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Sebastian Höhna
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Computational Biologist at LMU München. RevBayes, phylogenetics, Bayes & Macroevolution. Former Miller fellow (UC Berkeley), Emmy Noether group leader & ERC StG

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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 11d
Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to stamatak@ics.forth.gr

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Sebastian Höhna @hoehna.bsky.social · 29d
Deadline soon (end of Nov) for this PhD position in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics in my group.
hoehna.bsky.social Sebastian Höhna @hoehna.bsky.social · Nov 11
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
hoehnalab.github.io

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Dirk Metzler @dirkmetzler.bsky.social · Nov 26
PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation.
See
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
PhD candidate in biology — theoretical and statistical modeling (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Nov 26
📢 Job alert: Post-Doc Position in the project "Functional annotation of genomic🧬 innovations in a densely populated clade🪰 with deep learning 💻" Join the GEvol community in a collaborative project between @bornberglab.bsky.social and @katharinahoff.bsky.social lab.
👉 bornberglab.org/post-doc-pos...
Post-Doc – bornberglab.org
bornberglab.org

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Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart @smnstuttgart.bsky.social · Nov 21
#SaveTheDate: Research Colloquium: The wonder reptile Mirasaura and the Reptile Revolution of the Triassic
by Dr Stephan Spiekman

Tuesday | 25.11.2025 | 16:00

Join the talk in person at the Museum am Löwentor or online: https://t1p.de/sq0m6

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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · Nov 18
🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️
Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13).
We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes!
More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY
#Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics
Posnien - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
s.gwdg.de

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Sebastian Höhna @hoehna.bsky.social · Nov 12
This is a paid position for a PhD student within a larger priority program. Ms positions are available through our MGAP or EES programs.

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Sebastian Höhna @hoehna.bsky.social · Nov 12
Yes, we are in the city center of Munich.

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · Nov 11
I'll be presenting a poster at #2025SVP #SVP2025 about my recently published work on how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny. Come by at the poster session this Thursday if you want to chat about it! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? | Biology Letters
Despite increased recent attention towards Bayesian phylogenetics and its applications in understanding macroevolutionary processes, it remains unclear how many discrete characters are needed to accur...
royalsocietypublishing.org

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Sebastian Höhna @hoehna.bsky.social · Nov 11
The position is part of the @gevol.bsky.social sky.social priority program. Please spread and get in contact.

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Sebastian Höhna @hoehna.bsky.social · Nov 11
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
hoehnalab.github.io

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Nov 10
🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Oct 21
#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny?
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · Oct 15
Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · Sep 25
I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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IPC7 @ipc7.bsky.social · Sep 19
Symposia 🔍

Among our 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium, we are pleased to feature:

✨ Life in the Phanerozoic Oceans: Evolution, diversity and ecology in deep time marine ecosystems✨

📩 To participate in this symposium or get more information, contact the conveners: 👇

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Thijs Janzen @thijsjanzen.bsky.social · Aug 28
This study by @hoehna.bsky.social and coauthors seems very reassuring: where we often pick partition specific models rather ad-hoc, it appears these do not influence divergence time estimations.
(I would still love to see a densitree plot though!)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Impact of Partition Models on Phylogenetic Inference and Divergence Times of Lampyridae from Mitochondrial Genomes
Mitochondrial genomes are frequently used for phylogenetic inference due to their availability and cost-efficient sequencing. In most mitogenomic phylogenetic analyses, only the two ribosomal RNA and ...
www.biorxiv.org

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Pedro Godoy @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social · Aug 1
Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · Jul 22
Excited to share that I will be a co-director for the upcoming Workshop on Phylogenomics @evomics.bsky.social, alongside the amazing main team lead @rosafernandez.bsky.social and Erin K. Molloy

We are putting together an amazing workshop with details to come - can't wait to share it with everyone!🥳

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · Jul 11
The study finding phylogenetically informative proteomic data in a 20+ Myr rhino from Arctic Canada--and mind blowingly including this Miocene sequence in a tip-dated analysis--counts 2021 PhD Alessio Capobianco (now postdoc, LMU Munich) among the authors: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid - Nature
Protein sequences from fossil tooth enamel of a rhinocerotid from Canada’s High Arctic are used to develop phylogenetic frameworks from a specimen too old to preserve ancient DNA.
www.nature.com

