I’m happy to share github.com/jpwares/mole... it’s got a long way to go but I felt a need to change my approach a few years ago. It’s clunky AF. I enjoy shaping it and keep useful stuff like your shiny apps there to help folks learn more experientially.

Current and recent PhD students: abstract submissions are due April 15 to be considered for the Hamilton Award Symposium at virtual #Evol2026! Learn more about how to apply to be a finalist: shorturl.at/qDIP4

We interrupt your scheduled scientific programming to ask some *very* important questions: Are lightsabers sharp? How do they cut? I have (strong) opinions, but I need to gather some data.

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! A colorful mess: Widespread exchange of pigmentation genes across the Parulidae phylogeny avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/a... Based on the PLoS Biology paper by Kevin Bennett and his colleagues | #ornithology

I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills! I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

Nominations are open for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲! This award recognizes early career research published in MEC/MER in 2025. Nominations are due on Friday, 𝟮𝟰 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. For more info, see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Check our new preprint from the KR-colab with @ramencult.bsky.social and Andy Kern: MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection doi.org/10.64898/202...

Hello! Molecular Ecology is now on @bsky.app! Follow us for updates about Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources publications, as well as special issues, events, and awards! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1365...

Nominations are open to the annual 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲! The award recognizes the work of outstanding scientists for their contribution to the field of molecular ecology. Nominations are due on 𝟮𝟰 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Are you a grad student attending #Evol2026? Submit your talk for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! Finalists will present their talks during the virtual portion of the meeting. Apply during registration. Deadline April 15! shorturl.at/qDIP4 @evolmtg.bsky.social

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Water off a manakin’s back: How sexual and natural selection shape plumage coloration in manakins avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/w... Based on the Science Advances paper by Haw Chuan Lim et al. | #ornithology

🧬 My haplotype paper is out! We show that deviations between within-sample and population-level haplotype frequencies can be used to estimate how many individuals contributed to an eDNA sample. No tissue references needed, just metabarcoding data and some population genetics. #eDNA #PopGen

Don’t forget the barnacles! www.azquotes.com/quote/1095192

I wrote a short op-ed in @genetics-gsa.bsky.social G3 this month’s issue on missing data problems in population genomics that I’ve been thinking about for a couple of years. Lemme know your thoughts! Comments/suggestions/ideas welcome! doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

Merry #Crustmas to all who celebrate! Hoping you are firmly attached to people you love, are able to scoop up large amounts of food, and can hide in an impervious shell when the social situation requires it ❤️

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

Big ol’ jar of the whale #barnacle Coronula diadema collected from a humpback whale that stranded in Massachusetts in 2016. Our museum has the whale skeleton as well! #crustmas

I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026. Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes? Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research. #hybridization #minnows #mudskippers

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!! 1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each) nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP - Few more spaces left! ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course 🧬💻💡 University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍 7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP! 🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏 More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/

@notothentoma.bsky.social @arcolon14.bsky.social & @jpostlethwait.bsky.social show how Antarctic white-blooded icefishes, the only vertebrates without hemoglobin, independently lost hemoglobin cluster genes, driven by TEs and repeats. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf184 #genome #evolution #TEsky

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

📌 New publication out: Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations TL;DR - We show that the choice of reference genome biases the detection of structural variants and popgen stats. Navigate carefully - 🛳️ 😬 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

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...

Looking forward to the awesome @elliecat.bsky.social’s lecture today in our EEB seminar series! “Not All Bad News: Minor Genomic Impacts of Population Declines in Brown Bears” Noon Pacific in the Gold Auditorium, Shiley Biosciences Center. See ya there!

Dept of Plant Biology at UIUC hiring in any subdiscipline of Mycology and/or Plant-Fungal Interactions tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. Apply by Oct 31, 2025. For complete details including salary and benefit information, visit go.illinois.edu/PlantBiolfac...

The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know.

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

Hello bluesky community! I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics. Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position. Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

bumping again: I am hiring a project coordinator /researcher for an interagency freshwater mussels project (USFS 🌲 lead). Position will be based out of USFS Northern Research Station in Wisconsin and starts Sep. 15, For more information/to apply, www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/438...

Environmental conditions influence life history traits, but what about in Antarctic fish?🐟🇦🇶 We compared two pops of Crowned Notothens Trematomus scotti: one from a fjord of the Antarctic Peninsula and one from the Weddell Sea. Their life histories traits were very different! tinyurl.com/mtmmrv8w 🧪🌎🐧

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...

@ramencult.bsky.social et al. use spatially explicit simulations and genomic data from Anopheles gambiae, showing that selection changes the joint distribution of allele frequency and geographic range. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf141 #molbio #evobio

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

Totally forgot to plug a talk I'm a coauthor on, but you can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do you want to learn about how very large populations evolve? Do you think barnacles are super cool? Come check out my talk on Saturday morning's Population Genomics session at #Evol2025!

Excited to attend my first Evolution meeting in a few years. Check out my #Evol2025 on Tuesday June 24 11:30-11:45 in Comparative Biology I (room Athena GH) on detecting shifts in selection in multicopy gene families as applied to vertebrate genome evolution.

While I won't be at #Evolution2025, my PhD students Raya and Margaret will both be giving talks. Deets in the flyer. Do mark them on your calendars. Preprints coming ahead of their talks!

Save the date! 🙆🏻‍♀️ The Workshop on Genomics 2026 will take place between the 11th and 24th of January, 2026! In Český Krumlov, Czechia. Regular applications will be oppening mid-July, keep an eye on updates! 🤗 evomics.org/2026-worksho... #evomics2026

Equal opportunities funding for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 is now open to apply! Deadline: 2nd of July. Check elegibility in our website, and apply: evomics.org/equalopportu... #evomics2026

After nearly 6 years since we started, a first look at our Evolving Seas RCN project, a synthetic reanalysis of over 90 marine popgen data sets, led by Dr. Rachel Toczydlowski: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to this year's Hamilton Award finalists! 🎉 Join us Thursday, May 29 to hear these outstanding student talks. See the full schedule on the meeting website: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program-over... @evolmtg.bsky.social

Reduced offspring viability is associated with long-term stability of a narrow avian hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.22.655562v1

NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF. Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Our Media Tool can help you get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF