Check out some new work from our team here at @arcadiascience.com on dissecting the evolutionary signal captured by Evo2 (gLM) latent spaces thestacks.org/publications...

We're hiring a genetics lab manager position at NOAA in Juneau, Alaska! The successful candidate will oversee day-to-day laboratory operations and contribute to the development of new molecular methods. Salary is $75-145k/yr. Email wes.larson@noaa.gov with questions www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewD...

Biologist (Omics)

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Vacancies may be available in each listed location. Additional duty lo...

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🚨 #Evol2026 attendees - our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

🚨 We're hiring computational evolutionary biologists! 🚨 Boosting this - industry evolutionary biology jobs don't come along often, so if you're excited to apply your computational evolutionary biology skills to cutting-edge problems, let's talk! 🧪🧬💻

Rishi De-Kayne@rishidekayne.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

Our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

If you use PyMOL in your work, but find its command-driven workflow a bottleneck to getting from an idea to cool analyses, check out Evan's pub: thestacks.org/publications... - Agentic PyMOL is an MCP server that allows you to carry out PyMOL analyses quickly and intuitively using natural language!

Agentic PyMOL: Structural analysis in PyMOL through natural language

Agentic PyMOL is an MCP server that gives language-model agents discoverable, two-way access to a user's live PyMOL session, letting agents both manipulate molecular visualizations and read structured...

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Happening today: the final "Early Career Researchers in Speciation" seminar! This session features talks by Aryeh Miller on Anolis lizards 🦎 and @rishidekayne.bsky.social on speciation research in industry 📊 + we'll hear from Dr Mariana Braga in the careers Q&A ✋ 👉 find the link on our website

The final "Early Career Researchers in Speciation"-themed seminar is coming up on the 5th of May! This session features talks by Aryeh Miller on Anolis lizards 🦎 and @rishidekayne.bsky.social on speciation research in industry 📊 + we'll hear from Dr Mariana Braga about her career in the Q&A ✋

Looking forward to kicking off the seminar series of our special topic network on structural variants #SV in evolutionary biology. @eseb.bsky.social Join us in listening to Pr. Rieseberg on April 29

STRIVE@strivestn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌻 Next STRiVE seminar: Loren Rieseberg (UBC) explores SVs, adaptation & speciation—from wild sunflowers to 1000+ species! 🗓️ Apr 29 | 9am PDT / 6pm CEST ✉️ Zoom link via mailing list: groupes.renater.fr/sympa/subscr... ℹ️ Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/about/

New pub! We analyzed protein structures across 36 Drosophila species and found something unexpected: tandem dimers and even trimers lurking in protein structure databases that likely aren't real proteins at all. 🧵 thestacks.org/publications... [1/9]

Assembly and annotation artifacts can lead to problematic protein structural inferences

Protein structures inferred by protein structure prediction algorithms have incredible potential, but can contain errors stemming from incorrect input sequences. Here, we investigate one such case in ...

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Are you an evolutionary biologist who thinks about the evolution of protein sequences/structure/function across scales? Do you want to implement your skills in industry? We’ve opened a full-time role on our platform team (think computational research group)! lnkd.in/gVE2NGaV

We have an opportunity to join our team at @arcadiascience.com jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... We're looking for an evolutionary biologist who thinks a lot about protein evolution. If you have experience investigating genomic and amino acid sequence evolution and protein structural evolution, apply!

🧬 Join the STRiVE kick-off conference (TiBE-STRiVE) July 8-10, 2026 near Porto! Registration & abstracts open: 🔹 Members: Feb 25-Apr 7 🔹 Non-members: Mar 16-Apr 7 Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/porto_about/ #Evolution #Genomics #Biology

🧬We are launching STRiVE, a @eseb.bsky.social Special Topic Network on the evolutionary role of structural genomic variation. 🗓️Std: 29/04: Online seminar w/ L. Rieseberg 8-10/07: Kick-off in Porto Join us: structuralvariantsstn.github.io #Evolution #Genomics #StructuralVariants #Biology #PopGen

Really excited to share my first pub from my work at @arcadiascience.com - Strategizing the search for bio-utility: A framework for evolution-integrated in silico bioprospecting thestacks.org/publications... [1/8] 🧵

Strategizing the search for bio-utility: A framework for evolution-integrated in silico bioprospecting

To accurately and efficiently identify instances of useful biological variation, we must establish an evolution-integrated bioprospecting framework. This will enable us to better interpret biological ...

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Interested in whether protein language models can learn about evolution and leverage this to predict protein structures? Check out the pub!

Arcadia Science@arcadiascience.com · 8mo ago

1/6 What does MSA Pairformer learns about evolutionary relationships? @yoakiyama.bsky.social et al achieved impressive contact & variant-fitness predictions w a fraction of ESM2's parameters; we wanted to better understand the mechanism arcadia-science.github.io/2025-phyloge... 🧪🧬 🖥️

I'm very excited to share that today is my last day working at UC Berkeley before I start my new position at @arcadiascience.com next week! It has been a pleasure working as a postdoc in so many amazing labs along side amazing scientists, and I can't wait to start this new chapter!

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at MSU starting Fall 2026! Please spread the word and reach out if you are interested and/or want to learn more!

Ryan, @rishidekayne.bsky.social et al. present six new chromosome-level genome assemblies for Poeciliidae, providing a foundation for studies on convergent evolution, repeat content, and demographic history. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17/6/evaf111/8169767 #genome #evolution

New Genome Assemblies for Poeciliidae: A Foundation for Adaptation Studies

Abstract. Multiple lineages in the family Poeciliidae have independently adapted to hydrogen-sulfide-rich springs. The independent colonizations of such sp

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Dynamics of a supergene. A study of the BC supergene in wing color morphs of the African monarch #butterfly by @rishidekayne.bsky.social &co reveals dynamic evolution of #supergene haplotypes, fueled by incomplete recombination suppression 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DiFhnL

Happy that this paper - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - was accepted at Mol Ecol Res and excited about the promise of this technology to measure pop sizes for such elusive species as snow leopards + learn about at least 1st-degree relationships + beyond? Congrats to Katie Solari and other authors!

Next-generation snow leopard population assessment tool: multiplex-PCR SNP panel for individual identification from feces

Snow leopards, Panthera uncia , are under threat from numerous pressures and are the focus of a great deal of conservation efforts. However, their elusive nature makes it difficult to estimate populat...

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Very excited to share our latest paper "Evolutionary Rate Shifts in Coding and Regulatory Regions Underpin Repeated Adaptation to Sulfidic Streams in Poeciliid Fishes" 🐟 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Evolutionary Rate Shifts in Coding and Regulatory Regions Underpin Repeated Adaptation to Sulfidic Streams in Poeciliid Fishes

Abstract. Adaptation to extreme environments often involves the evolution of dramatic physiological changes. To better understand how organisms evolve thes

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Thrilled to share a new lab pre-print from graduate student Tris Dodge! Tris & co elegantly uncover the genetic underpinnings and fitness consequences of a sexual mimicry polymorphism in Xiphophorus birchmanni: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Complex structural variation and behavioral interactions underpin a balanced sexual mimicry polymorphism

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Excited to share our review paper "Why Do Some Lineages Radiate While Others Do Not? Perspectives for Future Research on Adaptive Radiations" which is now online here: cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl... Check it out for all things adaptive radiation! 🐟🦎🌿🦋

Hi everyone! It's about time I introduced myself - I'm Rishi and I'm doing a Postdoc at UC Santa Cruz working on adaptation genomics in Poeciliid fishes and Danaus butterflies. I'm particularly the role(s) of structural variation in evolution! 🧬 🧪