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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Banger of a new RasgonLab study by Drs. Najmeh Nejat and Travis van Warmerdam on a new arthropod germline CRISPR delivery system. Knock-out AND knock-in by ORAL delivery! No more injections! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction (GEValT)

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next semester (Oct–Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

PopGen Seminar Series Winter Term 2026/27

06.10.2026 – Dan Nussey (Univ. Edinburgh, UK) Lecture Hall B
The evolutionary ecology of senescence in wild animals

13.10.2026 – Howard Rundle (Univ. Ottawa, CA) Lecture Hall B
The population genetic consequences of mate competition: Empirical insights from Drosophila

20.10.2026 – Josephine Pemberton (Univ. Edinburgh, UK) Lecture Hall A
Evolutionary genetic studies in long term, individually-monitored wild animal populations
SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker

27.10.2026 – Richard Benton (Univ. Lausanne, CH) Lecture Hall B
Niche specialisation in nervous systems and beyond

03.11.2026 – Thomas Bataillon (Aarhus Univ., DK) Lecture Hall A
How to find a “Ruby in the Rubbish?”: On using population genomics to make inference about beneficial mutations, deleterious mutations and their impact on adaptation

24.11.2026 – John Welch (Univ. Cambridge, UK) Lecture Hall A
When will hybridization be beneficial?

01.12.2026 – Thomas Flatt (Univ. Fribourg, CH) Lecture Hall A
Inversions and the hunt for the genomic targets of selection

15.12.2026 – Andreas Futschik (Vetmeduni, AT) Lecture Hall M
Frequentist and Bayesian inference for population genetic data

12.01.2027 – Leif Andersson (Uppsala Univ., SW) Lecture Hall A
On the origin of Baltic herring by means of natural selection

19.01.2027 – Mikkel Schierup (Aarhus Univ., DK) Lecture Hall A
De novo mutations, cross-overs and gene conversions across primate species inferred from HiFi sequencing of sperm and testis tissue

26.01.2027 – Thomas Wiehe (Univ. Cologne, DE) Lecture Hall M
Looking at (some) plant genes with a joint LLM-population genetics lens

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Brant Faircloth @brantfaircloth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Copepods are wild. Here's a cool story about this Chilean copepod that I was lucky enough to work on with former post-doc Isabelle Neylan (new asst. prof. at Williams), @invertevoeco.bsky.social, @rujutavaidya.bsky.social, Maheshi Dassanayake, and Sergio Navarette. academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...

Image of abstract from a scientific article on sequencing the genome of a Chilean copepod.

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Andrew Carroll @acarroll.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...

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The Best of Both Worlds - Assessing MiniBWA

Recently, Heng Li released MiniBWA (GitHub) alongside a paper by Heng Li and Nils Homer describing the method (paper). MiniBWA builds on the approaches in Minimap2 (also by Heng Li), but falls back on...

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Morgan Kelly @invertevoeco.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Out today from Isabelle Neylan, @rujutavaidya.bsky.social @brantfaircloth.bsky.social, M Dassnayake and me: The transcriptomic response to early life heat stress mirrors adaptive differences between populations – evidence for plasticity-led evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Genetic assimilation and accommodation shape adaptation to heat stress in a splash pool copepod

Abstract. Understanding organismal responses to dynamic environments is becoming increasingly important in our rapidly changing world. Beyond genetic adapt

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Morgan Kelly @invertevoeco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Discover Day today! Please join us in the Student Union to see the results of some fantastic undergraduate research. While you’re there, be sure to check out posters from rockstar Kelly lab students Deborah Shobamowo and Suzie Heneghan 🌊@lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social l

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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🚗 Ride-sharing alert! Connect with fellow Evolution attendees for travel or room sharing: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Feel free to share what you’re comfortable with—details will be visible to others.

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Henry Arenas-Castro @henryarenas.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Applications to the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation are now open! We encourage PhD students & postdocs from all geographies, backgrounds, disciplines to APPLY! This 2d seminar in beautiful Lucca 🇮🇹 will be followed by a 5d conference open to the broader community. www.grc.org/speciation-g...

Screenshot of the registration page of the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation 2027 at Lucca, Italy

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Proposals are due May 18 for this year’s Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and up to $3500 for 3rd years and above. Learn more and apply now! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants, Apply by May 18, 2026.

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Rujuta Vaidya @rujutavaidya.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Glad to be a part of this Chilean adventure with @invertevoeco.bsky.social @brantfaircloth.bsky.social and Isabelle Neylan!

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

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Morgan Kelly @invertevoeco.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My PhD student Wissam Jawad defends his dissertation tomorrow! 1pm CST - please join us if you’re on campus or message me for a zoom link if you’d like to join us remotely.

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