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Devon DeRaad @devonderaad.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This December (2026) I'll be starting my own research lab as a curator of ornithology at @amnh.org. We will seek to understand global avian biodiversity using evolutionary and conservation genetics, with the backing of the incredible AMNH ornithology collection. devonderaad.github.io

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thank you Andy for your kind comments, submitting your work to @genomebiolevol.bsky.social, and for being so responsive in your revisions. Glad to see the final paper out!

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Of the several surprises of our trip, that was the most pleasant:) Hope you weren't too delayed in reaching your destination! We ended up being ~2 hours late...

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Way to go Ricky & Nandita! It was such a joy to hear about this work developing and now to see it finally out! I remember, Nandita, that you pitched this in your chalk talk during your interview way back when:)

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

New research in #GENETICS from @azurita.bsky.social, Christopher Kyriazis, and @klohmueller.bsky.social demonstrates how unmodeled selection on synonymous mutations may affect downstream inferences of the distribution of fitness effects. buff.ly/IDY87W1

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Apple pie and page proofs are a good start to the week after a holiday weekend!😀

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Lastly, I’m excited to (belatedly) announce that as of July, I am the Director of the Bioinformatics IDP at UCLA and am also the Interim Home Area Director for Bioinformatics. I’m grateful to have the chance to help steer our graduate programs through this critical challenging juncture. (3/3)

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Learn about our three training Home Areas within the Bioinformatics Interdepartmental PhD (program (IDP). These include Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, and Systems Biology. We’ll provide information to help you decide which Home Area to apply to. (2/3)

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Interested in learning more about PhD programs in computational biology and genomics at UCLA? Join our virtual Open House on Monday, Nov 3 at 1:30pm. More info: bioinformatics.ucla.edu/event/gpb-vi... (1/3)

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In the midst of the darkness, I am pleased to announce that UCLA will be hosting the upcoming Southern California Evolutionary Genetics (SCalE) conference on November 1! Registration & abstract submission is here: www.scalemeeting.org/home Deadline is October 13! Hope to see you at UCLA!

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The SCalE Meeting is a free, one day regional academic meeting focused on evolutionary genetics and genomics. This year's SCalE Meeting is hosted by UCLA, sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative ...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Genome-wide associations of fitness components reveal antagonistic pleiotropy and sexual conflict in the Florida Scrub-Jay www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

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Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This is a perfect example of how IS science is being destroyed. I hope you write about it somewhere with higher visibility

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Is this a subtweet of our recent paper😂?

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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Excited to be heading to St. Louis for #AOS2025! Be on the lookout for talks from our lab!: - Jenna McCullough (PD) and Jonah Alderson (grad) are up against each other on Wed. morning - Claire Geiman (grad) will present a poster Wed evening - Devon DeRaad (PD) will give a talk on Thur afternoon

Information on Jonah’s talk: Domestication genomics of the society finch (Wed, August 13 at 11:30-11:45 am), Genomics 2, Room Grand C

Info on Jenna’s talk: is structural white color rare in birds? Wednesday Aug 13 at 11:30-11:45, in Grand Ballroom A

Info on Devon’s talk: How are new species formed on islands? Superficial signals of sympatric ecological speciation actually result from massive and ongoing gene flow; Thursday, August 14 at 2:45-3:00pm, Room Grand F

Info on Claire’s poster: Strong selection maintains a narrow, stable avian tension zone in the Great Plains; Wednesday evening from 7-9pm, Poster Number 2

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Symposium 17: Thematic symposium: regulatory genomics and non-coding elements #SMBE2025

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Come join us at UCLA!!! We have a growing population genetics community here and Nandita and her lab are outstanding!

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Xinjun Zhang @zhanglabpopgen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Having major FOMO about #SMBE2025 in my hometown… but I’m very proud that my postdoc, Susanna Gutierrez, will be presenting our work on inferring the selection history of adaptive introgression candidates in Peruvians at poster S12-P19. Please visit her during poster session 3 if you're interested!

