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New paper led by Katherine Hulting shows restoration with diverse seed mixes originating from one geographic location increases floral abundance, and effects propagate through the food web. Sean Griffin Jess Webb Lindsey Kemmerling Kellogg Biological Station LTER besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Very excited to share a huge project that's been a long time in the making. Interested in squamate macroevolution? Curious about how snakes fit into the broader ecological context of squamates? Looking for a new squamate phylogeny? Check out our new work: doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

The Kreiner and Carley Labs at The University of Chicago E&E are co-hiring a Lab Manager/Research Technician position in Plant Evolutionary Ecology & Genomics. Please see the link for more details and instructions on how to apply: bit.ly/UChiPlantTech2…

SSE Council, along with @ASNAmNat and Society of Systematic Biologists leadership, has written an open letter to express concern for the ongoing reduction of support for biological collections. Read the full letter here: drive.google.com/file/d/12VBnvr…

Michigan State University researcher Sarah Fitzpatrick has been selected to receive a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award for the 2024-25 academic year. Congratulations, Dr. Fitzpatrick! Read the details: kbs.msu.edu/2024/02/fitzpa…

Our paper on heritability is out (open access) at PNAS! I think it really improved through the review process, and we're glad to have this out there! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Deadline extended until this Friday! There is still time to apply to our Senior Agroecologist position at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station!

Super excited about this new method by Yun Deng 邓赟.

Excited to see this preprint out "A geographic history of human genetic ancestry" by Michael Grundler, Jonathan Terhorst & Gideon Bradburd biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pitfalls and windfalls of detecting demographic declines using population genetics in long-lived species biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

A next generation of hierarchical Bayesian analyses of hybrid zones enables direct quantification of variation in introgression in R dlvr.it/T4s9yD

The flood continues... Inferring the geographical locations of ancestors using ARG (w/ beautiful visualizations) biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Fast inference of demographic history using the allele frequency spectrum: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… ->

Please join us on the 30th of April at 5 pm CET for the next IOS seminar. Gideon Bradburd and L. Lacey Knowles will gives us their thoughts on spatial pattern of speciation. Zoom link on website soon: speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/seminar-series/

Two from W.K. Kellogg Biological Station!

Searching for a project manager for our NSF-funded mosquitofish mesocosm work testing 'adapt or die' responses to stress careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5185… Based at ABS with opportunities for independent research and travel to W.K. Kellogg Biological Station . Please spread the word!

I am recruiting a graduate student (MS or PhD) for Fall 2025 to join my new Statistical Ecology and Forest Science Lab at North Carolina State University! Please share widely! Details here: doserlab.com/contact/

In this new #GENETICS study, Jerome Kelleher and colleagues simplify ideas surrounding Ancestral Recombination Graphs in genealogy studies and offer a roadmap to incorporate them in the population and statistical genetics toolkit mathematically: bit.ly/3YeUdeU

Hot off the press! We present CLUES2, a comprehensive method for selection coefficients that can incorporate ARGs, ancient DNA, changing selection through time, dominance, and more. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/do…

We put out our pre-print on simulating IBD segments around a locus. I have used our algorithm many times to build intuition around IBD-based estimation procedures. We also used it to validate confidence interval coverage in our AJHG paper. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper is out. And it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…