We’re hiring a Planetary Health Postdoc at UVM! Join the Lauterbur, Nunez & Pespeni labs in the Department of Biology for an interdisciplinary fellowship exploring evolutionary & ecological infectious disease dynamics. 📅 Start: Flexible (May–Sept 2026) 🔗 Details: www.jcbnunez.org/planetaryhea...

NEW DEADLINE - Global Evolutionary Biology Initiative 📣 🌍MARCH 1st 2026🌍 GEBI provides financial, organisational & strategic support to foster growth of local evolutionary biology communities in various parts of the world. eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

My first @umasschan.bsky.social/@impvienna.bsky.social affiliated paper is up! tomtom-lite is a re-implementation of tomtom targeting the ML age of genomics. Fast annotations ("what is this motif?") and simple large-scale discovery of motifs. Check it out! academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)

Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can stabilize large-effect polymorphisms in nature. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome assembly is a software+data problem, and since the latest version of hifiasm, the best data is Oxford @nanopore data. github.com/chhylp123/hi...

Pretty amazing observation in nature rdcu.be/eEebw

Exciting to see Sara Helms Cahan quoted in Science, offering her perspective on the awesome reproductive strategies of Iberian harvester ants! www.science.org/content/arti...

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

I'm no Cassandra, but I've been exploring this alternative to GS if the Sentient AI Overlords pull the plug on GS. It's this and it is, currently, terrible: openalex.org

@jcbnunez.bsky.social et al. present an expanded release of the community-generated resource Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST 2.0), and showcase it by studying the species' demographic history and signatures of adaptation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf132 #evobio #molbio #drosophila

An immense effort with contributions from many authors: @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social @geneticament.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @mgda76.bsky.social @rawwiberg.bsky.social @juliabeets.bsky.social @paucarazo.bsky.social ...and many others... ⬇️ Please tag yourself or other authors below

doi.org/10.1093/molb... Thrilled to share our new paper in MBE! 🎉 Presenting DEST 2.0: 530 pooled Drosophila populations spanning 12 years across 6 continents. We map genomic footprints of adaptation, from pesticide resistance to seasonal changes. #PopulationGenetics #Drosophila #Genomics #Evolution

Summer research hits different in Vermont. Lucky to spend the season doing cool science with even cooler people. ☀️✨

🎉 Excited to learn that our paper “A cosmopolitan inversion facilitates seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila” is among the most cited recent papers in GENETICS! ☀️❄️ In(2L)t is a key player in seasonal adaptive tracking in fruit flies. academic.oup.com/genetics/art... #Evolution #Genetics

🚨 There is still time to submit a poster for our upcoming Gordon Research Seminar in Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics: Elucidating the Evolutionary Dynamics of Adaptation in Fluctuating Environments! 🧬 Apply now 👉 www.grc.org/ecological-a...

Some happy news to share: today we celebrate the inaugural class of the Nunez Lab at UVM! :)

Unless there is free lunch....

Glorious red aurora occurring now! One of the most pronounced auroral curtains I have ever witnessed. Such a sharp contrast.

stdpopsim v0.3.0 is out! You can now mix and match your simulations of different demographic histories with published distributions of fitness effects along with gene annotations, and you can even throw in sweeps for good measure. Check out the new manuscript for more info: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

longcallD is a new variant caller for genomic long reads. It jointly calls phased small and structural variants. Single binary, one command line for the whole process. Comparable accuracy to mainstream callers. Great work by Yan Gao. github.com/yangao07/lon...

Photo by Manu Rodriguez (manurs.es) #landscape #landscapephotography #photography

Crimson-collared Tanager at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #costarica #nature

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau 📷: Eastern Bluebird

Watching barnacles sweep the ocean for food is so mesmerizing. They look like eyelashes opening and closing. I could watch this for hours. #barnacles #intertidal #marinelife 🦑

Excited to be at UNCC today to give the Larry Mays Seminar in Bioinformatics! Looking forward to great discussions with the Genomics and Bioinformatics department and connecting with the UNCC community. #Bioinformatics #Genomics #UNCC

🚨 Join us at the GRC/GRS in Italy 🚨 --> Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics Conference (2025)! 🌿🧬 📢 Submit your abstract by April 6 for a chance to give a talk! Co-chairs: @evobioclio.bsky.social and @jcbnunez.bsky.social 🔗 Apply here: www.grc.org/ecological-a... #Genomics #Evolution #Ecology #GRC

Join us in Burlington to Stand up for Science! #StandUpForScience2025

Going Beyond the Data: UVM's new course explores how storytelling enhances science communication. The class empowers grad students to convey research through filmmaking. Check out their inspiring short films! www.uvm.edu/cas/news/bey...

🚨 Exciting event alert! 🚨 Join us at the Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics GRS 2025! 🌍🧬 A must-attend for early-career researchers diving into cutting-edge genomics. Don’t miss out—apply now! 👉 lnkd.in/eZK2C9pD hashtag#Genomics hashtag#Evolution hashtag#GRS2025

Myself and two awesome colleagues are recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Health at the University of Vermont, application review begins March 17. We're committed to a supportive mentoring environment, please feel free to reach out with questions! drive.google.com/file/d/1OECG...

Join us at the Gordon Research Seminar on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics in Tuscany, co-chaired by @jcbnunez.bsky.social and me. If you’d like to present your research and be considered for a talk, make sure to submit your application before April 6th! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

In a new Science study, researchers present CASTER, a tool that uses arrangements in DNA sequences known as site patterns to infer “species trees,” which are diagrams that depict the evolutionary relationships among species. Learn more:

I love this! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Taking the opportunity to repost this since people hate it BECAUSE I'M RIGHT.

New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access! Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠 Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Obligatory Bluesky Introduction: I'm a queer neurobiologist in Vermont, hoping to connect with folks to share research updates, job/training opportunities, teaching/mentoring tools, and tips for effective SciComm. I'm looking forward to attending #Dros25 this March to meet some folks IRL!

Registration is now open for the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics in Tuscany, co-chaired by me and @jcbnunez.bsky.social! This meeting is a unique opportunity for early-career researchers to present their work and network. www.grc.org/ecological-a...

Very happy to see our work on deleterious mutations in #tomato published in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧬🌱🍅! We identify deleterious mutations that were enriched during #domestication and apply #CRISPR to repair a mutation in cultivated tomato. #genetics #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy... GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page. Let me know if you run into issues.

A Very nice article about the three news professor at UVM Biology :) www.uvm.edu/news/cas/bat...

Registration is now open for the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics in Tuscany, co-chaired by me and @jcbnunez.bsky.social! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

Come join us in Vermont! We have an opening for the position of Lecturer in Neuroscience (Dept. of Biology). Find out more here: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/77884

Are you an evolution educator? Consider applying for the T. H. Huxley Award, which recognizes and promotes outstanding evolution education resources. The recipient receives funding to present their resource at the Evolution or NABT meeting! Deadline February 3. http://bit.ly/2kP2pPM

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

The typeset version of our article, "Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation", is now online. This thread will provide an overview of how gene duplications have shaped modern variation in the amylase locus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...