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Michael Matschiner

@mmatschiner.bsky.social
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Professor of Systematic Zoology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Director of Bavarian State Collection for Zoology

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Do you like snailfishes? lumpsuckers? clingfishes? New phylogeny dropped, and to toot our own horn it's really good! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
new phylogeny including snailfishes, lumpsuckers, rock-climbing gobies, and clingfishes showing forms of pelvic suction disc evolution
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Ina Satokangas @inasatok.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A cool bunch of new speciation papers out recently in Molecular Ecology, looking at divergence, hybridisation, recombination, genome architecture, and so on! Genomics of Speciation special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #speciation #divergence #hybridisation #recombination #genomics
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Special Issue: Genomics of Speciation: Molecular Ecology
Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.
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Ricardo J Pereira @biodiversitysmns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🪰🦗🪲 At SMNS, we draw on historical & monitoring collections to understand & conserve biodiversity at all its levels! 🌍 Join our inter-disciplinary team 🤝 in Stuttgart 🇩🇪 as Research Group Leader on Diptera 🪰, Hemiptera 🪵, or Orthoptera 🦗. 📌 tenure potential 🧬🔬 High-tech labs ⏰Apply by Oct 11 🔁share
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]
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Kieran Samuk @ksamuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just posted: a group paper describing major updates to my software pixy, for population genetic summary statistics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... New since 2021: arbitrary ploidy, multiallelic sites, missingness-aware Watterson's θ and Tajima's D, Hudson's FST, multicore execution!
Alt text: Schematic of the pixy workflow. Left, inputs: a bgzipped, tabix- or CSI-indexed VCF with callable sites supplied as an all-sites VCF or gVCF blocks, a populations file, and optional BED and sites files. Centre, core: windowing by fixed width, BED or region; statistic selection; options for Hudson's FST, multiallelic SNPs, automatic ploidy detection and multicore execution. Right, outputs: one TSV per statistic for pi, dxy, FST, Watterson's theta and Tajima's D, with raw count columns for exact aggregation. Bottom, development: GitHub fork and pull request, local checks with ruff, mypy and pytest, continuous integration across Python 3.10 to 3.14, and distribution through conda-forge. Features new since the 2021 release are badged "new".
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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New preprint: 338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders. Big congrats to @arf-mln.bsky.social, for getting this giant piece together. Big collaboration of @joanameier.bsky.social's and my groups. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...
Phylogeny of 338 species with tips painted by the chromosomal ancestry of their contemporary genomes (well separated colours indicate only few changes, while blending indicates rearrangements). Colouring of the branches is by the number of rearrangements. The ring between paints and phylogeny indicates wether the chromosomal rearrangement was fusion dominated (brown) or fission dominated (teal) process.  
Photo credits: Udo Schmidt, Lech Borowiec, JL Tachet, David Navrátil, Fred Chevaillot, Siga, Cosmin Manci, John Hallmén, Igor Souza-Gonçalves, Alex Hyde, H. Coiffait, David Ignace, Yves Bousquet.
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Debbie Leigh @debbiemleigh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Come work with me unlocking the secrets of island genetic diversity patterns! And exploring how the severely elevated genetic erosion we have previously shown on island systems might impact communities. #postdoc #job #germany senckenberg.softgarden.io/job/65352091...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Macrogenetics (f/m/d) at Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
We're looking for: Postdoctoral Researcher in Macrogenetics (f/m/d) (Full or Part Time) • Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Can highly recommend joining Emília's awesome group in Cambridge.
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🧵1/11 New paper alert! One of 2 out today from #NearLab. Tunas are basically the superheroes of the ocean — warm-blooded, massive, and blazing fast. But HOW did they get that way? A new study just cracked open 50+ million years of evolutionary history. Let's dive in. 🐟⬇️
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Vertebrate Genomes Project @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 MANUSCRIPT ALERT 🚨 The VGP Phase I manuscript pre-print is now live on bioRxiv! 🧬 doi.org/10.64898/202... Over 8 years, the VGP generated reference genomes for more than 800 vertebrate species, spanning ~95% of vertebrate orders and delivering some of the highest-quality genomes ever produced.
A graphic announcing the release of the Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase 1 manuscript on bioRxiv with drawings of various vertebrate creatures.The title and author list of the VGP manuscript, "The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I: A global reference genome resource"A QR code linking to the pre-print of the VGP manuscript
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LIB-MorphoLab @lib-morpholab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The application deadline for the #Curator (m/f/d) of #Ornithology position at @leibnizlib.bsky.social in Hamburg has been extended to 30 August 2026. 🐦🦉🦅🪶🥚 More details and apply here: 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2026-18-.... Please share.
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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just in time for #SMBE2026, our new preprint is out: using 130 genomes spanning ~200 years, fitness data and simulations, we show that conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction, but not from genomic erosion. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #popgen #consgen #conservation
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000
Curator of Vertebrates

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History currently has openings for three early-career Research Curators in Vertebrate Zoology, one each from the disciplines of ornithology, herpetology and ichthyology. The Department of Vertebrate Zoology seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise in, and a commitment to, collections-based research centered on systematics and evolution of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. This includes the ability to pursue an original approach to systematics and comparative analyses using, for example, morphology, development, and/or molecular data, and showing evidence of broader impacts or applications in evolutionary biology and/or collections-based ecology, as demonstrated by a record of peer-reviewed publications.

Candidates must have demonstrated the ability to establish an externally funded research program and to contribute to the growth and curation of the collections. Research in the Department is supported by the Museum’s shared laboratories, including the Laboratory of Analytic Biology and the Scientific Imaging facility, among others. The Department’s scientific collections are the largest in the world for fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, and the third largest for birds.

These federal positions will be filled at the GS-12 level, with a starting salary of $102,415, and excellent benefits. The positions are permanent and require a one-year probationary period. 

The official announcement is posted on USAJOBS, where applications must be submitted.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Please be sure to read the announcement and instructions carefully, as the process of applying via USAJOBS is stringent and differs from applying for an academic position. This website offers helpful advice: https://serc.si.edu/careers/tips-applying-federal-jobs

Please contact the Search Committee Chair, Michael McGowen (mcgowenm@si.edu) or the Department Chair, Helen James (jamesh@si.edu) with any questions.
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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New preprint on Eupercarian fishes is here! We present a new phylogeny and skull shape analysis of this massive clade! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ecological axes of skull diversification in a massive vertebrate radiation
Eupercarian spiny-rayed fishes are one of the largest vertebrate radiations, rivaling mammals and occupying nearly every aquatic habitat. We present a densely sampled, time-calibrated phylogenomic fra...
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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Please join me next Tuesday at 3:15 PM (Room 21) at #Evol2026 to learn about the complex history of complex trait loss, extinction, and evolutionary radiation in extreme ecosystems in a clade of thousands of fishes!
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Molly Przeworski @mollyprz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Now published: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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What sets the mutation rate of a cell type in an animal species?
Mutation rates per generation are strikingly similar across germlines of animals and across at least one somatic cell type, suggesting a key role for natural selection in shaping mutation rates. This ...
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A male Baltimore Oriole flying across the nature path to chase away a Blue Jay that has gotten too close to the nest.
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Led by the incomparable Sanaa El-Sayed, a study out today in Science Advances throws open an important new window on marine fish diversity during the critical few million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. Below: artistic vision of the new fauna by Ian Baylatry.
Illustration of many fishes swimming in sunlit blue water.
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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 09/04/2026
Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw
Graphic announcing the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call. It shows the opening date (9 April 2026), closing date (9 September 2026), and a budget of €399.05 million. The design features scientific visuals such as cells, a leaf, and lab elements on a dark background, with the European Commission logo at the bottom.
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Wong et al. present IQ-TREE version 3, with new features including mixture models, gene and site concordance factors, integration with phylogenomic divergence time estimation, and a fully featured sequence simulator. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag117 #evobio #molbio #compbio
MBE | IQ-TREE 3: phylogenomic inference software using complex evolutionary models
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Mozes Blom @moosblom.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 Wanted: PhD student excited about population genomics, Natural History Collections and birds! 📍 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany 🕒 3 Years, funded by the Leibniz Junior Researchgroup program Details and Application portal 👇 jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/d...
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12/2026 PhD student (f/m/d)
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Job ad now available here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...!
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Life Science Research Professional 1 in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
Life Science Research Professional 1 (On-Site Only)This position has been deemed critical by the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Office and.....
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Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart @smnstuttgart.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Natural History Museum Stuttgart is seeking to fill a position as Curator / Researcher (m/f/d) in Ichthyology Permanent, full-time (80–100%) Remuneration in accordance with TV-L E13 Application deadline: 17/05/2026 ➡ Further information: t1p.de/3svwg
Kurator/in (m/w/d) für Ichthyologie gesucht — Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart, ab sofort; naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/jobs
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record: - 256 eggs (252 in 2019) - 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019) - 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019). It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds
A female kakapo on a nest facing the camera, with a young chick in front of her. Credit: Andrew Digby
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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
So you are using IQ-TREE to estimate a tree for "deep time" phylogenetics using amino acid alignments. There is a lot of confusion about how to test model fit. Here are some suggestions.
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Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Thought I would share this famous analogy from Felsentein’s book I just re-stumbled on. Just in case you’re bug in a box and missed it 😜
Bugs in a box-an analogy
We can make a physical analogy (if a somewhat fanciful one) by considering a box containing hyperactive, indiscriminate, voracious, and insatiable bugs. We put k bugs into the box. They run about without paying any attention to where they are going. Occasionally two bugs collide. When they do, one instantly eats the other.
Being insatiable, it then resumes running as quickly as before. It is obvious what will happen. The number of bugs in the box gradually falls from k to k - 1, to k-2, as the bugs coalesce, until finally only one bug is left.
