On the back pages of BYTE from Dec 1995, there was an article on FreeBSD by Jordan Hubbard. Jordan is the co-founder of the FreeBSD project and later became the director of Unix technology at Apple

As Zam says, this is impressive work by shows Oxford Nanopore consensus call accuracy being better than illumina (with a deep learning caller, in bacteria) - I have huge COI (long established consultant for Oxford Nanopore and shareholder) but wanted to put this in short+long term context

Our preprint exploring the role of Ne and gene expression on purifying selection in penguins has been recommended by PCI Evolutionary Biology! Approaches can be extended to many non-model organisms, including using expression bins as a proxy for selection coefficients evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?i…

Please share! My lab will be hiring 2-3 postdocs over the coming months to study the genetic basis of behavioral traits in darters using brain transcriptomics & population genomics. First ad is posted here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_External/… #behavior #popgen #evolution #neuroethology

I’m excited to share my first dissertation chapter and first, first-authored article “Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone” being published with Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evolut… (1/4)

Out today in Molecular Ecology Resources: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… (open access) Congratulations to Gio on his first, first author paper and on publishing a useful tool for the community!

Out in MER! 𝐾𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑦: a new kmer-based tool by Gio Madrigal, Bushra Minhas, & Julian Catchen for evaluating and visualizing genome assemblies and sequence motifs using long-read sequencing data. Wiley Ecology & Evolution @iBioIllinois Read More: buff.ly/3KiIIuq

The Beck Lab is hiring an assistant researcher/lab manager or two KU Biology. Position starts this August in Lawrence KS. We are a 50/50 wet/dry lab and are looking for people with a wide range of skills. Must love mitochondria. Helpful if you love fish. employment.ku.edu/staff/28121BR

Who’s going to #SMBE2024 in Puerto Vallarta? My talk is going to be about paleogenomic analysis of hair from cavities in the the teeth of lions featured in this (epic) movie 🦁come say hi! And share your presentation info so I can check out your talk! #TheGhostandTheDarkness

Awesome article (and photos of manakins!) just released today, written by Shelby Lawson on my recent paper with Angel G. Rivera-Colón, Kevin Bennett, Julian Catchen, Jeff Brawn and Mike Braun in Evolution Journal Check it out: buff.ly/3L3sar0 #ornithology #manakin #TeamManacus

Excited to be at #SMBE2024! I will be giving a talk on Thursday's Open Symposium 2 about our new genome and population genomic analysis of the Pacific acorn #barnacle. Come check it out! Also, do you have access to barnacle samples? Let's chat!

In a new study, Illinois researchers describe a hybrid zone between two manakin species in Panama that has overall remained relatively stable over the past 30 years. Learn more at bit.ly/3LiSqOg.

Alida de Flamingh, Ph.D. talks about using #aDNA to investigate prey in the Tsavo Lions! Genomic Biology #SMBE2024 #TheGhostAndTheDarkness

Catherine Wilson & John Postlethwait published research in #G3journal that explores unique features of the zebrafish sex chromosome, identifying a gene regulatory block of the zebrafish genome responsible for overseeing the maternal-to-zygotic-transition: bit.ly/4cYCkVL

Happy to release Stacks v2.67 today. This release updates process_radtags to make it easier to use SRA data and to filter poly-G (error) runs coming from Nextseq/Novaseq machines + bugfixes. We also added a genotype depth filter to populations #RADseq catchenlab.life.illinois.edu/stacks/

Today we’re excited to freely share an early-version of, perhaps, the world’s most expansive genetics dataset: Logan. #bioinformatics #petabase #genetics #genomics #openscience biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My first show.

Paper out today! We used tiny hair fragments from the teeth of the historic #TsavoLions to identify their prey 🦓🦒🦁 Current Biology Field Museum Genomic Biology University of Illinois cell.com/current-biolog…

Famed lions’ full diet revealed by DNA — and humans were among their prey nature.com/articles/d4158… (a round-about way to get into Nature 😍 it was nice chatting to Emma Marris about these lions!)

Out today in Molecular Ecology! We explored the landscape of gene expression in the amazing adaptation of Emperor penguin's to the extreme conditions of Antarctica 🐧🧊 First paper from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Poly2Adapt project! 🇪🇺onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…