If only I wee a candle in the dark.

Glad to share my work on phylogenetic inference for wee, tiny organisms (or highly diverse): the infered topologies seem largely unaffected by unaccounted recurrent mutations, but branch lengths, and mutation-selection usage biases, are significantly impacted. #eseb #eseb2025

@janekay27.bsky.social presenting her work on merging time scales of evolution to infer adaptive evolution. Great talk! #eseb #fwf

This might sound naive, but I once genuinely believed that the European Union stood firmly for freedom, the rule of law, and human rights.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last yr.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

I love engaging in outreach activities with math-enthusiastic students, and I always take the opportunity to introduce them to stochastic processes. One process I particularly enjoy teaching is the Gambler’s Ruin. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #standrews #smmb #statistics #maths

Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!

Are university lectures on the way out? It seems to me we have to rethink what their purpose is, if any. Because an increasing number of students seem to place relatively little value on them, at least as a real-time experience. www.varsity.co.uk/comment/29679

Lectures are optional so give us the recordings

Katie Nicholson argues that faculties must make some changes if they expect students to attend lectures regularly

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New study from the Lab! Jinyang Liang assesses the possibility of inferring ancestral alleles (aka allele polarization) without outgroup sequence, using the ancestral recombination graph (ARG) alone. Here are some of our findings. (1/5)

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 2y ago

Polarizing SNPs without outgroup https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.31.635919v1

Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!

Glad to see this out today in MEE! The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #popgen #populationgenetics #evolution #bacteriagenomics #bacteria #microsky #statsstandrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes

Mutations are fundamental for evolution, and their mathematical modelling in population genetics heavily relies on our perception of their frequency and the timescale over which they occur. A comm...

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Glad to present my work on the implications of different mutation models in #popgen and #phylo inference at #PopGroup58 in Sheffield (even tried my hand at cèilidh dancing). Kudos to the organizers for this excellent meeting! #statsstandrews

Genome Biology and Evolution is excited to now be on Bluesky. Please help us by recommending accounts and feeds for us to follow!

Super proud of @janekay27.bsky.social for receiving an OEAW grant to continue their PhD work on codon evolution for another two years 🥳 It was a pity I couldn't be there in person for the award ceremony, but @bio-diogo.bsky.social did a fantastic job stepping in and capturing some great photos:

Update on our latest research featured in PNAS! 🐴 ✨ We used Y chromosome to explain the legacy of Oriental horses, embedded in a 1,500-year-old Crown lineage 👑 spread across continents and centuries! 🌍 Check it out 😊

The global spread of Oriental Horses in the past 1,500 years through the lens of the Y chromosome | PNAS

Since their domestication, horses have accompanied mankind, and humans have constantly shaped horses according to their needs through stallion-cent...

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A problem for a stormy, rainy day: #maths #mathproblems #OPM

Scientists, when do we start lobbying for #Bluesky to implement native LaTeX support? #science #physics #mathematics 🧪⚛️

go.bsky.app/NiaWN5i I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

1/9 I’ve seen many posts here asking whether Bluesky is an echo chamber. I don’t think so, and I’d argue that the very fact we’re questioning it is already an indication that it’s not. I’d like to bring up Nguyen’s paper on the differences between epistemic bubbles and echo chambers:

I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!

In my free time, I love solving math competition problems that don’t require extensive prior knowledge. They're mostly based on intuition and are super fun to tackle! Here's one from the Portuguese Mathematical Olympiad -- can you guess the answer? #maths #mathproblems

Hi Bluesky! New here and excited to connect with others, especially fellow scientists! I'm a lecturer in Statistics at the University of St Andrews and my research involves merging mathematical models with statistical methods to tackle evolutionary questions.