My abiding memory of a wonderful #SMBE2026:

#SMBE26 in Copenhagen My 18th (in-person) SMBE meeting.

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).

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!

Sächsische Schweiz National Park

CR7’s watch like

Berlin Open

No problem! It’s called “Our Copa” youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hmmm.

My latest. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Law-abiding citizen

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.

🚨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. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

Game day at FC St. Pauli

First baby names, and now this? I love it arxiv.org/abs/2605.070...

Hailstorm in May!

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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...

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... (1/N)

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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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...

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:

The red line in Figure 6B (% of 6-authors papers in all IEEE proceedings) is unreal

Here’s hoping some of those classic posts (iykyk) don’t get lost from the archives in the handover…

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

🌟 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

Statement from The Atlantic:

Wrote a fun little thing on gene tree discordance: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8S...

Ran my first 10k today! (It finished inside the Olympiastadion)

👋 👋 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!

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!

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.

😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱

was once New Amsterdam.

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

Whoa—machine learning strikes again (in a good way) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Spring break hits different in Europe

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...

Are there any problems in the country right now larger than the words people to your left are using

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

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

Too funny not to share: alignmentalignment.ai

Canberra Earthquake March 2026