Our paper on the DNA of medieval Ashkenazi Jews is now published! Congrats to all co-authors and thanks reviewers/editors! We analyzed 33 genomes from a 14th-century Jewish cemetery in Erfurt, Germany. See thread for key additions since the preprint. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Very excited to share that our review paper, 'fluctuating selection and the determinants of genetic variation', is out today in Trends in Genetics! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out our review of the evidence and models for multilocus fluctuating selection. A big congratulations to the first author, Olivia Johnson, for her outstanding work!

Very pleased for Olivia Johnson that her review on fluctuating selection is published. A great distillation of an exciting field, in which she will make excellent contributions too. Stay tuned!

Fantastic investigative work by Iain Mathieson et al, providing strong evidence against claims (nature.com/articles/s4158…) that specific immune gene variants were under very strong natural selection during the black death.

Also suggests large file drawer effects in some aDNA topics. 2016-ish was when I first heard of a negative result on this exact q.

Our study about S. aureus evolution on patients with atopic dermatitis is out! Check out a thread about all highlights by my awesome PI Tami Lieberman back at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Shout out to Maria Teresa García Romero for enrolling patients, for Veda Khadka functional work, and the entire team. 🍾

We're looking for a bioinformatician / computational biologist to join our international consortium working on SARS-COV-2 variants of concern using cohort studies (endvoc.eu). The post is based at UCL under the direct supervision of Lucy van Dorp and myself. 1/

Congratulations to the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Winners 2023: Harvinder Pawar University College London, UK facebook.com/profile.php?id… Ghost admixture in eastern gorillas #SMBE23 SMBEmeetings

Just got a submission for the headline - ‘Ben Roberts-Smith Offered Partnership By PwC’ but then remembered that actually fucking happened

Can officially cross ‘article featured on journal cover’ off my list of goals 🗒️

Tweetorial on the recent preprint on inferring ARGs for SARS-Cov-2 with Shing, Anastasia Ignatieva, Dr Yan Wong, @ktmeaton, Ben Jeffery, Duncan Palmer, Dr. Carmen Lia Murall and @sarperotto 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am immensely proud to have taken part in this podcast about our family experience of living with a rare disease, being on a clinical trial and all the support and challenges along the way.

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Very excited to have the second paper of my PhD out today! Our study benchmarks the computational resource usage of simulation workflows of non-standard forms of natural selection, using fluctuating selection as an example. doi.org/10.1111/1755-0…