Very happy to announce our new paper on the evolution of metabolism is out now! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... With @tweethinking.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Tim Lenton and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social (1/2)

More than grateful to the CoME25 organisers for inviting me one more year, it is always so much fun!! Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ και τα λέμε σύντομα! 💙

Congratulations Dr Jiayi Ji!! 🥳Thanks to examiners @hernanaburbano.bsky.social and Simon Martin, now time to enjoy the long weekend! 🎉

Had so much fun at the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop! 💫 Hope that everyone who attended this event enjoyed the two-day journey on theory, methods, and applications of Bayesian Phylogenetics and... Hopefully see you all again soon in future events! 💻🧬

Really pleased to be part of this project which shows that aerobic bacteria arose in the Archaean, long before the GOE - after which aerobes proliferated through HGT. Fun @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social collab including @tweethinking.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social @emoody.bsky.social Davide Pisani

The Physalia Phylogenomics course is back this December! Join us for a computational journey on phylogeny and timetree inference with genomic datasets 🧬 💻 More information about the course and how you can register on the post below ⬇️

The clock is ticking 🕔! Pre-registration will close today March 14th (17:00h GMT+0), do not miss your chance to join us at the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop! 💻🧬

Thanks to all organisers that have made the Workshop of Computational Genomics possible and all the participants that have joined us both in person and online -- we have had such a great time in Hong Kong! 🌹 Hope to see you all again in future meetings 🤗 Next stop: 🚗 Shenzhen!

The deadline to apply for student travel bursaries to attend the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop 💻🧬 is approaching: March 3rd! Pre-registration will be open until March 14th. Do not miss the deadlines, submit your application before it is too late! sruk.org.uk/ceru-events/...

Looking for funds for a small systematics-focused project? You have until 23:59 GMT+0 MONDAY, MARCH 10TH to apply to the LinneSys scheme! You can apply for up to 1500GBP, you just need to be a member of @systassn.bsky.social or @linneansociety.bsky.social! Details here: systass.org/linnesys/

Introduction to Bayesian inference; practical sessions focused on the usage of MCMCtree, BPP, and PhyloBayes; discussion sessions... Does this sound like something you would like to delve into over a two-day workshop? 💻🧬 Then pre-register your interest to join before March 14th! More details below 🔽

Our latest: a Richard Boyle (Exeter) production, using simulations to show how differential selection of biogeochemical cycles can lead to planetary homeostasis, with some empirical data from @emoody.bsky.social and @sabifo4.bsky.social @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

Would you like to learn more about the evolutionary history of sea spiders? You may want to read our latest study led by Morena @morena99.bsky.social, who has nicely summarised the key findings of our research in the quoted thread below 🔽 (1/2)

Our study (haiwei luo & i) on dating bacterial tree of life by new methods integrating host-microbe symbiosis, complex subs models & extended sequential dating, is online Syst Biol. @systbiol.bsky.social shorturl.at/Ywoud #phylo

🚨New paper 🚨We argue that abrupt biodiversity losses can be driven by populations sharing similar tolerances to warming 🦋🌎🥵. Out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Summary thread below 🧵 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

Such a great PhD opportunity with fantastic advisors!! 💫🎓TREES will soon be open for applications but, in the meantime, they have announced the closing date on their website: January 20th 2025 at 5pm (UK time). More info about the project in the post below ⬇️

Applications are due February 19 for the R. C. Lewontin Early Awards, which provide up to $2500 in research funds for 1st year master’s and 1st or 2nd year PhD students. Read the full requirements, instructions, and evaluation criteria here: https://buff.ly/3YZlUHf

What a wonderful and friendly group of participants, had lots of fun! 💫 If you have joined Paschalia, Tomas, @zihengyang.bsky.social , @mariodosreis.bsky.social & I this week, we hope that you have liked the course and learnt more about phylogenomics analyses! Now, time to enjoy the weekend! 🙌

Wrapping up an incredible 5-day course on #Phylogenomics with a fascinating lecture on Molecular-Clock dating of species divergence by @mariodosreis.bsky.social, followed by a hands-on session with @sabifo4.bsky.social 🧬🕰️ Huge thanks to all participants for an inspiring [email protected]

For anyone looking for PhDs in the UK starting October 2025 in ecology, evolution, environment etc. The new Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLAs) recently got announced so lots of people will be adverting PhDs with January deadlines. Check out findaphd.com to search for ones that interest you!

✨ Day 2 highlight! ✨ Tomas Flouri and @sabifo4.bsky.social delivered masterful lectures and an exceptional hands-on session on Bayesian inference in Phylogenomics. 🎓💡 Their expertise truly shone through! Excited for the insights Day 3 will bring—stay tuned! 🚀

An interactive PAML Wiki is now available! Please read the thread published by Ziheng Yang Lab to learn more about the PAML discussion group & the PAML GitHub repo. Hope you enjoy the Wiki as much as I enjoyed working on it 💫 P.S: The Wiki is still a work in progress, there is still more to come! 😄

Our paper on Bayesian selection of relaxed clock models is out in Systematic Biology! This is the work of our PhD student Muthukumaran Panchaksaram, in collaboration with Lucas Freitas from Brazil. doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

There is a new opportunity to join the dos Reis and Nichols Labs as a CSC PhD student! 🎓Do not miss the chance to learn from two wonderful researchers in evolutionary biology and apply before the deadline. More information below in Mario's post 🔽

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

This is a fantastic opportunity for students and early postdoctoral researchers to present their work on phylogenetics, taxonomy and/or systematics 🧬🌐🦴 Do not miss the deadline, last two days to register! More info below 🔽

Registrations are open to attend the Computational Molecular Evolution course next year (May 11th - 22nd) -- and in wonderful Crete! ☀️ Do not miss the deadline, follow the link below for more info and registration details! 🔽 meetings.embo.org/event/25-com...

I am excited to announce that I am back to UCL (CLOE) to work with Ziheng Yang, Mario dos Reis, and Phil Donoghue on Bayesian techniques for inferring timetrees with large genomic datasets and ancient genomes! 💻🧬🤩

Bacterial evolution, GOE, clock dating, machine learning... What is not to like!! Go and talk to Lénárd today at 17.45h (poster L9) and join him tomorrow at 11.45h (room 520E) to learn more about how compositionally constrained sites can drive LBA! #Evol2024

If you are at #Evol24 & would like to learn more about the cross-bracing approach we used to date LUCA in our latest paper, come join the Computational Biology II session tomorrow July 28th at 10.15h (room 519AB) 💻🧬Hope to see some of you there! 🤗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our work on the Last Universal Common Ancestor is out!! 🧬💻 To improve data reproducibility and accessibility, I have created a GitHub repository that documents the steps you need to follow to reproduce all our timetree inference analyses. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Keen on delving into phylogenomics this December? 🧬💻Join us for a theoretical+practical journey from phylogeny to timetree inference with genomic data! More info about how to register below🔽

Hey Blueskiiers, I have an open position for a PhD student to study phylogenetic models. Topics include evolution, popgen, epidemiology, stats, machine learning, etc. Applications are due by Dec 1st. Please share! landislab.org (email address here) dbbs.wustl.edu/admissions/a... 🧪 #evosky #episky