I’m also recruiting a postdoc to work on an NSF-funded project focused on using machine learning for population genetic inference. Would love to talk to anyone who is interested! (Official ad to come soon).

Megan Smith@snaildit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The lab is en route to #Evol2026! We’ve got several talks:

Looking for a postdoc opportunity in evolutionary genetics? Join the Wolf Lab at LMU Munich. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

We are recruiting several Early Career Research Group Leaders for Machine Learning in Science (m/f/d; E14 TV-L, 100%) in Tübingen! Open to researchers directly after their PhD or with postdoctoral experience. Application deadline: July 15, 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2

We are actively searching for a postdoc to join the lab! Details provided here - johrilab.org/join Please share. I will be at PEQG and will be happy to chat if you're interested!

The video recordings of the legend 2025 conference held last December on machine learning for evolutionary genomics are now online ! Feel free to have a look if you missed the conference. www.canal-u.tv/chaines/lisn...

I’m looking to hire one or two postdocs - possible projects include pop gen theory, methods development, and human evolutionary inference. Please share, and email if you are interested. More info: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

The heterogeneous selection landscape of genome evolution in prokaryotes | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2605871123

The heterogeneous selection landscape of genome evolution in prokaryotes | PNAS

Evolution of prokaryote genomes appears to be defined by the interplay of selection for genome streamlining, deletion bias, and selection for funct...

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Popgen folks, Jiseon, Nate, and Andy, along with Yuxin Ning and Franz Baumdicker, just released a really cool new method for simulation based inference (think ABC) using normalizing flows. It seems to work really well! full joint posteriors ftw! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Neural posterior estimation for population genetics

Simulation-based inference methods are increasingly being used in population genetics due to their flexibility and ability to be applied in settings where likelihood-based methods are intractable. Per...

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Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Work from my amazing undergrad @leyan-wang.bsky.social is just preprinted! TL;DR: If you worry that ARG methods might fail on unphased data due to phasing errors, you may not need to. Check it out & consider reposting to support a great young scientist!

Leyan Wang@leyan-wang.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are excited to share our recent work on the surprising robustness of Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG) inference tools to computational phasing errors, now available on BioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... This work is co-advised by @yundeng.bsky.social and Rasmus Nielsen. 1/7

After years of working on SBI methods and the sbi toolbox, we finally wrote the practical guide we wished had existed when we started. Grateful to have collaborated with researchers across many institutions to consolidate what we've learned about making these methods work in practice!

Machine Learning in Science@mackelab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Simulation-based inference (SBI) has transformed parameter inference across a wide range of domains. To help practitioners get started and make the most of these methods, we joined forces with researchers from many institutions and wrote a practical guide to SBI. 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.12939

Our latest paper is out with @adiop.bsky.social and @gmdouglas.bsky.social. We analyzed the extent of homologous recombination between bacterial species (introgression) and how it affects species borders (it can vary a lot depending on the approach used to classify species!). rdcu.be/eQAMf

Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy

Nature Communications - It is commonly thought that bacterial species borders tend to be fuzzy, due to frequent exchange of DNA. Here, Diop et al. quantify the patterns of gene flow between core...

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the millions of viral genomes coming in overwhelmed traditional methods for data analysis. Find out how SPRTA, a new tool, provides a fast, scalable way to measure confidence of phylogenetic trees, helping scientists track outbreaks. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

SPRTA: a smarter way to measure evolution uncertainty

A new method from EMBL-EBI and collaborators offers fast, easy-to-interpret confidence scores for phylogenetic trees for pandemic preparedness.

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Many are painfully aware that the environment within which we function -- as scientists -- needs fixing. We've come up with a proposal for academic renewal. It's not perfect, but its a start. Input, comments, suggestions are welcome. Making a difference matters 👇 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social! Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics #pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

Only a few hours left to submit your abstract for a talk at the Machine Learning in Evolutionary Genomics conference in December in Aussois in the French alps!

Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so @yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958 1/6

tskit_arg_visualizer: interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs

Summary: Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) are a complete representation of the genetic relationships between recombining lineages and are of central importance in population genetics. Recent brea...

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The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Bioinformatician - Uppsala University

Bioinformatician, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

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1/6 Excited to share our review 🚀 🧬 CRISPR–Cas therapies targeting bacteria! #MicroSky

Nature Reviews Bioengineering@natrevbioeng.nature.com · last yr.

ICYMI: CRISPR–Cas therapies targeting bacteria

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)

Abstract deadline for @eseb2025.bsky.social extended to 5 May! Still time to submit your abstract for the evolution of microbial pangenomes ⬇️

Franz Baumdicker@fbaumdicker.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are interested in microbial #pangenomes, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social in Barcelona with @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social and @annadewar.bsky.social Only two days left to submit your abstract! eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

If you are interested in microbial #pangenomes, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social in Barcelona with @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social and @annadewar.bsky.social Only two days left to submit your abstract! eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

Join our symposium The evolution of microbial pangenomes at @eseb2025.bsky.social with @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social and @annadewar.bsky.social (co-organized with @fbaumdicker.bsky.social and Jaime Iranzo) eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

stdpopsim v0.3.0 is out! You can now mix and match your simulations of different demographic histories with published distributions of fitness effects along with gene annotations, and you can even throw in sweeps for good measure. Check out the new manuscript for more info: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Accessible, realistic genome simulation with selection using stdpopsim

Selection is a fundamental evolutionary force that shapes patterns of genetic variation across species. However, simulations incorporating realistic selection along heterogeneous genomes in complex de...

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Using genomics to explore the ecology and evolution of plant-associated microbial populations and communities? 🌿 Submit an abstract by March 11 and join us in Cologne this July for #ISMPMI2025! We serve cool science + cold German beer 🍻 Join the party: buff.ly/uqEfN6O

Save the date for the second conference on Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data!

Alexis Stamatakis@stamatak.bsky.social · last yr.

The next edition of our LEGEND conference on Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data will take place in Aussois (French Alps) from Dec 8-12 2025. All practical information and a list of our keynote speakers are available at: legend2025.sciencesconf.org We hope to meet you there again!

In unserer neuen "Thesencheck" Episode diskutiert Politikwissenschaftlerin Dr. Melanie Nagel 11 populäre Thesen zur Klimapolitik.💦🌞🌬️💻 youtu.be/xcjqTgDsfC0 Damit ist sie die 5. Tübinger Forscherin, die im "Thesencheck" in der Öffentlichkeit herumwabernde Aussagen mit ihrer Expertise betrachtet.🔍👩‍🔬

Thesencheck - Über diese 11 Behauptungen zur Klimapolitik lässt sich streiten

YouTube video by Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

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