iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Providing excellent care for this golden girl 🦫

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The SSE Education and Outreach Committee is seeking speakers for the Evolution 2027 Education and Outreach Symposium titled “Evolution in a Changing World.” Nominations are due November 1! Learn more: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Among the many things as Chair, I've been working on celebrating our awesome faculty, staff, and students at @sandiegostate.bsky.social Biology in newsletters. Here're volumes 1 and 2, featuring the labs of @doc-brock.bsky.social and Gretchen Goodbody, the Director of our Coastal & Marine Institute!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bye for now, Philly! I ❤️ and miss you and all the lovely peeps so much! Thank you @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social and @mjphillips.bsky.social for the amazing time!

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The best mentor I could have asked for - congrats on retirement, Jody! We ❤️ you!

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Excited to share our new paper is out in TPJ! 🌱 "Out of the blue: family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae" We explore the anthocyanin biosynthesis gene loss through comparative genomics: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social #Evolution

Synteny analysis supports the loss of crucial genes in the anthocyanin biosynthesis across Cucurbitaceae. Details and figure reference: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Getting my cup of ambition from my old digs in Philly - Di Bruno Bros in Rittenhouse. Happy Dolly Day for everyone who celebrates. If you don’t, you should.

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks to this amazing team of instructors and to everyone who has joined us for the 5th edition of the #PopulationGenomics using #aDNA course! @cegamorim.bsky.social @arunsethuraman.bsky.social & @ppezov.bsky.social

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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Super excited to share this study by @gamaevo.bsky.social in collaboration with Steve Nowicki and Susan Peters!! Response to geographic song variation predicts differential gene expression in the blood of a songbird: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Response to geographic song variation predicts differential gene expression in the blood of a songbird

Behavioral neuroscience; Ecology; Transcriptomics

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

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Jae Young Choi @jychoi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New preprint with grad student @linhngk.bsky.social. Big mystery in plants is why do their telomere length vary? We answered by analyzing 10Tb or 1.4 billion reads from 257 species of algae to land plants. We propose ecological adaptation shapes telomere length in plants. shorturl.at/0ox4x

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Biogeographic cline is associated with the global plant telomere length variation

Telomeres have the crucial role of protecting chromosome ends and its length varies significantly between organisms. What evolutionary factor shapes this natural variation has been a long standing que...

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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Clemson University Arthropod Collection is 100 years old and still going strong! Grateful to the university for helping us celebrate this milestone. news.clemson.edu/a-century-of...

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A century of insects

The Clemson University Arthropod Collection turns 100 this year, and the data it contains is more valuable to the University's land-grant mission than ever. The Clemson University Arthropod Collection...

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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This must be the place: deep learning local adaptation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sorry peeps - laptop is in my bag, which has now been claimed by an orange cat. Expect no responses over the weekend.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Can't wait to celebrate my amazing postdoc advisor, Jody's retirement in Philly next weekend! Philly peeps - lemme know if you're around and I'd love to catch up ❤️

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here’s a cat chomping tomatoes for your Friday feed ❤️

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

hhmi.org

Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI

The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

True crime shows are dime a dozen at this point, but none of them come anywhere close to the OG Forensic Files - 20-30 minute episodes, focus on the science, not gossip, focus on the victims, not the perpetrators, & the irreplaceable narrative voice of Peter Thomas (RIP).

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Forensic Files: DNA Dragnet Title Card

ALT: Forensic Files: DNA Dragnet Title Card

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My new office mate has the snazziest bandanas. I hope that she will let me borrow them one of these days in return for boops.

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Morning Kitten Monday coming in hot…

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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course

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RAxML-NG 2: Automatic model selection, novel tree search heuristics, and fast branch support metrics

RAxML-NG is a widely used tool for maximum likelihood based phylogenetic inference. In the seven years since the last RAxML-NG publication, we have continuously improved and extended the code. Here, w...

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.

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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science

The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...

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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Increasingly powerful methods are enabling increasing complex models of ancient human history to be inferred from population genomic data. In a recent review, I highlight two blind spots in these inferences: limitations of the methods and choices of models to fit. arxiv.org/abs/2608.27591

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Two blind spots in the demographic inference of human origins from genomic data

Ancient DNA and new inference methods have transformed the study of human origins, but consensus has not followed. Evidence increasingly indicates that hominin populations were pervasively structured ...

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And then my grad students send me fun results, and all is well! ❤️ Reaffirms me that there’s always joy to be found in the noise.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reminder - I could be the most accomplished person on campus, but brown. White folx that I walk behind will always stop to let me pass, give a dirty look of disapproval & unbelonging. Campus cops will always wait till I open my office door with my keys. Students will always complain of my ‘accent’.

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Simone Biles Eye Roll

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

with my wonderful colleague @monroderik.bsky.social, just published "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been: Miocene Salinian Block Migration and the Biogeography of Megahexura Spiders" in J BioG dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... novel CA biogeographic story! not OA ... please contact me if you need a copy

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Funds to support student research! October 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get $$ for travel expenses to collect data in our collections. Open to: - current undergrad & grad students - *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome) nhm.org/student-coll...

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Student Collections Study Award

The NHM Collections Study Awards provide funding for undergraduate and graduate students to visit and study the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the La Brea Tar Pits & ...

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Freddie would have been 80 today. Here’s me trying my best impersonation a couple of years back at our ‘BritPop’ San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus concert. Good times.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/09/2026

Butterfly populations across the U.S. are in alarming decline, a 2025 Science study found. ⁠ The authors note that butterflies have the potential for rapid recovery under favorable conditions, showing the importance of proactive conservation strategies.⁠ scim.ag/46vegsb #NationalWildlifeDay

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Heading to the International Polyploidy Conference in the Netherlands? Go check out my postdoc Dr. Tamsen Dunn's poster on our recent SLiM-based polyploid genome simulator, DemographiKs (github.com/tamsen/Demog...). www.pe-rc.nl/events/inter...

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GitHub - tamsen/DemographiKS: population-level simulation to generate KS data

population-level simulation to generate KS data. Contribute to tamsen/DemographiKS development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wake and Bake

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Baby snoots with danger quills! ❤️

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great to see one of our premier science writers covering this important story! This is a happy ending to the decision to close the Duke Herbarium and will really empower conservation and plant biology in the Southeast and around the world ncbg.unc.edu/research/unc...

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Aaahhh! The BEST evo bio department - period! Welcome to Fall ‘26!

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Woke up to this face staring at me 🥹🥹🥹❤️

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Timeline cleanse. Look at dis bebe and their ears!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ll be teaching *Population Genomics Using Ancient DNA Data* with @arunsethuraman.bsky.social and @ppezov.bsky.social through @physaliacourses.bsky.social online September 21–25. More information and registration: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

physalia-courses.org

Population genomics using ancient DNA data

21th-25th September 2026

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Raised a couple or four margs to one of the best ones tonight at our regular taco Tuesday joint - Baja Betty’s in Hillcrest. RIP Ms. Parton.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For folks interested I just posted my keynote on ARGs from #PEQG26 on youtube (with permission). Thanks again to @genetics-gsa.bsky.social and organizers for what was a wonderful conference (except for the 24hrs prior to my talk when I was too nervous to sleep or think straight) youtu.be/ntJOdZd0mwc

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PEQG Keynote 2026

YouTube video by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

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