Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

El 23 de abril se celebra el Día de Castilla y León en conmemoración de la derrota de las tropas comuneras en la Batalla de Villalar (1521). Esta fiesta autonómica, rinde homenaje a los líderes comuneros (Padilla, Bravo y Maldonado) que se levantaron contra el rey Carlos I. Y feliz S.Jordi. 🌹🐲

I'll speaking tomorrow at HEAS - you can sign up to watch online! www.heas.at/events/heas-...

🚨 Check out our new paper in Nature! In our new study, we sequenced 128 high-coverage genomes from Indigenous peoples across Latin America and uncovered their unique genetic diversity and history. 👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📕Una investigación internacional liderada por @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social ha generado la mayor base de datos genómica de los indígenas americanos El estudio publicado en #Nature aporta 128 genomas completos y revela más de un millón de variantes genéticas nuevas🧬 👉https://shorturl.at/G8Ys6

“The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

Genome-wide genealogies reveal deep admixtures forming modern humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.17.719197v1

Reposting this old thread on the "Pervasive findings of directional selection" from ancient DNA. While the authors extended their results in various ways, I think many of these points still stand.

In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

Si eres joven y te interesa la #SciComm, NO TE PIERDAS este eventazo que estamos preparando con la @aecomcientifica.bsky.social !! 📆 Madrid, 8 de mayo Con @putomikel.bsky.social, @moureortega.bsky.social, @belenremacha.bsky.social, @gomobel.bsky.social, @raffiovalentina.bsky.social y +!

#ERGAReads | FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life www.nature.com/articles/s42... @rosafernandez.bsky.social @commsbio.nature.com @csic.es @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social #LLM #proteome #functional #annotation #genomes

🆕 HAAM Summer School 2026 📅 June 1-5, 2026 📍 Online 💰 Free 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 For Students & ECR 🔓 Applications open until April 13, 2026! 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/ckqTgQxnEENJ...

A full house for @nancybird1.bsky.social UGI seminar marking the culmination of her many years of work at #UGI on human population genetics and the development of haplotype-based methods. Wishing Nancy all the best as she goes on to an exciting new senior post-doc position.

Excited to share our new preprint on time-lagged F2-statistics, which informs about migration rates from ancient DNA data. Find a preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.12.710875v1 The work was driven by Giulio Isacchini and Oskar Hallatschek. Proud to be part of it! […]

Eagle owls in Spain were hunted nearly to extinction in the 20th century. DNA from survivors shows a classic genetic bottleneck: loss of diversity due to low numbers. But populations have bounced back since protections began! Conservation genetics in action #2026MMM journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

tidyverse on the streets, base r in the sheets

Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We hoped this would take 5 years, but in fact it took 14! Thanks to all co-authors, but particularly Mark Jobling who held it all together, and more. A proper magnum opus. Hope it is useful for those in the field or adjacent. Phew.

New preprint! with @a-solernunez.bsky.social Rethinking a textbook example of human adaptation "AMY1 copy number evolution in light of demographic history" Once population structure is accounted for, the classic starch–agriculture narrative becomes much less clear www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧬 Avui ha tingut lloc l'acte inaugural del "25è aniversari de la publicació del Genoma Humà", amb la xerrada de l'investigador Tim Hubbard i la taula rodona amb els investigadors Pep Abril, Roderic Guigó i Gemma Marfany, sobre la contribució catalana a la recerca del genoma #25APGH

In #GENETICS, Jacob Marsh, Sachin Kaushik, and @johriparul.bsky.social examine why and when rescaling of forward simulations in population genetics is not accurate, identifying pitfalls in simulation methods. buff.ly/wpzDRV9

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Excited and proud 😊 to share the final chapter of @hjorvik.bsky.social 's PhD thesis: Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep Comments welcome! 🧬🧪🏺🐑 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/8)

Interested in using aDNA time-series datasets to estimate selection? Our study "Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data" is now out in GBE! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... @genomebiolevol.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social

We hope this little guide and review of the recent literature on SVs will be useful for the community in #ecology #evolution #genomics #PopGen. Great lead by Kat!!

📣 The @scilifelab.se #ddls postdoc (2yrs) offers a great community + training + all social benefits! Happy to discuss your own project ideas! I also have some ideas on ARGs, pangenomes or biobank-scale datasets 🧬🐏🧪🖥️ Deadline is Mar 31 but some admin things need to be handled well in advance!

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Linkage disequilibrium scaling improves robustness and power to detect genomic regions under selection. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700334v1

📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse

SciLifeLab has opened a call for #postdoc fellows in Data-Driven Life Science. We would be happy to host such fellows! Get in touch if you are interested in applying with a project on the evolution of humans and domestic animals using ancient and/or modern DNA 🧪🏺 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

Characterising the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.698512v1

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...