Again in Roscoff 🤩

Reminder: we still welcome applications! 📩

The second Ph.D. chapter of Diane's thesis is out as a preprint. She studied the joint evolution of autopolyploidy and self-fertilization under a gametophytic self-incompatibility context. Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧪🌎 We have a conceptually similar method, RDAforest, just published with @kristinaleilani.bsky.social - only it is about predicting genetic adaptation across unsampled landscape doi.org/10.1111/1755...

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Microchimerism is one of the most fascinating biological phenomena I've ever studied. But what do we actually know & what do we not know? Our new paper brings together microchimerism researchers to ask the key questions driving the field forward 🧬 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🌊 Mytilus galloprovincialis meets Eco-Evo-Devo. We’re excited to announce the first school dedicated to the bivalve M. galloprovincialis. Applications are now open!✨🐚 Get ready to explore the fascinating world of mussels in an inspiring international environment 🔬 ℹ️ acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Second day at the Speciation Jacques Monod conference #cjm25, it goes so fast, amazing talks about the biogeography of speciation and hybridization

What a nice start to the Jacques Monod conference #cjm25 on speciation in Roscoff, Britany. What an inspiring lineup of talks and scientists. Even the weather is remarkably welcoming, for now, at least. 🤩

What a nice start and amazing first day of Jacques Monod conference on bridging the micro macroevolution gap #cjm25 plenty of fascinating talks and posters Didn't react quickly enough to illustrate all of them, just catch a few

Good morning Roscoff #cjm25

Just took my breakfast at the #cjm25 speciation conference and around me in a 50m2 breakfast room were seated Nick Barton, Craig Moritz, Amaury Lambert, Maud tenaillon, Ludovic Orlando, Stuart Baird, John Welch, Daniel Matute etc... This density of 🤯🤯🤯 !

Arrived at Roscoff in Brittany for the conference Jacques Monod on #speciation. What a view ! Do we have a hashtag? #cjm25? First plenary lecture was tonight on our (in)hability to predict diversification rates from microevolutionary processes.

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Cross-species cloning in ants 🐜 These two males belong to different species—but share the same mother. How? Why? To celebrate the print release of our last paper in this week’s @nature.com (issue 8084), here’s a thread summarizing the results. Why? Let’s dive in🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wow 🤩 new bivalve transmissible cancer #TransCan study by the amazing @metzgerm.bsky.social lab on the progression of the disease over long periods. Progression to death, long-term non-progression and remission quantified. Looking forward comparing with our results in #MusselsAreCool MtrBTN #MarEvol

I am happy to share some good news from the lab! Our paper on the outcomes of Bivalve Transmissible Neoplasia is out this week in PLOS Pathogens! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Scanning mussel morphology #MusselsAreCool. The attempts are not yet conclusive, but it's cool.

On vous attend à Courbevoie le 11 octobre ! Un conte scientifique et musical de 7 à 97 ans 😀

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

Very happy to announce that the next POPGROUP meeting will take place in Lille on 7-9 January ! Follow ‪@popgroup2026.bsky.social for all updates. 📢 Please share widely ! 📢‬

🚂 This petition needs your signatures! Save the wonderful nighttrain that gets you into the center of Paris/Vienna/Berlin in time for breakfast whilst you doze off or have memorable encounters and conversations with fellow travellers agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

#fieldwork Again in ports to sample dock mussels that stayed encaged after reciprocal transplants. #MusselsAreCool #UrbanEvolution #MarEvol #PopGen

As every year, I will soon teach an online workshop on DNA methylation and its bioinformatic analysis, using short reads (BS-seq) and long reads (ONT and PacBio) approaches. It will be October 27th-29th (european afternoons and US mornings). Mor info here instats.org/seminar/anal...

#stage #master2 #Montpellier @isemevol.bsky.social #PopGen #MarEvol #MusselsAreCool

Sujet de stage M2 sur la "dock mussel", cet écotype de moules hybrides qui habite dans les ports. L'objectif est de tester si la dock mussel s’est adaptée grâce à sa variance génétique d’admixture ou si l’admixture n’est que le corolaire du contact secondaire entre les deux espèces parentales.

Thanks to @cjgiaimo.bsky.social for this nice article in @nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/s...) about our last study (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

New paper out! 🤩 "Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time" with @kokkonut.bsky.social and @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1371/jour... A short thread:

If you’ve heard about our study on ants producing two different species but are still confused about how it works (and don’t have time to read the paper), this 10-minute video made by @bengthomas.bsky.social is very informative: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O4... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Curious to hear thoughts from #popgen, #humangenetics, #genomics folks on recent paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Directed mutation" in specific human pop'ns seems unlikely to me. DM didn't stand up as proposed in bacteria, but there are hot spots shaped by past selection. Plausible here?

Thrilled to share our Perspective published in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻, #𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 #𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆. It also elevates Eastern European perspectives - underrepresented in #urban #evolution narratives. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Looking forward to speaking @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social in Berlin on Anthropocene Biology in Eastern Europe and Beyond. I will talk about the implications of #war on wildlife. Sadly, science meets reality when my departure to Berlin was delayed due a #drone attack in Poland.

📣Enquête 2025 - Financement de la recherche publique 💡 Une recherche publique sous-financée, mal soutenue, bridée par l’administratif. 🔻 < 15 % des scientifiques en sont satisfaits. 🔒 Plus de 70 % jugent qu’elle freine les projets novateurs. #socsav #recherche #VeilleESR #FinancementESR2025

Breaking genetics news‼️🌱🌽 A natural DNA trick triples recombination in maize. What we first saw in Arabidopsis (@hendersi lab) a decade ago is now confirmed in crops—opening new doors for plant breeding. Published today in Nature Plants! More details 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Postdoc Opportunity – Université Paris-Saclay 🌾🧬💻 Reproductive isolation between crops and their wild relatives Candidates with PhD in evolutionary genomics & programming skills. 👉 Full description & how to apply: [https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/] #Postdoc #EvolutionaryGenomics #Speciation

This is the best explanation of the weird new ant paper.

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...

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Would a rose by any other gene smell so sweet?

A réfléchir, la "decroiscience" #degrowth reporterre.net/La-science-e...

In these dark times, it comes as a rare pleasure to highlight @natanaels.bsky.social ‬ & @marcdemanuel.bsky.social's work on germline and somatic mutations in humans. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity

Hi marine biologist folks #MarBiol 🦪🐙🪸🐟🦈🦀🦐🌱🦭🌊 Please give us 5 minutes of your time to fill this online survey on marine connectivity policy - The marine connectivity science and tools we need for the ocean we want #MarCo #MarEvol docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I made a video about my new paper. I hope you enjoy it! vimeo.com/1113132836?s...

My lil' baby turns 3.0 today! Most notable features: - autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!) - more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options #bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads