Postdoc position call @univie.ac.at - happy to host projects related to introgression, great ape genomics, and more! careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

Global patterns of natural selection inferred using ancient DNA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.697984v1

Our paper is out! Learning evolutionary parameters from genealogies using allelic trees url: academic.oup.com/genetics/art... With Aleksandra Walczak and @thierrymora.bsky.social Congrats to first author Antoine Aragon, well done Antoine!

Our new paper is out in PNAS! We analyzed 125 high-coverage whole genomes from five Sudanese ethnolinguistic groups, to understand the evolutionary and demographic history of the region. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵👇

The group I work in at Michigan (along with other two UK unis) will jointly host total four postdocs. All three will have different but related research focuses and we will work on developing ARG driven/inspired quantitative genetics at Michigan. Formal job posting to follow (1/2).

📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷 Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs. Start May 2026 (flexible). Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

demografr: A toolkit for simulation-based inference in population genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.18.694482v1

Our lab’s first paper on host-microbiome interactions is out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hallazgos en distintas localizaciones del interior de la Meseta central ibérica refuerzan la hipótesis de una a ocupación humana del Pleistoceno final más frecuente de lo que se suponía: New prehistoric occupations identified in the eastern Iberian Plateau

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...

I think they missed something. April's Fools day has passed and Spanish Innocent day is on two weeks. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

10/ Bonus reading: Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data? arxiv.org/abs/2207.08815

All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...

Oh, look! My friends around Magdalena Fraser & Federico Sanchez-Quinto et al have a new study analyzing more high-coverage Neolithic #aDNA genomes from the Baltic island of Gotland (including pathogens!!!) 👀 🧪 🏺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/28 New preprint up, which I think is the best theoretical idea I've ever had. We asked a simple question: what are the costs of investment into non-reproductive somatic cells? Turns out these costs decrease with the *logarithm* of organism size! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

"Diversity dynamics do not appear to be governed by clade-level processes expected from adaptive radiations or diversity dependence." 👀👀👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm excited to present this new model to detect positive selection on regulatory sequences, which has been 3 years in the making! Thanks to Alexandre Laverré and @Phylogenetrips for their amazing work on this project. 😃 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.26.690685 #bioinformatics #MolecularEvolution

Neural posterior estimation for population genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691638v1

Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected? We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D

Long journey, greater end

Our paper in the PNAS Special Feature on 🐕 is out! We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The debate on when people first arrived in Australia continues! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Free to read here: rdcu.be/d64zN

Interested in pleiotropy dissection but not sure where to start, which methods are useful, which studies offer illustrative examples, or how to robustly validate your results? Look no further 👀 rdcu.be/eSfAZ

🧬 New preprint out on bioRxiv! Using single-cell WGS and Bayesian phylodynamics, we show that some CRC tumors arise decades before diagnosis, remain indolent, then expand rapidly in the last ~2 years. 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🙏 Huge thanks to all co-authors

"Postdoc in the job market"

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

Do you know how crayfish arrived to the Iberian Peninsula? Tomorrow I´ll be describing the introductions of the Italian crayfish in the 1580s and the red swamp crayfish in the 1970s Historical events with long-lasting biodiversity effects 14:30 Lisbon time Link & details below @ebdonana.bsky.social

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

Are you interested in messy, imprecise concepts in science with huge social implications? Join us online on Tuesday, Dec 2nd, for Yasmin’s talk. Register here: hugera.org/lecture-seri... #philsci #STS #popgen #HPbio

Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Latest in #GENETICS: @petrelharp.bsky.social and the team show how non-coalescing haplotypes can be inserted into ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs), resulting in ARGs that are smaller, faster to compute with, and have additional ancestral information. buff.ly/X801LTO

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

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

We detail how multiple modes of confounding are incompletely understood and underappreciated in many contemporary papers. We illustrate these issues through reanalysis of data from case studies and discussion of the literature. We focus on…

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely. buff.ly/UEtcRd4

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

New paper on a late Neanderthal, with contribution from the lab: dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I started a new job in Montpellier, France! Happy about new opportunities, sad about the state of things in the US. abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/w...

I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

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

In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A hearty Denisovan stew ripe with stories of mixing and more mixing, even with a third more ‘archaic’ hominid. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🐈🧬I recently presented the preliminary results of my first PhD chapter at Biología Investiga 2025, the scientific #outreach days organized by the @unisevilla.bsky.social A great space for scientific exchange within the Faculty of Biology. #PhDlife #WomenInSTEM #Genomics @ebdonana.bsky.social

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

I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!

The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid ancient human admixture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.682443v1

Now available in Systematic Biology, a new paper (and R package) in which we outline an approach to account for non-independence in comparative analyses of lineage-pair traits academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...