I talked about this at PEQG a few weeks ago. In addition to github.com/RILAB/argprep (preps your genome assemblies for SINGER), argtest github.com/RILAB/argtest does some QC to clean up an ARG estimated with SINGER.

Happy 250 America. Say what you will about the execution, it’s still a damn good experiment.

'The United States was once the research engine of the world. Now China may be taking the dominant role, thanks to massive investment and a disruptive year for American universities under the Trump administration.'

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!

Members of Congress calling out the blatantly unlawful proposed OMB rule on federal grantmaking. Let’s keep the pressure on! thehill.com/newsletters/...

Christine Beveridge leading off the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture today in Northern New South Wales. Christine has done an amazing job bringing this Centre together and leading it for the past half decade.

Happy Solstice from down under.

Back in Brisbane, QLD for the month to attend conferences and do a bit of research.

The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.

US folks: If you haven’t yet emailed/called your elected representatives about the proposed OMB rule changes, pleased do so now. Staffers in those offices tally those comments and numbers do matter.

World Cup today: Three games ending in a tie and one game that is currently tied. I really want to be excited, but I'm having a hard time getting there.

People. @ksamuk.bsky.social and others have made this argument before. There’s good software to do this right. Here’s the argument again: Invariant sites matter! They’re not in your standard vcf and many programs pretend they are anyway. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Delighted to share that our new article has been published in @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social . We investigated mechanisms underlying GA-dependent #Arabidopsis stem elongation through cell growth measurements, hormone quantification, and gene expression analyses. academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...

Now accepting applications for our 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards support students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs to conduct #ecology and #evolution research. Deadline is June 30, 2026: bit.ly/4umYKZd #science

Verdict is in . #PEQG26 remains my favorite conference. Thanks to @genetics-gsa.bsky.social and the organizers for continuing to make it awesome.

The Mimulus community at #PEQG26!!!!!! Wonderful meeting with an awesome community. Looking forward to #Mimulus27!!!!!!

Really nice memoriam to Robert Ricklefs by Brian McGill: dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r... Ricklefs got ecologists to think big: about the role of history, biogeography & macroevolution on ecological patterns. More than anyone, his work shaped the course of my career.

After growing thousands of them in the greenhouse, I finally could meet my study system in the wild, thanks #PEQG26! Come to my talk tomorrow at 11:00 am to learn how two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation maintain their phenotypic differentiation

Just saw David Tian give a great talk about this work at #PEQG26!

How do plants locally adapt to challenging habitats despite ongoing gene flow? Come find me tomorrow at poster 236W to chat about life history divergence on small spatial scales in the yellow monkeyflower! #PEQG26

Looking forward to all of these Crow Early Career Research Award talks at #PEQG26 starting now.

Wooo-hooo!!! Stoked to be at #PEQG26

The Backrooms turned out to actually be a solid film.

I’m looking to hire one or two postdocs - possible projects include pop gen theory, methods development, and human evolutionary inference. Please share, and email if you are interested. More info: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics // University of Wyoming jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586... The Department of Botany and the School of Computing invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. #BotanyJobs

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...

Check out our new paper presenting pg-gpu, a GPU-accelerated population genetics python package: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/3

Tonight’s sunset in California

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...

Abstract deadline for Midwest Pop Gen 2026 extended to June 12th! Aug 21-22 at UChicago — free, trainee-oriented meeting with talks, posters + Friday BBQ at Promontory Point. Chicago in August doesn't get better than this... jkreinz.github.io/mwpg2026

Internal emails within MSU seem to have come to a halt in the past hour...

Ecotypes and Inversions!!! www.quantamagazine.org/how-ecotypes...

We're delighted to announce Sarah Sanderson (McGill University) as the winner of the 2025 Louis Bernatchez Memorial Prize for the best student-led paper in Evolutionary Applications! Congratulations, @sarahsanderson.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

“To Michigan and all of its lakes and tributaries.”

Congratulations to PRI Postdoc Fellow @derekdenney.bsky.social, a co-author on the study honored with the 2026 W.S. Cooper Award from @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social! Read "Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change" at: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

That was quite the board meeting…

Some thoughts on where AI in genomics stands right now, building on a symposium we recently hosted at UChicago. Seven points, ranging from why scaling DNA models hasn't delivered, to why metadata is the real bottleneck, to the weird backlash against AI in academia open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

Amazing to finally get all of my lab group together in one place! I think this is the first time that this has happened since before the pandemic.

It’s been great to be part of this awesome institute for the past decade. I feel immensely grateful.

Without question, this is hysteria. www.ipm.org/news/2026-04...

Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

I've just spent the last year on the administrative side of things and here are some of the lessons I've learned (or not learned). #academicsky 🧪

Haven’t watched the Derby for years. Choose a good one to tune into for so many reasons.

Simons Graduate Fellowship Applications are open! If you're applying to Ph.D. programs in ecology and/or evolution this year, or if you're an incoming Ph.D. student who won't start your degree program until Fall 2026 or later, apply! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!