A great opportunity to help shape the publishing landscape and make high-quality systematics research more visible!

The Society of Systematic Biologists@systbiol.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Society of Systematic Biologists is looking for a new editor for the Bulletin! The Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists is the Society’s diamond OA journal. Are you interested? Or know someone who might be? See 👇 www.systbio.org/eicbssb.htm

The Society of Systematic Biologists is looking for a new editor for the Bulletin! The Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists is the Society’s diamond OA journal. Are you interested? Or know someone who might be? See 👇 www.systbio.org/eicbssb.htm

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

#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.

I’m also recruiting a postdoc to work on an NSF-funded project focused on using machine learning for population genetic inference. Would love to talk to anyone who is interested! (Official ad to come soon).

Megan Smith@snaildit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The lab is en route to #Evol2026! We’ve got several talks:

I’m here at #evol2026, as is a sizable chunk of Systematic Biology’s editorial board (academic.oup.com/sysbio/pages...). Early career folks: Please feel free to grab us to talk about publishing in the journal. We are here to help!

I’m also recruiting a postdoc to work on an NSF-funded project focused on using machine learning for population genetic inference. Would love to talk to anyone who is interested! (Official ad to come soon).

Megan Smith@snaildit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The lab is en route to #Evol2026! We’ve got several talks:

The lab is en route to #Evol2026! We’ve got several talks:

Looking for suggestions for outsourcing size selection on a Blue Pippin along with Illumina sequencing at a good price. I've previously used Novogene for sequencing, but they don't provide any size selection services.

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io

Had a blast illustrating some slugs for the lab while I was away on break :-) From left to right: Blue-grey Taildropper (Prophysaon coeruleum) Carolina Mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus) Red slug (Arion rufus) Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)

Preprint with postdoc @kerrycobb.bsky.social! When processes (e.g., ghost introgression) are omitted from training data, machine learning approaches are error-prone. Domain adaptation allows accurate inferences of introgression in the presence of unmodeled processes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kerry Cobb@kerrycobb.bsky.social · 2y ago

New preprint from myself and @snaildit.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... We looked at how domain adaptation can overcome errors caused by model violations when using neural networks to test for introgression between two populations. (1/7)

Grad student @ashsilliman.bsky.social bringing some cool new slug MicroCT scanning to the lab!

ash silliman@ashsilliman.bsky.social · 2y ago

New title unlocked: slug radiologist (MicroCT scan on slug!)

New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social❗ You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction! This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

End of semester 'favorite animal' word cloud from my animal diversity class. Not strange at all how many of them love snails and slugs.

ONE new preprint (led by Sarthak Mishra and @snaildit.bsky.social ), TWO new programs (reconcILS and dupcoal). Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New from @snaildit.bsky.social and me. We find that popular methods for detecting introgression between sister species (fastsimcoal2, dadi, BPP) all have high false positive rates in biologically realistic settings. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New review paper led by Yu Mo (not on Bluesky yet) and Megan Smith (@snaildit.bsky.social): Applications of machine learning in phylogenetics ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Re-upping this, as we start to review applications in 10 days!

Matthew Hahn@3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 3y ago

New postdoc position available! Evolution of mutation rates! 🚨🚨🚨 Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly. (RTs [or whatevs] appreciated) https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/19856