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Sad to be missing #SMBE2025. But, the lab will be represented with presentations from (all on Wednesday): Swetha Ramesh (at 11:50 in Symp 17, Noncoding) Chenlu Di (at 12:05 in Symp 17, Noncoding) Diana A Gomez (at 15:45 in Symp 19, Con Gen) Aina Mi Zurita (at 16:40 in Symp 22, Theory Adv)

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Congratulations Joana!!!!😀🥳

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Schlichta, Peischl & Excoffier reveal how purifying selection on deleterious mutations impacts diversity: while codominant variants create diversity dips, recessive mutations can preserve diversity in bottlenecks through pseudo-overdominance. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf107 #genome #evolution

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Evolution of Functional Genomic Diversity During a Bottleneck

Abstract. Most species have been through population bottlenecks and range expansions, and the impact of these events on patterns of diversity has been well

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Quick visit to Heidelberg and Frankfurt to visit family and Bruce Springsteen….this helped refresh my soul in these bizarre and trying times.

Kirk and kids at Bruce Springsteen concert.

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I hope you feel better soon! I'm sorry we gave you such a yucky souvenir from your visit!

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Thank you @brucespringsteen.net for (yet again) meeting the moment and speaking up for America in these dangerous times...and giving us some hope in the Promised Land.

Kirk standing with Bruce Springsteen at his concert at the Kia Forum in LA in 2024.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 15/05/2025

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This made me smile, thank you!😀 The last few weeks have definitely felt like The Bear. Also submitting a proposal too! It's been oddly rejuvenating for my soul to be moving projects over the finish line with all the awfulness RE science funding going on....

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Keynote talk from OG Mark Stoneking on the peopling of the Pacific! #HumanEvo25

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Kirk Lohmueller DominL uses patterns of archaic ancestry to infer degree of dominance. Provides statistical support for the presence of recessive deleterious mutations in the human genome. Up to 15% of the human genome may carry recessive deleterious mutations! 🧬 #HumanEvo25

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

ML, allele dominance, selection and fitness informing on #Neanderthal introgression by @klohmueller.bsky.social 🥰 🧬! #HumanEvo25

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@paleogenomics.bsky.social speaking about the effects of colonization on Mexican genetic variation #HumanEvo25

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@amygoldberg.bsky.social telling us about integrating genetic variation and archeology to infer recent processes #HumanEvo25

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Easter tri-tip! This is going to taste even better after my 7.5 mile run this AM. Trying to find some joy despite everything. Nervous about what this week will bring…

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

stdpopsim v0.3.0 is out! You can now mix and match your simulations of different demographic histories with published distributions of fitness effects along with gene annotations, and you can even throw in sweeps for good measure. Check out the new manuscript for more info: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Accessible, realistic genome simulation with selection using stdpopsim

Selection is a fundamental evolutionary force that shapes patterns of genetic variation across species. However, simulations incorporating realistic selection along heterogeneous genomes in complex de...

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Fernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My review of computational methods for anthropological genetics with @kwittadna.bsky.social is out for the Yearbook issue of AJBA. We talk about all sorts of cool methods that YOU could use too! Also check out this great figure we commissioned from @janey1216.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Great question! I can't think of any off the top of my head that were shown to be due to epistasis. But, this could be that we don't know the mechanisms in most cases.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social is "advocating for science and for scientists. We seek to cultivate an inclusive, diverse research community that engages with the public...& serves as an authoritative source of information." Pls consider joining genetics-gsa.org/membership/

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Join or Renew Membership - Genetics Society of America

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Charikleia Karageorgiou (Clio) @evobioclio.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Registration is now open for the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics in Tuscany, co-chaired by me and @jcbnunez.bsky.social! This meeting is a unique opportunity for early-career researchers to present their work and network. www.grc.org/ecological-a...

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2025 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (GRS) Seminar GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (GRS) will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Last bit of calm to the start of the new year before what promises to be a chaotic (hopefully in a good way!) quarter🫠This is one of many beautiful hiking paths near LA.

Mountains at the start of the Henninger Flats hike north of LA

Kirk at the top of Henninger Flats overlooking downtown LA in the background in the haze.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

GSA’s on Bluesky, y’all! Do follow us for updates on everything we do as a scientific society, including amazing science in Genetics and G3!

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