The 35th Workshop on MOLECULAR EVOLUTION application window is open until January 29, 2024; the course will happen May 24-June 3, 2024: mbl.edu/education/adva… Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) MBL molecular evolution workshop (course website: molevolworkshop.github.io)

Christmas slug

NYE hike

The application window for the May 24- June 3 Molecular Evolution workshop at the MBL in Woods Hole is closing on January 29 (a few days): mbl.edu/education/adva… Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) MBL molecular evolution workshop

Lots of friends in the garden this morning

So glad to be back at #Botany2024 If you’re around, come check out my talk tomorrow at 4:30 in the Molecular Ecology section. There are PENSTEMON HYBRID ZONES

We're headed to #evolution2024, with a couple of talks from the lab! Postdoc Kerry Cobb, Monday at 10 AM: Accommodating model misspecification when inferring introgression with machine learning Me, Tuesday at 12 PM: Using paralogs mitigates the effects of long-branch attraction

Many folks know this already but wanted to make an official announcement: I am super pleased to share that I will be starting my lab at Mississippi State University Mississippi State in Fall 2025! We will be recruiting grad students and a lab tech to start as soon as August ‘25

I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info: mhibbins.github.io

Updated version of reconcILS, now with more results and more speed (same great accuracy!) 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper with Megan Smith❗️ You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction! This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Preprint with postdoc Kerry Cobb! When processes (e.g., ghost introgression) are omitted from training data, machine learning approaches are error-prone. Domain adaptation allows accurate inferences of introgression in the presence of unmodeled processes! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…