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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 3d

It could be quite the day!

Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 22d

In the midst of the darkness, I am pleased to announce that UCLA will be hosting the upcoming Southern California Evolutionary Genetics (SCalE) conference on November 1! Registration & abstract submission is here: www.scalemeeting.org/home Deadline is October 13! Hope to see you at UCLA!

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The SCalE Meeting is a free, one day regional academic meeting focused on evolutionary genetics and genomics. This year's SCalE Meeting is hosted by UCLA, sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative ...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 25d

Genome-wide associations of fitness components reveal antagonistic pleiotropy and sexual conflict in the Florida Scrub-Jay https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.673786v1

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

genetics-gsa.org

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is a perfect example of how IS science is being destroyed. I hope you write about it somewhere with higher visibility

Anders Sejr Hansen @andersshansen.bsky.social · Aug 19

I have
NIGMS R35, impact score 12
NIHGRI R21, 4th percentile
NHGRI R01, 7th percentile (co-I)
and it seems like none will be funded. 0/3.

PO (who has been very helpful) said "Unfortunately, I do not expect this application will be selected for funding in FY25."

😭

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Aug 13

lol! Love it!😀

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Aug 12

That's a cool idea! BTW, this our paper I was referring to: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Though we called our stat ID_risk, and it combines pi within non-ROHs with FROH.

Long runs of homozygosity are reliable genomic markers of inbreeding depression

A long-standing goal in ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genetics is to identify genomic correlates of fitness and inbreeding depression. Over the past several years, a growing body of theor...

www.cell.com

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Aug 12

Is this a subtweet of our recent paper😂?

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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillon 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excited to be heading to St. Louis for #AOS2025! Be on the lookout for talks from our lab!:
- Jenna McCullough (PD) and Jonah Alderson (grad) are up against each other on Wed. morning
- Claire Geiman (grad) will present a poster Wed evening
- Devon DeRaad (PD) will give a talk on Thur afternoon

Information on Jonah’s talk: Domestication genomics of the society finch (Wed, August 13 at 11:30-11:45 am), Genomics 2, Room Grand C

Info on Jenna’s talk: is structural white color rare in birds? Wednesday Aug 13 at 11:30-11:45, in Grand Ballroom A

Info on Devon’s talk: How are new species formed on islands? Superficial signals of sympatric ecological speciation actually result from massive and ongoing gene flow; Thursday, August 14 at 2:45-3:00pm, Room Grand F

Info on Claire’s poster: Strong selection maintains a narrow, stable avian tension zone in the Great Plains; Wednesday evening from 7-9pm, Poster Number 2

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congratulations!!!!

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Jul 23

Symposium 17: Thematic symposium: regulatory genomics and non-coding elements

#SMBE2025

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Jul 23

Come join us at UCLA!!! We have a growing population genetics community here and Nandita and her lab are outstanding!

Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Jul 22

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Garud Lab

garud.eeb.ucla.edu

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Xinjun Zhang @zhanglabpopgen.bsky.social · Jul 21

Having major FOMO about #SMBE2025 in my hometown… but I’m very proud that my postdoc, Susanna Gutierrez, will be presenting our work on inferring the selection history of adaptive introgression candidates in Peruvians at poster S12-P19. Please visit her during poster session 3 if you're interested!

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sad to be missing #SMBE2025. But, the lab will be represented with presentations from (all on Wednesday):

Swetha Ramesh (at 11:50 in Symp 17, Noncoding)
Chenlu Di (at 12:05 in Symp 17, Noncoding)
Diana A Gomez (at 15:45 in Symp 19, Con Gen)
Aina Mi Zurita (at 16:40 in Symp 22, Theory Adv)

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations Ran!!!🥳

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congratulations Joana!!!!😀🥳

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · Jun 23

Schlichta, Peischl & Excoffier reveal how purifying selection on deleterious mutations impacts diversity: while codominant variants create diversity dips, recessive mutations can preserve diversity in bottlenecks through pseudo-overdominance.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf107

#genome #evolution

Evolution of Functional Genomic Diversity During a Bottleneck

Abstract. Most species have been through population bottlenecks and range expansions, and the impact of these events on patterns of diversity has been well

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Jun 22

Castle and ruins. But still here. Perhaps a metaphor..

Heidelberg overlooking the Neckar River.

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Jun 22

Quick visit to Heidelberg and Frankfurt to visit family and Bruce Springsteen….this helped refresh my soul in these bizarre and trying times.

Kirk and kids at Bruce Springsteen concert.

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Jun 8

I hope you feel better soon! I'm sorry we gave you such a yucky souvenir from your visit!

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · May 24

Thank you @brucespringsteen.net for (yet again) meeting the moment and speaking up for America in these dangerous times...and giving us some hope in the Promised Land.

Kirk standing with Bruce Springsteen at his concert at the Kia Forum in LA in 2024.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · May 14

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

Land of Hope and Dreams

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · May 16

This made me smile, thank you!😀 The last few weeks have definitely felt like The Bear. Also submitting a proposal too! It's been oddly rejuvenating for my soul to be moving projects over the finish line with all the awfulness RE science funding going on....

Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thank you @martamlahr.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social for organizing a such a fantastic mtg!!! Lots of great science and fun!😃👏 #HumanEvo25

Conference organizers with Mark Stoneking

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Apr 30

Keynote talk from OG Mark Stoneking on the peopling of the Pacific! #HumanEvo25

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