Why do transposons jump at highly variable rates, and what does that mean to host evolution? In this 
Annual Reviews, Andrea Betancourt, Kevin Wei, Yuheng, and I integrated classic pop gen theories and new empirical data to explore this long-standing question. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

First preprint from Forest Speciation Lab: a multimodal documentation of rainforest tinamou mating ritual. The female courted with egg-laying-hen-like clucking and peacock-like feather-ruffling.
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#paleognath #courtship #dance #behavioralsciences #Panama

Congratulation to Puneeth Deraje & James Kitchens on their preprint using ancestral recombination graphs to estimate the location of genetic ancestors

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.Carl Veller & Graham Coop present a theoretical analysis of the influence of #confounders in population- & family-based #GWAS , showing that family-based studies, though more rigorous, still carry subtle issues that arise from confounding. #PLOSBiology plos.io/3Qmu2hF

New work from the lab! We present a novel method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to see this preprint out 'A geographic history of human genetic ancestry' by Michael Grundler, Jonathan Terhorst & Gideon Bradburd biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Looking forward to giving Science Wise Podcast a listen
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2 postdoctoral positions and one post-bac position working on bee cognition at UC Davis. Details here, please share: beecognition.com/join-the-lab #bees #postdoc

I've been thinking about 'spousal accommodations', aka 'partner hires', in academia and found this resource from 2008 quite interesting.
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This new 23 & me feature of reporting peoples' matches to ancient individuals (e.g. 9th C vikings) seems ripe for misinterpretation. See 2017 blog post gcbias.org/2017/12/19/162…
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23andMe now offering a service where they look to see if you share any DNA segments with ancient people. It’s cool and has its uses, but when it comes to identity I’d question the significance of identifying one distant relative/ancestor amongst 100s thousands/millions.