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Xueling (Ling) Yi

@xuelingyi.bsky.social
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Postdoct at Senckenberg Research Institute. Humboldt Fellow. Research on evolution, comparative genomics 🧬 phylogeny, adaptation, biogeography, population genetics. Using bats as the study system 🦇 xuelingyi.weebly.com

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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
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Bernhard Bein @bernhardbein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Absolute tour de force led by @ymalovichko.bsky.social, with contributions from many in the lab @leonhilgers.bsky.social @xuelingyi.bsky.social @mich-albertini.bsky.social Alejandro Gonzales-Irribarren, Evgeny Leushkin and many others Check #TOGA2 out: github.com/hillerlab/TO...
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GitHub - hillerlab/TOGA2: TOGA2: A faster, more versatile successor of Tool to infer Orthologs from Genome Alignments
TOGA2: A faster, more versatile successor of Tool to infer Orthologs from Genome Alignments - hillerlab/TOGA2
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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
See you @official-smbe.bsky.social in Copenhagen!
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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Happy to announce the release of TOGA2 data for 68 turtle genomes, generated with a cryptodiran and a pleurodiran turtle reference. The combined TOGA2 annotation consistently improves annotation completeness compared with RefSeq. All data at genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2. Genome browsers ...
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Index of /download/TOGA2
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Thibault Latrille @phylogenetrips.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Should we measure trait evolution in unit of time or in unit of substitutions? Our new paper in @evolletters.bsky.social looks at this from a theoretical perspective. #Evolution #Phylogenetics DOI: doi.org/10.1093/evle... 🧵 thread below 🧵
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Phylograms better fit neutrally evolving traits than chronograms
Many species are characterized by trait differences between each other. For example, the brain size of different primate and human lineages varies. The que
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Nature @nature.com · 03/02/2026
Nature research paper: Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome go.nature.com/3LT1Und
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Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature
AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect prediction and enables comprehensive genomic analysis.
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes
Abstract. Evolutionary simulations of multiple chromosomes, even up to the scale of full-genome simulations, are becoming increasingly important in populat
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Iliana Bista @ilianabista.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Long-read sequencing can revolutionise the way we monitor #biodiversity. A comprehensive guide for using #ONT & #PacBio for analysis of biodiversity through #eDNA, #metabarcoding, metagenomics Just published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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EMPSEB 31 @empseb.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
📢 The Call for Abstracts for #EMPSEB31 is now open! 🔗 Full details & submission info on our website. ✈️ Applying for an ESEB Travel Grant? ⏰ Abstract deadline for travel-grant applicants: January 15, 2026 ⏳ General abstract deadline: February 1, 2026 #EvoBio #PhD #EMPSEB31
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Yi-Jyun Luo @yjluo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Rachel Germain @gerlame.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
My Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoc officially starts! My research project is on the genomic adaptations to sugar-rich diets in the New World leaf-nosed bats (family Phyllostomidae), hosted by the Hiller Lab. Appreciated and proud of being a Humboldt Fellow! @humboldt-foundation.de
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David Enard @denard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
An example: properly aligning homologous coding sequences to run dN/dS tests of positive selection is a deceptively difficult task. I have been doing it for ~20 years and still finding ways to improve the process. It is not a flashy task, and won't get CNS papers, but it is still absolutely vital.
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉 I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇
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Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A lot of pressure on the different grant schemes, and pretty much independent of career stage.
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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
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POPGROUP59 @popgroup2026.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !
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Population Genetics group 59
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Dimitris Kontopoulos @dgkontopoulos.io · 22/09/2025
We have a #NewPaper in Evolution (@journal_evo), led by Xueling Yi, on the #evolution of dietary preferences across (but not only) Phyllostomid #bats. 🦇 academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-art…
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Ivan Gomez-Mestre @igmestre.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇
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Kathy Darragh @kdarragh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
Green butterfly sat on a flower.
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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
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Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Proposals are due next week for the Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 US in funding for PhD students. Contact communications@evolutionsociety.org with any questions. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards, Deadline: September 15, 5:00 PM Eastern.
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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓 I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction. 👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates! Reposts appreciated 🙏
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨JOB ALERT!🚨 Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics! Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬 Apply here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!
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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues
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Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!
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Pável Matos @pavelmatosm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋 The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes. Deadline: September 12, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
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Join us
Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. PhD position (full-time doctoral funding) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. The goal of the project is…
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51808/
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Assistant Professorship in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (Teaching and Scholarship pathway) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professorship in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (Teaching and Scholarship pathway) in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
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Craig Primmer @fishcongen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The University of Greifswald is hiring a Doctoral Researcher in Animal Metabolomics. The role, starting February 2026, focuses on chemical ecology in Black Widow spiders. Apply by Sept 24, 2025. More info: animal-metabolomics.com/phdcall #gradstudent
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PhD Position – Animal Metabolomics & Ecology
PhD Position – Animal Metabolomics & Ecology
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Patrick Krapf @krapfpatrick.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Last day of #eseb2025 will kick off in a few moments with the plenary talk by Prof. Johanna Mappes from @helsinki.fi "Signals of Survival: The Genetics and Ecology of Looking Dangerous"
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Mirjam Knörnschild @berlinbatlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New publication from my lab: Vampyrum spectrum, the Neotropics' largest carnivorous bat, is very cooperative. These gentle apex predators regularly provide prey for family member – documented in the wild for the first time. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
#eseb2025 #eseb #sciart
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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
👋 Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment? #evolution #genetics Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇 devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
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ERC-funded PhD position available – Pierre de Villemereuil
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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!
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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The poster session was really great and lots of fun @eseb2025.bsky.social! Many interesting discussions and ideas! Thanks to everyone who stopped by at my poster! Looking forward to more interesting talks and posters in the following days!
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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I will present my freshly published paper on bat diet reconstruction and phyllostomid ancestral omnivory at ESEB @eseb2025.bsky.social, on Tuesday August 19th, poster session 2 P02.375. Looking forward to it!🦇
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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Paper link academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Comprehensive phylogenetic trait estimations support ancestral omnivory in the ecologically diverse bat family Phyllostomidae
Abstract. Adaptive radiations often occur with an early burst which requires both various niches and a generalist ancestor. However, ancestral generalism r
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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
@hillermich.bsky.social @dgkontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Online now! We supported ancestral omnivory and early evolved fruit feeding in the bat family Phyllostomidae by ancestral diet estimations using both discrete traits (multi-response threshold models) and continuous traits (Multivariate Brownian motion models). @journal-evo.bsky.social
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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy to report that our work on immune system adaptations in bats is now out in @nature.com 🦇🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ariadnamorales.bsky.social @batresearch.bsky.social @virology.bsky.social @DGKontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @sgn.one @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social Read more ...
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Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature
A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...
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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Glad to see our preprint out! We reconstructed diet evolution in bats and support ancestral omnivory of the ecologically diverse bat family Phyllostomidae.
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