Tyler Kent
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Postdoc @ University of Chicago Ecology & Evolution Evolutionary genomics mostly
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Kelsie Hunnicutt
4 days ago
Thrilled that our new review article on animal hybridization is now up on EcoEvoRxiv! 🎉 Working on this review with
@mollyschumer.bsky.social
was a blast, and it was such a wonderful opportunity to catch up on all the amazing work in animal hybridization over the last few years!
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Andrew Hipp
4 days ago
Just dropped: our Mexico oak diversification paper made the cover of
@pnas.org
! Beautiful photo of Quercus rugosa, netleaf oak, by friend & colleague M. Socorro González-Elizondo, to accompany PhD candidate Kieran Althaus's excellent, deeply collaborative study. Enjoy!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Scott P. Egan
10 days ago
Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant
Egan et al. report the discovery of a new trophic interaction in nature whereby a parasitic plant attacks multiple species of insects that manipulate plant tissue when the two co-occur on a shared pri...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2818%2930815-7
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Jae Young Choi
16 days ago
I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!
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Huge congrats to this corn-man hybrid on his election to the
@nationalacademies.org
today
@jrossibarra.bsky.social
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Doc Edge
19 days ago
Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
Learn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/full-time-teaching-track-faculty-position-in-quantitative-and-computational-biology/1209/94300113920
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Hanbin Lee
20 days ago
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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Neural posterior estimation for population genetics
Abstract. Simulation-based inference methods are increasingly being used in population genetics due to their flexibility and ability to be applied in setti
https://academic.oup.com/genetics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/genetics/iyag107/8662207?searchresult=1
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Dan Schrider
19 days ago
Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:
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Greg Owens
22 days ago
I'm looking to sponsor an applicant for a Canada Impact+ Postdoctoral fellowship in my lab. The project will explore how methylation patterns change during aging in rockfish with rapidly evolved lifespan differences. Check out
tinyurl.com/impactpostdoc
for a description. DM for more details.
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Shreyas Pai
22 days ago
Thrilled to have my first PhD paper with
@mmdesai.bsky.social
out!
@science.org
Link:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thread below:
#mevosky
#evosky
#evobio
#popgen
#evolsky
#ecoevo
#molevol
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Jazlyn Mooney
25 days ago
I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽
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Marco Todesco
about 1 month ago
We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here
tinyurl.com/2yd487p4
! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️
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Postdoc Position Eelgrass Population Genomics_UBC_2026.pdf
https://tinyurl.com/2yd487p4
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Dr. Arun Sethuraman
about 1 month ago
It's looking increasingly likely that I'll be hiring a 3-year computational pop-gen postdoc/PhD-level scientific programmer to start this Fall (2026). If you or someone you know is defending soon, and looking for a position, please DM/write to me! Thanks!
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John Novembre
about 1 month ago
Spread the word! UChicago BSD is currently searching for an instructional professor (open rank) to help develop and support graduate training in quantitative biology at UChicago. This is an Instructional Professor position (open rank).
apply.interfolio.com/183517
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Aaron Ragsdale
about 1 month ago
New from our group, led by Nick Collier:
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Matthew Hahn
about 1 month ago
Whoa—machine learning strikes again (in a good way)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Coalescence and translation: A language model for population genetics | PNAS
Probabilistic models such as the sequentially Markovian coalescent have long provided a powerful framework for population genetic inference, enabli...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518956123
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
about 1 month ago
Repeatability of adaptation in interacting species
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.01.715933v1
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Chris Kyriazis
about 2 months ago
New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
about 2 months ago
Seasonal fluctuations in fitness result in severe reductions in effective population size
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.30.715388v1
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Will Booker
about 2 months ago
It took forever but my last paper as an academic is finally out. ironically this paper probably has the smallest audience, but I believe is my most impactful work. I think it provides some nice support for theories on polyploid origins, and has practical implications in crops and conservation
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Recombination and the role of pseudo-overdominance in polyploid evolution
Abstract. Natural selection is an imperfect force that can under some conditions fail to prevent the buildup of deleterious mutations. Small population siz
https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/g3journal/jkag048/8494124
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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉
about 2 months ago
Delighted to see our work on the cover of Systematic Biology!! We introduce an approach for analyzing pairwise-defined traits (e.g. 'strength of RI', 'diet niche overlap') in a phylogenetically informed context (R package 'phylopairs' now on CRAN). Read it here:
academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
about 2 months ago
Introgression across ploidies contributes to genetic diversity in introduced urban Capsella bursa-pastoris
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.17.712489v1
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Mike Fragassi
2 months ago
Attention to people living in Illinois, Chicago: you have until Thursday to register a formal message to the state legislature that requiring age verification to install Linux is a horrible idea. This doesn't require writing anything, just filling out a form. Click through this quoted post:
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
2 months ago
1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Arvid Ågren
2 months ago
Upcoming seminar in the
@eseb.bsky.social
Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation Special Topics Network Really looking forward to Tuesday next week, March 17, when we have
@mobilepurin.bsky.social
and
@manishamuna.bsky.social
presenting. Join us! Zoom links etc in the post below.
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him)
2 months ago
Brent Pedersen, Mitchell Vollger and I have "posted" our preprint of the manuscript describing bedder, a complement to the functionality of bedtools. The "preprint server" we have chosen is google docs because it was rejected by biorxiv.
