In a new Review article in GBE, @scientific-arlie.bsky.social et al delve into the growing field of phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping (PhyloG2P), discussing advances and future directions for using phylogenomic data to map traits to genomes 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf150 #genome #evolution

Dr. White @raw937.bsky.social discusses bats 🦇 and viruses at the Biomedical Symposium

Brad Bower of the NIH outlines the Strategic Plan for Data Science Do you share your data in a usable way? Where can AI take us next?

Excited for the Charlotte Biomedical Symposium today! Intro to CIPHER by Dr. Jamie's featuring a @morgancarterphd.bsky.social Carter lab trainee

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 3 days left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

I have NIGMS R35, impact score 12 NIHGRI R21, 4th percentile NHGRI R01, 7th percentile (co-I) and it seems like none will be funded. 0/3. PO (who has been very helpful) said "Unfortunately, I do not expect this application will be selected for funding in FY25." 😭

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐢 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤—𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐢 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬! 🌍🍄 The awards mission is to 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 that address some of humanity’s biggest environmental challenges—and to support the 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐬 pioneering these solutions

Ew... @theathletic.com Do I "remember" the great Ilona Maher?! I never forgot about her. She's been kicking ass this whole time! Do better... not all your readers instantly forget about half of all athletes because of their gender

If interested in this or other ways that our lab uses Notion for recordkeeping and project management, I’ve now added a resource about it to our lab website. #NewPI 🧪🦠 pages.charlotte.edu/carterlab/re...

Cannot stop laughing at this

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Looking for a #postdoc in evolutionary biology? Come join the Budke Lab! Read more about the lab jmbudke.github.io & apply at this link fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... This is the last weekend to apply before applications will be evaluated and zoom interviews scheduled.

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

New ArsTechnica story about the new steaming pile of Executive Order... arstechnica.com/science/2025...

New #preprint from talented graduate student for a workflow we have been using for a while into a formal usage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✅ Published in @natureportfolio.nature.com today, the paper describing the initial whole-genome sequencing analysis of 500,000 UK Biobank participants. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing work from Dr. Anne Hatmaker @annemakerofhats.bsky.social at @canfunnet.bsky.social #CFN25 She takes us on a deep dive into the diversity of Penicillium isolates from diverse habitats

Today's the day!! If you are attending #CFN25 then check out my talk this afternoon at 4pm Eastern, 3pm Central! I'll be talking about Penicillium in the Fungal Genetics and Genomics III session 🍄 Looking forward to virtually seeing you soon!

Excited to tune into the CanFunNet meeting! @canfunnet.bsky.social Check out our trainee Isha Jain's presentation on Friday in the Fungal Genetics & Genomics VI starting at 3:50pm #CFN25 Great introduction to CanFunNet with Dr. Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social

Ameya Jalihal of the @gladfelterlab.bsky.social asks how you maintain asynchrony in nuclear division? Well... The cell isn't a free for all diffusion. Cellular condensates are critical to nuclear division asynchrony Read more here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Today is a good day to read our preprint about Candida albicans interactions with its neighbors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by the amazing Faith Davis and a fantastic team of collaborators @kylaost.bsky.social @shannonrighi.bsky.social @balunaslab.bsky.social @tuowang.bsky.social

Audrey Williams of the @gladfelterlab.bsky.social uses GEMs 💎 to understand how the fungus A. pullulens can deal with incredibly high salt 🧂 concentrations

@mycorican.bsky.social presents at the Tri-I symposium at Duke. He begins by encouraging us to be more like Aspergillus... Resilient and adaptable

Woods Hole holds such a special place in my life and career. WHOi summer program Taking ALVIN home Guest lecture at the MBL physiology course @mblscience.bsky.social Can't wait to come back!

Due to popular demand, we’ve introduced some new merch designs, including the highly requested village homosexual ifbookspod.dashery.com

Oh and welcome to Bluesky to those joining during #2025ISMPMI! Tips: Reposts matter more than likes here for increasing visibility (no algorithm). Follow feeds for collected posts on specific topics (like Plant Science or Microbiology). Other tips: www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks to those who stopped by at #2025ISMPMI to learn about bacteria that live inside fungi. It was great to hear your questions. So much to do in this area!! For those not here, please check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Or mini-review: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

The Meselson and Stahl experiment demonstrated in 1958 that DNA replicated semi-conservatively. Meaning, each of the two strands of DNA serves as a template for a new copy to made of the complementary strand. Foundational finding, elegant experimental design.

