New preprint led by Hrushikesh Loya, me, and Simon Myers where we introduce GhostBuster! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The idea is to find all the different ways a target individual relates to reference groups in genealogies, to "bust the ghosts" in our ancestry.
A really nice description of Roger Butlin's contribution to speciation biology in JEB by @ruimmfaria.bsky.social and colleagues. Roger is one of the good ones!
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Genome-wide genealogies reveal deep admixtures forming modern humans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Thanks to the reviewers and to the editor @klohmueller.bsky.social for their constructive feedback. Kirk in particular pushed us to sweat the details when we were flagging, and we really appreciate his and the reviewer's detailed guidance. Highly recommend publishing in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
We find that hitchhiking mutation load patterns are complex and do not conform to simple model predictions, despite some widespread patterns shared among populations.
Complex Patterns of Hitchhiking Mutation Load Among Stickleback Populations. New paper led by Jana Nickel out in GBE @genomebiolevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Happy to see this one out!
Not only for the science, but because it was the first project we led as a group.
This paper helped us establish a collaborative culture and good relationships, shaping how we want to work together in the future.
I feel lucky to work with this bunch!
#popgen #consgen
Looking forward to kicking off the seminar series of our special topic network on structural variants #SV in evolutionary biology. @eseb.bsky.social
Join us in listening to Pr. Rieseberg on April 29
A great end to the week: One week after submitting his PhD thesis, Jan Laine found out he has been awarded the SSE Presidents' Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper for his work on ancient stickleback genomes doi.org/10.1093/evol...
New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New postdoctoral position adverstised in ancient sedimentary DNA and palaeoecology: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.
Hello BlueSky 🌞 my group has a large project growing arms and legs, and we've decided to graduate from post-its to a project management software (kanban or similar).
Any recommendations from academics? Ideally with clear project roles, a task tracker, and as lo-fi as possible!
@ UiO masters students:
Applications are now open for the field course “Use of Environmental DNA to Assess Marine Fishery and Fish-farm Health,” which will be taught in Brazil. www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours...
Contact: @micahdunthorn.bsky.social if you have any questions.
Recently we're working with SNPs from whole genome assemblies to estimate ARGs. It's a pain to go from alignment files to vcf, keeping track of masked and invariant sites. So we wrote a snakemake/SLURM pipeline. Hope it's useful to others, and don't hesitate to post issues if there are problems!
David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An advertisement for a PhD position studying "Revealing the mechanistic basis of defence peptide antibacterial specificity." It shows fruit flies infected by green-fluorescent protein expressing bacteria, and describes the project and way to apply.
Very excited to be advertising this project with the excellent cosupervision of Peter Mergaert through @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social and @uniexecec.bsky.social.
This position is open to international applicants and will involve stints in both Penryn UK and Paris France. Please share!
Apply: adum.fr
Join the ESEB STN online seminar on March 3 at 5pm CET featuring early career researchers discussing speciation. Q&A with Mark Ravinet after talks. More info: https://speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/ #conference
2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social
UPDATE: The application period for these (amazing, fun, really cool!) sedaDNA PhD positions in our group is March 2-27, but we will start screening applications after the first week. If you are interested, please try to submit *between March 2nd and 8th!* Not by March 1st as I originally wrote..
Humpback whale breaching in front of the New Caledonian coastline.
New paper on age-related reproductive tactics & success in humpback whales, published in Current Biology.🐳🧬
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#marmam @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social 1/7
Finally published! We first uploaded this preprint in 2022 but dropped it after frustrating reviews.
It was well received and cited, motivating us to revisit it.
We added new content, including simulations and a proof-of-concept genomic green status assessment.
#consgen #popgen #PopulationGenomics
Our stellar 🤩 list of invited speakers #ExE2026: @danielbolnick.bsky.social Trine Bilde, Dan Nussey, @sevans.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @cleliagasparini.bsky.social Sarah Knowles, @liamlachs.bsky.social, Lizy Mittell, @keesvanoers.bsky.social, Alex Popadopolous & Katja Räsänen. evoxeco.uk
Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.
Proud supervisor moment. The last chapter of @annaselbmann.bsky.social PhD is now published, well done Anna!! 👏👏 Find out more👇
Join us Sat, Feb 7 for a FREE virtual book launch of 'The Evolution of Cetacean Societies'.
Live Q&A + cover BTS. 🕕 18:00 GMT / 10am PT
🎟️ Free with registration
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
I'll be talking about the use of genomic data for inferring and forecasting the spread of invasive pests 🐛 in conversation with Renata Retkute, who uses epidemiological models to tackle the same problem.
This Friday at 13:30, David Attenborough Building & online
www.tickettailor.com/events/globa...
Do you like your learned society and what it does for you and your research community? Then publish in their journal!
This paper by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social & Co shows that it will only do good, and comes with a handy database of academy-friendly journals. 👇
Last chance to apply - the deadline is tomorrow!
