#Evol2026 I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: jacob.berv@charlotte.edu More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.

Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here: mhibbins.github.io I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!

I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! Computational lab. Message me if interested, and can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32547

Blizzard outside, so I'll post about my first foray into fully agentic AI coding. I picked something I'd been wanting to do for a while, but had no experience with prior: a VSCode extension to view phylogenies in the editor. The result is PhyloLens. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

PhyloLens - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - View phylogenetic trees in VS Code (Newick, NEXUS, PhyloXML, NeXML).

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@cademirch.bsky.social @erikenbody.bsky.social TB Sackton & @russcd.bsky.social introduce Callable Loci And More (clam), a tool that leverages callable loci to accurately estimate population genetic statistics (π, dxy, and FST). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf282 #evobio #molbio #compbio

Efficient Estimation of Nucleotide Diversity and Divergence Using Callable Loci (and More)

Abstract. The increasing scale of population genomic datasets presents computational challenges in estimating summary statistics such as nucleotide diversi

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📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Recently I developed several Snakemake workflows for tasks related to Cactus and HAL files, including whole genome alignment and pangenome inference. The goal was to perform these tasks efficiently on SLURM-based (or possibly other) clusters. I hope they are useful! github.com/harvardinfor...

GitHub - harvardinformatics/cactus-snakemake: Snakemake workflows for performing whole genome alignment with Cactus efficiently on SLURM clusters

Snakemake workflows for performing whole genome alignment with Cactus efficiently on SLURM clusters - harvardinformatics/cactus-snakemake

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New paper led by @glom.bsky.social! "Unprecedented female female bias in the aye-aye, a highly unusual lemur from Madagascar" 1/ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

If you know anyone who might be interested in working as a technician before a PhD, I'm looking for someone to work with me to generate some amazing data to understand the genetics of behavior, sex differences, and reproduction in an evolutionary context. Bonus? Amazing and supportive department!

Our paper on the evolution of male reproduction in murine rodents was selected as the editor's choice article in the January issue of Evolution!

Evolution@journal-evo.bsky.social · 2y ago

This month's #EditorsChoice article: "Sperm competition intensity shapes divergence in both sperm morphology and reproductive genes across murine rodents" by Kopania et al. @ekopania.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3PoYFSE

A thorough look at what I think is an often overlooked problem in popgen and comparative genomics in general!

Jazlyn Mooney@jazlynmooney.bsky.social · 2y ago

First major paper from the lab! The work was led by super talented postdoc Maria Akopyan. She explored how reference bias skews estimates of diversity, demography, divergence & recombination rate with help from @elliecat.bsky.social & awesome ungrad Matthew. Full thread coming soon 🤓

Great to work with @ekopania.bsky.social, @jeffreygood.bsky.social, and everyone else on this project! I was happy to be able to present Emily's cool figure showing dN/dS of genes in different tissues and different time-points at Evolution a couple years ago:

Emily Kopania@ekopania.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our work on the evolution of male reproduction in murine rodents is out now in Evolution! “Sperm competition intensity shapes divergence in both sperm morphology and reproductive genes across murine rodents” doi.org/10.1093/evol... (1/4)

I'd like to see the alignments... xkcd.com/3010

Geometriphylogenetics

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oh hey I wrote a FAQ for this question www.molecularecologist.com/2024/08/13/f...

FAQ: Should I invent an acronym?

“Moveable type” (Flickr, David DeSandro) Q. I’m writing a research article, and the text frequently mentions the biological process that is the subject of the article. I’m a…

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Volker Rudolf@volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 2y ago

A message from a frustrated reader (& editor): For crying out loud, please don’t use acronyms! Just don’t. End of message.

For phun I made a "starter pack" for people involved in developing phylogenetic methods. If you feel you should not be involved, or feel I missed you (it is difficult!), please let me know. go.bsky.app/D7LsGUM 🧪

🚨🚨🚨Jobs at IU!🚨🚨🚨 Multiple positions in computational biology, broadly interpreted. Positions can be in multiple depts, including Biology, Informatics, and CS. Please apply--we want new colleagues! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/664327/m...

Multiple, Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Computing in Biology, Health, and Wellness - Bloomington, Indiana job with Indiana University Bloomington | 664327

Invite applications for multiple tenure /tenure-track positions at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor ranks

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I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info: mhibbins.github.io

For phylo nerds interested in concordance and discordance... Here's a tutorial that helps you calculate gene, site, and quartet concordance vectors for any branch on your tree. iqtree.org/doc/recipes/... (work with @3rdreviewer.bsky.social) #phylogenetics 🧪 #evolution

Adam Freedman gives a great overview of the pros and cons of current genome annotation pipelines. If you have RNAseq data, use BRAKER or Stringtie, if you have a high quality closely related annotation, TOGA performs very well. #Evol2024

New preprint with Rob Lanfear! "The meaning and measure of concordance factors in phylogenomics" ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...