We're turning the official semester Nunez lab photo into a tradition, and I'm absolutely here for it. Every semester it's a chance to see all the wonderful people doing science in my lab, both old and new. Feeling grateful for this amazing group and excited for what we'll accomplish together.

This is how you can compare groups in #tidyplots 🦊 #rstats #dataviz #phd

Sea star wasting disease has killed billions of sea stars along North America’s Pacific Coast since 2013. Our latest work helped identify a key bacterial culprit, Vibrio pectenicida! Press Release: www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news... Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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What a tiny coastal snail can tell us about a changing climate? See our latest paper! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... And the UVM Q&A: www.uvm.edu/cas/news/wha...

Geographic divergence in population genomics and shell morphology reveal history of glacial refugia in a coastal dogwhelk

Abstract. Studying contemporaneous spatial patterns of genomic diversity can yield important insights into the evolutionary processes that structure popula

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End of an era in the lab! Luke Proud was one of my first undergrads, and over 3 years we worked on multiple projects. He completed his thesis with Molly Stanley and me, then spent a year as a bioinformatician collaborating with @droseu.bsky.social. Proud to share he is off to a PhD at @upenn.edu!

HUGE kudos to SSE leadership for spearheading collective action against OMB's proposed rule. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🧪 Societies matter!! Support them with your engagement, conference attendance, and choice of journals. SSE members: please consider signing these letters! SSE non-members: please consider joining ☺️

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Member action is needed. Please read the email, review the proposed SSE response, and consider signing on before the June 15 deadline. **Importantly, submit your individualized comment to OMB by July 13!** Screenshots of the full message below. ⬇️

Save the date! The 17th DrosEU workshop will be held in České Budějovice on the 24th to 26th May 2027. Thanks to @janhreck.bsky.social for hosting us! #Drosophila #genomics

Day 1 of the #Drosophila #Suzukii Meeting kicks off today in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 (15–17 April 2026)! #DrosEU2026

🪰🧬 Day 2 at #DrosEU2026! Another inspiring day at #Genopolys in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 Great talks and lively discussions on #Drosophila cutting-edge #populationgenomics Looking forward to following up tomorrow #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference

🪰🧬 What a fantastic start! Yesterday kicked off #DrosEU2026 at #Genopolys in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 Exciting discussions on #Drosophila research, #genomics, #evolution, and #CitizenScience.

Seasonal job available in Burlington, VT in invasive pest ecologcal genomics! The successful candidate will work with myself and @jcbnunez.bsky.social on seasonal adaptation in Drosophila susukii. #popGen #evolution #genomics 🧪🧬🖥️ Apply by April 7: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

New UVM research published in PNAS shows that life stages evolve differently in response to changes in the environment, challenging a long-standing belief that genes guiding embryonic development don’t readily evolve in response to environmental pressures. For more: https://go.uvm.edu/xw7v0

New Study Reveals Climate Adaptation Begins Early | College of Arts and Sciences | The University of Vermont

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New paper out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. We identify regulatory variants shaping embryonic heat tolerance in Drosophila, linking lab selection to clinal and seasonal patterns in wild populations. Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We’re hiring a Planetary Health Postdoc at UVM! Join the Lauterbur, Nunez & Pespeni labs in the Department of Biology for an interdisciplinary fellowship exploring evolutionary & ecological infectious disease dynamics. 📅 Start: Flexible (May–Sept 2026) 🔗 Details: www.jcbnunez.org/planetaryhea...

NEW DEADLINE - Global Evolutionary Biology Initiative 📣 🌍MARCH 1st 2026🌍 GEBI provides financial, organisational & strategic support to foster growth of local evolutionary biology communities in various parts of the world. eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

My first @umasschan.bsky.social/@impvienna.bsky.social affiliated paper is up! tomtom-lite is a re-implementation of tomtom targeting the ML age of genomics. Fast annotations ("what is this motif?") and simple large-scale discovery of motifs. Check it out! academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Tomtom-lite: accelerating Tomtom enables large-scale and real-time motif similarity scoring

AbstractSummary. Pairwise sequence similarity is a core operation in genomic analysis, yet most attention has been given to sequences made up of discrete c

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Jacob Schreiber@jmschreiber91.bsky.social · last yr.

Last week I shared a preprint on tomtom-lite, a super fast re-implementation of Tomtom for annotating short genomic spans with the motifs they most resemble. Now, there's a convenient command line tool `ttl` that comes with the installation. You can get it with `pip instal memelite`

We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)

Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can stabilize large-effect polymorphisms in nature. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beneficial reversal of dominance maintains a large-effect resistance polymorphism under fluctuating insecticide selection - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can s...

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Genome assembly is a software+data problem, and since the latest version of hifiasm, the best data is Oxford @nanopore data. github.com/chhylp123/hi...

Which assembly should be chosed `hifiasm HiFi+HiC+ONT->Cphasing Pore-C` or `hifiasm ONT` · Issue #874 · chhylp123/hifiasm

Hi, I used two assemble strategy, first version is hifiasm with HiFi+HiC+ONT data, then Cphasing scaffold with Pore-C data, second version is hifiasm with ONT data. However, first version genome ha...

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Pretty amazing observation in nature rdcu.be/eEebw

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants

Nature - In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from...

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Exciting to see Sara Helms Cahan quoted in Science, offering her perspective on the awesome reproductive strategies of Iberian harvester ants! www.science.org/content/arti...

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species

Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

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Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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I'm no Cassandra, but I've been exploring this alternative to GS if the Sentient AI Overlords pull the plug on GS. It's this and it is, currently, terrible: openalex.org

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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

@jcbnunez.bsky.social et al. present an expanded release of the community-generated resource Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST 2.0), and showcase it by studying the species' demographic history and signatures of adaptation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf132 #evobio #molbio #drosophila

An immense effort with contributions from many authors: @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social @geneticament.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @mgda76.bsky.social @rawwiberg.bsky.social @juliabeets.bsky.social @paucarazo.bsky.social ...and many others... ⬇️ Please tag yourself or other authors below

doi.org/10.1093/molb... Thrilled to share our new paper in MBE! 🎉 Presenting DEST 2.0: 530 pooled Drosophila populations spanning 12 years across 6 continents. We map genomic footprints of adaptation, from pesticide resistance to seasonal changes. #PopulationGenetics #Drosophila #Genomics #Evolution

Footprints of Worldwide Adaptation in Structured Populations of Drosophila melanogaster Through the Expanded DEST 2.0 Genomic Resource

Abstract. Large-scale genomic resources can place genetic variation into an ecologically informed context. To advance our understanding of the population g

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Summer research hits different in Vermont. Lucky to spend the season doing cool science with even cooler people. ☀️✨

🎉 Excited to learn that our paper “A cosmopolitan inversion facilitates seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila” is among the most cited recent papers in GENETICS! ☀️❄️ In(2L)t is a key player in seasonal adaptive tracking in fruit flies. academic.oup.com/genetics/art... #Evolution #Genetics

A cosmopolitan inversion facilitates seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila

Abstract. Fluctuations in the strength and direction of natural selection through time are a ubiquitous feature of life on Earth. One evolutionary outcome

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🚨 There is still time to submit a poster for our upcoming Gordon Research Seminar in Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics: Elucidating the Evolutionary Dynamics of Adaptation in Fluctuating Environments! 🧬 Apply now 👉 www.grc.org/ecological-a...

Some happy news to share: today we celebrate the inaugural class of the Nunez Lab at UVM! :)