Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddMicah @rincewind.run · 7hrip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived 274057839
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddHanbin Lee @epigenci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We studied the evolution of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium and its influence on genetic architecture with genetic drift. We found that the Bulmer effect is population size and demography dependent. For nerds: genetic architecture follows from solving PDEs. 14821
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 02327
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddChris Smith @chriscrsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508indiana.peopleadmin.comIndiana University Academic Positions 14670
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddDrew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 30/09/2026I think administrators cowing to media pressure hurts the reputation of a university much more than piloting a long overdue and quite modest change to grading practices. 0135
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddLars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...eeb.msu.eduPostdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior 178116
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddSeth M. Fisher @mgoseth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today I went deep into Michigan's run game issues in the 1st half. Short version: I think defenses are triggering off motion to stop Beck's favorite stuff (Jet opposite QB power). The good news is he adjusted. mgoblog.com/content/neck...mgoblog.comNeck Sharpies: Don't Slash My Jet BashWhy was the second half run game better than the first half run game? 1151
Reposted by Jeffrey M Kidd404 Media @404media.co · 20/09/2026Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media. www.404media.co/inside-proje...404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404… 1013267
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddAdam Auton @adamauton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What can we learn about a single rare variant? Published today in Science: the 23andMe Research Institute and Dana-Farber studied the EGFR T790M in 10.1M 23andMe research participants. The variant has OR = 25.2 for lung cancer, rising to 61.7 in never-smokers(!). 🧵 14418
Reposted by Jeffrey M Kiddrachellcosby.bsky.social @rachellcosby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Infertility affects ~1 in 6 people, and up to 30% of cases are unexplained. I am excited to present my postdoctoral work from @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social 's lab, now available as a preprint: tinyurl.com/yync6f2r addressing a possible role for the meiotic gene PRDM9 in infertility 🧵/1 12917
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddChris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is a very cool study I have written about for @newscientist.com Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...newscientist.comWild chimpanzees teach youngsters by handing them tools | New ScientistAdult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 13219
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddYuval Simons @yuvalsim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Carlson Lab at the University of Rochester is recruiting researchers at all levels! Please reach out to Maryn (marync.github.io/carlsonlab/i...) if you are interested in groundbreaking problems in population and quantitative genetics. Maryn is brilliant and will be a great mentor!marync.github.ioCarlson LabThe Carlson Lab works at the interface of population and quantitative genetics, statistics, and evolutionary biology. 0118
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddYun Deng @yundeng.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I am excited to share that I will be joining the Baker Institute for Animal Health and College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor next spring! I am grateful to my mentors and colleagues who have supported me throughout this journey. 25714
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddDoc Edge @docedge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...usccareers.usc.eduFull-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USCLearn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC 04263
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is a very nice review article from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and @mathiesoniain.bsky.social . Figure 2 gives a very nice summary of the different ways selection tests are calibrated. They also offer 5 succinct summaries of the current state of the field for humans. 02210
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddNature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 11/09/2026New online! Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human historydlvr.itGenomic insights into natural selection in recent human historyNature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-01010-9Advances in genome-wide selection scans and ancient DNA have greatly expanded our ability to study human evolution. This Review discusses the conceptual and statistical challenges in identifying and interpreting selection signals, and how recent approaches are reshaping our understanding of human evolution over the past 10,000 years. 02614
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 10/09/2026How & why does the distribution of fitness effects #DFE vary among species? Meixi Lin, @klohmueller.bsky.social &co analyze genetic variation from 11 animal species, finding that fitness effects are influenced by phylogeny, population size, & organismal complexity @plosbiology.org 🧪 buff.ly/t5q7Mqo 0134
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddGraham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’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 2120184
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddbioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Barking Up Inferred Trees: Detecting Signatures of Selection in Dog Genomes Using Ancestral Recombination Graphs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 064
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddAaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208... 187109
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddPat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026'"At the end of the day ... they're either going to play for you or they're going to play for someone else around the country," Kiffin said at a news conference Monday. "So we've made the decision to recruit them like probably most people are."' - This is exactly what I hear peers say about using AI 101
Reposted by Jeffrey M Kiddc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model. She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus. Working class. 111162254
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddGeoff Faulkner @faulknerlab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Our study published today @science.org shows that X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) attracts L1 mutations to the human X chromosome: doi.org/10.1126/scie... With outstanding Perspective from @aurelien-doucet.bsky.social & @retrogenomics.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1126/scie... 58136
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddHank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Great, detailed story on a death in a tragic & flawed Chinese gene therapy trial www.science.org/content/arti... Excellent job by Brendan Borrell w/ @retractionwatch.com. Complex, nuanced & in some respects damning. (On line version looks a bit longer than in Science.) (COI-quotes me, in passing).science.orgExclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals 174
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddHanbin Lee @epigenci.bsky.social · 15/07/2026How should we apply linear mixed models to populations under stabilizing selection? The first paper I wrote with my grad school advisor is published in Genetics. academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... 1/n 12712
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddUCSC Genome Browser @genomebrowser.bsky.social · 07/07/202626 years ago today, the first public assembly of the human genome went online at UC Santa Cruz. Today, we release version 500 of the UCSC Genome Browser. From Jim Kent's first assembly to thousands of genomes, the data is still free and open. genome.ucsc.edu/gold... 072
