Austin Reynolds
awrgenes.bsky.social
Austin Reynolds
@awrgenes.bsky.social
Human geneticist - UNTHSC
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Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.

Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Early Career Scientist Awards 2026
Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Absolutely buzzing about a figure one of my students just sent me! I love it when good data is amplified by good visualization.
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Please come by poster #8068 today and speak with my collaborator Jackson Barth about EpipwR, our new EWAS power calculator for both quantitative and case/control studies! #ASHG25
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New preprint out with Brenna Henn, led by two fantastic grad students in our labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recovering the pre-colonial population structure of Khoe-San descendant populations
San populations from Botswana and Namibia retain exceptional linguistic, cultural and genetic diversity, but few Khoisan-speaking groups remain south of the Kalahari Desert. However, historically, far...
www.biorxiv.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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📣New from @awrgenes.bsky.social & co
📄The Indian Ocean slave trade and colonial expansion resulted in strong sex-biased admixture in South Africa
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
The Indian Ocean slave trade and colonial expansion resulted in strong sex-biased admixture in South Africa
Using genetic data from >1,200 South Africans, we examine admixture patterns from Cape Town to the historic colonial frontier’s northern edge, finding male-biased European ancestry and female-biased K...
www.cell.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’ve got a new paper out today in @ajhgnews.bsky.social on sex-biased admixture patterns in South Africa. A long time in the making and thrilled to finally have it out! www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
The Indian Ocean slave trade and colonial expansion resulted in strong sex-biased admixture in South Africa
Using genetic data from >1,200 South Africans, we examine admixture patterns from Cape Town to the historic colonial frontier’s northern edge, finding male-biased European ancestry and female-biased K...
www.cell.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📊 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: "EpipwR: Efficient power analysis for EWAS with Continuous outcomes"

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf150

Authors include: @awrgenes.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK.

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
Senior Research Associate in Population Genomics (RA2327) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate in Population Genomics (RA2327) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Biological Sciences Senior Research A...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk
June 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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My review of computational methods for anthropological genetics with @kwittadna.bsky.social is out for the Yearbook issue of AJBA.

We talk about all sorts of cool methods that YOU could use too!

Also check out this great figure we commissioned from @janey1216.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
March 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Less than a week left to apply for a postdoc in my group. Closing date 31 Jan. If you are interested in human popgen please apply!
January 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM