid.bsky.social (wait, no one else on Bluesky??)

also salute to all authors for their sustained publishing in society-based journals @molbioevol.bsky.social from iqtree 1 to 3. @bqminh.bsky.social @roblanfear.bsky.social wong kam fung, nhan

Excited to announce the 2026 International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Ecology 🧬🌿 📍 Chengdu, China | May 15–18, 2026 Join us to explore cutting-edge research in genomics, multi-omics, AI & molecular ecology 👩‍🔬 🔍 More info: life.scu.edu.cn/life_en/info...

🪸🦕 📈 🪨 Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetics, with Emilia Jarochowska, @niklashohmann.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Johan Hidding 📍 Lorentz Centre, Leiden 📅 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2026 Applications open - details below 👇

The SMBE Community Service Award for 2026 goes to Aoife McLysaght @ucddublin.bsky.social, who has served our society in many roles throughout the years. Visit our website to learn more about the SMBE Faculty Awards 🔗 smbe.org/faculty-awards #society

❗We recall that our Call for Volunteer Mentors for Undergraduate Awardees at SMBE2026 is ongoing. If you are interested in supporting the next generation of researchers, please contact Aya Takahashi ([email protected]) or Ravinder Kanda ([email protected]). #SMBE2026

lifestyle evolution in rickettsiales: time will tell sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/o...

New #ISEPpapers #preprint by @deemteam.bsky.social: Re-evaluating the eukaryotic Tree of Life with independent phylogenomic data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife #Phylogeny #Phylogenomics #Bioinformatics #Algae

Are you going to #SMBE2026 Copenhagen by train, or are you hesitating? Let's share experiences and give ideas to those who think to fly from Western or Central Europe with the hashtag #NoFlySMBE. If you're coming from 🇨🇭, there are night trains from Zürich or Basel to Hamburg. ✅🚆 ❌✈️

MBE is excited to launch our newest Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life, covering all aspects of phylogenomic research. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-on-the-major-transitions-of-life Guest Editors: Davide Pisani Anja Spang #evobio #molbio #phylogenetics

McArthur et al. present piqtree, an easy to use, open-source Python package that provides Python script based control of IQ-TREE’s phylogenetic inference engine. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag061 #evobio #molbio #compbio

SSE offers free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all countries in our Global Membership Assistance program, including India, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and 152 countries and territories around the world. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

fantastic! even more fantastically, can consider these subs models in #molecularclock dating. see a blog article "Late better than never: time to consider complex subs models in inferring div time" sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/l...

The first release of #iqtree 3 since last may is available github.com/iqtree/iqtree3 @bqminh.bsky.social

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

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

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 :)