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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thanks! I’ll check with them.

Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · Aug 4

Looking for suggestions for outsourcing size selection on a Blue Pippin along with Illumina sequencing at a good price. I've previously used Novogene for sequencing, but they don't provide any size selection services.

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · May 24

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...

Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!

Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer

ssb2026.github.io

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · May 24

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ash silliman @ashsilliman.bsky.social · Jan 10

Had a blast illustrating some slugs for the lab while I was away on break :-)
From left to right:
Blue-grey Taildropper (Prophysaon coeruleum)
Carolina Mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus)
Red slug (Arion rufus)
Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · Jan 20

Preprint with postdoc @kerrycobb.bsky.social! 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!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nathan Wisnoski @nwisnoski.bsky.social · Dec 19

Looking to hire a postdoc to join the lab to work on coastal microbial ecology in the northern Gulf of Mexico!

Feel free to reach out via email with any questions. Application review starts Jan. 10, 2025.

explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...

Careers | MSU Jobs

explore.msujobs.msstate.edu

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · Dec 18

Grad student @ashsilliman.bsky.social bringing some cool new slug MicroCT scanning to the lab!

ash silliman @ashsilliman.bsky.social · Dec 18

New title unlocked: slug radiologist
(MicroCT scan on slug!)

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Dec 13

New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social❗

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.

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

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · Dec 7

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · Dec 3

End of semester 'favorite animal' word cloud from my animal diversity class. Not strange at all how many of them love snails and slugs.

Word cloud showing favorite animals from an animal diversity class. 'dog', 'snail', and 'slug' are most popular.

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · Nov 18

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Nov 6

ONE new preprint (led by Sarthak Mishra and @snaildit.bsky.social ),

TWO new programs (reconcILS and dupcoal).

Check it out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Oct 30

New from @snaildit.bsky.social and me. We find that popular methods for detecting introgression between sister species (fastsimcoal2, dadi, BPP) all have high false positive rates in biologically realistic settings.

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

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Oct 16

New review paper led by Yu Mo (not on Bluesky yet) and Megan Smith (@snaildit.bsky.social):

Applications of machine learning in phylogenetics
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · Oct 15

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Sep 21

Re-upping this, as we start to review applications in 10 days!

Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Aug 10

New postdoc position available! Evolution of mutation rates! 🚨🚨🚨

Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly.

(RTs [or whatevs] appreciated)

https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/19856

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