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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are advertising a 3 year postdoc position for a project on ARGs and structural variation! Based at Oxford stats. Closing date noon 12 October, full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

In a new GBE Review, @david-peede.bsky.social et al. overview the SMC model and extensions, discuss examples of discoveries made with the help of SMC-based inference, and comment on the assumptions, benefits, and drawbacks of various methods. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution #compbio

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Not Just Ne Ne-More: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies

Abstract. Genomes contain the mutational footprint of an organism’s evolutionary history, shaped by diverse forces including ecological factors, selective

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Trevor Cousins @trevorcousins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Davide Peede & colleagues* (with input from me) have written a review paper on applications of the SMC model academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... We discuss what is the SMC approximation and why it is important, and then discuss many methods that use its machinery to infer various aspects of biology.

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Not Just Ne Ne-More: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies

Abstract. Genomes contain the mutational footprint of an organism’s evolutionary history, shaped by diverse forces including ecological factors, selective

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Our paper on ancient human population structure is now published. We find that the ancestors of modern humans lived in multiple populations during the period when Homo sapiens evolved in Africa. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans - Nature Genetics

The cobraa model extends the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent to identify structured population history by examination of the model transition matrix. Applied to human polymorphism data, cob...

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