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · Jul 11
This week, two papers in @nature.com reported informative ancient proteins from Early Miocene (!) mammals. What I've realized now that I've had a chance to actually look at them: *both* studies include UMMP alums and/or current researchers as authors. Neat. 🦏🦷🧬
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ancient proteins rewrite the rhino family tree — are dinosaurs next?
Molecules from 20-million-year-old teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced.
www.nature.com

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · Jul 10
We now have protein sequences from rhino enamel that are >20 million years old! I am extremely excited and grateful to have been part of this project. The incredible thing: these sequences are informative enough to place this ancient species in the rhino tree! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid - Nature
Protein sequences from fossil tooth enamel of a rhinocerotid from Canada’s High Arctic are used to develop phylogenetic frameworks from a specimen too old to preserve ancient DNA.
www.nature.com

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Dr. Mathilde Cordellier @mcordellier.bsky.social · Jul 10
Job alert! I am looking for someone who would like to join my lab as a senior researcher, permanent, with teaching included. My lab is new, I still have startup money, just sayin. DM or email me with questions. Deadline Aug. 11th, interviews in september.
Ad here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...
Research Assistant (m/f/d) - Population Genomics/Evolutionary Genomics
jobs.uni-rostock.de

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 9
Molecules from 20-million-year-old rhino-relative teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced

go.nature.com/4lFx4KN
Ancient proteins rewrite the rhino family tree — are dinosaurs next?
Molecules from 20-million-year-old teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced.
go.nature.com

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𝙱𝙰𝚂𝙰𝙽𝚃𝙰 𝙺𝙷𝙰𝙺𝚄𝚁𝙴𝙻 @basantakhakurel.bsky.social · Jun 27
🆕 Preprint now on bioRxiv!
We introduce a covarion model for phylogenetic inference using discrete morphological data, addressing lineage- and character-specific rate heterogeneity.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#phylogenetics #morphology #covarion #evolution
A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets
The rate of evolution of a single morphological character is not homogeneous across the phylogeny and this rate heterogeneity varies between morphological characters. However, traditional models of mo...
www.biorxiv.org

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Ana Catalán @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social · Jun 24
This work shows the first overview on the population genetics and demographic history of the big European firefly, **Lampyris noctiluca**. Feeling very happy this work is out :) academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Sex-biased Migration and Demographic History of the Big European Firefly Lampyris noctiluca
Abstract. Differential dispersion between the sexes can impact the colonization process and demographic history of a species. Here, we explored the demogra
academic.oup.com

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Jun 24
@anaevolcatalan.bsky.social @hoehna.bsky.social @stusso.bsky.social @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social et al. analyse genomes of the European firefly, revealing a complex demographic history shaped by glaciation and sex-biased dispersal.

🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/6/msaf123/8170119

#evobio #molbio
Sex-biased Migration and Demographic History of the Big European Firefly Lampyris noctiluca
Abstract. Differential dispersion between the sexes can impact the colonization process and demographic history of a species. Here, we explored the demogra
academic.oup.com

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · Jun 23
@basantakhakurel.bsky.social Doing such a great talk, clearly explaining his convarion model for morphological characters and its performance relative to Mk
Model. Preprint coming soon!
A man giving a talk in front of the screen

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Stephane Guindon @stephaneguindon.bsky.social · May 23
Thanks a lot Granada for hosting us in 2025! It was a real blast. Fantastic venue, marvellous city. Many thanks to the local organizers: A. Jesús Muñoz-Pajares and Mohamed Abdelaziz Mohamed. #MCEB2025

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Mozes Blom @moosblom.bsky.social · May 22
🚨 Wanted: PhD student excited about population genomics, Natural History Collections and birds!
📍 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
🕒 3 Years, fully funded by the Leibniz Junior Researchgroup program

Details and Application portal 👇

jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/8...
14/2025 PhD student (f/m/d)
jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin