Reposted by Curro CampuzanoAlex Mackintosh @thymelicus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026New preprint on the effect of ancient admixture / structure on genealogical trees. I introduce a new way of summarising reconstructed genealogies that captures a clear signal of ancient gene flow into the ancestors of modern humans. Feedback welcome! 13314
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoMadeline G. Eppley, PhD @madeline-eppley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comThere is No Consensus on Biological SexAt this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr... 317684
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoCichlid Science 2026 @cichlidscience2026.bsky.social · 25/04/2026🐟 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🐟 Abstract submission for Cichlid Science 2026 is open until May 31st - spread the word! We look forward to welcoming you to Antwerp! 1119
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoJournal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Just published in JOSS: 'ArviZ: a modular and flexible library for exploratory analysis of Bayesian models' doi.org/10.21105/joss.09889 0132
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoJohn M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization. Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology 14326
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoEvolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Magic traits may assist sympatric #Ecological speciation, but few examples exist & evidence for their role is rare. Yet, this study found #pleiotropy affected soil preference & flowering time in #Hawea, consistent with speciation! Check out the full paper 🌍🧪👇academic.oup.comEcological speciation in sympatric palms: 5. Evidence for pleiotropic speciation genes using gene knockout and high-throughput phenotypingAbstract. Theoretical models predict that sympatric, ecological speciation may be facilitated more readily when so-called ‘magic traits’ are present, linki 073
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoSophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/... TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself! This suggests manual editing of results tables. Which is not good... 🧵 29430
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoJoseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Infinite Mixture Models for Improved Modeling of Across-Site Evolutionary Variation by Mandev Gill, @guybaele.bsky.social, @msuchard.bsky.social, and @lemeylab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...academic.oup.comInfinite Mixture Models for Improved Modeling of Across-Site Evolutionary VariationAbstract. Scientific studies in many areas of biology routinely employ evolutionary analyses based on inference of phylogenetic trees from molecular sequen 043
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoJohannes Köster @johanneskoester.bsky.social · 29/08/2025#Snakemake 9.10 has been released. The major change is that it now supports scheduling plugins. By that your scheduling algorithm research becomes immediately usable with thousands of workflows by thousands of users. snakemake.github.iosnakemake.github.ioSnakemake 075
Curro Campuzano @currocam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Thank you everyone who came to my poster at #ESEB2025 to hear about inferring (very) recent Ne under invasion scenarios using LD data in a coalescent framework with a Bayesian flavor. (1/2) 140
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoEls De Keyzer @elsdekeyzer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025If you like adaptive radiation and the effect of gene-flow on diversification, come have a look at my poster 03.340 at #eseb2025 071
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoJames Kitchens @kitchensjn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so @yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958 1/6arxiv.orgtskit_arg_visualizer: interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphsSummary: Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) are a complete representation of the genetic relationships between recombining lineages and are of central importance in population genetics. Recent brea... 26335
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 07/08/2025If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇cell.comNotes from Beethoven’s genomeWesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement. 720494
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Rounding to zero is often a problem in machine learning, which is why we do computations on log scale and use various composition functions. This below (from materials in a paper I am reading) is not how to do it. If you are getting zeros in your prob vector, back up and do the calculations right > 1503
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2) By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.orgscience.org‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggestsSurvey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg 521980664
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoFernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social · 09/07/2025This is a good time to remember that Moas, Emus, and the other ratites diverged so long ago, they FLEW to different continents, and then lost the ability to fly and became giants independently. You can't just sprinkle a few variants to make one into the other. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 13441166
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoMatthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Cool new paper on pop gen and machine learning: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgCoalescence and Translation: A Language Model for Population GeneticsProbabilistic models such as the sequentially Markovian coalescent (SMC) have long provided a powerful framework for population genetic inference, enabling reconstruction of demographic history and an... 04520
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoMoritz Blumer @moritzblumer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Check out our new paper about chromosomal inversions in Malawi cichlids! 🐟🧬 Available here without a paywall: hdl.handle.net/10067/214834... (click on the ‘Full text (open access)’ link). 22011
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoJon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 30/05/2025SHENZHEN I/O stream where I try to teach some assembly by playing an assembly-inspired game is now up! This is very much an experiment, so please let me know if this format was still entertaining + educational :) youtu.be/zycRrVS3NLcyoutu.beExplaining assembly by playing SHENZHEN I/OYouTube video by Jon Gjengset 1224
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/05/2025Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test: 1828832
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoDr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I wrote a Dispatch for Current Biology on the neat new paper by @princessquatris.bsky.social et al., highlighting why occupancy modelling is an exciting tool for understanding sampling bias in palaeontology 🦕 You can access it for free using this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7HM3QW8S...authors.elsevier.com 23817
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoChase Million @millionconcepts.com · 20/05/2025Have you ever started a Python process, realized that you made a mistake, immediately hit Ctrl+C to interrupt it and then waited a surprisingly long time to get the command line back? This delay is caused by a bug in the compiled #Python extension. :thread: 2157
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoTabea Schoeler @tabeasch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Happy to share our new study on genetic & environmental contributors to age-related decline in ~100K UK Biobank participants! Here, we used simulation work + longitudinal GWAS and downstream analyses to explore risks involved in cognitive/physical decline (1/)🧵🧵 shorturl.at/99gqLshorturl.atCombining cross-sectional and longitudinal genomic approaches to identify determinants of cognitive and physical decline - Nature CommunicationsLarge-scale genomic studies focusing on the genetic contribution to human aging have mostly relied on cross-sectional data. With the release of longitudinally curated aging phenotypes by the UK Bioban... 32913
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoJonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Elegant new theory on polygenic adaptation by Will Milligan, Laura Heyward, and Guy Sella. 05326
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoFrancisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Here's a template to make an academic website using #Quarto_pub hosted for free on GitHub Just modify the quarto files (basically plain markdown) and the website will update automatically github.com/Pakillo/acad...github.comGitHub - Pakillo/academic-website-template-QuartoContribute to Pakillo/academic-website-template-Quarto development by creating an account on GitHub. 23910
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 28/01/2025A colleague today asked about Gaussian Processes on a sphere. Like spatial autocorrelation on the globe. I asked @avehtari.bsky.social. There are papers! This problem common enough to be worth having a case study I think? (1) Theory doi.org/10.1007/s112... (2) Application doi.org/10.48550/arX...doi.orgHilbert space methods for reduced-rank Gaussian process regression - Statistics and ComputingThis paper proposes a novel scheme for reduced-rank Gaussian process regression. The method is based on an approximate series expansion of the covariance function in terms of an eigenfunction expansio... 6478
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoCharles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 22/01/20251/7 Very happy to share our latest paper on the joint evolution of separate sexes and sexual dimorphism in @jevbio.bsky.social, led by @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social and in collaboration with John Pannell at @dee-unil.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae136doi.orgThe joint evolution of separate sexes and sexual dimorphismAbstract. Dioecious plants are frequently sexually dimorphic. Such dimorphism, which reflects responses to selection acting in opposite directions for male 34626
Reposted by Curro CampuzanoLior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025If you need to sample reads (with or without replacement) from FASTQ files you may find the fastQpick utility by Joseph Rich super useful: github.com/pachterlab/f...github.comGitHub - pachterlab/fastQpickContribute to pachterlab/fastQpick development by creating an account on GitHub. 18225