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

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program! Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025. Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF... @systbiol.bsky.social

Lisa montero kicking off the first day of #mceb2025 at university of granada #molecular_evolution

📝 The early bird deadline for registration in SMBE 2025 in Beijing is TOMORROW, April 20th! Make sure to register for our annual meeting, where we will discuss the latest advances and emerging themes in molecular biology and evolution. More info: smbe2025.scimeeting.cn #SMBE2025 #evobio #molbio

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/8916/

Join the "Taming the BEAST" summer school in Beijing, July 14-18, 2025, focused on phylogenetics and phylodynamics. Registration is open for early-career scientists. Info: https://taming-the-beast.org/workshops/Taming-the-BEAST-Beijing/ #course #workshop

#smbe2025 provides 3.5 day free childcare. To apply simply indicate it in the abs submission system and email smbe2025{at}ioz.ac.cn with basic info of your kids. #molecular_evolution more deatils see mm.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index...

The Physalia Phylogenomics course is back this December! Join us for a computational journey on phylogeny and timetree inference with genomic datasets 🧬 💻 More information about the course and how you can register on the post below ⬇️

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

If you want to publish open access articles (and why wouldn’t you), very few reasons for not to publish in society journals. ”The question for you, as an author, is where to spend research funds. Is it better to publish in journals that profit your academic community or profit from that community?”

a summary and some further discussions on our recent pape on dating the bToL using ancient symbiosis sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/a... #phylo #phylogenetics #symbiosis #molecular_clock

Interesting editorial about society journals in MBE @official-smbe.bsky.social, although surprised by the favorable mention of impact factor academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

A FUN WAY TO TEACH BAYES’ THEOREM (X2): GUESS WHERE GUAN-ZHENG LUO 骆观正教授 IS FROM sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/a...