Chris Smith
@chriscrsmith.bsky.social
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Population genetics and machine learning chriscrsmith.github.io
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I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! Computational lab. Message me if interested, and can apply here:
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32547
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology
The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32547
4 months ago
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Jeff Spence
26 days ago
Excited to see
@jonj-udd.bsky.social
's fantastic work out
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social
. Selection in _heterozygotes_ is the primary force shaping allele frequencies of loss-of-function mutations in humans, even in genes only associated with purely recessive diseases. 🧪🧬
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
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Allele Frequencies at Recessive Disease Genes are Mainly Determined by Pleiotropic Effects in Heterozygotes
Abstract. The classic theory of mutation-selection balance predicts the equilibrium frequency of genetic variation under negative selection. The model pred
https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyag150
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I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! Computational lab. Message me if interested, and can apply here:
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32547
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology
The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32547
4 months ago
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Parul Johri
6 months ago
We (with Fanny Pouyet and Brian Charlesworth) provide a theoretical perspective on rescaling forward simulations in population genetics, along with some guidelines:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.05367
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The rights and wrongs of rescaling in population genetics simulations
Computer simulations of complex population genetic models are an essential tool for making sense of the large-scale datasets of multiple genome sequences from a single species that are becoming increa...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05367
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Excited to share our review on alternative splicing evolution, with
@peterinnes1.bsky.social
and Nolan Kane!
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
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More herps
9 months ago
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Julia Saltz
10 months ago
my lab has moved to
@iubiology.bsky.social
! We're getting the
#newlab
set up here and excited to interact with
@iu-cisab.bsky.social
,
@bdsc.bsky.social
, and more! I'd love to hear from prospective lab members, especially prospective PhD students, postdocs, and technicians. more info:
saltzlab.com
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Weekend encounters in the middle of the trail in Kentucky
10 months ago
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IU Biology
about 1 year ago
IU biologist Roger Innes, newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences, is advancing research on plant immune systems that could increase crop yields and reduce costs for farmers.
@inneslab.bsky.social
@msr20.bsky.social
@luciaborniego.bsky.social
Read more:
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Anton Suvorov
11 months ago
My very first post on here. I am stoked to share lab's latest paper led by
@ethantolman.bsky.social
. Ethan developed a highly scalable pipeline to differentiate between various gene flow models, including ghost introgression in phylogenomic datasets. Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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GhostParser: A highly scalable phylogenomic approach for the identification of ghost introgression
A growing body of empirical research shows that interspecific gene flow is a widespread biological force that shapes evolutionary histories across the Tree of Life. Computational approaches designed t...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671585v1
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Stacey D. Smith
11 months ago
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution:
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
. The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us
@rociodeanna.bsky.social
&
@caschenck-bio.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=66504
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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
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
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