How frequent is cross-ploidy hybridisation? doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… Big thanks Alex Twyford! With great sadness - Richard Abbott has passed away. He had a huge impact on the fields of plant evolution and hybridisation, and we were privileged to work with him on this paper.

Very much looking forward to this fantastic conference on Lepidoptera at Ikiam in Ecuador. k_nasvall, NICOL RUEDA and I will teach a course on biodiversity genomics before the conference starts.

Interesting #AssemblyCuration today Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme. HiC-phased diploid assembly of a dragonfly. Curating both haplotypes together in a merged map. Pics show X and Y sex chromosomes that were mashed up between the haps and also lots of false duplication by hifiasm to be removed. 🧵

We had great time hunting for springtails with you Andy Murray! I hope you'll visit us some time soon again. instagram.com/p/C6HYd2vr7_g/…

Come and work with myself and Alex Cagan on somatic evolution, a collaboration between ARU & Cambridge!

Super exited to share the second chapter of my dissertation with the world! TLDR; when we revisit Lewontin’s Paradox of Variation in plants with k-mers cool things happen (1/19) 🧵👀

🚨We want to hear what you have to say! Join us for our #BG24 Conference showcasing Biodiversity Genomics around the globe. Darwin Tree of Life Biodiversity Genomics Click the link below to submit your abstracts: biodiversitygenomicsconference.org

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Register for our annual Tree of Sex workshop in Prague! This year there will be a progress report, interactive sessions to solve outstanding challenges and more... forms.gle/7mPgxnvFwfYeYu…

The first genome note from our 959 Nematode Genomes project is available on WellcomeOpenResearch! We present a chromosome-level reference genome for Caenorhabditis drosophilae wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-292 One down, 958 to go...

🚨Weekly reminder that we want to hear what you have to say! Join us for our #BG24 Conference showcasing Biodiversity Genomics around the globe. Darwin Tree of Life Biodiversity Genomics Click the link below to submit your abstracts: biodiversitygenomicsconference.org

Excited to share my latest preprint (with a stellar band of collaborators), where we map the VCF data model into an efficient, cloud-native storage format. Thread follows: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Tree of Sex annual workshop is over. Many amazing talks, great discussions and a charted roadmap for the next steps. Thanks to all the participants!

Does anyone know about good approach / antibiotic mix to create (semi-)selective media to obtain both Pseudomonas and Xanthomonas isolates? 🦠🧫🌱 We are currently thinking about using King's B with ATB against G+ bacteria... Happy to hear any failed attempts as well 🙂

Gene Myers just released super fast whole genome aligner github.com/thegenemyers/F…. He and Chenxi Zhou and I have lots of ideas for downstream use.

We are getting really close with the new version of #smudgeplot... And it is starting to look really nice!