Gus absolutely ascended. Volume up.

If you're looking for a #postdoc but aren't quite a fit for my lab, check out this exciting opportunity via IU's Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity group! 2-year NIH traineeship to work on one of the group's core themes. Details here! ctrd.indiana.edu/how-to-apply/

Now in Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... This paper started when @3rdreviewer.bsky.social, Mike, and I had a lunch at which there was a lot of, "What do you mean when you say X?" Fun to spend time thinking about when terms get too muddy, and great work by Drew to pull it all together!

Low tide, Normandy

Just now realizing that most of the French I know comes from “Three Feet High and Rising”…

Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research. If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Biergarten nummer acht

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New preprint led by grad student, Yu Mo! We introduce new software to calculate evolutionary rates of quantitative characters in the presence of discordance 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint led by grad student, Yu Mo! We introduce new software to calculate evolutionary rates of quantitative characters in the presence of discordance 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The most important paper in evolutionary biology I'd never heard of: 1/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Biergarten nummer sieben (It’s getting cold out, but I’m just going to keep saying “Biergarten”)

This is a great opportunity. Apply!

Happy that our new paper is out, led by super-postbacc Daniel Rickert (now a PhD student at UNC). Also kind of excited to have my first TPB paper... 1/2 "Inconsistency of parsimony under the multispecies coalescent" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

kites over Berlin, tempelhofer feld

Scientists, DON'T USE LaTeX UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON'T GIVE LaTeX TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE .tex DOC INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE DOCS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE [Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred]

Biergarten nummer sechs

Berlin adventures

Hell yes

Die Mauer

Die Mauer

Just in case anyone was worried about me. Doesn’t count as a biergarten, but still staying hydrated!

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social! Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social! Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Biergarten nummer fünf (featuring Dr. Turelli!)

Biergarten nummer vier

Biergarten nummer drei

Ich bin ein Berliner

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv. We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Biergarten nummer zwei

Biergarten nummer eins

first eight days in #Berlin

Come work with my amazing new colleague!

An exciting negative result!

RFK Jr., back at the lab: "No no, I said two parts roadkill, one part whale juice! Do I have to do this all by myself?"

This looks like an amazing tool www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...

…so you know they’re good

In #GENETICS, @3rdreviewer.bsky.social‬ and @smishra677.bsky.social‬ show it is possible to estimate recombination solely using the allele frequency spectrum and provide a genealogical interpretation of the results, showing how #MachineLearning can provide insights into biology. buff.ly/emixz9W

This story is wild. The water in Bloomington, Indiana hasn't been consistently fluoridated since 2020, but the public wasn't notified. Even the Mayor didn't know. It only became public knowledge when IU chemist Dr. Katherine Edmonds* read a footnote in a report. bsquarebulletin.com/bloomington-...

ellis beach, queensland

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

sailboat on sea (g.b.r., queensland)

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