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Rice plants inherit cold tolerance in just three generations - without changes to their DNA. This study challenges an interpretation of evolution that has been around for more than a hundred years 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Nothing beats a good South Indian brekky with the folks after a long walk! In their 70s, and they still keep the pace! ❤️

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In 1987 I took Stephen Jay Gould’s “Science B16 course” that helped convince me to be major in Biology w/ a focus on Evolution. But it was my TA Wayne Madison showing us early versions of MacClade that really did the trick.

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We're hiring an entomology collections manager @nhm.org ! I have nothing to do with the search, but happy to answer questions about the museum & LA! 🧪🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🪰🪲🪳🕷️ workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Big congratulations to GSA President Brenda Andrews, winner of the 2025 Friesen Prize! 🎉 A leader in functional genomics at @uoft.bsky.social, she’s known for pioneering yeast genetics research and advancing biomedical science in Canada. Read the full article: buff.ly/LvEQLZU

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Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

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In the latest #GENETICS paper, Hannes Becher and Brian Charlesworth describe a new approach for modeling the effects of Hill-Robertson interference on adaptation and variability in non-recombining genomic regions. Read more: buff.ly/vg9uvFE

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NEW REVIEW! Experimental tests on the evolution of sex and recombination and their adaptive significance Parée and Teotónio doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

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You know you're in India when you spot mangoes on every tree, menu, and table. Y'all ready for my insufferable mango pics?!

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📝 New Bioconductor blog post! We’ve just published a recap of our first in-person course in Africa, held in Nairobi this March 🇰🇪 Read about the highlights, feedback, and what’s next: 👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Bioinformatics #BioconductorAfrica #OpenScience #RStats #CapacityBuilding

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Take a look at @science.org's article describing our work in @globalchangebio.bsky.social showing that beak morphology of hummingbirds has changed in association with feeders! science.org/content/arti...

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New preprint! Autocycler is a tool for long-read consensus assembly of bacterial genomes. It's like Trycycler but can be run fully automated (without any human intervention). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)

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12 years apart! I wonder if I can get Fred to share his hooding ceremony photo - he tells me he had a rat-tail throughout grad school that he let Anne chop off upon graduating. Lol.

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New manuscript out in @asm.org MRA! We develop a new R package called methylMapR to characterize the prokaryotic functional methylome from long read PacBio data. journals.asm.org/eprint/SNT8I... Check it out and do give the package a try! github.com/therealtotod...

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More grad pics! ❤️ This time - with my two two awesome MS grads @trevormugoya.bsky.social and Surangi, and my PhD grad, Dr. Dunn! See y’all on stage later today!

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Repeats in DNA can form structures other than the typical double helix. Using newer techniques, we can see the repeats and predict their non-helical structures better. There are a lot of super cool things that will come from this work, thanks to @linneasmeds.bsky.social and team! 🤩

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These two! ❤️ Happy #Caturday from Calvin and Pepper!

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"The vast majority of our data on mating systems comes from a small number of disproportionally sampled families. -families with significant proportions of dioecious or monoecious species are much more likely to be undersampled -the frequency of selfing in angiosperms is overestimated" #Botany 🌱

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Wahoo! Congrats to all my fabulous colleagues who were just promoted/tenured! @jeetsukumaran.bsky.social received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor; Lluvia Flores-Renteria and Nick Barber were both promoted to Full Professors! Well deserved!

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Nice episode of the "ologies" podcast featuring @mhedin.bsky.social. Even if you're not into spiders, this is definitely worth a listen. www.alieward.com/ologies/aran...

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Thanks to @patrickwyman.bsky.social and the Tides of History podcast for a great chat about the intersection of history and ancient DNA. wondery.com/shows/tides-...

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Tomura et al. explored a new approach to test traits influencing crop yield. Read in #G3journal about how it increased prediction accuracies and reduced prediction errors in genomic prediction models: buff.ly/r88yPZh

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Struggling to find the tiny microchromosomes in draft bird genome assemblies? Our new #preprint introducing MicroFinder can help: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below (1/n) @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

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A large-scale genomic study in Science of over 1500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and the Americas sheds new light on the ancient migrations that shaped the genetic landscape of North and South America. Learn more: scim.ag/4mi1yUf

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Love this time of the year - congrats to these fabulous undergrads from my lab who are graduating tomorrow! ❤️

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Very proud of my colleagues and friends for their amazing publication out in Science today! Nunes et al. "Admixture’s impact on Brazilian population evolution and health" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @hunemeier.bsky.social @macscastro.bsky.social 👏

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Really cool work from @arun-das.bsky.social on recovering sequence from unmapped reads (even with T2T reference or HPRC pangenomes!). Can recover a decent amount of sequence per individual using these approaches. Check it out!

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Aaah! She did it y’all! Say hello to the newly minted PhD in Evolutionary Biology from @sandiegostate.bsky.social and @ucriverside.bsky.social, Dr. Tamsen Dunn! So proud of her!

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New review on the genetics of schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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So true. I'm gonna be over-and-out for a few days starting next week.

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These puppers sound 122312323% better than most mainstream singers these days. 🐶

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The distribution of fitness effects varies phylogenetically across animals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653358v1

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The PopSim Consortium wants you! Please join us on zoom on May 27 at noon Eastern Time (1600 UTC) to tell us you would like to see in the next version of stdpopsim! DM me for meeting link, or just sign up for our email list: lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/list... (1/3)

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Happening tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific! Do join us either in person or via Zoom!

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“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”

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Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Brazier et al. (@romanstet.bsky.social)

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Officially (re-)annoucing the Tree of Sex! Read all about it in JEB below!

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TGIF! We redid the space we share with our next door neighbors (also family) and celebrated with some bubbly last night.

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⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission: Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse ! These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread 1/14

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In #GENETICS, Zeng et al. present a general theory to analyze and interpret the genetics of heterosis. When applied to a large maize dataset of many inbred lines and their hybrid crosses, their findings indicate that dominance is the main contributor to heterosis. Read more: buff.ly/Oxt9IjW

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… I don’t even know what to say any more.

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Our latest preprint about the effects of rescaling forward-in-time simulations in population genetics - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Convergent evolution of "smelling like rotting meat" is mediated by a 3 amino-acid chance in a conserved enzymes, just out @science.org 🔽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Super excited to share my latest preprint with @klohmueller.bsky.social! Here we leverage the unique signature that recessive deleterious variants can lead to an increase in archaic ancestry to tackle a classic question - the dominance distribution on the human genome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Now online! The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2

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For a new Perspective in GBE, Au et al. provide an overview on whole genome duplications in animals, arguing that they have occurred frequently across invertebrates; expanding WGD studies is thus essential for understanding metazoan evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #duplication

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