With @litinice.bsky.social, we built a haploid resource from 33 wild Taiwanese Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains — including some of the most genetically divergent Asian lineages — to bring natural yeast diversity into a genetically tractable framework. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Exciting to see that the conference is filling up fast! Don't dawdle and apply soon!

and 2024

Based on these threads, 2024 papers (latter half of the thread) surprised me more. In general, the synteny phylogenomics papers in recent years have perhaps been a really new contribution

I have particularly enjoyed recent papers that show how expression levels affect protein evolution in various ways. One of them www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This one is super cool www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The program for the 2026 New York Population Genetics meeting, hosted by at the @simonsfoundation.org on March 9th 2026, is now up: events.simonsfoundation.org/event/7c91dd....

I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

Happy Darwin Day to all! To celebrate can you comment with your favorite paper on evolutionary biology from the last few years? Whatever comes to mind and whichever paper that really changed your view of evolution.

Interested in eco-evolutionary feedbacks? Microbial experimental evolution? Pleiotropy? Filamentous phages?? Check out our latest preprint, now up on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a quick summary, peep the thread below...🧵 (1/10)

How does population density affect evolutionary trajectory? Microbes construct their own niche which in turn reshapes their evolution. Preprint drop from grad student @noahhoupt.bsky.social whose evolution experiments featured blue/white colonies, 1000 generations, a lab move, and much more!

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.   Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.   They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Please come join us - so excited for this conference!

Registration is open for the inaugural GRC conference in the Function of Evolving Systems. Aug 9-14, 2026, Waterville Valley. Truly stellar speaker lineup. Student/postdoc fellowships are available! Please come join us! www.grc.org/function-of-... @joybergelson.bsky.social

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Note from a veteran police reporter: NAMING law officers who use lethal force under any and every circumstance IS NOT doxxing. It is journalism. Officers who invoke lethal force are ID'd publicly as a standard -- or were when we were a republic. Asdress, no. Name, rank, posting, etc. -- yes.

Endemic and invasion dynamics of wild tomato species on the Galápagos Islands, across two centuries of collection records Alex D. Kutza, Zoe L. Hert, Leonie C. Moyle doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.

Boring, field-specific answer. This SMART-PTA technology, which allows genotype + phenotype in hundreds of somatic cells, will lead to an expansion of population genetics for somatic cells as a field. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)

A recent preprint definitively settled the question of the Y chr of Jewish priests (Cohanim). Around 45% of Cohanim from all Jewish diasporas share a Y chr. The common ancestor was a Middle Eastern man living ~3000 years ago, i.e., during the first temple period. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

bsky.app/profile/ferv... Called this one three months ago. It is just an insane paper. The fact that the stolen clonal line is morphologically similar but different implies an unique evolutionary trajectory. Two species evolving from one mom.

Technically, this one came out last year, but I read it this year. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... On how ~neutrally evolving CAG repeats over the lifespan eventually exerts neurodegenerative phenotype in Huntington’s disease.

"Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity" by @evgenykvon.bsky.social 's team, led by @gracebower.bsky.social is one of my papers of the year. Discovery of a new class of cis-regulatory elements that modulate the regulatory activity and reach of enhancers. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

If you want an example of gold standard genomics across every aspect of a paper, read this. It levelled me up. Covers #Acinetobacter baumannii. Recontextualises the global pop + reveals genuine insights. Includes development of software which types genomes too. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

last but not least one on in vivo base editing in mice models of prion (PRNP) disease achieved 50% reduction in PrP protein and 52% increase in lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40044858/ On early origin and maintenance of WGD despite (instability driven) fitness cost an organism has to endure.

I really love this model which brings real mechanistic insight to the barcode data which I had previously found interesting but mysterious! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

This paper by Celentano et al. on scalable simulation under the birth death is one of my favourites for the year! It introduces some elegant thinning that has been sorely needed. Fantastic to pave the way forward for future simulation-heavy inference, including neural Bayes! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I guess the preprint came out in 2024 but it was published this year so I'll say this paper from @jeffspence.github.io and @hakha.bsky.social which is probably the paper that pleiotropy-pilled me the most. Really got me to think about what GWAS means www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All right it’s time for the annual “please tell us about one (or a few if you are ambitious) paper from 2025 that really impressed you and why we should all read it“! Go! If you tell us how it changed your view of the world and what makes it so powerful and consequential It would be excellent.

Check the latest preprint from the lab, #Virus, #evolution, #VirusEvolution, armchair #virology

I never want to hear another American make fun of North Korea ever again.

Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a beautiful paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Article about scientists leaving (or not leaving) the US - including me! I landed in a truly great spot - but what's happening in the US is messed up. @isemevol.bsky.social @sfstatebio.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

Such an awesome paper! Go @alexrob.bsky.social, @alisonfeder.bsky.social and Ben Kerr! At times less is more. www-nature-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/articles/s41...

Job AD. Research Directions: 1. Selection in early development; Pop gen methods applied to new technologies, i.e. scDNA-seq with D. Shao 2. Study of hypermutability and selection using population cohorts with E. Koch 3. Evolution of Mutagenesis with M. Penenell & @jgschraiber.bsky.social

Excited to co-organize with @weieli.bsky.social a symposium at SMBE 2026 on how synthetic & systems biology can illuminate the molecular mechanisms of evolution. Honored to have @christianlandry.bsky.social as invited speaker! Join us!

This Saturday! Looking forward to hosting the Bay Area evolutionary, quantitative, and population genetics community at Stanford :)

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

An amazing paper! Give it a read - you won’t be disappointed.

Our new collaborative work led by @taliamycota.bsky.social Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau between my lab @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social & the Karasov Lab (tkarasovlab.org) @uofubiology.bsky.social and collaborators: @plantricia.bsky.social et al. tinyurl.com/5yx2wmz5 (1/n)