If I spend 2 hours thinking about a grant proposal but only end up with 2 lines... Did I work for 2 hours or 2 minutes? ⏲️

Our lab @emoryuniversity.bsky.social Dept. of Cell Biology is hiring a research technician! This position is ideal for someone who enjoys research, organization, and working in a team. Come for a few years and publish with us, or stay to build a career. staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/149068/...

Amazing #Evol2025 ! New friends on Bluesky 🌌 Stunning science 🧬 Heartfelt rally calls 📣 Hope in the face of adversity 🫂 But... I will not miss the jingle jangle of those darn badges 🔕

Closing out Evolution #Evol2025 #Evol25 with a bang! Liam Revell combines phylogenetic comparative biology & viral phylodynamics New frontiers in phylogenetic comparative methods!

Menna Jones @mennajones.bsky.social describes a multi-regime bounded Brownian motion model This model is assessed in frogs 🐸 to show that there may be shifts in developmental constraints #Evol2025 #Evol25

Kyle David @kylethedavid.bsky.social discusses two new genome 🧬 duplications 🧬🧬 in the yeast subphylum With three WGD clades, we can ask what are the causes and consequences of WGD in yeast @evolutionvu.bsky.social @rokaslab.bsky.social #Evol2025 #Evol24

Hannah Verdonk @hverdonk.bsky.social describes Multiclass Synonymous Substitution (MSS) models This model helps us avoid the trap of assuming all synonymous substitutions are created equal The method captures selection on tRNA abundance #Evol2025 #Evol25

Russell Dinnage @rdinnager.bsky.social proposes that Evolutionary Constraints present a challenge & opportunity to build better models GenAI can learn the underlying constraints of evolution w/out proposing impossible states Work in bird beaks 🐦🐤🦆🪿🐦‍⬛ demonstrates the possibilities! #Evol2025

Alberto Rivera of the Baxevanis group @baxevanislab.bsky.social presents on the allorecognition in cnidarians 🪸 There is evidence for synteny and conservation across allorecognition complexes in Cnidaria... How does this compare to bilaterians? #Evol2025 #Evol25

Ryan York of @arcadiascience.com discusses Biological Foundation Models These models aim to soak up all biological data and spit out biological understanding The models, however, are hitting a plateau More parameters != More information #Evol2025 #Evol25

Lei Curtis @leicurtis.bsky.social explores the role of inversions 🧬↔️🧬 in the Atlantic Cod 🐟 They combine results from multiple methods to identify the most likely inversions give within and between method variation Small inversions happen! And they are common. #Evol2025 #Evol25

If interested in #yeast phylogenomics, come to my talk on the Compendium of #Saccharomyces at #Evol2025 today at 2:30pm!

James Boyko @jboyko.bsky.social reminds us that comparative methods for trait evolution are highly dependent on model choice He proposed new ideas for searching and optimizing model choice #Evol2025 #Evol25

Olivia Brooks @olbrooks.bsky.social shares the evolution of autoresistance to toxins in amphibians 🐸 Sodium channels from 39 amphibians revealed some fascinating evidence for gene conversion #Evol2025 #Evol25

Megan Phillips @meganphillips.bsky.social tells the tale of the little plasmid 🧬 that could 🦠 How does antimicrobial resistance impact the evolution of plasmids #Evol2025 #Evol25

Michael Catto @mcatto1.bsky.social kicks off our final day of #Evol2025 #Evol25 by asking if different phenotypes have different trait optimum. 251 expression 🧬 sets from yellow jackets 🐝 finds that gene expression is constrained across castes 👑 and tissues 🧠

Raymond Castillo @raymondcast.bsky.social models chromosome counts and sizes The ChromoSizeSSE models chromosomal events like duplication and fission that change both chromosome number and size #Evol2025 #Evol25