I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508

I’m keen to share this preprint. There is growing evidence that associative overdominance leads to the maintenance heterozygosity and we wondered how this would affect variance for traits under stabilizing selection: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Maintenance of quantitative genetic variation in regions of restricted recombination via associative overdominance

Mutation-selection balance is the most plausible general mechanism for the maintenance of additive genetic variance (VA) for quantitative traits in natural populations. It is well established that the...

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This seems like a very promising approach for GEA analysis. Giving quite big boosts to performance over the WZA (I still prefer Wu Tang to Talking Heads though)

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

This must be the place: deep learning local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.16.752190v1

If you are interested in applied conservation and management genomics of marine critters and would like to apply for a Liber Ero fellowship this fall get in touch to discuss potential projects with me (Fisheries and Oceans) and Greg Owens (UVic). @gregowens.bsky.social

@libererofellows.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are now accepting applications for the Liber Ero Fellowship Program! The program supports post-doctoral fellows who address pressing conservation challenges of relevance to Canada. Application deadline is November 1, 2026. See liberero.ca for more details.

This is a great opportunity - go work with Sam!!

Sam Yeaman@samyeaman.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

New review from me and @stepheniwright.bsky.social! We argue the time is ripe for a phylogenomic approach to the study of plant sex chromosomes: doi.org/10.32942/X2S...

Very cool pair of papers demonstrating little link between amount of additive genetic variation and amount of nucleotide variation within species: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Levels of additive genetic variation vary substantially between species

Adaptive potential determines how populations respond to environmental change. This study compiles evolvability estimates from over 170 multicellular species, revealing substantial variation across th...

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Alright guys! See the match?

Shout out to Amy Angert for her wisdom and collaboration, and thank you to NSERC, @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social and @asn-amnat.bsky.social Graduate Student Research Awards for your support in setting up a new experimental system using duckweeds! 🦆🌱

Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

Dan Schrider@samurscicop.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

Very proud to be part of the "Tree Evolution Colloquium" at the Cumberland Lodge in Great Windsor Park, England. For three days, we discussed whether evolutionary rates in trees are underestimated or not.

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Kathryn Paige Harden's new book, an attempt to popularize the eugenics of criminality. I read it as a gambit to build liberal support for the project animating far right politics today, inspired by Replacement theory.

Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"The book reads like an 'Eat Pray Love' of biotech grifting, designed to make her into a public figure based on her personal journey." Jonathan Basile reviews Kathryn Paige Harden’s “Original Sin.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/original-sin-eugenics-scientific-calvinism-kathryn-paige-harden/

I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️

SING Canada application are now open! Please share with Indigenous students and community members interested in the science and politics of genomics 🧬 All expenses paid. Details on this year’s theme will follow in a few weeks. @singcanada.bsky.social

Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics SING Canada@singcanada.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Applications are open! Indigenous undergraduate & graduate students, postdocs, and community fellows can now apply for SING Canada 2026, an all‑expenses‑paid genomics and Indigenous bioethics workshop. Visit sing-canada.ca for more information and the application link!

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

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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Check out this preprint. Tianlin Duan led this project during her postdoc with me and Mike Whitlock. It’s got a lot of stuff in it for those who are interested in the genomics of adaptation

bioRxiv Genetics@biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The genetic architecture of local adaptation is historically contingent https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.01.703099v1

I strongly suggest this read on the topic and LLM antropomorphism: The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻

Katie Abson@katieabson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration

This program is great, and has a terrific track record of helping prepare folks for tenure track positions. If you are interested in applying to be hosted in my group, feel free to drop me a line!

Judith Mank@judithmank.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

🚨CSEE 2026: Call for Symposium & Workshop Proposals! Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program! 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM 📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026 Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.

2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

Fourwaves - 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Check out this short piece on the genomics of local adaptation. Abi Brown (not on Bluesky) and I wrote it with @samyeaman.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Any input you say have would be welcomed!

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues