West Papua Indonesia Earth's oldest living eco system existing for at least 70 million years Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres www.ft.com/content/27a6...

Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

🧬 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “tskit arg visualizer: Interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs.”  Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf302 Authors include: @kitchensjn.bsky.social, @yanwong.bsky.social

In honor of @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social new preprint, here's me standing in her common garden taking a photo op to troll her with all the grass species in the plot that are *not* big blue stem.

Sharing our new paper, "Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts". Genomics & evolution of a mating type system involving two morphs with alternating sexes in walnut relatives www.cell.com/current-biol...

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

In these dark times, it comes as a rare pleasure to highlight @natanaels.bsky.social ‬ & @marcdemanuel.bsky.social's work on germline and somatic mutations in humans. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Surpreendendo um total de 0 pessoas, um Conselho escolhido pelo ministério, com líder sem qualquer ligação à Ciência e com um pendor aplicado e empresarial, dá parecer positivo a iniciativa do ministério com visão aparentemente aplicada e empresarial #Independencia www.publico.pt/2025/08/28/c...

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

Reading in journal club: Science becomes trustworthy by constantly questioning itself @plosbiology.org @briannosek.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Check out our @pnas.org paper that was published last week: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... An amazing work by @gabrielesgarlata.bsky.social 🔥!! With contributions from me, Tiago de Zoeten, Jordi Salmona, Rita Rasteiro, and @louneschikhi.bsky.social. Very happy to see this work published! (1/2)

It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ

New in #GENETICS: Bisschop et al. present a backwards-time formulation of the Sequentially Markov Coalescent model and derive a straightforward definition of the likelihood of a general class of Ancestral recombination graphs under this model. Read more: buff.ly/brNkiXB

Destes 5, 3 passaram pelo Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, o mesmo que acabou em silêncio, disfarçado de fusão. Só vamos perceber o alcance deste este erro daqui a vários anos. Até lá, muito parabéns Ana, Mónica e Megan! Super bravas! (E Miguel e Paulo, pois claro) www.publico.pt/2025/06/17/c...

'Between 2014 and 2024, house prices in the city rose by 176%, and by more than 200% in its central historic districts. The home price to income ratio, a key indicator of housing affordability, reflects this shift with stark clarity: today, Lisbon tops Europe’s housing unaffordability rankings.'

Hey #Evol2025 folks - Interested in adaptive radiation? Morphological evolution? Cool birds? I’ll be presenting the results of my first dissertation chapter, looking at diversification in Malagasy vangas (+ a bit about what comes next!) (Sat 4:45-5 in Macroevo & Diversification IV, Parthenon 2)

Super excited for #Evol2025! I will be sharing some cool work on selection in the gut microbial communities at 9:30 am on Monday in the Evolutionary Ecology I session (Parthenon 2)!! Looking forward to chatting with folks as well!

Line up of talks by Coop lab folks #Evol2025 (do double check times): @kitchensjn.bsky.social Reconstructing the spatial histories of populations from ancestral recombination graphs June 21st Sat. 2:45 PM. Population Genetic Theory III. 1/n