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To learn more, please come to our workshop from 7:45-9:45PM Friday at #Dros23! We will have additional broad-scale perspectives on biodiversity, a Drosophilidae Tree of Life Anton Suvorov, clade-scale TE annotation Dr. Josefa González, and drosophilid microbes Brandon S. Cooper

We're looking for a postdoc to study the population genetics of mosquito vector species (especially Aedes). Full posting to follow, but if interested feel free to reach out to me in the meantime. Bonus: the position involves collaboration with the great @danielrmatute! Please RT!

The revised version of @willwbooker's paper where we use generative neural networks to create synthetic population genetic data is now published in GENETICS! Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/geneti…

Logan Whitehouse's updated Timesweeper paper, describing our method for detecting sweeps in pop gen time series data, is now out in GENETICS! Lots of additions, the most notable one being we now infer selection coefficients (and do it well!). Check it out: academic.oup.com/genetics/advan…

Hiring a postdoc! See ad, and apply! evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir… I am especially keen to find a candidate to work with me and @danielrmatute on some fun mosquito stuff!

In our new work we infer the history of TE invasions in Dmel during the last centuries: 7 invasions in 200 years! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are generating genomic data for all #Drosophila stock center lines as a open resource for the community. Oxford Nanopore + resequencing + transcriptome. Huge week-long effort by an amazing group Augusto Santos Rampasso Kyla O'Hearn Emmanuel D'Agostino Lidane Noronha @afmata_2 Asha Jain @YazBraimah

The Carey Lab Virginia Tech is recruiting 2 PhD students in freshwater ecology (phytoplankton, biogeochemistry & more!) to start in Jan or Aug 2024- come join us! Learn more about the positions here: carey.biol.vt.edu/?page_id=90 & please RT! GLEON Ecological Forecasting Initiative ASLO Opportunities

Our lab at Virginia Tech is recruiting a Postdoc! If you are interested in computational and/or empirical phylogenetics, please see the ad and apply! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/…

With Hannah Gellert, Sam Church, Anton Suvorov, Dmitri Petrov and others, we use low-input (down to 30ng), single-insect Oxford Nanopore sequencing to help do 184 new genomes and address the near absence of genomic data for drosophilid species that cannot be cultured in the lab.

After 2 rejections & 4 rounds of review (all by the same journal), our first GPN paper is finally published: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… We feel jaded, but it was worth the effort and we are grateful to the reviewers for their time & helpful feedback. Some lessons learned: (1/2)

Dylan Ray's paper on detecting introgression using semantic segmentation is now published in PLOS Genetics (journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…). (Original mini-thread quoted below)

Thread about a new preprint from the lab, led by Logan Whitehouse and Dylan Ray, about tree-sequences. The teaser tagline: why use tree sequences for evolutionary inference when you can directly examine population genetic alignments? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thrilled to share our new paper with Dan Schrider now out in PLOS Comp Biol . We show how deep learning approaches can be used to infer such a fundamental phylogenetic parameter as the tree branch length. Read it here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

I am happy to see @EthanTolman's work published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution! Read it if you are interested in an intricate evolutionary history of a dragonfly family Petaluridae. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Update: the accepted version of Amjad's paper on simulation rescaling is now online at GENETICS: academic.oup.com/genetics/advan…