I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻

Tree evolution is surprisingly quirky! 🌳 Trees are likely ancestral in many plant groups, often re-evolve on islands, and Arabidopsis can be made tree-like by tweaking a few genes. We revisited what genes really make a tree a tree using comparative genomics. @trhvidsten.bsky.social #trees #evolution

i am offering a post-doc position in my brand-new project TreeGD that will investigate genomic diversity of trees species in switzerland, with a special focus on gene conservation units, rare species (but not only), and seeds stands. apply.refline.ch/273855/1782/...

🌳 PhD Position in Forest Genetics @uni-freiburg.de Join the BeGenDiv project to study genetic diversity of ~30 tree & shrub species across Germany’s Biodiversity Exploratories. 🧬 Fieldwork, lab work, bioinformatics & interdisciplinary collaboration More info & apply: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

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

New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501

It's in print! My opinionated dive into the definition of "coevolution" is officially out in the December issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Excited to share our final accepted version of the CiFi method out today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sequence alignments are notoriously prone to error. Our latest preprint offers a new tool for filtering errors out, assesses it and other filtering tools, and recommends new best practice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @phylowheeler.bsky.social 1/10

Excited to share our latest preprint! @mheuertz.bsky.social & I just completed a review covering methods and empirical studies on adaptive introgression in a climate context. We likely missed a few refs & ideas, so your feedback is highly welcome (ideally by email)! Preprint➡️ doi.org/10.32942/X2B...

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

An efficient, accessible solution for #genome annotation in both research and applied settings www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The last work of my PhD is finally out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...! This work is about accurately estimating branch length in the Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG), which is achieved by a really simple framework with minimal assumptions. (1/n)

Just out in Systematic Biology, we explore the role of gene flow in island phylogeography of the Solomons Black-and-white Monarch complex. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... Up first, strong genetic structure between islands groups and weak (but present!) structure between Pleistocene-connected islands (🧵)

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

This just out from @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Rebekah Mohn: reference genome and read mapping method both affect phylogenetic inference & heterozygosity estimates across species. Punchline? Use a closely related but not conspecific reference. Open-access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nearly one year visiting in EBC, Uppsala university. Nice community and coffee, fresh air and comfortable workplace. I'll be back next year (hope so)🎄🌻.

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing output of our #BIEN - #bigdata on #plants - project! Big congrats & thx to @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social for leading! 🌿🌴🌲🌳🌐🌍🌎 #macroecology

I'm excited to read this paper: "Genetic offset and vulnerability modeling under climate change scenarios: common misinterpretations and violations of evolutionary principles" doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups. www.cell.com/current-biol...

New publication out, highlighting the link between genetic diversity (GD) and policy! 🧬📜 "Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework" www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵

How do GWAS and rare variant burden tests rank gene signals? In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck! 🧬🧪🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

. @pnas.org just published the final version of our manuscript on how generation time and effective population size interact to shape vertebrate germline mutation rates, led by Luke Zhu and Annabel Beichman: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📣Online NOW! 📄Estimation of demography and mutation rates from one million haploid genomes 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @jgschraiber.bsky.social @jeffspence.github.io @docedge.bsky.social

Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6

Chongyi's paper from the biodiversity exploratories (@bexplo.bsky.social‬) is finally out ! How do genomic traits interact with community ecology? Antropogenic havoc. Communities shake. Genomes grow and break. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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.

PNAS: When islands collide: Divergence predicts outcomes of secondary contact during the fusion of Sulawesi’s paleo-archipelago, doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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...

🙌Very important method! I have tested in many plants species and got robust values under kind help of Bastiaan (he is a very nice guy!). Now pulished in Genome Biology doi.org/10.1186/s130... ParaMask: identify multicopy genomic regions, corrects major biases in WGS data github.com/Fulgione-gro...

My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Results I'm sad to share but must be told - branching coral are now functionally extinct in Florida - to learn more check out the full study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and our personal summary theconversation.com/2-iconic-cor...

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Presenting on the important relationship between a project - @biogeneurope.bsky.social - and a community - @ergabiodiv.bsky.social at #LivingData2025

Myself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate

Check out our new paper about chromosomal inversions in Malawi cichlids! 🐟🧬 Available here without a paywall: hdl.handle.net/10067/214834... (click on the ‘Full text (open access)’ link).

Nice work! R.M. Schweizer, et a., Museum genomics suggests long-term population decline in a putatively extinct bumble bee, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (43) e2509749122, doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (2025).

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

Out now on the cover of @journal-evo.bsky.social! Led by Sarah Khalil, we took a genomic approach to investigate the hybrid zone between different-colored Red-backed Fairywren subspecies. We found some interesting candidate genes under selection. Check it out! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via @projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org & @10klepgenomes.bsky.social

Extreme female philopatry in Pachypus beetles reveals 14 cryptic species! 🧬 Our study shows ancient speciation (5.3mya) despite limited dispersal, linked to the Messinian salinity crisis. Integrative taxonomy uncovers hidden diversity. #Taxonomy #Genetics url: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

A very nice paper! @naturalselection.bsky.social Congrats!!!👍💪 Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations