Mince pies in the supermarket shelves again - it’s #popgroup season!

Come join the group! The Molecular Palaeobotany and Evolution Group Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh 3yr postdoc position investigating the origin of apical growth in land plants focused on the Rhynie chert fossils! Deadline 30/10/2023 Full details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

New pre-print: "Short communication: Accounting for nuclear and mito genome in dairy cattle breeding - a simulation study" led by Gabriela Mafra Fortuna. This was her MSc project, now turned into a short communication! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Open online talk on crop breeding!

Gene Myers just released super fast whole genome aligner github.com/thegenemyers/F…. He and Chenxi Zhou and I have lots of ideas for downstream use.

The Budke Lab UTK EEB is recruiting #PhD students to start fall 2025. Applications due Dec 1. Check out our lab website to see if your research interests are a good fit jmbudke.github.io & then reach out via email. Please RT & thanks! #gradschool #phdjourney

Help spread the word #BatCast #Bats #AnimalMigration

Very pleased to say that our paper on Ancestral Recombination Graphs is the "featured article" in Genetics this month: academic.oup.com/genetics/issue…. I've written a short explainer at bdi.ox.ac.uk/news/researche… Genetics Society of America Big Data Institute . Thanks to all my great coauthors!

Is anybody else noticing more than usual Marchantia this year? A Marchantia year - Urban liverworts in Edinburgh bryoevolgen.com/2024/09/07/a-m… #bryophytes #plantblindness

The efficacy of natural selection differs between lifestages in haploid-diploid Marchantia. #bryophyte #population #genomics Preprint out doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

We are advertising for a PhD! Come and work with me ARU_Biology and Alex Cagan at the GeneticsCambridge on somatic mutations in plants. More info here: findaphd.com/phds/project/s… Please apply through findaphd. Looking forward to seeing the applications :)

Please RT! 🦌🦨🐁🔥🔥 Join our lab! MS/PhD opportunity to study how mammals respond to large-scale prescribed fire. Starting Spring '25. Deadline: Oct 7.

Ever wondered why Fibonacci spirals are so common in plant leaves or why they are less common in lycophytes than other groups of plants? Come join the WhyFib team and find out! 🚨3 yr postdoc position available in the group 🚨 Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Very excited to share our newest preprint on signatures of selective sweeps in populations with no recombination - biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Work with Sachin Kaushik (sachin kaushik) and Kavita Jain (not on twitter).

Evolution and Speciation enthusiasts! Please submit your abstract for the phd student + postdoc symposium ahead of the Gordon Research Conferences on Speciation (or encourage your lab members!). My co-chair @Anna_F_Feller and I would love to see you there: grc.org/speciation-grs…

We are excited to announce the 58th PopGroup meeting will be held 7-9th January 2025 at the University of Sheffield! More information will be released soon via X and our website mlindner0.github.io/PopulationGene… For now save the date!

Check out the preliminary program for Popgroup58 on the website now --> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

Unifying statistical #genetics & #phylogenetics. Joshua G. Schraiber Doc Edge & Matt Pennell show that the distinct ways of mapping phenotypes while controlling for ancestry in these two fields are actually special cases of the same general approach #PLOSBiology plos.io/4eZvKiv

Do you think there is nepotism in the allocation of research grants (i.e. the probability of receiving a grant is increased by knowing someone on the panel or by having someone from your institution on the panel)?

Has anybody ever tried visualising a large #pedigree via principal component analysis? #PCA