Hey #Botany2026 check out Stone Lab PhD student Sara Wuerstl’s talk this morning in the Reproductive Processes section! 9:15 Tucson C-D

Just posted: a group paper describing major updates to my software pixy, for population genetic summary statistics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... New since 2021: arbitrary ploidy, multiallelic sites, missingness-aware Watterson's θ and Tajima's D, Hudson's FST, multicore execution!

Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!

Headed to #SMBE2026? Come chat with me about an open postdoc/programmer position in my lab! See y’all in Copenhagen!

Hey #Evol2026 - while I am not in Cleveland this year (hope to be in San Juan next year!), I would love to connect with folks who might be interested in this open position in my lab. DM me for deets!

Dr. Arun Sethuraman@arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Headed to #PEQG26 next week? The Sethuraman Lab will be presenting a buncha recent work! Come find us at both poster sessions, and DM/message me if you'd like to chat about the open postdoc position in my lab.

From the #AppsPlantSci Phylogenetic Networks issue Detecting introgression from phylogenetic invariant site patterns using #MachineLearning (by @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social & @daeaton.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1002/aps3... #botany #plantscience #evolution #neuralnetwork #phylogenetics

Bummed to miss #Evol2026. For all those students looking for a position, we're recruiting MS students (polyploid genomics) and a PostDoc (conservation genomics) for next year. Shoot me an email!

I am not at #Evol2026, but @conjustover.bsky.social is! Go check out his talk on collaborative work we have been doing with John Wakeley on simulating autotetraploids tomorrow at 4:15pm.

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A k-mer-based genome-wide association study approach empowering gene mining in polyploids - Nature Genetics

KMERIA, a k-mer-based genome-wide association study approach, specifically designed for polyploids, enhances statistical power and efficiency in agronomic variant discovery when applied to high-ploidy...

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Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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...

Andy Kern, who doesn't (really) have an account here, would like to share his group's new tool for speeding up pop gen summary stat calculations using GPUs. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... And see his thread over at the other place: x.com/pastramimach...

LINGUINE: a phylogeny-aware, orthogroup-based framework for robust ancestral linkage group inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727789v1

This semester I developed and taught a course on applied population genomics. Lab activities proceed from the basics of the command line and Git to variant calling with workflow managers and a suite of downstream analyses (e.g., ADMIXTURE). All materials can be found here: elinck.org/genomics_eco...

That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants

Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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!

Very proud to share our new work on General, orders-of-magnitude faster whole-genome analysis with genotype representation graphs (GRG). We topped ourselves in this one 🚀 and made GRG a practical foundation for biobank-scale population and statistical genetics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Genomic sampling and population structure of farmer-maintained varieties reveal previously uncharacterized diversity of Theobroma cacao L. in Costa Rica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.30.715340v1

Spun off a lightweight python package “pedigraph-sim” for simulating meiosis on arbitrary pedigrees. It tracks how crossing over produces segments of local ancestry and contains convenience functions like exporting the tree sequence to tskit for analysis: github.com/pmckenz1/ped...

GitHub - pmckenz1/pedigraph-sim: Combining explicit pedigrees with crossover simulations with ARG tracking.

Combining explicit pedigrees with crossover simulations with ARG tracking. - pmckenz1/pedigraph-sim

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Was pointed to these Rust learning resources recently and have really enjoyed skimming through them. The 'Rust for Python Programmers' has been particularly good for connecting concepts between the two languages github.com/microsoft/Ru...

GitHub - microsoft/RustTraining: Beginner, advanced, expert level Rust training material

Beginner, advanced, expert level Rust training material - microsoft/RustTraining

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The Genomic Legacy of Ancient Polyploidy in Crop Domestication https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.09.710542v1

Trait evolution with incomplete lineage sorting and gene flow: the Gaussian Coalescent model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.10.710880v1

Using Variable Window Sizes for Phylogenomic Analyses of Whole Genome Alignments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709403v1

Simulating the pathway from life history to phylogeny 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Kieran Althaus & Andrew Hipp on this article by Smith et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue @mortonarboretum.bsky.social #PlantScience

From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci special issue "Branching out: Resolving #PlantEvolution through #Phylogenetic Networks" Introducing ghostbuster: a new tool to detect cryptic ghost lineage introgression in genomic datasets (by Forsythe et al) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany

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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En route to San Diego for #PAG33 with several of my Bayer Crop Science colleagues. I'm excited to see what the genomics community has cooked up over the last year. Don't miss the Bayer-sponsored session on Monday! We have a great lineup of internal and external speakers

SNaQ.jl: Improved Scalability for Phylogenetic Network Inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688917v1

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