Get excited :) PhyloSpec is coming! A shared standard + modelling language for phylogenetic models. Write a model once, run it across engines like BEAST X, BEAST 2.8 & RevBayes. Easy and reproducible. Built by @tochsner.bsky.social & collaborators (ETH Zürich, Auckland, LMU). phylospec.com

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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very happy to have this work published in mbe @molbioevol.bsky.social can now use phyloHessian to get a (hopefully) improved div time & subs rate estimate, particularly for deep-time or fast‑evolving lineages github.com/evolbeginner... #julialang #iqtree #mcmctree #molecularclock

GitHub - evolbeginner/phyloHessianWrapper

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Molecular Biology and Evolution@molbioevol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@sishuowang.bsky.social & Meade introduce phyloHessian, using complex mixture substitution models in molecular dating. Empirical analysis of ancient symbiont lineages leads to a revised understanding of their host association origins. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag039 #evobio #molbio #compbio

Frustrated that MCMCtree does not have complex substitution models? The IQ-tree team has now developed IQ2MC, an interface for seamless integration of IQ-tree's substitution models with MCMCtree's fast Bayesian pipeline for clock dating. Read the preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Happy to share that my PhD paper published in Systematic Biology. My paper explores the #Asymptotictheory of Bayesian rate model selection and explore how misspecified calibrations can affect this. Also test rate model selection with large #Phylogenomes Link below: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates

Abstract. In Bayesian molecular-clock dating of species divergences, rate models are used to construct the prior on the molecular evolutionary rates for br

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More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers https://go.nature.com/3Ej9RxA

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals

Nature - Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.

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A reminder that we have two open PhD projects on Bayesian phylogenetics in the lab: One with the new TREE Doctoral Landscape Awards: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int... (deadline 20th Jan) And another with CSC: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (deadline 29th Jan)