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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My abiding memory of a wonderful
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#SMBE26
in Copenhagen My 18th (in-person) SMBE meeting.
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Megan Smith
13 days ago
I’m also recruiting a postdoc to work on an NSF-funded project focused on using machine learning for population genetic inference. Would love to talk to anyone who is interested! (Official ad to come soon).
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Rob Denton
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Bummed to miss
#Evol2026
. For all those students looking for a position, we're recruiting MS students (polyploid genomics) and a PostDoc (conservation genomics) for next year. Shoot me an email!
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Sächsische Schweiz National Park
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL
15 days ago
CR7’s watch like
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Berlin Open
17 days ago
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Musa Okwonga
22 days ago
No problem! It’s called “Our Copa”
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Our Copa - YouTube
Welcome to Our Copa! From the 1934 World Cup under Mussolini's Italian rule to the Algerian Independence movement in the late 1950s, from the Corinthian demo...
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC5DhDrygxhp-4opE43-fT8p1CygQe0MV&si=E_KmjvYwfh8DFmPL
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Milton Tan
23 days ago
Hmmm.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
23 days ago
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Our Constitution Is Not Colorblind
It may be that the most consequential sentence of the Supreme Court’s latest decision in Allen v.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/our-constitution-is-not-colorblind?r=1sqa3e&utm_medium=ios
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Law-abiding citizen
23 days ago
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John Stinchcombe
25 days ago
Why are leaves the shape that they are? What controls intraspecific, genetic variation in leaf shape? New from my lab, in collaboration with many others, led by PhD student Amanda Peake: mapping the leaf shape polymorphism in Ipomoea hederacea.
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Gina Baucom
28 days ago
🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more.
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Aylwyn Scally
about 1 month ago
Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with
@gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social
and me. Details at
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/
- applications by June 16th.
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Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/
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Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students
@smishra677.bsky.social
and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with
@roblanfear.bsky.social
). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.30.728990v1
about 1 month ago
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Dan Schrider
about 1 month ago
Andy Kern, who doesn't (really) have an account here, would like to share his group's new tool for speeding up pop gen summary stat calculations using GPUs. Check it out here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
And see his thread over at the other place:
x.com/pastramimach...
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Gideon Bradburd
about 1 month ago
postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here:
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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recruitment
Multiple positions available: Postdoc PhD students
https://www.genescape.org/recruitment.html
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
about 1 month ago
Wong et al. present IQ-TREE version 3, with new features including mixture models, gene and site concordance factors, integration with phylogenomic divergence time estimation, and a fully featured sequence simulator. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag117
#evobio
#molbio
#compbio
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Game day at FC St. Pauli
about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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Hailstorm in May!
about 2 months ago
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lol
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about 2 months ago
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WFIU/WTIU News
about 2 months 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
about 2 months ago
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
about 2 months 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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about 2 months ago
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Richard Lenski
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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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Charles Mullon
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months ago
Statement from The Atlantic:
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Wrote a fun little thing on gene tree discordance:
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https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8SDs7h
2 months ago
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Ran my first 10k today! (It finished inside the Olympiastadion)
2 months ago
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Gina Baucom
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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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Gina Baucom
3 months ago
😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱
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They Might Be Giants
3 months ago
was once New Amsterdam.
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Radley Balko
3 months 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
3 months ago
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New paper led by Yu Mo, with
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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...
3 months ago
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Michael Hobbes
3 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
3 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
3 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/
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demon grrl 😈🏳️⚧️
4 months ago
Canberra Earthquake March 2026
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