I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!

I discovered something interesting while on vacation in Toledo, Spain. Book title: "Hispanic Jewish surnames" (or Sephardic, for context). Some time ago, I stumbled upon some 'Ashkenazi' ancestry at my 23&Me results. I wondered how represented Sephardics are in that sample.

Researchers at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark have conducted multiple landmark, population-wide studies tracking hundreds of thousands to over 1.2 million children using national health registries to examine potential links between vaccines and autism. Every major study found no connection.

Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions

A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...

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For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]

Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)

A mouse that lives higher than any other mammal has evolved unexpected adaptations that allow it to thrive from sea level to Andean summits, researchers report in a new Science study. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4bzjqWY

Adaptation across an extreme elevational gradient in Andean leaf-eared mice, the world’s highest-dwelling mammal

Andean leaf-eared mice (Phyllotis vaccarum) live at the highest elevations of any mammal, and they also have the broadest elevational range, from sea level to mountain summits of >6700 meters. Highlan...

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Awesome work led by Serena Tucci showing how ong-­ term isolation and archaic introgression shape functional genetic variation in Near Oceania @science.org 🧪🧬💀 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Long-term isolation and archaic introgression shape functional genetic variation in Near Oceania

Near Oceanic populations harbor substantial cultural, phenotypic, and genetic diversity yet are drastically underrepresented in human genomics. We generated 177 high-coverage Near Oceanian whole genom...

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Just in time for #SMBE2026! Here's DEEP for detecting ghost/superarchaic introgression: scalable, robust, and no ARG! We find ~0.5% genome with superarchaic ancestry in East Asians and Oceanians, plus a notable signal at HLA Come find our poster tonight (#241)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Scalable ARG-free Detection of Denisovan-mediated Superarchaic Introgression Reveals Heterogeneous Patterns across Populations

Ghost introgression from unsampled hominin lineages has emerged as an increasingly important component of human evolutionary history. Recent studies suggest that deeply divergent hominin lineages may ...

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We are very excited to share our latest. We thought that soft sweeps would be the only type of sweep spreading across human gut microbiomes. Turns out many are hard! Reach @peterlaurin.bsky.social 's thread on why! And tomorrow at #SMBE2026 I will share this work and more!

Peter Laurin@peterlaurin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Super excited to share new work with my advisor @nanditagarud.bsky.social! We re-examine the rapidity of adaptation in the human gut microbiome and begin to characterize the adaptive architecture of selective sweeps spreading across human guts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10... 1/n:

Just one more talk, please? ☝️ #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen concludes. It's been an amazing week - with the largest ever attendance at an SMBE meeting! #society

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Tahir Ali@tahirali-biomics.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SMBE 2026 — A wake‑up call Genetic diversity is collapsing, and global policy is still treating it as optional. Spp have already lost >10% of their genetic variation — the very engine of adaptation & survival. Scientists are raising the alarm. 🔗 genetic-diversity-scientists-warning.github.io

Easily my fav lecture this year at #SMBE2026. See y’all next year!

Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB)@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Had a great time in the plenary! Here a partial view from the stage when the room did a live voting on understanding genetic diversity! #smbe2026

Wanna learn about the impact of the Transatlantic slave trade in Europe? Have you ever heard about Afro-Europeans? Come over to my poster (S314) at Arkaden 6 between 18-20.00 today! #SMBE2026

And so it begins! #SMBE2026

First taste at #SMBE2026: joining the intriguing GHIST2026 challenge as a participant. We have 6 months to see who will be the best at detecting selective sweeps, demographic changes and infer relatedness patterns. Let the Hunger Games begin.

Nuevo proyecto de podcasts: #DivulgaQueAlgoQueda #DQAQ. Arrancamos con el enorme @carlossarabia.bsky.social analizando al detalle la #Ciencia de la maravillosa #JurassicPark. #CienciaÑ 🧪 Aquí en YouTube: youtu.be/iSVZALTNE-Y Aquí en Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3fl7...

LA CIENCIA DE JURASSIC PARK | Carlos Sarabia

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Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. issue on negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS) is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... So excited to read the articles in here!

Volume 381 Issue 1952 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

A paper that passed largely unnoticed, like carnivores in a "inhospitable" desert: Trophic niche partitioning in a carnivore community of a hyper-arid environment, the Sahara Desert Let me tell you what it's about. (1/6) doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

I am excited and proud to introduce to you PSMC-FAC (FNR-Automatized Correction) — a mathematical method designed to optimize the calculation of False Negative Rates in low-coverage curves. Let me break it down briefly:

Bioconductor 3.23 is released! Thanks to the core team for all the hard work that goes into a release, and to the package reviewers. The lab has a bunch of updates in here that I'll post in 🧵 over the next few days:

Bioconductor@bioconductor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚀 We’re excited to share the release of Bioconductor 3.23, featuring: ✅2418 software packages (94 new) ✅437 experiment data packages (5 new) ✅928 annotation packages ✅8 books (2 new) ✅28 workflows 🔗 Please see the full release announcement here: bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_...

Thrilled to announce 2 major changes in my academic career: 1. I got a postdoc grant (Beatriu de Pinos) to fund 3 years of research! Focused on African ancestry in Europeans, but still collaborating with conservation genetics. 2.A JAE-Intro CSIC grant to fund a MSc student for 6 months! More soon!

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program

Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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(me traigo, actualizado, este hilo, larguito, del otro lado) ¿Cuántos animales matan los gatos en España cada año? No es un cálculo fácil, pero ahí va un intento: al menos 200 MILLONES Abajo explico un intento de poner en pie la cuenta @ebdonana.bsky.social

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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

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New publication out! What does explain trophic specialization in carnivores around the world? 231 reviewed papers, 14 regression models, 661 pairwise trophic comparisons, 22 ecoregions in 10 biomes, nearly 30 GLMMs and 3 years later we know it. 1) nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Trophic niche overlap decreases in related mesocarnivore species

In natural environments, competition between species is a crucial factor for the survival or demise of populations. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms that promote species coexistence is crucial...

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Full success at #eseb2025! Almost non-stop flow of researchers coming to the poster, with insightful and intriguing comments and questions about our work on European wolf demography at #UAB-IBB. Honored to have been part of this.

Let's talk about an (ongoing) research on European wolves. How will climate change affect them? How can we reduce the human impact on them? The best way to see this is looking at their (demographic) history. Come by P02.083 today between 17.00-19.00 to talk! #ESEB2025