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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.

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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...

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OOH! This weekend only, Waterstones are offering 25% off pre-orders of my book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History Museums (billed as one of the Guardian's biggest books of 2025). Enter the code PREORDER25 before checkout: www.waterstones.com/book/natures...

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Quantitative genetics is poorly understood by many biologists, and that's surely a failure in how it is taught. But teaching biology as 'fundamentally complex' seems like one of the least promising educational ideas since those 1970s schools that made lessons optional. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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Preprint Alert: Mitonuclear divergence predicts gradual speciation in animal hybrid zone. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... With global hybrid zone studies, this paper examined three alternative speciation rate models: Snowball Effect, Additive Linear Effect, and Slowdown Effect. #speciation

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Interactions between mechanisms of reproductive isolation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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How would you expect somatic mutation rate to correlate with species longevity? Study in 2022 by @atjcagan.bsky.social etal in @nature.com discovered key patterns. Our model predicts some of these and highlights possible mechanisms driving co-evolutionary dynamics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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This katydid from Ecuador has been affectionately named by photographers "candy-cane katydid". The truth is... we are not sure which species it is. One possibility is a Harroweria nymph, but until someone witnesses the transformation into the adult stage it will remain a mystery.

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SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2025 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Sign up for your free registration code today! https://buff.ly/4hK08PZ @evolmtg.bsky.social

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Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!

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Predicting Hybrid Fitness: the Effects of Ploidy and Complex Ancestry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638087v1

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I’m super happy to have a great part of my PhD work (under the wonderful supervision of C. Libourel @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social & @maximebonhomme.bsky.social) now out in @naturegenet.bsky.social ! Here’s a little thread (1/18) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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TRAILS: Tree reconstruction of ancestry using incomplete lineage sorting journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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How do complex social behaviors evolve and shape species' success? Here doi.org/10.1038/s420... we reveal how a key social behavior in ants - mouth-to-mouth food sharing #trophallaxis - emerged as ants opportunistically exploited new ecological niches as terrestrial environments changed.

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Another @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social preprint of work led by @wenfeixian.bsky.social. With our Lausanne colleagues, we revisit the Napoleon Oak. An earlier long-read genome had revealed a relatively low number of somatic mutations (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). 1/2

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A few years ago, we started asking if the adaptation of Iberian wolves to anthropogenic landscapes could be associated with ancient introgression from domestic dogs. In our recently accepted paper at @genomeresearch.bsky.social we provide new insights: genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/... 🐺🧬🐶

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How do SVs, satellite DNA & gene content shape avian genome evolution? We analyzed 45 HiFi genomes across 3 Scrub-Jay species with distinct population sizes. Grateful to be on this incredible team led by Scott Edwards! "Comparative population pangenomes" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Finally ready to see the world! Theories of balancing selection - past, present and future: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A true collaborative effort that brought together theoreticians and empiricists, models, data, and fresh perspectives on how balancing selection can shape genetic variation.

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With @katiejenike.bsky.social and a bunch more of our fellow k-mer enthusiasts, we put together a manuscript on k-mers in biodiversity genomics. A guide if you will, that covers k-mers from basics to some really funky stuff... genome.cshlp.org/content/35/2...

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Three fantastic @science.org papers on convergent development & evolution of neurons + their connections in the bird & mammalian pallia, by @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social & Fernando García-Moreno. Expertly synthesised by @giacomogattoni.bsky.social & Maria Antonietta Tosches 🧪🧠

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The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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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....

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Happy #DarwinDay. Here's #Darwin's career in specimens at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social: 🐞Beetles he collected as a student. 🐟A fish he collected on the Beagle voyage. 🐦The famous Galápagos finches from the Beagle - key evidence for his evolutionary theories. 🦀The barnacles he spent 8 years describing.

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On #CharlesDarwin's 216th birthday, it's worth reflecting that he recognized the threat of species invasions at a time when very few other scientists did. [a thread 🧵...] #invasivespecies #bioinvasions

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Late-stage PhD students: We want to bring you to NYU Biology to meet peers and make connections with potential postdoctoral mentors. Apply to be part of our Emerging Scholars Symposium!

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EMBO Population Genomics course: Are you a postgrad student or a postdoc starting a population genomics project? This course aims to give you the tools to answer questions for your project. Registration deadline: 24 February 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/25-pop... #EMBOpopgen

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Sex-specific expression of circadian rhythms enables allochronic speciation ( Spodoptera! ) academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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Estimating recombination using only the allele frequency spectrum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.01.635998v1

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Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

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A new tool, vcfsim, developed by Paimon Goulart, a stellar undergraduate researcher in my lab! vcfsim allows for the quick and easy simulation (via parameterized msprime simulations) of "all-sites" vcfs, with arbitrary ploidy and amounts of missing data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Excited to announce our work on kelp genomics is now out at Current Biology. Lead by Postdoc extraordinaire Jordan Bemmels, we sequence WGS for 600+ bull and giant kelp across BC and Washington. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSP93QW8S...

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Proud to see the progress flag up at Girton College today — a time of great anxiety for LGBT+ people around the world

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Job alert! We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Our mealybug B chromosome paper is finally out, a small cross-generational gem from @laurarossevo.bsky.social's lab. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... A few interesting things we found 👇

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🚨Registration open🚨 1st - 6th of June, me, Katie Jenike, @rayanchikhi.bsky.social and Gene Myers will run a week long workshop on k-mers for biodiversity genomics organised by @connectingscience.bsky.social at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. Join us & get equipped to wrestle large genomic datasets!

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Interested in applying for a 3-year postdoc fellowship co-funded by Marie Curie and SciLifeLab / me? See our research lines here gmontejokovacevich.wordpress.com/research/ and get in touch! www.scilifelab.se/research/pul... @animecol-uu.bsky.social @scilifelab.se Some mobility rules apply

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Hybrid zone analysis using coalescent-based estimates of introgression and migration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Have you checked @jpverta.bsky.social latest on PNAS? Great application of functional genomics for studying the regulatory basis of complex traits, like maturation time! doi.org/10.1073/pnas... I wrote a little commentary about it too! See bellow for link.

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Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease? I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵

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Thrilled to share that our research on androgen variation underlying the three ruff mating morphs has been published in Science! 🎉 Huge thanks to @science.org‬ for the stunning cover highlighting our work 💫 Check out the publication here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Check out this impressive potato genome (graph) study, with @zbao.bsky.social as co-first author! I especially liked the authors' idea of a 'broken window' effect of deleterious SVs, which seem to attract more deleterious mutations (SVs and SNPs) nearby. #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New in @currentbiology.bsky.social Studies have found that fossil/molecular diversification rates scale with time, hinting at a disconnect between micro and macroevolution. We show that these trends are absent from the fossil record when controlling for sampling biases: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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🐛 We have a new pre-print up on genomic evolution during repeated transitions to gregarious behaviour in Heliconiini caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

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Undergrads: apply to NYU's Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biology! 10 weeks of research in a structured setting, featuring terrific mentors, exciting biology, housing in New York, and a stipend. as.nyu.edu/biology/outr...

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