www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We finally submitted the earlier preprint to a journal after massive restructuring. We've expanded the REML section for those interested in the method. We clarify that ARG-LMM estimates mutational variance and not additive variance.

With @szhan.bsky.social, @yulinzhang.bsky.social, Chao Zhang and Bingjie Chen, we wrote a Perspective about unifying the tree-based method across phylogenetics, population genetics and cell biology: arxiv.org/abs/2512.05499. Reposts are greatly appreciated!

Come one come all! Come get involved in stdpopsim and help us decide where to go from here!

#NatureMicroPicks Microbial integrons in focus 🦠🧬 Two studies showing microbial integrons encoding phage defense systems #MicroSky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fungi shape genome evolution of bacteria even in the absence of major growth phenotypes #ISMEJournal from @benwolfe.bsky.social Penicillium camemberti and Geotrichum candidum on Pseudomonas carnis evolution academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

In the phosphorus-limited Sargasso Sea, microbes partition phosphorus uptake by time of day—bacteria in the morning, phytoplankton by day, and cyanobacteria at dusk—revealing a temporal niche strategy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Hey! That's me! Check out my latest where I develop a method for pinpointing where mutation spectra change along phylogenies. Striking, nodes with large changes are significantly enriched for protein changes in the RdRp (catalytic domain of the polymerase) suggesting a causal role.

300 billion years of angiosperm evolution at risk of extinction doi.org/10.1101/2025... Evolutionary blocks to anthocyanin accumulation in betalain-pigmented Caryophyllales doi.org/10.1101/2022... #Biodiversity #Evolution #PlantSci

Ancestral sequence reconstruction often assumes unrealistic homogeneous substitution models; however @rmuniztrejo.bsky.social et al. find that reconstruction accuracy is determined by phylogenetic signal, not model choice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evobio #molbio

Code for PopPIPE here: github.com/bacpop/PopPIPE Thanks to some thorough editing in review we ironed out some errors that can arise, made the installation simpler, and added more automated output from the transmission pipline steps

Ancient polyploidy and low rate of chromosome loss explain the high chromosome numbers of homosporous ferns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614530v1

If you're interesting in the #H5N1 outbreak in cattle in the US, please have a look at our preliminary analyses just posted. Part 1 of 2: virological.org/t/preliminar...

As Prof. Priyanga Amarasekare's heartbreaking saga at UCLA drags into another year, I've compiled a thread of articles written about the situation. My sardonic take: Some people didn't like to be accused of racism and decided to destroy her career over their hurt feelings. 1/21