Matthew Hahn
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Population geneticist
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It's official--we're escaping for a year! Happy to say that we'll be on leave at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin from August 2025-July 2026. Looking forward to beer, travel, and scholarly learning ;)
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First baby names, and now this? I love it
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Quo nomine vis vocari? A random-copying model explains the temporal sequence of papal names
The study of cultural evolution seeks to understand the processes by which behavioral variants are chosen in cultures over time, often as the result of large numbers of individual human choices. The s...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07028v1
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Hailstorm in May!
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lol
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WFIU/WTIU News
9 days ago
IU locked down the laboratory of Distinguished Professor of Biology Roger Innes on Thursday night. An email from Vice President for Research Russ Mumper said the lockdown is the result of a "U.S. Department of Agriculture activity."
@weiss-a-woni.bsky.social
Read more:
www.ipm.org/news/2026-05...
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Roberta Kwok
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I'm thrilled to announce that my book LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown is available to pre-order now and has been chosen for Indies Introduce, the American Booksellers Association's list of best summer/fall debuts!
www.instagram.com/p/DYCj597DTp...
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James Pease
11 days ago
New paper from our group by Christina Harvey in Proceedings B
@royalsocietypublishing.org
on the fascinatingly, unexpectedly complex evolution of vertebrate skeletal muscle myosins. Thanks to collaborators Matt Fuxjager, Eric Schuppe, and Michael Brainard.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Richard Lenski
16 days ago
The Barrick & Lenski Labs in Dept of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology at Michigan State Univ seek a Research Assistant II to manage their research operations and participate in projects related to microbial evolution and synthetic biology. See details below.
careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Assistant II - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Barrick and Lenski Labs in the Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology at Michigan State University are seeking a Research Assistant II to manage their research ope...
https://careers.msu.edu/jobs/research-assistant-ii-east-lansing-michigan-united-states-8725dfd6-64b7-402d-b34a-daac3a7d968d
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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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Ben Auxier
19 days ago
The red line in Figure 6B (% of 6-authors papers in all IEEE proceedings) is unreal
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Here’s hoping some of those classic posts (iykyk) don’t get lost from the archives in the handover…
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20 days ago
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Charles Mullon
25 days ago
Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP!
shorturl.at/fo1GA
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ISCB News
27 days ago
🌟 ISCB proudly congratulates the 2026 Class of Fellows! 🌟 This prestigious recognition celebrates a career of significant impact and dedication to the
#computationalbiology
community. ➡️Read more about this year’s Fellows and their contributions here:
https://tinyurl.com/mtuf6m5b
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The Atlantic Communications
27 days ago
Statement from The Atlantic:
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Wrote a fun little thing on gene tree discordance:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8S...
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All content on this site: Copyright © 2026 Elsevier B.V., its licensors, and contributors. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8SDs7h
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Ran my first 10k today! (It finished inside the Olympiastadion)
28 days ago
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Gina Baucom
29 days ago
👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium: Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology Pls RT to help get the word out!
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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler
about 1 month ago
I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:
mhibbins.github.io
I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
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Hibbins Lab
https://mhibbins.github.io/
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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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https://apply.interfolio.com/183517
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Gina Baucom
about 1 month ago
😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱
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They Might Be Giants
about 1 month ago
was once New Amsterdam.
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Radley Balko
about 1 month ago
THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.
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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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Spring break hits different in Europe
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New paper led by Yu Mo, with
@psudmant.bsky.social
Ever wonder how extreme genealogical discordance can help you to find the genetic basis for trait variation? Wonder no more!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
about 2 months ago
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Michael Hobbes
about 2 months ago
Are there any problems in the country right now larger than the words people to your left are using
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Natalie Cooper
about 2 months ago
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here:
nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
https://nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
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Simon Kuestenmacher
about 2 months ago
I had a strange dream. I woke up as the boss of a large Australian university and went straight to work fixing it. Fewer international students, harder degrees, students back onto campus. The real product isn’t the degree, it’s the trust that comes with it. Then I woke up.
buff.ly/wWfB0fp
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I dreamed I was running a university. Here’s what I changed
The four fundamental changes that would set Australian universities up for the challenges ahead and the needs of society.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026/03/24/the-stats-guy-university-changes
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Too funny not to share:
alignmentalignment.ai
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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
https://alignmentalignment.ai/
2 months ago
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demon grrl 😈🏳️⚧️
2 months ago
Canberra Earthquake March 2026
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Gina Baucom
2 months ago
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc
#EcoEvo
Pls RT!
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Jenny Tung
2 months ago
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
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Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2)
Faculties & Facilities
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetail/artikel/professur-fuer-populationsgenetik-im-bereich-evolutionaere-anthropologie-und-medizin-w2-2026-01-26
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This is an amazing piece of scientific satire by
@russcd.bsky.social
. The first sentence alone is a banger: "The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements."
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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The core-pivotal index: a geometry-first approach to academic impact
The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements. Such an index wo
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/43/3/msag026/8503532
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That's a good name for software: MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709122v1
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Joana Meier
3 months ago
David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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David Alexander Marques (1984–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Speciation genomics researcher, author of the combinatorial theory of speciation and passionate birder
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03006-4
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Tariq Panja
3 months ago
Good piece from Jerry Brewer in the Athletic yesterday The U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team won gold — and then lost the room
www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...
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The U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team won gold — and then lost the room (Gift Article)
The widespread celebration is over now. And some of the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team's goodwill has diminished.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7068426/2026/02/24/usa-mens-olympics-hockey-gold-donald-trump/?source=user_shared_article&unlocked_article_code=1.O1A.wpkK.GBxYX78_aNVh&smid=ta-ios-share
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A question about Falconer's formula. The standard formula is: h^2=2*(r_MZ - r_DZ) My question is: can I replace the mono- and dizygotic twin correlations with terms for full-sibs and half-sibs? It's the same ratio of genetic relatedness, so I don't see why not. What am I missing?
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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
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.20.707007v1
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TIL that some childhood cancers (especially neurological ones) lack obvious driver mutations and are likely caused by misregulation of epigenetic marks. 🤯 e.g.
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
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Epigenomic alterations define lethal CIMP-positive ependymomas of infancy - Nature
Although genetically bland, the posterior fossa group A subgroup of ependymomas, found often in infants and associated with poor prognosis, exhibit widespread epigenetic alterations, namely a CpG isla...
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13108
3 months ago
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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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We (as a society) are good and truly f*cked
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Thomas Germain
3 months ago
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
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bioRxiv Microbiology
3 months ago
Calibrating and documenting host-switching and evolution of incompatibility loci for two closely related Wolbachia clades
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705778v1
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Razzball
3 months ago
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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Relatedly,
@mweissensteiner.bsky.social
recently told me that the German science foundation (DFG) has changed its policy to allow AI review:
www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
(only in German, sorry)
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Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung
Hauptausschuss der DFG ermöglicht unter Rahmenbedingungen künftig die Nutzung von KI in der Begutachtung
https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2025/ifw-25-102
3 months ago
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A reviewer just very clearly used AI to write a review. What do I do (as an author)?
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Leonie Moyle
3 months ago
his appreciation evolved over time, apparently
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Leonie Moyle
3 months ago
In celebration of
#DarwinDay
, here are his decidedly mixed first impressions after landing on the Galápagos (17 Sept 1835; from 'the Voyage' Chap X): "Nothing could be less inviting..."
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