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Rui Borges

@ruiborges23.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Statistics at the University of St Andrews. Interested in statistical/computational population genetics and phylogenetics. Math enthusiast. He/him. 🇵🇹🇱🇻🇬🇧 mrborges23.github.io/mypage

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
1/4 Excited to share that our paper "Phylogenetic inference with not-so-rare mutations and tiny organisms" has been accepted in Systematic Biology! 🧬🦠 academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
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Phylogenetic inference with not-so-rare mutations and tiny organisms
Abstract. A common assumption in mathematical models of molecular evolution is that mutations are rare. One example is the boundary mutation assumption, wh
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
If only I wee a candle in the dark.
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Glad to share my work on phylogenetic inference for wee, tiny organisms (or highly diverse): the infered topologies seem largely unaffected by unaccounted recurrent mutations, but branch lengths, and mutation-selection usage biases, are significantly impacted. #eseb #eseb2025
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
@janekay27.bsky.social presenting her work on merging time scales of evolution to infer adaptive evolution. Great talk! #eseb #fwf
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This might sound naive, but I once genuinely believed that the European Union stood firmly for freedom, the rule of law, and human rights.
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I love engaging in outreach activities with math-enthusiastic students, and I always take the opportunity to introduce them to stochastic processes. One process I particularly enjoy teaching is the Gambler’s Ruin. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #standrews #smmb #statistics #maths
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Sandra Oliveira @sandra-oliveira.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Are university lectures on the way out? It seems to me we have to rethink what their purpose is, if any. Because an increasing number of students seem to place relatively little value on them, at least as a real-time experience. www.varsity.co.uk/comment/29679
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Lectures are optional so give us the recordings
Katie Nicholson argues that faculties must make some changes if they expect students to attend lectures regularly
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jydutheil.bsky.social @jydutheil.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
New study from the Lab! Jinyang Liang assesses the possibility of inferring ancestral alleles (aka allele polarization) without outgroup sequence, using the ancestral recombination graph (ARG) alone. Here are some of our findings. (1/5)
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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Glad to see this out today in MEE! The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #popgen #populationgenetics #evolution #bacteriagenomics #bacteria #microsky #statsstandrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
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The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes
Mutations are fundamental for evolution, and their mathematical modelling in population genetics heavily relies on our perception of their frequency and the timescale over which they occur. A comm...
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Glad to present my work on the implications of different mutation models in #popgen and #phylo inference at #PopGroup58 in Sheffield (even tried my hand at cèilidh dancing). Kudos to the organizers for this excellent meeting! #statsstandrews
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Genome Biology and Evolution is excited to now be on Bluesky. Please help us by recommending accounts and feeds for us to follow!
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Super proud of @janekay27.bsky.social for receiving an OEAW grant to continue their PhD work on codon evolution for another two years 🥳 It was a pity I couldn't be there in person for the award ceremony, but @bio-diogo.bsky.social did a fantastic job stepping in and capturing some great photos:
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Lara Radović @larad1010.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Update on our latest research featured in PNAS! 🐴 ✨ We used Y chromosome to explain the legacy of Oriental horses, embedded in a 1,500-year-old Crown lineage 👑 spread across continents and centuries! 🌍 Check it out 😊
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The global spread of Oriental Horses in the past 1,500 years through the lens of the Y chromosome | PNAS
Since their domestication, horses have accompanied mankind, and humans have constantly shaped horses according to their needs through stallion-cent...
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A problem for a stormy, rainy day: #maths #mathproblems #OPM
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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Scientists, when do we start lobbying for #Bluesky to implement native LaTeX support? #science #physics #mathematics 🧪⚛️
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Bert van der Veen @vdveenb.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
go.bsky.app/NiaWN5i I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.
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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
1/9 I’ve seen many posts here asking whether Bluesky is an echo chamber. I don’t think so, and I’d argue that the very fact we’re questioning it is already an indication that it’s not. I’d like to bring up Nguyen’s paper on the differences between epistemic bubbles and echo chambers:
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ECHO CHAMBERS AND EPISTEMIC BUBBLES | Episteme | Cambridge Core
ECHO CHAMBERS AND EPISTEMIC BUBBLES - Volume 17 Issue 2
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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In my free time, I love solving math competition problems that don’t require extensive prior knowledge. They're mostly based on intuition and are super fun to tackle! Here's one from the Portuguese Mathematical Olympiad -- can you guess the answer? #maths #mathproblems
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Rui Borges @ruiborges23.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hi Bluesky! New here and excited to connect with others, especially fellow scientists! I'm a lecturer in Statistics at the University of St Andrews and my research involves merging mathematical models with statistical methods to tackle evolutionary questions.
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