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At last, my work with Andrew Kern on a quantitative genetics model of background selection in humans is live at PLoS Genetics! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Attention scientists from all over the world!🙃The Call for Letters of Intent for the #HFSPFellowships is open, and we can't wait to know about your bold research ideas!🤩💪Have you submitted yours yet? More info: bit.ly/3ZMPQp0 #BasicLifeSciences #ResearchOpportunity

Congratulations to Carl Veller on the publication of his article on confounding in population and family GWAS PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

A wonderful article by Carl Zimmer highlighting some of the nice work going on in the sociovirology community

I'm very glad to share our new work on the evolution of sex peptide and Sex Peptide Receptor interactions! Congratulations to Junhui Junhui Peng , Nicolas, and our collaborator from the Rockefeller Proteomics Core, Henrik. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

I am proud of every single paper that has come out of my lab, but this one feels truly special. This time, we asked: How to build a gliding mammal? Led by the stellar Jorge Moreno 🪼, I am happy to share our latest work, out in nature nature.com/articles/s4158… Please see 🧵👇

1 week left to submit an abstract for our symposium on the evolution of reproductive fluids!

Excited to finally share our work in Developmental Cell describing how Hippo pathway transcription regulators navigate the nuclear environment and interact with the genome to control gene expression in live tissues. 🧵1/8 authors.elsevier.com/c/1i~Wd5Sx5gxk…

Now 48 hours!

How do enhancers work over distances that sometimes exceed megabases? Excited to share our work led by Grace Bower where we uncover a unique sequence signature globally associated with long-range enhancer-promoter interactions in developing limb buds: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

🧵Excited to share my first author preprint detailing much of my dissertation work! Here we used gene editing to retrace the horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene that now encodes an anti-parasitoid toxin in Drosophila: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… /1

New preprint, with Sherif Negm "The effect of long-range linkage disequilibrium on allele-frequency dynamics under stabilizing selection" doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 1/

I am absolutely delighted to be joining the University of British Columbia next year as an Assistant Professor UBC Zoology. We will study social evolution in viruses.

No #evol2024 for me (baby at home). But do check out our Within-Organism Conflicts symposium on Tuesday morning. Great line up of speakers!

Just out in Royal Society Publishing On the resolution of sexual conflict. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… What a pleasure to write with Tanya Pennell , Suzanne Alonzo and Dave Hosken!!

Is it Monday? Hard to tell here! 😂 For all those who need a good start to the week, feast your eyes on this absolute weirdo [in an amazing way!]: #Plagiocephala latifrons, a stalk-eyed #Ullidiidae #fly. #FlySchool24 Soltis Center, Costa Rica

New preprint out on biorxiv! I propose a model for the stability of sex chromosome systems based only on the operation of stabilizing selection on polygenic traits. This will be a short thread on the main results 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…