We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/n)

Strong but diffuse genetic divergence underlies differentiation in an incipient species of marine stickleback https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677379v1

A while back (maybe 3-4 years?) there was a paper on common misconceptions of the genetics of various traits. One of them was eye colour in humans. I have lost this reference and can't find it anywhere. Does anyone recognise what I mean?

We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

This substack post by @erichhoyt.bsky.social reflects on the 1975 National Whale Symposium, describing the synthesis emerging around photo-id at that time: substack.com/home/post/p-... It's a wonderful read

Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity

First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So excited that @corriemoreau.bsky.social will be giving a tangled banks seminar at NHMO today!! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... join us (also on zoom!)

Hi marine biologist folks #MarBiol 🦪🐙🪸🐟🦈🦀🦐🌱🦭🌊 Please give us 5 minutes of your time to fill this online survey on marine connectivity policy - The marine connectivity science and tools we need for the ocean we want #MarCo #MarEvol docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you are in Oslo join us tomorrow!

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes? Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Please reach out if you have any questions!

Why do males and females often differ in traits? The expected answer: selection. But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

New paper out in #ES&T where we show that killifish exposure to crude oil has impacts (on embryo/larval development and transcriptome) that propagate to their offspring and to their grand-offspring. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... @acs.org

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

Jana Nickel will be talking about hitchhiking mutation load in threespine stickleback population Iin the Evolution of Small Populations Symposium at #ESEB2025 today 15:15-15:30. Read the preprint here: doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse 🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115 Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week! @hologenomics.bsky.social

When populations evolve different strategies to defend against a recently acquired parasite (e.g., tolerance, resistance), what sets of gene expression responses are conserved, or diverge? Using a vaccination experiment with #stickleback @laurenfuess.bsky.social reports some fun results...

On my way to #ESEB2025 ! I’ll share some new results showing bi-directional introgression of structural variants, which cause resistance to different insecticides, between native and invasive agricultural pests 🐛 Monday 10:30am, S05 rooms 120-121

Also, I'm talking at #eseb2025 on the evolutionary history of a commensal species at 2 pm on Monday in S51-02. Come along to hear about how cool house sparrows are and all the exciting work from the sparrow team @melissahrowe.bsky.social @eriksroeed.bsky.social @ruthfawthrop.bsky.social

'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social‬

"The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited" by Molly Schumer (@mollyschumer.bsky.social) & colleagues "The origin of species has long fascinated biologists, but determining the genes [involved] has only recently become possible in non-model organisms." shorturl.at/wG0B5

my new idea is to look at runs of homozygosity (ROH) only for mutations that are restricted to heterozygous state in other pops, suggesting they are low freq. and enriched for deleterious stuff. a good measure of inbreeding. I call my new statistic

Complex patterns of hitchhiking mutation load among stickleback populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666323v1

New lab preprint led by Jana Nickel (not on BS): doi.org/10.1101/2025... Investigating hitchhiking mutation load in threespine sticklebacks. I'll be presenting this work in a few hours at #Stickleback2025 here in beautiful Bamfield

#PopGen New preprint of the team on the discovery of a very high rate of polymorphic duplication in a marine bivalve. Imagine looking at the distribution of the allelic coverage fraction at heterozygous calls in an indivdual and getting this distribution 👇 😱😱😱

My talk from this year's probgen is finally out. Where do linear mixed models and random effects come from? They emerge from *mutations* on Ancestral Recombination Graphs.

🧪 Great work on Hector’s & Māui genomes with @laninsky.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-07...

Thank you so much, @biogeneurope.bsky.social and big kudos to our 🇬🇷 and 🇵🇱 colleagues for all their efforts. For little Bulgaria, this is an important event. Many thanks to @pensoft.net and @iboleurope.bsky.social too, for their unwavering support.

Benchmarking Imputed Low Coverage Genomes in a Human Population Genetics Context onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our latest work is out! Ancient DNA from Danube sturgeon fossils dating back 10,000 years reveals that, despite centuries of decline, some populations have preserved high genetic diversity and ancient lineages. doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsociety.org @lukeeholman.bsky.social

The Cetacean Genomes Project is happy to share a milestone publication, presenting the first 18 reference-quality, chromosome-resolved genomes of whales, dolphins and porpoises across the cetacean tree of life. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So well deserved! Congratulations @mhssinding.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper on genetic differentiation in Atlantic silversides! We investigated how genome structure influences adaptation under varying levels of gene flow using a species-specific reference genome and multiple recombination maps. Read on for insights! doi.org/10.1093/molb... 1/7

Interested in measuring genetic load? We have a new paper out providing a modified version of GERP which is more user friendly in wildlife species and with scripts to automate making input files and pulling out derived alleles in your species #consgen #popgen star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4202

A great opportunity!

Whales, Greenland, and some really old mud. My first PhD chapter now published in @natcomms.nature.com reveals 12,000 years of marine mammal history around Northern Greenland through DNA hidden in marine mud. Check it out: rdcu.be/emdYS #sedaDNA #Greenland #Arctic #whales #seals

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Big thanks to @grrlscientist.bsky.social for featuring our work in Forbes magazine! tinyurl.com/h8yj5cdf The piece covers our recent study on time-lagged genetic diversity loss in the critically endangered regent honeyeater, published last week in @royalsocietypublishing.org tinyurl.com/44m3b522

In a new #GENETICS research, @dandanpeng.bsky.social, Mulder, and @docedge.bsky.social evaluate the performance of several ancestral recombination graph (ARG) estimation methods used for determining the historical time course of a population-mean polygenic score. Read more: buff.ly/ztrRU83

Speciation genomics in scarce swallowtails Iphiclides podalirius and I . feisthamelii : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

New paper about unusual encounters in Icelandic waters… In June 2022 and 2023, neonate pilot whales were observed swimming alone among groups of killer whales off south Iceland - with no other pilot whales in sight. 🧶⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Join us for ARGEvol, a conference on ancestral recombination graphs in Vila do Conde, Portugal from Nov 12-14, 2025. Complete the interest survey: https://framaforms.org/argevol-conferenceworkshop-interest-survey-1742308127. #conference

The Department of Natural History at the museum in Trondheim is seeking an associate professor in vertebrate evolutionary genomics using ancient DNA approaches. Working alongside great colleagues including @museumevogen.bsky.social Deadline May 25 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the chronology of parallel adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648705v1