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Débora Y C Brandt

@deboraycb.bsky.social
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Bióloga do IB-USP 07 🇧🇷 PhD UCBerkeley 🇺🇸 now postdoc at GEE-UCL 🇬🇧 Evolutionary genomics 🧬 🌳 popgen, ARGs, balancing selection. Interested in teaching, conservation. profiles.ucl.ac.uk/92078-debora-yos…

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The latest from us on balancing selection, now in final version in MBE @molbioevol.bsky.social @official-smbe.bsky.social 🧬 🧪 #Popgen #EvolutionaryBiology
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now that it's officially out, I have to say I'm quite proud of this work🙂 I got involved in it after a bit of a failure in another proj. Took way longer than it could. Started pregnant, published close to baby's 3rd bday😅 Very grateful for my patient mentors and collaborators doi.org/10.1093/molb...
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Characterizing the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection
Abstract. Balancing selection refers to scenarios where selection maintains genetic polymorphisms affecting fitness and its components. Empirical studies h
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dream team ❤️ saudades
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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our paper on detecting (or not) balancing selection is now out, in all its typeset beauty, in the October issue of @molbioevol.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Saudades dos tucanos
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad
Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights
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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please help spread the word! We are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the recently launched Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) at UC Berkeley and UCSF. BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp... (1/n)
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Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative | Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@prof-tregoning.bsky.social argues that scientific paper format does not reflect how we do science: 🤥are we telling a false story? 💡are we dismissing the central role of creativity in science? What do you think? Let us know in the comments... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are thrilled to share that our GPN-Star manuscript is now published and freely available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/n)
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Predicting genome-wide functional constraints with GPN-Star - Nature
GPN-Star, a genomic language model with a phylogeny-aware architecture for whole-genome alignment data, is shown to be a scalable and flexible tool for genetic variant effect prediction across species...
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
These are fabulous positions in a great new lab. Gemma is a rising supernova. Come and join us.
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Gemma Murray @gemmamurray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m hiring two postdocs to join my group at UCL, both funded for 3 years, to investigate how commensal bacteria contribute to the evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens. Please share! Links below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU266/r... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU268/r...
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moicoll.bsky.social @moicoll.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Interactive schedule (2.0) for SMBE2026! Enjoy the conference #SMBE2026 moicoll.github.io/SMBE2026_sch...
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SMBE 2026 — Program & Posters
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1
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Gabi Almeida Costa 🌎 @gabicosta.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas.
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Fabio A. Machado @fmachado.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tenho que ver a copa no Telemundo e vou dizer que o espanhol do Cafu é de amarrar. Cara tentou mandar um "cutucar onça com vara curta" em portunhol.
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Barbara Paes @moleculoide.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Comentário da bbc: the man with the dancing feet used his head!
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Agree it’s not great we can’t mark indiv. talks! I did something more oldschool and just rearranged the pdf to have multiple pages per sheet, so now I have 2 pages for each block of simultaneous talks… much easier to look at. Happy so share the pdf or code to customize this…
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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We are advertising a PhD studentship to study the effects of mitochondrial function on cell motility in flies. The project is supervised by myself, Nick Lane and @fcamus.bsky.social, in collaboration with Anna Franz at UCL, @stramerlab.bsky.social at KCL and Michael Sixt at ISTA. Please repost!
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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🇧🇷Bem-te-vi 🌎Pitangus sulphuratus Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O bem-te-vi é uma ave passeriforme da família dos Tiranídeos
Um pássaro de porte médio, com plumagem amarela vibrante no corpo e asas de tom marrom-escuro. Sua cabeça exibe uma máscara facial preta, uma faixa branca distinta sobre o olho e uma proeminente crista amarela eriçada no topo. O bico é preto e pontudo, e as pernas são pretas, firmemente agarradas ao galho. O pássaro está pousado em um galho marrom-esverdeado e rugoso, inclinado para a esquerda, com a cabeça levemente abaixada, observando um grupo de flores vermelhas alongadas que brotam na extremidade do mesmo galho. A cauda, de tom bege-amarronzado, está levemente aberta em leque. O fundo é uma folhagem verde-escura suavemente desfocada.
Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.
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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎 @alencarlrv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Looking forward to sharing one of my favorite projects of all time, developed with some of my favorite people! (with astonishing illustrations by @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social) Tuesday 12:00 pm Room 21 #Evol2026
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Hernán A. Burbano @hernanaburbano.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Excited for #SMBE2026! Come and hear about our research on the evolution of competition-colonization trade-offs over centuries in plant pathogenic bacteria. Looking forward to the discussions! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Persistent trade-offs balance competition and colonization across centuries | PNAS
Microbial competition drives rapid adaptation, often forcing organisms to specialize in new ecological niches. Adaptations that improve competitive...
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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Current bwa-mem users are encouraged to try minibwa as minibwa is planned to replace bwa-mem (but not minimap2). Source code: * minibwa in C: github.com/lh3/minibwa * minibwa-rs (Rust rewrite by AI): github.com/henriksson-l...
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GitHub - lh3/minibwa: Successor of bwa-mem for short-read alignment
Successor of bwa-mem for short-read alignment. Contribute to lh3/minibwa development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 08/04/2026
Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually! fapesp.br/18114/chamad...
Screenshot with the project information (title, grant number, etc.) that can be found in the link https://fapesp.br/18114/chamada-internacional-para-jovens-pesquisadores-tem-propostas-selecionadas
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Sextando com tabela S24 feita!
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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you are at #SMBE2026 at the end of the month, go and listen to @deboraycb.bsky.social about detection balancing selection with ARGs! S08, on Tuesday morning.
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Looking forward to catching up with old colleagues and meeting new ones at SMBE!!
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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We are excited to share our pan-pangenome paper! This is a long time coming work of my postdoc with the incredible @psudmant.bsky.social, and a stellar group of people! I hope you enjoy reading it! And I am excited to talk more more about it this week at #PEQG26!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A Pan-pangenome illuminates complex structural variation and selection in humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos
Complete, haplotype-resolved genome assemblies have provided unprecedented insight into the evolution of structurally complex, rapidly evolving regions of human genomes; however, population-scale pang...
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#SMBE2026 S07: From Trees to Graphs: Methodological Advances and Innovative Applications of Graphs in Evolutionary Analysis 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 10:20am 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
SMBE2026 | S07: From Trees to Graphs: Methodological Advances and Innovative Applications of Graphs in Evolutionary Analysis
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Hernán A. Burbano @hernanaburbano.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Published version @pnas.org of our collaborative work with Talia Karasov Lab (tkarasovlab.org) et al., 🧵👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cloeucl.bsky.social @ugiatucl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uofubiology.bsky.social #microsky #phagesky
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Gideon Bradburd @gbradburd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Multiple positions available: ​ Postdoc PhD students
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Marcos Castro e Silva, PhD 🇧🇷 @macscastro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨 Check out our new paper in Nature! In our new study, we sequenced 128 high-coverage genomes from Indigenous peoples across Latin America and uncovered their unique genetic diversity and history. 👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature
Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term ada...
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Partiu festa da democracia em Londres!🗳️🖥️🇧🇷 🗓️ Data limite pra alterar domicílio eleitoral é 6 de maio.
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Para atualizar endereço, pagar multas e regularizar o título: www.tse.jus.br/servicos-ele...
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Autoatendimento eleitoral
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Partiu festa da democracia em Londres!🗳️🖥️🇧🇷 🗓️ Data limite pra alterar domicílio eleitoral é 6 de maio.
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Hi, cool work! I found it from the title, but the link is to a different paper...
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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀 I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵 seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/
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Welcome to RustQC
Fast quality control tools for sequencing data, written in Rust.
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Diana Aguilar-Gómez @dianaguilr.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur
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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fantastic seminar from @deboraycb.bsky.social discussing some of the challenges and limitations of detecting balancing selection from genomic data and her ongoing work on developing a new ARG-based approach. See preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
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John Novembre @jnovembre.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Spread the word! UChicago BSD is currently searching for an instructional professor (open rank) to help develop and support graduate training in quantitative biology at UChicago. This is an Instructional Professor position (open rank). apply.interfolio.com/183517.
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Hernán A. Burbano @hernanaburbano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Join our department (GEE) as a fellow - Research Career Development Fellowships Program Call: tinyurl.com/2sfpyhsz GEE invites #ECRs who wish to be sponsored to apply for external fellowships to establish an independent research group. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social More info: tinyurl.com/mtwhwzjj
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Reminder: Early bird registration for SMBE 2026 ends March 31. Join us in Copenhagen from June 28-July 2 for top speakers and diverse topics. Register here: www.smbe2026.org/registration/ #conference
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Registration - SMBE 2026 - Copenhagen Denmark
SMBE 2026 Registration Days Hours Minutes Seconds Registration is open REGISTRATION for onsite or Virtual attendance SMBE Membership – If you are an active member of the SMBE society you can  register for SMBE with the benefit of the discounts shown below. Sign up for or activate your SMBE membership here. Danish VAT: 0% – […]
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Alô, Ciência? @alociencia.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Escrever dói! 📝 Nesse novo ep falamos sobre o sofrimento na escrita acadêmica. Entender o significado da frase: “Não escrevo pra falar o que eu sei, escrevo pra descobrir o que eu tenho a dizer“. Dá o play e passa pra alguém que está escrevendo nesse momento. ✍️ open.spotify.com/episode/70zk...
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#154 O mal-estar da escrita científica
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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Obrigada @alociencia.bsky.social! Veio num momento ideal pra mim ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/70zk...
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#154 O mal-estar da escrita científica
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/03/2026
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London. Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 13/02/2026
AI agent goes nuts on open source maintainer after having its pull request denied. This is a pretty insane story. Open source development as we've been used to for the last few decades is likely over. 1/ theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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Amy Goldberg @amygoldberg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
anyone know if there is childcare at @official-smbe.bsky.social 2026 this year? #SMBE2026
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
RESEARCH ARTICLE: Early diet leaves a lasting mark! Mismatched mitochondrial + nuclear genes slow fly development & shift adult food choices. G×E shape metabolism & behaviour: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @stefanobettinazzi.bsky.social et al. (2025) @fcamus.bsky.social @dk-dowling.bsky.social
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Mitonuclear interactions and early-life diet shape adult nutritional behaviour
Abstract. Mitochondrial function relies on close coordination between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. Disruption to this coordination—via mitonuclea
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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A new preprint from the lab, with postdoc @deboraycb.bsky.social and collaborators @aidaandres.bsky.social and Tim Connallon: “Characterising the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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