The analogy is actually fairly precise. The number of pairs of bugs that can collide is k(k - 1) /2. If there are 2N "places" in the box that can be occupied, the probability of a collision will be proportional to k(k - 1)/4N. The size of the population corresponds to the size of the box. A box with twice as many "places" will slow the coalescence process down by a factor of two. So a simpleminded physical analysis of the bugs-in-a-box process will have the Kingman coalescent distribution as the probability distribution of its outcomes.
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/02/2026
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/
Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]
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Thomas Desvignes @notothentoma.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Only ~3 weeks left to submit abstracts to the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social meeting in Oslo! Come present your work on Antarctic and/or sub-Antarctic fish evolution in session#21 convened by @mmatschiner.bsky.social, Julia York, Jin-Hyoung Kim, and myself! All the fishes are welcome!❤️🐟🧪🌎🇦🇶 scar2026.org
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/02/2026
Reptile Handler At Birthday Party Ruthlessly Heckled By 6-Year-Old For Showing Amphibian theonion.com/reptile-handler-at-bir…
Reptile Handler At Birthday Party Ruthlessly Heckled By 6-Year-Old For Showing Amphibian
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly. www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
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DDLS Research School Postdoc call 2026
Call for Academic and Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data-Driven Life Science 2026 Generic Description of the DDLS Postdoc Program The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Drive...
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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated!
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HLi Lab - Vacancies
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Michael Matschiner @mmatschiner.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We’re so used to conflicting phylogenetic results that we tend to shrug shoulders. Nice to see how @caseywdunn.bsky.social digs into one such conflict, finds the issue, and resolves it. Bravo!
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Antoine Stier @antoinestier.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧 We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology. Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8487…
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Arnaud Badiane @arnaud-badiane.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Great new study about the loss of a colour morph in Common Wall Lizards (Podarcis muralis) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Adaptive spread of a sexually selected syndrome eliminates an ancient color polymorphism in wall lizards
Genetically determined color morphs are found in many animals. Polymorphism can be maintained by social selection if competitive interactions allow each morph to increase in frequency when rare. This ...
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
NEW JOB in #ornithology with @vogelwarte.bsky.social to unravel the demographic drivers of population change in Alpine #swifts in #Switzerland: buff.ly/crV1rT8
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Russ Fischer @superelastic.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com
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Size of Life
From an amoeba to a blue whale
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Javier Pinto @javo-pinto.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Check our last paper, where we explore how interspecific hybridization can facilitate adaptation to novel environments. @stelkens.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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The long-term evolutionary potential of four yeast species and their hybrids in extreme temperature conditions
Abstract. Accelerating climate change and extreme temperatures urge us to better understand the potential of populations to tolerate and adapt to thermal c
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Michael Matschiner @mmatschiner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
What are the good free LIMS these days used by molecular labs? We mainly need to link specimen and sample information.
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Thomas Desvignes @notothentoma.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We recently published a follow up in a new article published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social about the hemoglobin gene cluster deletions in the icefish ancestor. We show that each deletion involve different mechanisms and that transposons fueled these deletions! 🐟🧪🌎🧊🇦🇶 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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Hemoglobin-Gene Cluster Deletions in Antarctic White-Blooded Icefishes Facilitated by Transposable Elements
Abstract. Vertebrates transport oxygen throughout the body bound to hemoglobin packed in red blood cells. Antarctic icefishes are evolutionary oddities wit
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Griffin Lab @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Very excited to share that our latest paper is out in Science! We show that the type specimen of Nanotyrannus—an isolated skull—is fully grown, showing that it is not a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex but a distinct species (1/12) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
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Thomas Desvignes @notothentoma.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Come tell us about your cool new evolutionary work on Antartic (and/or sub-Antarctic) fishes! It doesn't have to be notothenioids, we love all the fishes (and Evolution)!! 🧪🌎🐟🧊🇦🇶 @scar-antarctic.bsky.social @usscar-antarctic.bsky.social
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A unique feature of gars is those distinctive armor-like scales! Unlike a typical fish’s overlapping scales, gars have interlocking “ganoid” scales that are made up of a material similar to the enamel on our teeth. The name “Lepisosteus” even means “bony scale” 🦴 #25DaysofFishmas
A close-up image of a gar's ganoid scales
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Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Popgen folks, Jiseon, Nate, and Andy, along with Yuxin Ning and Franz Baumdicker, just released a really cool new method for simulation based inference (think ABC) using normalizing flows. It seems to work really well! full joint posteriors ftw! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Neural posterior estimation for population genetics
Simulation-based inference methods are increasingly being used in population genetics due to their flexibility and ability to be applied in settings where likelihood-based methods are intractable. Per...
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