An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference
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An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference
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Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) 🐨 🧬 #consgen #popgen
Effective population size is a key ingredient in indicators used to monitor genetic #biodiversity – and a fundamental concept in population genetics.
But what is it, really? 🧬 We try to explain in our new blog post ⬇️
#ConsGen #Genetics #PopGen #Monitoring #KMGBF
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Model selection in ADMIXTURE can be inconsistent: proof of the K=2 phenomenon https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708651v1
📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026
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PopGeneJS is a free web platform for teaching population genetics with 32 interactive modules on various topics. It offers real-time visualizations and requires no installation. Explore at https://popgenejs.bioinformat.org.
We are taking applications for our 2026 international Conservation Genetics course. This year the course will be in Brazil at the Vale Natural Reserve on Aug 3-13. See congenglobal.org/brazil2026/en for details. #conservation #genomics #course #handson #brazil #apply #biodiversity #bioinformatics
Job alert! Lectureship in field ecology at University of Reading with a special focus on plants.
If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award.
Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026.
Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior
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
This recently-accepted study highlights the critical need to incorporate genomic erosion—the loss of genetic diversity, accumulation of harmful mutations, maladaptation, and introgression—into conservation assessments.
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SMALL GRANTS FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN BANDING CERTIFICATION SESSIONS Grants are restricted to applicants from Latin America and the Caribbean. Deadline: March 31, 2026 Apply here: www.animalecology.org/grants Pictures: AFO and NABC logos
Attention, Latin American community! The North American Banding Council (NABC) is soliciting applications for small grants that support the development and certification of Latin American and Caribbean bird banders.
Apply here: www.animalecology.org/grants
🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March.
Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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!
🧬Course Alert! 🌍
Join us ONLINE, 7–10 April, for the #ConservationGenomics course with @eljensen.bsky.social & Cathy Cullingham!
Learn how population genomics guides conservation decisions—study design, SNP filtering, structure, adaptation & more.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods.
Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪
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Preprint alert: We adopt a cheap & rapid WGS protocol for vertebrate sized genomes, and use it to sequence nearly 1K whitefish genomes to low/med coverage for lake-wide pop genomics of adults + larvae for species assignment, habitat use, decline & selection: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#PopGen
The #UK is proposing some fairly large changes to #immigration policy from April 2026, including skilled workers (aka #academics, #researchers) 🗣💬
Want to have a say? Complete the consultation (by 12 Feb) www.gov.uk/government/c...
Please share!
#Edusky #HigherEd #AcademicSky #UKVisa @ucu.org.uk
We are a go! The student forum will be held at my very own Newcastle University this year, and we've got some cracking talks from some brilliant entomologists lined up for the key note spots, some fab workshops and as always we'll have the ENTOquiz! So please send your abstracts over #entomology
Join Dr. Ylenia Chiari's team at the University of Nottingham as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to study epigenetics in captive adaptation. Apply by Feb 26, 2026: https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=MED397426 #postdoc
Postdoctoral Fellow position in Population Genomics at UNBC, Canada. Lead research on wolf ecology, health, and genomic diversity. More info: https://tinyurl.com/5t56kwx7. Contact: Jamie.Gorrell@unbc.ca. #postdoc
Interested in👇 ?
- museomics: genome erosion, adaptation 🦌 🦜 🐬
- marcogenomics of sea warming (methods dev. or empirical data)
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Check this call (2 y. postdoc) and get in touch to discuss potential projects (deadline 31.03.26)
#popgen #consgen #evolbiol
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Can't be more stoked for this Demographic History workshop led by Pablo Librado. Message myself or AaRC in case you still want to attend!
#aDNA
We have compiled a special issue for @evolappjournal.bsky.social on Effective population size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring, dedicated to the late Michael W. Bruford.
This SI is a must read for everyone who struggles with what "effective population size" means.
#consgen
Assistant professor in botany job description for University of Northern British Columbia
Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions.
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🧪🌱 #botany
A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "Our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."
Nature valentines. This comic is now available as a set of 6 Valentines cards: topatoco.com/collections/...
Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly.
www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
New course to be taught this summer at Bamfield Marine Science Center by Andrew Hendry and collaborators (e.g., me), on rapid evolution in the anthropocene:
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with a focus on both marine & freshwater stickleback, intertidal organisms, & more
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...
If you are looking for a #PhD 🧪 in biology and like #genomics #plants and #fieldwork consider applying for our new position!
#PhD #science #job #careers