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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ok, I know I should be better, but can anyone help me remember the publication that matches this figure? I somehow dropped the info in the past 10 years of copying slides from one presentation to another. It's got fake SNPs at intron boundaries, caused by misalignment/misplacement of intron gaps.

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. @ysnky.bsky.social on the PhD defense in the @ahancock.bsky.social group at @mpipz.bsky.social! All the best ahead. #PhDone #plantscience #sciencecareers

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🎓 Dr. Shifa Ansari has successfully defended the PhD in the @ahancock.bsky.social group at @mpipz.bsky.social. Congratulations! #phdone #science #plants #academiccareers

The post shows a picture of Shifa after successfully passing the viva on a green background with words of congratulations on acquiring the PhD title.

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New paper led by Célia Neto presenting a multiparent intercross population (and trait mapping) from Cape Verde Arabidopsis parents

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The genetic basis of multi-trait drought escape in colonizing A. thaliana lineages Elfarargi et al. @ahmedelfarargi.bsky.social @ahancock.bsky.social @apmweber.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @trr341.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Geographical distribution and genetic structure of the Cape Verde Islands and Morocco.

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A. thaliana has been pivotal in advancing our understanding of the bases of adaptation to past and ongoing environmental changes! A very nice review by @ahancock.bsky.social, Swan Portlier, Andrea Fulgione, @mgstetter.bsky.social and @meauxjuliette.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu...

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15/10/2025

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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

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Emily Johnson @emilyrj.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 10/06/2025

The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how #PanGenetics analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV

Left: An early-flowering plant in the wild (at the Angit site in Southern Italy. Right: Flowering time of progeny from wild plants and control genotypes in the greenhouse (22°C long days).

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Asher Cutter @asherdcutter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This little methods paper to help with read counting allele-specific expression in interspecies hybrids by Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez has escaped biorxiv limbo to find a happy home in @micropub7n.bsky.social doi.org/10.17912/mic...

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Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus

Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Without seeds, we have no food. Without seeds, we have no future. Botanists at Vavilov's seed vault chose to starve to death rather than eat the seeds they were protecting. www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

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The Tragedy of the World’s First Seed Bank

Soviet geneticist Nikolai Vavilov led an ideologically perilous campaign to rid the world of famine.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

ATTENTION If you are someone (or know someone) who is enrolled in an NIH-funded clinical trial that has been disrupted by grant uncertainties or terminations, please DM me. THANK YOU!

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stan marsh from south park says see that 's what happened to me !

ALT: stan marsh from south park says see that 's what happened to me !

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics: go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Come to Purdue this summer to get experience in Plant Data Science!!

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A lot of rich people don't want to admit that a big part of the United States' success in innovation is thanks to government funding & research, and maybe not purely because of their genius-level IQs & unique business acumen.

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UBC EOAS @eoas.ubc.ca · 25/02/2025

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 UBC’s EOAS & IRES seek an Assistant Professor of Teaching (tenure track) in Environmental Science. 🌱💡 📍 Vancouver | 💰 $130K–$140K | 📅 Apply by: March 16, 2025 Full details & how to apply: 👉 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/297… #AcademicJobs #EnvironmentalScience

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Rest in Power Roberta Flack

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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Rest In Peace Roberta Flack

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

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2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze

On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...

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Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites

The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.

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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

*Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology* at the University Of Cologne, Germany It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer

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Professorship in genetics and molecular cell biology (W3) (f/m/d) - Academic Positions

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest and largest universities in Germany. With its six Faculties covering a broad spectrum of disciplines and its i...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025

He's talking about people like Gregg:

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in California’s Sierra Nevada. Beutler, 59, worked alone with a chain saw to remove every fallen tree on a 10-mile stretch of road between the town of Long Barn in Tuolumne County and the popular Hull Creek Campground. She single-handedly finished the work so the road could open in time for Memorial Day.

As a recreation technician based out of the Summit Ranger Station in the Stanislaus National Forest, Beutler’s job was to clean toilets, pick up trash and maintain recreation sites and campgrounds up and down Sonora Pass. She’d typically drive her Forest Service truck 100 miles a day. She sprayed pit toilets with a fire hose. She wiped away graffiti and removed thousands of pounds of house trash, old furniture and useless stuff that people dumped in the forest. She extinguished hundreds of abandoned and illegal campfires. She assisted law enforcement during emergency accidents, helping officers navigate a swath of rugged forest land that she grew up on and knows intimately.

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 21/02/2025

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

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PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog

Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.

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Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I recently developed & taught a 1-credit graduate course titled Computer Programming for Biologists. The students produced some fantastic projects! For the course & for you, I developed tutorials in the Julia programming language. I share these here: darreni.github.io/JuliaProgram... #julialang

Screenshot of the "Download and Install Julia" page of the JuliaProgrammingForBiologists website. This is an example page, which describes how to download and install the Julia Programming Language. In the left column, there is a menu of page titles showing the topics covered on the website.

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

No job ad yet, but I'll be hiring a postdoc at Purdue in population genetics/quantitative genetics/genomics in plants. DM if you have relevant experience and are potentially interested.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me. DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU

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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...

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EMBL @embl.org · 11/12/2024

📢 Sign up for #EESWildModels! 🌏🔍 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' is a new EMBO | EMBL Symposium bringing together lab- and field-focused researchers from ecology, genomics, quantitative cell and molecular biology. 👉🏼 Submit your abstract by 14 Jan! 🧪 Follow @events.embl.org to stay updated!

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Wild frontiers of model organisms

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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Wild frontiers of model organisms www.embl.org/about/info/c... Excited about this brand new EMBO | EMBL Symposium on understanding the biology, ecology and evolution of non-model organisms, ranging from microbes to plants and animals 📅 8 – 11 April 2025 📜 Submit your abstract by 14 January!

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Wild frontiers of model organisms

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Mikkel Heide Schierup @mikkelschierup.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Postdoc (2.5 years) in population genetics of the Paleolithic in my group. Please apply before January 15. It is an interdisciplinary project with Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and a new postdoc in his group covering archaeology. Apply through: tinyurl.com/4jt4dru4

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Postdoctoral position in population genomics of the palaeolithic - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Large protein language models can learn complex epistatic interactions, but how much does that help with predicting variant effects? In this NeurIPS article, we show that classical independent-sites phylogenetic models can outperform pLMs on this task. 1/7 openreview.net/forum?id=H7m...

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Ultrafast classical phylogenetic method beats large protein...

Amino acid substitution rate matrices are fundamental to statistical phylogenetics and evolutionary biology. Estimating them typically requires reconstructed trees for massive amounts of aligned...

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