This collaboration was so much fun!! I’m excited to see it online! www.cell.com/trends/genet...

📣Online NOW! 📄Estimation of demography and mutation rates from one million haploid genomes 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @jgschraiber.bsky.social @jeffspence.github.io @docedge.bsky.social

alignments are mosaics of autocorrelated genealogies... nearby bases share ancestry until recombination alters the local tree. We derived the distributions of waiting distances for tree-change and topology-change events, extending prior single-population results to arbitrary species tree models.

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

I'm so proud of this work!!! It was an incredible amount of effort that started when I was trapped in a greenhouse during the pandemic and is only now seeing the light of day. Kudos to Megan, Hagar, & Pia! We'd love to hear your thoughts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our new paper in @GeneticsGSA ! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper! Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene... A thread 🧵👇

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We’ve just published a paper on Senecio showing that ecological speciation and mutation-order speciation can act together rather than as an either/or. Congratulations, Maddie James and MC Melo!

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

check out my new paper from last week! we found that copy number variation contributes to rapid adaptation in the invasive common ragweed. think dad would be proud :) #popgen #evolution #invasionbiology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

Excited to share our newly submitted preprint on Senecio speciation led by Maddie E. James and Maria C. Melo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

Thrilled to share new work from @stochasnick examining how gene regulatory networks influence quantitative trait evolution! His forward-time simulations reveal fascinating dynamics in the genetic architecture of adaptation. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....

📖Published📖 Our new Research Article introduces a novel phylogenetic comparative method for comparing within-species patterns among species while accounting for their phylogenetic non-independence. 🌎 🧪 Check it out here 👇

Grads & Postdocs: interested in the Speciation Gordon Research Conference www.grc.org/speciation-c..., and Symposium www.grc.org/speciation-g...? We will give registration vouchers to a random set of grads/pdocs who register before Nov 24 ($300 if traveling from North America, $500 from outside)

Just posting this to #popgen Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics: github.com/cooplab/popg... Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.

@puttert.bsky.social and I are organising the ANU Research School of Biology's Ecology and Evolution seminar series for 2025 🌏🗣. Any researchers based in Oz 🇦🇺 and keen to connect with #TeamCanberra should reach out! We have also budget for travel 🛩

A bit late to the Bluesky party, but I'll start with a plug for our non-technical, non-mathematical, introductory text on macroevolution & macroecology. It probably won't give you many answers to big questions about biodiversity. But hopefully it will give you the tools to ask good questions.

If you are interested in applying population genomics, experimental genetics, and innovative breeding to dissect the genetic basis of resilience in future environments, please contact me. You will join my lab and a wonderful team of researchers from the ARC training centre in predictive breeding.

We are delighted to announce that Québec City (Canada) has been selected to host our annual conference in 2027. The meeting will be held from June 20 to 24, 2027, at the Québec City Convention Centre. We are looking forward to hosting you in 2027. See smbe/org news items for details #smbe2027

Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

A major step forward toward high-resolution nanopore sequencing of full-length proteins www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Save the date for the first ever African Plant Genomics Symposium, 10-11 April 2025, in Nairobi. Registration open now. More info at plantgenomicsafrica.org

Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen! academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic... 🦀🦑🧪

Cluster-efficient pangenome graph construction with nf-core/pangenome https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/40/11/btae609/7821182 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/nf-core/pangenome

Large protein language models can learn complex epistatic interactions, but how much does that help with predicting variant effects? In this NeurIPS article, we show that classical independent-sites phylogenetic models can outperform pLMs on this task. 1/7 openreview.net/forum?id=H7m...

Postdoctoral position available on population and landscape genomics to inform host-pathogen co-evolution and conservation of wild 🦌and CWD as part of highly integrative, fun team!: drive.google.com/file/d/1qAyg.... Please RT!

A life list beetle from last summer—a pugnacious male Lucanus elaphus Fabricius, 1775—found in south-central Indiana

Bluesky seems refreshingly calm and interesting. Love the bundles to follow groups of people. Still on X for following science not, hopefully yet, here. I repost and comment on interesting science. I am an evolutionary geneticist, but have very broad interests. See you around! #evolution #senecio

Epiphytic bromeliads in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

I think more people doing comparative phylogenetics stuff should read this paper.

I'm excited to share our new preprint, "The recombination landscape of introgression in yeast," lead by Enrique Schwarzkopf w/ Nathan Brandt. This paper combines two of my favorite things - recombination and hybridization! Some findings here 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...