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddXinjun Zhang @zhanglabpopgen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Just in time for #SMBE2026! Here's DEEP for detecting ghost/superarchaic introgression: scalable, robust, and no ARG! We find ~0.5% genome with superarchaic ancestry in East Asians and Oceanians, plus a notable signal at HLA Come find our poster tonight (#241)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgScalable ARG-free Detection of Denisovan-mediated Superarchaic Introgression Reveals Heterogeneous Patterns across PopulationsGhost introgression from unsampled hominin lineages has emerged as an increasingly important component of human evolutionary history. Recent studies suggest that deeply divergent hominin lineages may ... 02512
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddClément Goubert @clementgoubert.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Major development in the #Transposon world! Repbase is joining the Dfam project and becomes open-access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comUnifying Repbase and Dfam: a new open foundation for transposable element research - Mobile DNARepbase and Dfam, the two foundational resources for transposable element annotation, are being unified into a single, fully open access framework, with Repbase released under CC-0 and its core curati... 25223
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddButtons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19 21093603491
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/06/2026During big moments I like to try and give myself some scale. Anyway five years ago I had 1847 subscribers and today I have 105,193 subscribers. I was told nobody would read long form and that I could not do this without legacy media experience a hundred times. Never stop posting 1772330
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddHank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Gina Kolata in @nytimes.com on Nancy Wexler & Huntington disease. I met her 35 yrs ago but saw her only rarely afterwards. I was shocked & pained at a Soc. for Neuroscience conference a few yrs ago seeing her at a reception, clearly w/HD. Great person; good profile www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...nytimes.comThe Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know 021
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddGideon Bradburd @gbradburd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026postdoc 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...genescape.orgrecruitmentMultiple positions available: Postdoc PhD students 36678
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddAdam Auton @adamauton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Population geneticists! Come work at 23andMe! New role just posted. 23andme.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/23/job/Palo-...23andme.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comScientist, Population Genetics23andMe is looking for a quantitative scientist with extensive experience in population genetics and statistical modeling of human genetics data to join our R&D team. You will leverage your expert... 01213
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddAlicia Martin @genetisaur.bsky.social · 29/04/2026📣 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬! 🌍📈🧬 If you’re finishing a PhD (or know someone who is) and want to work on complex trait biology + 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡, read on 👇 11313
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddNicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Please share! The USC Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology is searching for a full-time, teaching-track faculty member for the teaching of QBIO undergraduate statistics and computational biology courses. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...usccareers.usc.eduFull-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USCLearn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC 01924
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddShobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 23/04/2026Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.yousofazizi.comFree Yousof Azizi 191575850
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Special thanks to the UM Advanced Research Computing group who enabled this study, all the researchers who generated valuable genomics tools, and Bill Ballard for leading the effort. 000
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Reliance on haploid assemblies was a limitation. In the diploid assemblies we arrive at a similar insertion rate, lending confidence. Oddly, representation of elements is biased in one genome (the Tasha/Boxer canfam6 assembly), which has been previously reported. 100
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026We previously used pseduo-haploid assemblies to estimate mobile element insertion rates in dogs, finding that most dimorphic insertions reflect sorting from a large ancestral population. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comA phylogenetic estimate of canine retrotransposition rates based on genome assembly comparisons - Mobile DNAMobile DNA - Due to their history of domestication and breed formation, dogs are a powerful system for studying the phenotypic impact of genetic variation. Comparison of canine genome assemblies... 100
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026We made phase resolved assemblies for 4 new samples and also reprocessed existing data from the Greenland wolf. Phase resolved diploid assemblies give the best view of genome variation. 100
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026The best genome had several contigs that spanned centromeres, giving us a look at their structure and position relative to chromosome ends. 110
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026We were able to make phase-resolved genomes, that permitted pan-genome approaches to look at genome variation, finding extensive allelic heterogeneity among mobile element sequences 100
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026HiFi reads are cool. And are dog genomes. Happy to be a part of the latest set of genomes. academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...academic.oup.comDiploid dual assemblies reveal the telocentric structure and extensive allelic heterogeneity of canine genomesAbstract. Although an increasing number of long-read genome assemblies have been created from a diverse collection of dogs and wolves, most published assem 110
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddJazlyn Mooney @jazlynmooney.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... 05875
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddEd Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Anyone of any nationality interested in a postdoc working with me on human genomic structural variation and disease? Full details here, let me know if you are interested, let others know, and repost please!! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu 037
Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Registration deadline for the next ICCGFF Dog and Cat Genetics meeting is coming up. See you at Cornell University this summer! web.cvent.com/event/ec5cb6...web.cvent.comICCFGG 2026.The 13th International Conference on Canine and Feline Genetics and Genomics, to be held Sunday, June 28th – Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 at the Cornell University Coll 110
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddThe American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 05/03/2026📣New from Li & Morrison! 📄Mind the gap: Characterizing bias due to population mismatch in two-sample Mendelian randomizationcell.comMind the gap: Characterizing bias due to population mismatch in two-sample Mendelian randomizationWe demonstrate that differences between populations can lead to biased causal effect estimates in Mendelian randomization (MR), a causal inference method based on genetic data. We provide a broad empi... 052
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 25/01/2026William Foege has died. He was a central architect of smallpox eradication, pioneering surveillance-driven ring vaccination when vaccine supply was limited. That strategy helped eliminate the deadliest human pathogen we’ve ever known. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...nytimes.comWilliam H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89 3331117
Reposted by Jeffrey M KiddCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 05/01/2026Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A 322275
