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Luis-Miguel Chevin @lmchev.bsky.social · 8h

I wrote a commentary about the recent paper by @deepaagashe.bsky.social and @vrindarvkm.bsky.social

Also go have a look at the original paper if you haven't !

The timeframe of prediction for eco-evolutionary dynamics | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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April Wei @aprilwei.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to preprint our latest work (w/ Drew DeHaas, Zhibai Jia, Leo Speidel) on using ARGs for demographic inference. w/ applications using data from 1000 Genomes Project. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Inference of complex demographic history using composite likelihood based on whole-genome genealogies

Accurate parametric inference on complex demographic models is a continuing challenge in population genetics. Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) provide richer information than simple population ge...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 6d

Host constraints on viral recombination and emergence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679867v1

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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)

The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies

Abstract. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the accurate inference of large-scale genealogies. Through modelling the impact of recombination on the correla

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 11d

How do mate-finding Allee effects affect evolutionary rescue? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.678992v1

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 24d

Congrats to Dr. Meng Yuan, who defended her PhD on the genome-wide potential for ploidy & sexual conflict in plants! Many thanks to @judithmank.bsky.social for serving as her external examiner. A fun collaboration w/ @stepheniwright.bsky.social and also @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social for a paper!

Photo of Dr. Meng Yuan (center), and Aneil Agrawal, Megan Bontrager, John Stinchcombe, Judith Mank, Stephen Wright, and Asher Cutter.

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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 24d

Our paper about how ancestral recombination graphs can be used to detect "phantom" genetic interaction signals (that arise due to the genealogy, rather than "real" epistasis) is out in Genetics! Nice thread here by @linoafferreira.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

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Vrinda Ravi Kumar @vrindarvkm.bsky.social · 29d

Our work on evolutionary rescue is finally out in this week's issue of PNAS! Check out the NCBS communications team piece on our work quoted below.

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social · 29d

#LatestPublication
Vrinda & team from Dr Deepa Agashe's lab tracked beetle populations for 5+ years in harsh environments. Findings show how traits of founders influenced the long-term survival of their descendants.

🔗 bit.ly/42hsviC

@deepaagashe.bsky.social

🧵Check out the thread to know more!👇

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Sep 1

Quasi epigenetic equilibrium: the implications of plasticity and variability on evolution and extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672696v1

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bob week @bweek.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our Quantitative Genetic approach to Modelling Microbiome-Mediated Host Adaptation is now published in Evolution !!!

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Quantitative Genetics of Microbiome Mediated Traits

Abstract. Multicellular organisms host a rich assemblage of associated microorganisms, collectively known as their “microbiomes”. Microbiomes have the capa

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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · Aug 28

Season 5 is going to start 🔜

Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...

@kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 27

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

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James Kitchens @kitchensjn.bsky.social · Aug 19

Whether you are looking to get a better grasp on how these graphs are structured or communicating findings from your latest ARG inference project, we hope that tskit_arg_visualizer becomes a useful addition to your research toolkit!

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Puneeth Deraje @puneethderaje.bsky.social · Aug 19

Check out this cool visualization tool for ARGs by @kitchensjn.bsky.social!! Found it super helpful to visualize an ARG as a single graph and to look at marginal trees as part of the full graph.

James Kitchens @kitchensjn.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so
@yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958

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tskit_arg_visualizer: interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs

Summary: Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) are a complete representation of the genetic relationships between recombining lineages and are of central importance in population genetics. Recent brea...

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks, Hanna! There are quite a few Kokkonuts at #ESEB2025! On Thursday, @gauravathreya.bsky.social talks about ageing + sex, @tomospotter.bsky.social talks about guppy polymorphisms, @ccrowther.bsky.social has a poster on nesting 🐢, and Victor Ronget has a poster on ageing trends in mammals + 🐦!

Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · Aug 19

#ESEB2025 Very concentrated looks when @shikharabhat.bsky.social educates us about pop noise! One of the last talks I could attend, sorry I had to leave early (planned, still 🫤) The lab's presence continues without me so grab them for a science chat!

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 16

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

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bob week @bweek.bsky.social · Aug 17

hai eseb people ! come to my talk introducing the quantitative genetics of microbiome mediated traits :) 2:30-2:45 at S07.02

btw our ppr just got accepted at evolution ! amazing and challenging reviews ::)) revised pre-print here

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Quantitative Genetics of Microbiome Mediated Traits

Multicellular organisms host a rich assemblage of associated microorganisms, collectively known as their “microbiomes”. Microbiomes have the capacity to influence their hosts’ fitnesses, but the condi...

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

An illustration with populations on the left and mathematical representations of these populations in terms of birth-death processes on the right

Stochastic differential equations for trait frequencies, mean value of a trait, and the variance of a trait in the population

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 13

Presenting Dr. @bmsacchi.bsky.social !! Bianca successfully defended her thesis on Rumex sex chromosome degeneration and regulatory evolution today. Bravo!!

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Asad Hasan @asadh.bsky.social · Aug 8

Excited to finally have the pre-print up for this work on evolutionary rescue from my PhD at UBC!

Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Aug 6

Evolutionary rescue in a consumer-resource system: Adaptation and persistence depend on the affected ecological traits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.04.668505v1

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Aug 1

How Randomness Can Flip Evolution: New Study Uncovers Surprising Role of Population Noise

Summary & Analysis by Tahirah Williams of “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics for Finite Populations and the Noise-Induced Reversal of Selection” by Bhat et al.
www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

Diagram from “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics for Finite Populations and the Noise-Induced Reversal of Selection” by Ananda Shikhara Bhat and Vishwesha Guttal (Jan 2025). © University of Chicago

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NSF-Simons NITMB @nitmb.bsky.social · Jul 17

From REU to Population Biology Workshop Participant

We reconnected with former Center for Quantitative Biology REU participant Mete Yuksel after he recently attended an NITMB workshop focussed on population biology!

www.nitmb.org/post/from-re...

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Robert Masaki Hechler @roberthechler.bsky.social · Jul 15

New preprint! We analyzed ~500 global marine fish time series using #EmpiricalDynamicModeling and show that temperature variation amplifies nonlinearity in juveniles and adults, while life history mediates nonlinearity for the latter, dampening it in slow-lived species #Ecology #Fisheries

Temperature variation and life history mediate the degree of nonlinearity in fluctuations of global marine fish populations

Nonlinear dynamics readily occur in natural ecosystems and can drive irregular population fluctuations through oscillations, chaos and alternative stable states. However, the effects of anthropogenic ...

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congratulations to @jaimegrimm.bsky.social and the rest of the 2025 cohort of CSEE Excellence in Doctoral Research Awards!

Every year the quality of student research in the society continues to blow my mind. #CSEE2025

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Elise Kerdoncuff @ekerdoncuff.bsky.social · Jun 26

Check out our dive into 50,000 years of Indian genetic history!🇮🇳
🧬~2,700 genomes
🦴Neanderthal/Denisovan DNA
🌾Hunter-gatherer, Iranian farmer & Steppe ancestry
🩺Health-linked, population-specific variants

@lauritsskov.bsky.social & Priya Moorjani
#Genomics #India #HumanEvolution #PopulationGenetics

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