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📣 I'm recruiting!! 📣 Open position for a postdoc in disease ecology/evolution. Do you like birds, pathogens, or genomics? Do you want to work in the Galapagos? Apply by July 1 for best consideration. Start date flexible. Contact me for info & please RT! tinyurl.com/3x56e5jf

Very pleased to release FlexSweep and some new summary stats, designed for versatility in detecting selective sweeps of different types and robustness to background selection, demographic model misspecification, and recombination rate. 1/n academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

We are excited to announce Christina P. Riehl as the next editor-in-chief of the AOS journal, Ornithology. Dr. Riehl is an assoc. professor in the dept. of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. Read our full announcement. americanornithology.org/aos-names-chri… #ornithology #research

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Hi Everyone! join us on 5th DEC 5pm CET for the next IOS seminar. Catherine Wagner and Carlos Daniel Cadena Ordoñez will give us a macroevolutionary perspective of speciation. Link on website speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/seminar-series/

“Variant scores calculated by GATK did not clearly distinguish true positives from false positives in the vast majority of cases, implying that hard-filtering with GATK could be challenging… results suggest that Bcftools mpileup may be the first choice for non-human studies”

In 2013 Márcio Repenning and Carla Fontana described Sporophila beltoni. In our new paper, Tram Nguyen and I teamed up with them to show how S. beltoni diverged from S. plumbea with a few genomic regions resisting introgression, despite high gene flow. doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

That’s about half the annual salary of an university professor in Brazil.

Lisa Kaltenegger, director of Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, hunts for aliens in space by studying Earth across time, reports Becky Ferreira for The New York Times. nytimes.com/2024/04/10/sci…

How do structural variants shape avian phenotypes? This is what Maria Recuerda Carrasco learned mainly from chickens. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… (pic by Dennis G. Jarvis - CC BY-SA 2.0)

Esta es la mejor playa del mundo para ver ballenas, y es acá en Argentina El Doradillo, Puerto Madryn

Come check the poster I'm presenting with Leonardo Campagna and Cecilia Kopuchian about my PhD project with Capuchinos at Esteros del Ibera. #Evol2024 #Evolution #Sporophila #Capuchinos

My study on territorial behavior and breeding philopatry has just been published (open access, Association of Field Ornithologists). It is the result of my doctoral thesis. journal.afonet.org/vol95/iss3/art…

Hoy empezamos el Taller de Genómica Evolutiva 2024, en Bogotá, Colombia. Gracias a SELVA Uniandes SSE Cornell Lab Kent State

The first Avian Hybrids story of 2025! Convergent evolution of island melanism in the Chestnut-bellied Monarch buff.ly/3PkQXsK Based on the PLoS Genetics paper by Leonardo Campagna and his colleagues | #ornithology

How do different types of genetic variants contribute to Capuchino Seedeater evolution? María recuerda built a pangenome from 32 HiFi genomes, recovering 28% more sequence and 8% more genes than with a single reference. More here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The reason biologists in your timeline are furious by this PR: the idea that species that diverged millions of years ago have only 20 genetic differences defies the fundamental principles of evolution. Like saying you turned a Honda Civic into a Formula 1 car by changing the oil

Today we presented the preliminary results of my PhD project with Leonardo Campagna and Cecilia Kopuchian at Evolution Meetings #Evo2025