I wrote a commentary about the recent paper by @deepaagashe.bsky.social and @vrindarvkm.bsky.social Also go have a look at the original paper if you haven't ! The timeframe of prediction for eco-evolutionary dynamics | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to preprint our latest work (w/ Drew DeHaas, Zhibai Jia, Leo Speidel) on using ARGs for demographic inference. w/ applications using data from 1000 Genomes Project. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Host constraints on viral recombination and emergence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679867v1

Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)

How do mate-finding Allee effects affect evolutionary rescue? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.678992v1

Congrats to Dr. Meng Yuan, who defended her PhD on the genome-wide potential for ploidy & sexual conflict in plants! Many thanks to @judithmank.bsky.social for serving as her external examiner. A fun collaboration w/ @stepheniwright.bsky.social and also @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social for a paper!

Our paper about how ancestral recombination graphs can be used to detect "phantom" genetic interaction signals (that arise due to the genealogy, rather than "real" epistasis) is out in Genetics! Nice thread here by @linoafferreira.bsky.social academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Our work on evolutionary rescue is finally out in this week's issue of PNAS! Check out the NCBS communications team piece on our work quoted below.

Quasi epigenetic equilibrium: the implications of plasticity and variability on evolution and extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672696v1

Our Quantitative Genetic approach to Modelling Microbiome-Mediated Host Adaptation is now published in Evolution !!! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Season 5 is going to start 🔜 Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info... @kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Whether you are looking to get a better grasp on how these graphs are structured or communicating findings from your latest ARG inference project, we hope that tskit_arg_visualizer becomes a useful addition to your research toolkit! 5/6

Check out this cool visualization tool for ARGs by @kitchensjn.bsky.social!! Found it super helpful to visualize an ARG as a single graph and to look at marginal trees as part of the full graph.

Thanks, Hanna! There are quite a few Kokkonuts at #ESEB2025! On Thursday, @gauravathreya.bsky.social talks about ageing + sex, @tomospotter.bsky.social talks about guppy polymorphisms, @ccrowther.bsky.social has a poster on nesting 🐢, and Victor Ronget has a poster on ageing trends in mammals + 🐦!

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

hai eseb people ! come to my talk introducing the quantitative genetics of microbiome mediated traits :) 2:30-2:45 at S07.02 btw our ppr just got accepted at evolution ! amazing and challenging reviews ::)) revised pre-print here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

Presenting Dr. @bmsacchi.bsky.social !! Bianca successfully defended her thesis on Rumex sex chromosome degeneration and regulatory evolution today. Bravo!!

Excited to finally have the pre-print up for this work on evolutionary rescue from my PhD at UBC! Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.

How Randomness Can Flip Evolution: New Study Uncovers Surprising Role of Population Noise Summary & Analysis by Tahirah Williams of “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics for Finite Populations and the Noise-Induced Reversal of Selection” by Bhat et al. www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

From REU to Population Biology Workshop Participant We reconnected with former Center for Quantitative Biology REU participant Mete Yuksel after he recently attended an NITMB workshop focussed on population biology! www.nitmb.org/post/from-re...

New preprint! We analyzed ~500 global marine fish time series using #EmpiricalDynamicModeling and show that temperature variation amplifies nonlinearity in juveniles and adults, while life history mediates nonlinearity for the latter, dampening it in slow-lived species #Ecology #Fisheries

Congratulations to @jaimegrimm.bsky.social and the rest of the 2025 cohort of CSEE Excellence in Doctoral Research Awards! Every year the quality of student research in the society continues to blow my mind. #CSEE2025

Check out our dive into 50,000 years of Indian genetic history!🇮🇳 🧬~2,700 genomes 🦴Neanderthal/Denisovan DNA 🌾Hunter-gatherer, Iranian farmer & Steppe ancestry 🩺Health-linked, population-specific variants @lauritsskov.bsky.social & Priya Moorjani #Genomics #India #HumanEvolution #PopulationGenetics

For “Reflections on the history of modeling and theory”, @sarperotto.bsky.social and I met with Joel Cohen. We learn how he navigated math and biology, the value of embracing ignorance, and what is a population. Or really, what _isn't_ a population: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCt9... @smtpb.bsky.social

Poster presentation done at my first conference ever !( #Evol2025 ) Thank-you to everyone who came by !

There is still lots of time to sign up for our 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨ It is a FREE, online course in Evolutionary Biology, made by students and for students! Please share widely and don't forget to register! 💚💚💚 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please share widely! We are offering the 4th iteration of our free & online crash course in Evolutionary Biology, catered to students in the Global South! Join us this summer for an incredible line of up classes & tutorials from amazing graduate student researchers, covering a vast array of topics!

i made a new framework for modelling stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits !! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Nice talk on speciation in manakins by @elsemikkelsen.bsky.social . Rivers are barrier, but gene flow occurs at headwaters. Highlights centromere regions (meiotic drive?) as differentiated regions between species. Also fun illustrations of manakins complete with crowns #Evol2025

Six #UofT faculty members recognized with Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Awards 🙌 uoft.me/bAa

In a new #GENETICS research, @dandanpeng.bsky.social, Mulder, and @docedge.bsky.social evaluate the performance of several ancestral recombination graph (ARG) estimation methods used for determining the historical time course of a population-mean polygenic score. Read more: buff.ly/ztrRU83

Next week: SMTPBconnect talk from Sam Scheiner (NSF) on May 1st, 8 AM PST - register here! stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

Carola Petersen from our lab will be one of the invited symposium speakers at ESEB 2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social

The call for MSCA fellowships is soon opening! This is a great postdoc program, so do get in touch if you'd like to join our group from another country, within or outside Europe. The University of Montpellier and CNRS can train you on writing your proposal! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

🚨 Only 3 more sleeps! 🚨   Meet Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor, #Atwood2025’s Rising Star in Ecology! 🐺🌍📊 Learn more about Dr. Gaynor’s work here: gaynorlab.weebly.com For schedule details, click here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

Session 2 of the SMTPBconnect Grad Student Showcase hosted by @puneethderaje.bsky.social is next week, April 8th at 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM PST / 10:30 AM - 12 PM ET. See flyer for schedule of short talks, and register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

I'm excited to share our new preprint on the molecular evolution of heterodichogamy in two wingnut genera of Juglandaceae. Heterodichogamy features two morphs synchronously alternating male and female flowering phases in time to generate disassortative mating. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Just a reminder this is happening at 3:30 pm ET today so about an hour from now! @smtpb.bsky.social

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey! Super excited to be hosting this SMTPB Grad and Postdoc research showcase. The first session is happening on Monday (March 5th) If you have a postdoc position or a job to advertise in this session, please feel free to reply in this thread or email me ([email protected])!!

amnat.org/an/newpapers... Nice to see Tahirah Williams' fantastic layperson summary of our ( @vishuguttal.bsky.social and I) Synthesis work on demographic stochasticity and eco-evolutionary dynamics out on the @asn-amnat.bsky.social webpage! #evolsky #evolution #mathsky #physky #philbio 🧪🧬🌏

Delighted to see the final version of my paper for @asn-amnat.bsky.social appear online. In it, I analyze stochastic matrix models to partition the effects of spatial and temporal variation in demography and dispersal on metapopulation growth rates www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/n

The second chapter of my PhD is now available as a preprint! We sampled ant-plant interactions across a ~20° latitudinal gradient across the Indian subcontinent to test the biotic interactions hypothesis for mutualism. Check it out!

Tie that binds - Hill-Robertson Interference can produce signals of sexual antagonism even in the absence of sexually antagonistic selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.632022v1