Bárbara Bitarello

Pan-genomes Meeting - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

We’re excited to share the Pan-genomes Doorstep Meeting @ #PEQG26! Join this 3-hour workshop on evolutionary applications of pangenomics, covering construction, analysis, phylogenetics, annotation & graph QC. Register separately or as an add-on to PEQG: genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/do...

Seems awesome!

Seems awesome, frankly! I wish I could enroll (-:

🚨My department is hiring a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad Genetics & Genomics, upper-level Genomics, and an inquiry-based Computational Genomics course where students can do authentic research. 🧬💻

I’m on the search committee. DM me if you’re interested. Please share! 🙏

Python Environment

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Principal Components Analysis fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominins Objectives: Paleoanthropologists often utilize geometric morphometrics and principal components analysis (PCA) to interpret shape variation within the hominin fossil record. It is common practice to i...

Here is the actual preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another much needed contribution from my former student @leviyoderraskin.bsky.social to paleoanthro! Using simulations we assess the widespread practice of inferring hominin phylogenies based on PCAs of morphological data. #paleoanthro #evolution #hominins

Prepping my Biostats w/ R course after a year off of teaching. Feeling overwhelmed regarding AI/cheating (already bad 1y ago). Interested in what folks have found helpful, especially but not exclusively courses involving math and coding. Please share! #teaching #AI #biostats #R-stats

The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation In the ’50s, America declared science an “endless frontier.” We may be reaching the end of it.

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Scary thought. So much has come to the world from science supported this way. 🧪 #scicomm

Does someone have a formal source on pauses on panels or funding for NSF?

Check it out! #hominins #evolution #paleoanthro

How wonderful! We’re delighted

Happy to share my first preprint from my undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College with Professors Maja Šešelj and Bárbara Bitarello! We present new methods to assess a hominin craniodental discrete character matrix (107 traits) for phylogenetic information. (1/12)

Check out our preprint on hominin phylogenetics, led by my amazing former student @leviyoderraskin.bsky.social!

Hello! I'm a population geneticist/evolutionary biologist/etc, here's my scholar google link: scholar.google.com/citations?us...