We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic. Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!

This study by @hoehna.bsky.social and coauthors seems very reassuring: where we often pick partition specific models rather ad-hoc, it appears these do not influence divergence time estimations. (I would still love to see a densitree plot though!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩 So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder! @fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.

Excited to share that I will be a co-director for the upcoming Workshop on Phylogenomics @evomics.bsky.social, alongside the amazing main team lead @rosafernandez.bsky.social and Erin K. Molloy We are putting together an amazing workshop with details to come - can't wait to share it with everyone!🥳

Female neoteny does have an impact on colonization patterns in the big European firefly, Lampyris noctiluca ✨

We now have protein sequences from rhino enamel that are >20 million years old! I am extremely excited and grateful to have been part of this project. The incredible thing: these sequences are informative enough to place this ancient species in the rhino tree! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The study finding phylogenetically informative proteomic data in a 20+ Myr rhino from Arctic Canada--and mind blowingly including this Miocene sequence in a tip-dated analysis--counts 2021 PhD Alessio Capobianco (now postdoc, LMU Munich) among the authors: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This week, two papers in @nature.com reported informative ancient proteins from Early Miocene (!) mammals. What I've realized now that I've had a chance to actually look at them: *both* studies include UMMP alums and/or current researchers as authors. Neat. 🦏🦷🧬 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Job alert! I am looking for someone who would like to join my lab as a senior researcher, permanent, with teaching included. My lab is new, I still have startup money, just sayin. DM or email me with questions. Deadline Aug. 11th, interviews in september. Ad here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...

Molecules from 20-million-year-old rhino-relative teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced go.nature.com/4lFx4KN

🆕 Preprint now on bioRxiv! We introduce a covarion model for phylogenetic inference using discrete morphological data, addressing lineage- and character-specific rate heterogeneity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #phylogenetics #morphology #covarion #evolution

This work shows the first overview on the population genetics and demographic history of the big European firefly, **Lampyris noctiluca**. Feeling very happy this work is out :) academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

@basantakhakurel.bsky.social Doing such a great talk, clearly explaining his convarion model for morphological characters and its performance relative to Mk Model. Preprint coming soon!

@anaevolcatalan.bsky.social @hoehna.bsky.social @stusso.bsky.social @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social et al. analyse genomes of the European firefly, revealing a complex demographic history shaped by glaciation and sex-biased dispersal. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/6/msaf123/8170119 #evobio #molbio

Thanks a lot Granada for hosting us in 2025! It was a real blast. Fantastic venue, marvellous city. Many thanks to the local organizers: A. Jesús Muñoz-Pajares and Mohamed Abdelaziz Mohamed. #MCEB2025

🚨 Wanted: PhD student excited about population genomics, Natural History Collections and birds! 📍 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany 🕒 3 Years, fully funded by the Leibniz Junior Researchgroup program Details and Application portal 👇 jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/8...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

New call for the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships. This is a really great opportunity. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-op...

Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.

Annotation of 200 insect genomes. Work driven by @stepbystepsolution.bsky.social and Mario Stanke within @gevol.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬 Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections. 🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen ⏰ Deadline: June 15th 📩 Contact me! 🚀 Excited to explore new horizons! Please share 🕊️

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

MCEB 2025 in Granada, Spain, 12-16 May 2025: mceb2025.sciencesconf.org Deadline for pre-registration : 21 February 2025 Looking forward to seeing you there!

If you are creative and want to become a Content Creator in an amazing museum, this 🚨job🚨 is for you @smnstuttgart.bsky.social www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/deta...

Our lab members @sabifo4.bsky.social, @anaserrasilva.bsky.social, Tomas Flouri, and Yuttapong Thawornwattana are teaching a two-day workshop on Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop 💻🧬 Pre-register your interest to join this event before March 14th, do not miss the deadline! More details below 🔽

Introduction to Bayesian inference; practical sessions focused on the usage of MCMCtree, BPP, and PhyloBayes; discussion sessions... Does this sound like something you would like to delve into over a two-day workshop? 💻🧬 Then pre-register your interest to join before March 14th! More details below 🔽

Are you wrapping up your PhD in the US and unsure what to do? We have a really nice postdoc funding program in the EU: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Also includes some excellent countries not in the EU, like Norway, Iceland, and the UK! (And non-USians, obvs.) Don't be intimidated be the bureaucratic wrapper; the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship is a fantastic programme.

Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology up for grabs @bristolbiosci.bsky.social for someone who studies "evolutionary processes and the emergence of large-scale patterns of organismal diversity using comparative genomics, and/or bioinformatics. Application deadline February 16

I am happy to announce that I will be starting an Emmy Noether group in March at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, working on the macroevolution and biogeography of fossil plants. I am already looking for a doctoral student (ad below!) and will be looking for another one soon, so stay tuned!

For its 2025 instalment, the conference "Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology" (MCEB) will take place in Granada, Spain ! It will focus on methods and models for phylogenomics and population genomics, with a great lineup of keynote speakers. mceb2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

So excited to see this paper finally published! 🥳 This was the main focus of my PhD and demonstrates the application of model adequacy for models of morphological evolution. 1/n academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

With PRIME, we have found the next workshop for PaleoSynthesis. The application from Baran Karapunar (Leeds) and Bethany Allen (Zurich) was seen as having the greatest potential. We congratulate them on their successful application and look forward to working with them.

How robust is Bayesian model selection for relaxed clock models? Surprisingly, standard approaches can have large uncertainty. Nice preprint led by Gustavo Darlim. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does ascertainment bias correction and among character rate variation interact? Very thoughtful preprint led by Alessio Capobianco. Feedback is welcome and should go to Alessio. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open position in my lab at LMU München – please distribute widely to potential applicants. Application deadline 30 November 2024. #molpalmuc #lmumunich

We are here! All future seminar announcements will be posted here.

This is very cool work! Mixture models and incorporating model uncertainty in Bayesian estimations, I think, is the way of the future. Be Bayesian all the way down.

The deadline for submitting POSTER abstracts to the legend2024 conference on Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data (legend2024.sciencesconf.org) on the fabulous island of Crete is on April 1st

Join us June 4-6 for a free phylogenetic biogeography workshop using RevBayes at WUSTL Details: tinyurl.com/phylobiogeow... Apply by March 6: forms.gle/3ax6q4GzYFMY... Instructors: Isaac Lichter Marck, Fábio Mendes, Sarah Swiston, Felipe Zapata + me Funded by award DEB-2040347 #evolsky

I'm chairing the phylogenetics session at ProbGen 24 in Vienna, April 10-12. Abstract submission closes soon (15 Feb). Please apply and make this an amazing meeting! www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...

We are looking for a scientific curator (permanent position) at the Botanical Garden of Ulm University, and have also a postdoc position available at the Institute of Botany. Anyone interested is welcome to contact me. Best wishes!

Evomics Workshops are now on Bluesky! Just as we’re starting to plan the next edition of our Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics…

Our study (led by Masahito Tsuboi and Thomas Hansen – not on Bluesky yet) on the antlers of the Irish elk has been picked up by New Scientist: www.newscientist.com/article/2415...

New preprint by Albert Soewongsono (amazing postdoc) on diffusion-based representations of ClaSSE models, with results to map out relationships between SSE rates and stationary state frequencies, and minimum times-to-stationarity #evolsky arxiv.org/abs/2402.00246

Very nice work by Laura Mulvey, a PhD candidate, in @rachelwarnock.bsky.social lab. Along with @hoehna.bsky.social, yours truly, and a couple co-authors who aren’t on here. Very useful results benchmarking test statistics for assessment of morphological models in phylogenetic inference.