New from our group, led by Nick Collier:

General moment closure for the neutral two-locus Wright-Fisher dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.16.700021v1

Howell et al. used WGS of wild-caught deer mice from two islands and one mainland location in British Columbia to investigate chromosomal inversions and non-equilibrium demographic history of this species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf254 #evobio #molbio #peromyscus

In an earlier project simulating quantitative traits/stabilizing selection in a human-Neanderthal model, I became a bit curious about some observed fitness dynamics that I wasn’t expecting. I’m not sure if this is all that interesting or relevant, but at least it’s short.

Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison. Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6

Elevated mutation near crossovers inhibits the evolution of recombination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.685904v1

A model for background selection in non-equilibrium populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.639084v1

The deadline for the Early Career Award applications has been extended to Dec. 7th! There is still time to apply 🧬🐝🐠🍄 If you are a graduate student or a postdoc interested in #evolution, apply today!

We are accepting applications for the 2025 Evolution Seminar Series Early Career Award here at UW-Madison. Deadline November 30. evolution.wisc.edu/seminars/ear... Please share with grad students and postdocs working in evolutionary biology!

Our paper on allele frequency transitions under polygenic selection, with a focus on evolve & resequence experiments, is up at Genetics. Led by grad student Nathan Anderson: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

We are accepting applications for the 2025 Evolution Seminar Series Early Career Award here at UW-Madison. Deadline November 30. evolution.wisc.edu/seminars/ear... Please share with grad students and postdocs working in evolutionary biology!

I wrote a review of the recent paper from Harris, Platt, Tishkoff et al. on early human-to-Neanderthal introgression, out as a Dispatch in Current Biology. Quick read, free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1i7L53QW8S...