James Kitchens
@kitchensjn.bsky.social
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Yes! And also we have an exciting announcement - we are so lucky to have the privilege of having Brenna Henn give the keynote. hennlab.ucdavis.edu
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Yes! And also we have an exciting announcement - we are so lucky to have the privilege of having Brenna Henn give the keynote. hennlab.ucdavis.edu
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Donate to the UC Davis pantry give.ucdavis.edu/FASA/322731 & Yolo foodbank yolofoodbank.org?form=foodfirst if you can
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Donate to the UC Davis pantry give.ucdavis.edu/FASA/322731 & Yolo foodbank yolofoodbank.org?form=foodfirst if you can
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With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae :
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae :
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Writing a letter for a great undergrad researcher in the lab. Check out their awesome GitHub repo on the transposable element simulations they wrote in slim! github.com/vibhachand/s...
GitHub - vibhachand/slim-TE-demography-simulation-project
Contribute to vibhachand/slim-TE-demography-simulation-project development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Writing a letter for a great undergrad researcher in the lab. Check out their awesome GitHub repo on the transposable element simulations they wrote in slim! github.com/vibhachand/s...
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Marine bio folks: Does anyone know of any non-toxic aquarium safe paint that could be used to tag crustaceans?
I have been supergluing sequins onto the carapace of a mantis shrimp, but it falls off after several days. Looking for something a bit longer term/
Please RT!
I have been supergluing sequins onto the carapace of a mantis shrimp, but it falls off after several days. Looking for something a bit longer term/
Please RT!
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Marine bio folks: Does anyone know of any non-toxic aquarium safe paint that could be used to tag crustaceans?
I have been supergluing sequins onto the carapace of a mantis shrimp, but it falls off after several days. Looking for something a bit longer term/
Please RT!
I have been supergluing sequins onto the carapace of a mantis shrimp, but it falls off after several days. Looking for something a bit longer term/
Please RT!
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Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
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Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
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Anyone looking for an undergrad research assistant this coming summer? I have a truly phenomenal undergrad with expertise in genetic mapping, long read sequencing & bioinformatics who wants experience in another lab before grad school. She has been in our lab for 3 years & writing her first paper!
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Anyone looking for an undergrad research assistant this coming summer? I have a truly phenomenal undergrad with expertise in genetic mapping, long read sequencing & bioinformatics who wants experience in another lab before grad school. She has been in our lab for 3 years & writing her first paper!
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I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!
We'll primarily work at the intersection of statistical and population genetics, and we also have active projects related to the ethical and social implications of human genetics (ELSI). Please get in touch if that's a combination that sounds interesting to you!
October 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!
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For population genetics and evolutionary biology folks in the Bay Area: the next BAPG will be hosted by Stanford CEHG and the Petrov lab at Stanford on 12/6.
Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
For population genetics and evolutionary biology folks in the Bay Area: the next BAPG will be hosted by Stanford CEHG and the Petrov lab at Stanford on 12/6.
Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sharing our new paper, "Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts". Genomics & evolution of a mating type system involving two morphs with alternating sexes in walnut relatives www.cell.com/current-biol...
Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In most species within the walnut family, two genetically determined morphs alternate
between male and female flowering phases in time. Groh et al. identify a distinct
locus for this dimorphism in two...
www.cell.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sharing our new paper, "Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts". Genomics & evolution of a mating type system involving two morphs with alternating sexes in walnut relatives www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In the angiosperm mating system of heterodichogamy, two hermaphroditic morphs temporally alternate between male and female flowering phases, promoting…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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
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
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Our paper (Brieuc Lehmann is the first author) is now online in Genetics.
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
On ARGs, pedigrees, and genetic relatedness matrices
Abstract. Genetic relatedness is a central concept in genetics, underpinning studies of population and quantitative genetics in human, animal, and plant se
academic.oup.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Our paper (Brieuc Lehmann is the first author) is now online in Genetics.
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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I want to try something again at #ASHG25 this year: I'll block some time on Thursday and Friday afternoons to meet with trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.
I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!
I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!
October 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I want to try something again at #ASHG25 this year: I'll block some time on Thursday and Friday afternoons to meet with trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.
I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!
I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!
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Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)
Using modern coexistence theory to understand community disassembly
Community disassembly examines how species extinction alters ecological communities. Sometimes, the extinction of one species can trigger the loss of others, known as secondary extinction. These secon...
www.biorxiv.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)
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The goal was to understand biogeography, so we sequenced transcriptomes for the new species, and several others, and built the largest-yet Caenorhabditis phylogeny. The most common Pohnpeian species (C. pwilidak sp nov) is sister to a Hawaiian endemic clade!
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The goal was to understand biogeography, so we sequenced transcriptomes for the new species, and several others, and built the largest-yet Caenorhabditis phylogeny. The most common Pohnpeian species (C. pwilidak sp nov) is sister to a Hawaiian endemic clade!
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SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes - Nature Genetics
SINGER is a method for creating ancestral recombination graphs to understand the genealogical history of genomes. The method has increased speed, and thus scalability, without sacrificing accuracy.
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
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The constant barrage of terrible news on bluesky has made me feel weird about promoting papers, but people in the lab have been doing so much amazing work over the past few months that I want to share a few brief teasers/links:
September 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The constant barrage of terrible news on bluesky has made me feel weird about promoting papers, but people in the lab have been doing so much amazing work over the past few months that I want to share a few brief teasers/links:
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Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
August 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
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Sanaa Khan from @katelaskowski.bsky.social lab talks about when males of Atlantic mollies transfer their sperm to sperm parasites Amazon mollies. An amazing talk with incredibly cool results!
#Behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
#Behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Sanaa Khan from @katelaskowski.bsky.social lab talks about when males of Atlantic mollies transfer their sperm to sperm parasites Amazon mollies. An amazing talk with incredibly cool results!
#Behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
#Behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
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I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
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Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so
@yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958
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@yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958
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tskit_arg_visualizer: interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs
Summary: Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) are a complete representation of the genetic relationships between recombining lineages and are of central importance in population genetics. Recent brea...
arxiv.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so
@yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958
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@yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958
1/6