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Bioinformatics, 2026, 0–0 doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/xxxxx Advance Access Publication Date: DD Month YYYY Genome Analysis Genome Analysis bedder: flexible genome interval intersection with user-defi...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1thL6YmzuERSqS2B81M9B62i998ctvTh4WsYfnI9FblY/edit?tab=t.0
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PLOS Biology
2 months ago
In a new study, Sarah Marion &co use genetic mapping and whole genome sequencing in wild
#Drosophila
to reveal the genetic basis of naturally occurring lethal mutations and introduce a new model that could explain their frequencies in natural populations. 🧪
#genetics
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Transposable elements contribute substantially to naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster
Recessive lethal mutations are common and often persist at unexpectedly high frequencies due to diverse mutational causes. This study shows that many lethal alleles in Drosophila melanogaster arise…
https://plos.io/4lk5N1C
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
2 months ago
Sexually antagonistic environments and the stability of environmental sex determination
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.08.710415v1
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Jenn Coughlan
2 months ago
I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by
@hybridzones.bsky.social
&
@hagarsoliman.bsky.social
, w/ a major assist from
@pfschwarz.bsky.social
!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus
Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982226001739
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2 months ago
Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Amy Goldberg
2 months ago
The Goldberg lab at UCLA is hiring one or more postdocs. Flexible start date. We develop methods to study population genetics of humans, our primate relatives, and our pathogens.
www.goldberglab.org/join
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Amy Goldberg, PhD - Join
The Goldberg lab is moving to UCLA summer 2025, and recruiting postdocs and graduate students. We are a computational lab with occasional wet lab or field collaborators. We will be located in the Depa...
https://www.goldberglab.org/join
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Russ Corbett-Detig
3 months ago
@pratikkatte.bsky.social
and I just released Lorax 🌲, a tool for interactive exploration of biobank-scale ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs). If you’ve ever wanted to scroll across the ancestries of thousands of genomes… this is for you.
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Maria Akopyan, PhD
2 months ago
Our paper is out in @Science! The Atlantic silverside spans Earth's steepest latitudinal gradient in coastal sea-surface temperature. Despite high gene flow, populations show clinal genetic variation in multiple locally adapted traits.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Chris Fiscus
3 months ago
Excited to share our new preprint! 🍇🧬 We analyzed 639 genomes across 48 grape species to understand how hybridization drives adaptation. • ~14% of average Vitis genome is introgressed • Most parallel adaptations are shared via gene flow • Two "hybrid species" are actually hybrid swarms
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Mia Levine
3 months ago
So excited to share this manuscript led by the inimitable Cara Brand, who discovered that Topoisomerase II evolution causes hybrid female lethality in Drosophila. Congrats to Cara,
@nickbr0wn.bsky.social
, Anirban, and
@buszczaklab.bsky.social
!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
3 months ago
Adaptive evolution of Topoisomerase II triggers reproductive isolation in Drosophila
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.20.707007v1
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EvolDir
3 months ago
The Guerrero Lab at NC State University seeks a postdoc in computational evolutionary genetics. Ideal candidates have quantitative skills. Apply by March 10, 2026, via
[email protected]
. More info: rguerrer.org
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Nandita Garud
3 months ago
I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
3 months ago
New paper! From Sam Snodgrass and
@genomeofforrest.bsky.social
, w/
@druncie.bsky.social
,
@gcbias.bsky.social
, and a collaboration with Andres Moreno and
@santiagogmm.bsky.social
. Can we quantify the impact of humans on maize dispersal? Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear: 1/10
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Tom Booker
3 months ago
Check out this preprint. Tianlin Duan led this project during her postdoc with me and Mike Whitlock. It’s got a lot of stuff in it for those who are interested in the genomics of adaptation
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Amy Goldberg
4 months ago
New preprint! and my first single-author paper, so bear with me.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Malaria population genetic studies have found some puzzling patterns: Ne estimates spanning orders of magnitude, genome-wide negative Tajima's D, and over a quarter of genes with πN/πS >1 1/n
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Rare variation in malaria parasites biases population-genetic inference
Understanding how pathogens evolve is fundamental to disease control and is a basic question in evolutionary biology, yet pathogens with complex life cycles violate assumptions of classic evolutionary...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698000v1
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Parul Johri
4 months ago
We (with Fanny Pouyet and Brian Charlesworth) provide a theoretical perspective on rescaling forward simulations in population genetics, along with some guidelines:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.05367
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The rights and wrongs of rescaling in population genetics simulations
Computer simulations of complex population genetic models are an essential tool for making sense of the large-scale datasets of multiple genome sequences from a single species that are becoming increa...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05367
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Graham Coop
5 months ago
Congrats
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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.
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Evolution Letters
5 months ago
Do extra chromosome sets mask bad mutations? Simulations show tetraploids often carry higher genetic load than diploids, depending on dominance, demography, and drift—with important implications for fitness and conservation.
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The hidden threat: genetic load dynamics in tetraploids and diploids
Polyploid organisms often display unique evolutionary dynamics compared to diploids. One unresolved question is how polyploidy affects the accumulation of
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Bioinformatics Advances
5 months ago
🧬 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
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@yanwong.bsky.social
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Judith Mank
5 months ago
Now out! How important is social experience in male mating behavior?
@corrallopeza.bsky.social
found that experienced males were more likely to coerce non-receptive females, but did not change overall preference
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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@vdbijl.bsky.social
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David Lowry
6 months ago
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant.
careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
https://careers.msu.edu/jobs/research-associate-fixed-term-east-lansing-michigan-united-states-7aedcee9-6ddc-4194-a6fc-8ee66459004d
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Judith Mank
6 months ago
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab.
biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and...
Deadline January 15th!
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
7 months ago
Elevated mutation near crossovers inhibits the evolution of recombination
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.685904v1
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