Am having a special early view of Charlene da Silva and Steve White's Prehistoric Sharks (available for pre-order: www.nhbs.com/prehistoric-...). Friends, it is INCREDIBLE. Absolute mastery. Another book that I simply cannot recommend enough. Can't wait to see it in physical form. #books #sharks

Prehistoric Sharks: The Evolution of Sharks in 40 Species

Buy Prehistoric Sharks (9781399414333): The Evolution of Sharks in 40 Species: NHBS - Steve J White, Charlene da Silva, Bloomsbury Publishing

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getting a permanent job is bittersweet in a lot of ways. like, for one, i'll no longer get to enjoy National Postdoc Appreciation Week

Here's a fact that may surprise you. Until recently, nobody had managed to sequence the complete genome of a human being. Then, a landmark paper in 2022 reported end-to-end (telomere-to-telomere) coverage of all chromosomes. The new era of T2T genomics is showcased today in @cp-cell.bsky.social: 🧬🧪👇

Filling the holes in whole genomes: A vision for personalized genomics from telomere to telomere

Two decades after the Human Genome Project, we finally have the ability to read the complete genome of any human and (nearly) any species. These sequences provide the ideal foundation for training pre...

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#zebrafish genome update. UCSC has added both GRCz12tu and GRCz12ab to the zebrafish pulldown menu making it much easier to find the new assemblies!

As we approach the final week of our 7th field season on Anticosti Island, we've overcome new challenges and setbacks this year. Nevertheless, we have also made many new discoveries & worked with an incredible team, including a remarkable group of students from @oupaleobiology.bsky.social & the AMNH

Sure is slow having a command read through thousands of files on Box

Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973

Estimation of Contemporary and Recent Effective Population Size from Genomic Data www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Estimation of Contemporary and Recent Effective Population Size from Genomic Data

Effective population size (Ne) is a crucial parameter in the fields of evolutionary biology, conservation biology of endangered species, and selective breeding of domestic animals and crops, as it qua...

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In other news, time to expand my invertebrate zoology knowledge base. Any other titles recommended by my invert friends would be greatly appreciated!

I was honoured to make a small contribution to this paper published today in Cell, detailing the first T2T genome assembly of the zebra finch, a crucial model species for neurobiology: tinyurl.com/tguttata

The complete genome of a songbird

Bird genomes are the smallest among amniotes; however, they remain challenging to assemble due to their structural complexity. This study presents a f…

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I am thrilled to share that I will join the American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org as the Dean of Collections, Curator, and Professor in September!

Regular reminder that the first thing you should do if you're interested in population structure of some samples is not PCA, NJ tree, or STRUCTURE. Just build a dang kinship matrix and look at it.

Pleased to share our latest special issue: Feeding biomechanics in vertebrates & beyond! The issue brings together studies spanning insects, fishes & mammals to explore feeding biomechanics anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Guest Editors: Böhmer & Winkler

R submissions to FDA are feasible, but they must be easy to reproduce and review. Practical guidance from the R Consortium Submissions Working Group: r-consortium.org/posts/making... #RStats #FDA

LINGUINE: a phylogeny-aware, orthogroup-based framework for robust ancestral linkage group inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727789v1

A probabilistic and phylogenetic principal component analysis for modelling high-dimensional trait evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728209v1

Statistical inference of the Tree of Blobs of a phylogenetic network from quartet concordance factors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.28.728501v1

New approaches to detecting and characterizing introgression in large species trees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.30.728990v1

Where the tree of life is empirically resolved, and where it is not: an open atlas of species-level phylogenies and their archival uncertainty https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.729127v1

Diversifying the Northern Neotropics: Phylogenomics and Evolutionary History of the Early-Diverging Herichthyine Cichlids Thorichthys and Trichromis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.05.730467v1

Parallel phenotypes underpinned by different genes in the visual system of two trans-isthmian coral reef fish species pairs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730927v1

Summarizing Evolutionary Trajectories from Phylogenetic Character Maps of Discrete Traits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.14.732171v1

The Shifting Tempo of Evolution: Mapping Site-Specific Rate Shifts Across the Tree of Life https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.19.733087v1

Tiny Subsamples and Upsampling Tame Big Data Evolutionary Analysis in Phylogenomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.21.733599v1

The evolution of structural variation across 500 million years of vertebrate evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.733778v1

Independent origins of fish endothermy converge on a developmental regulatory signature https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.24.734300v1

CoalMiner: a coalescent model generator for fastsimcoal2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.25.734618v1

Lineage-specific change in craniofacial genetic networks of syngnathid fishes revealed by integrating multiomics across fishes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.738491v1

How are evolutionarily young and old proteins distributed in sequence space? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.21.739789v1

Magic traits, search costs, and the persistence of species in secondary contact https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.23.740407v1