Great postdoc opportunity!

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...

Remember when that went b2b with hand, foot, mouth at my brother's school 🥲

Screenshot of a PDF of the published article. Title: "The tie that binds us? Challenging the primacy of DNA in kinship studies and re-centring community in defining human connections across time"

DNA is not the same as kinship.

Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can:

• erase community-defined relationships
• reinforce Western biases
• and even cause real harm in policy + research

Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Reposting this old thread on the "Pervasive findings of directional selection" from ancient DNA. While the authors extended their results in various ways, I think many of these points still stand.

Inference of population demographic history captures differing evolutionary signals based on the number of individuals in the dataset www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

LET'S GO BRUINS!!! First title in NCAA WBB title since 1978. Absolutely crushed it 💪🏽

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...

Never seen a more compelling endorsement for submitting your work to GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Large future genetic diversity losses are predicted from conservation indicators even with habitat protection | PNAS Genetic diversity within species underpins evolutionary adaptation and has recently been included as a target for protection in the United Nations’...

We are destroying species' habitats, leading to a mass extinction event.

This habitat destruction also reduces the genetic diversity _within_ species.

Our latest work develops quantitative models to predict how much genetic diversity has been and _will be_ lost.

🧬🧪🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

You have dusty paperbacks in your attic/storage unit/basement. PUT THEM BITCHES BACK IN ROTATION.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 SING USA 2026 applications are open!

The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop will be July 19–24, 2026 at UW–Madison.

⏰ Apply by March 13 (midnight Hawaiʻi time)

Learn more & apply: sing.nativebio.net

Please share with Indigenous students!

#Indigenous #Genomics

The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:

Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Based on a 2025 study by the great @jazlynmooney.bsky.social & colleagues

What the ‘Birthday Paradox’ Can Teach Us About Black History Opinion | Statistics can help fill in historical gaps, revealing surprising and empowering things about the past and present.

New for @undark.org

On: "The Birthday Paradox," the transatlantic slave trade, ancestral bonds, and the hidden power of statistics.

"Family is family, whatever our genetic relationship. Impressively, the birthday paradox study captures this possibility."

undark.org/2026/02/27/o...

Stanford researchers help trace ancestry for African Americans A group of Stanford researchers is offering a mathematical model to help link family connections up to 410 years ago.

Excited that our work was featured on the local (Bay Area) news for their Black History month series. Interview with Noah and clips from my interview with @dornsife.usc.edu and CGSI talk in the article below

www.nbcbayarea.com/discover-bla...

Promises to be poppin (🍿)

BUT SRSLY PLEASE REGISTER, WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

New paper! From Sam Snodgrass and @genomeofforrest.bsky.social, w/ @druncie.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social, and a collaboration with Andres Moreno and @santiagogmm.bsky.social. Can we quantify the impact of humans on maize dispersal?

Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear:

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Marie Taylor - Wikipedia

In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth let’s learn more about Marie Taylor, a plant biologist and chair of Howard University’s Botany Department. Love her focus on photomorphogensis and using light microscopy on living plants! 🌱 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_T...

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

Beyond Controversy? The Promotion and Early Critical Reception of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Fifty Years Later - Journal of the History of Biology Journal of the History of Biology -

"Instead of unifying different strands of animal behavior research, Sociobiology amounted to an individualistic effort aiming to supersede ongoing developments in the field. Wilson neither provided the theoretical cohesion nor inspired the social unity necessary for the foundation of a discipline"

Cool new work from Sophie Buysee w/ @jeffreykconner.bsky.social on how different Arabidopsis thaliana populations respond to drought.

Differentiation for drought strategy but conserved plasticity to heat and drought in locally adapted populations of Arabidopsis thaliana www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...

What We Inherit Debating the use of genomic tools and their societal impact

Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.

How Genotype-by-Environment Interactions Can Maintain Variation in Mutualisms | The American Naturalist Abstract Coevolution requires reciprocal genotype-by-genotype (G × G) interactions for fitness, which occur when the fitness of a genotype in one species depends on the genotype it interacts with in a...

Carlson et al. build a mathematical model considering how genotype-by-environment interactions can maintain variation and parametrize their model to test its applicability to real mutualisms.

Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Coloured illustration of a Rosa persica (Persian rose). The slightly yellowed page shows stem, leaves, two yellow flowers and one in the process of flowering. Two yellow petals are shown dropping at the bottom.

🌺If you're free on 15th January and would like to find out more about our Persian collections, why not sign up for one of our art workshops? More info in the booking links below 👇#KewLA

Morning slot: https://ow.ly/x0cl50XMcGy
Afternoon slot: https://ow.ly/IvwE50XMcGz