Come be my colleague! The CU Natural History Museum has a welcoming community, great leadership, and connections with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. I believe museum faculty also get a summer stipend, in addition to the 9 month salary listed here.

Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

This is a really cool paper

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In fact, they appear to be eerily similar. The per generation mutation rate seems to lay between 10-9 and 10-8 per bp in all animal taxa surveyed to date–despite vast differences in environments, life histories, and three orders of magnitude variation in the generation time: 4/n

It’s almost 70 degrees on December 22nd in Colorado but NCAR is the problem????

bsky.app/profile/ferv... Called this one three months ago. It is just an insane paper. The fact that the stolen clonal line is morphologically similar but different implies an unique evolutionary trajectory. Two species evolving from one mom.

My colleague Ryan McRae and I wrote our annual round up of top discoveries in human evolution from this year for the @plos.org Sci Comm blog - enjoy! scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/t...

This is a good time to talk about the TRUE genetics revolution brought in by sequencing the human genome: The genetic underpinning of traits is not simple, will never be simple. Complex gene-gene interactions are the rule, not the exception 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our findings resonate with important prior work by @kuhlwilm.bsky.social & @cedricboeckx.bsky.social which argued that evolution of human-specific traits involved cumulative changes across gene networks, encompassing not only fixed sites but also variants at high frequency in present-day humans.14/n

NSF bio hour - NSF BIO lost 40% of its staff 😑

🐜 We estimate that ant worker sterility has evolved ~17 times independently, and been lost ~20 times, while worker sexual capacity has evolved ~5 times and been lost ~16 times.

🧪Calling all scientists, farmers, pilots, and everyone who benefits from weather and climate predictions: help save NCAR! Call your reps. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

When I tell people I'm a geneticist

You had me at Müller’s Ratchet

On the same night NCAR is being defunded, Boulder county is cutting power as a precaution because of the dry and windy conditions today. Last time we had similar conditions a thousand people lost their homes in the Marshall fire. The irony could not be more poignant.

Preprint online right before the holidays! Excited to share the first piece of work from the Zhang Lab, led by my absolutely stellar postdoc Michelle Kim! In this work, we ask how admixture, selection and demography shape complex trait genetics and GWAS performance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Once I had a reviewer (of 3-4) whose only feedback was “I don’t believe in Bayesian statistics” and gave my proposal a “poor”. Now with a little bad luck this could be your only reviewer and your only feedback.

The why is no mystery. It grows in every genetics lab and we’re all sad all the time and could really use some pick me ups.

NIGMS R35 Maximizing Investigator's Research Award (MIRA) for Outstanding Investigators new NOFO is available!! Submission dates starting in January 2026 through May 2028. See link below: simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

Packard Fellow and Johns Hopkins University scientist Dr. Jasmina Wiemann is working to understand how living organisms respond to planetary change by developing innovative ways to read molecular “memories” preserved in ancient organisms—helping fill some of the blank pages in the history of life.

Our latest preprint revisits the classic model of mutation-selection balance. Do human recessive genes fit Haldane's 100-year old model? This work is by the wonderful @jonj-udd.bsky.social, and co-mentored by @jeffspence.github.io www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thank you to the @leakeyfoundation.org for writing this great news piece about our research, and thanks to Evan, Meredith, and their team for coming up with such a compelling name: The great mucus mystery! leakeyfoundation.org/the-great-mu...

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published! We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes. Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

<dusts off the ol' blog> to say something about "celebrating science" in the age of AI & current political context. EVEN THOUGH I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO DO THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-y...

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

This blows. The Biology DDIG was archived when I was a biology PhD student and that sucked. Now the Bio anthropology one is getting archived as my students are about to submit. I wish I didn’t know first hand just how much this is going to demoralize them.

All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3

How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery? Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore. 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1

We are excited to share our recent work on the surprising robustness of Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG) inference tools to computational phasing errors, now available on BioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... This work is co-advised by @yundeng.bsky.social and Rasmus Nielsen. 1/7

Archaeologists discover that Neanderthals ate the women and children first. 🧪🏺

So much fun! Catch up at 9pm tonight or on BBC Sounds at your leisure www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are recruiting! If you like evolutionary biology, microbial genomics, and host-pathogen interactions we have a PhD opening at @ugiatucl.bsky.social using population-scale metagenomics to map global phage diversity and uncover evolutionary signatures that could point to new antimicrobials.

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

Paper out now: A curated dataset of the great ape genome diversity! rdcu.be/eQLCi

And another paper from the admixlab: SAI - statistics for adaptive introgression! doi.org/10.1093/molb...

The 2026 EMBL symposium 'Reconstructing the human past using ancient and modern genomics' is live with a fantastic invited speaker lineup! Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉. Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.

Hello bluesky community! I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics. Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position. Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

Amazing to have a byline with @cbo.bsky.social - read our take on Watson’s ultimate legacy in the Boston Globe. Will be in Sunday’s print edition.

"What James Watson got wrong about DNA" By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...

Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...

Each one of my lectures starts with a meme, and rarely do my 18-20yo students get the reference, but today I feel like I have driven that generational wedge even deeper 😅

Watched Jurassic Park on the theater re-release tonight. Great film 32 years later but I did notice the genetics are very 90s coded. Dinosaurs are all girls bc they withhold SRY presumably by making the dinos XX even though they’re birds so they’d be ZZ. Two thoughts:

This is so metal. #spoods

In honor of the theatrical re-release of Jurassic Park tomorrow.

The #BioTech #ColossalBio is developing will transform healthcare; genetic disease & infertility? Gone. Monetizing tech is the point, not deëxtinction, but that tech begets designer babies (aka eugenics) — this is why critical discussion of their rhetoric matters 🧪 🐋🌱 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A vampire that’s not Dracula <_< >_>

1/5 🦖 Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park (1990) turns 35 in November. In a new preprint, I argue that it was a prescient meditation on evolutionary genetics, complexity, & control. I also examine analogous efforts of today (e.g. “de-extinction.") Select points below: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