Megan Smith
@snaildit.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Mississippi State | population genetics, phylogenetics | she/her | www.meganlsmith.org
Looking for suggestions for outsourcing size selection on a Blue Pippin along with Illumina sequencing at a good price. I've previously used Novogene for sequencing, but they don't provide any size selection services.
August 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Looking for suggestions for outsourcing size selection on a Blue Pippin along with Illumina sequencing at a good price. I've previously used Novogene for sequencing, but they don't provide any size selection services.
Reposted by Megan Smith
More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
May 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
Reposted by Megan Smith
Had a blast illustrating some slugs for the lab while I was away on break :-)
From left to right:
Blue-grey Taildropper (Prophysaon coeruleum)
Carolina Mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus)
Red slug (Arion rufus)
Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)
From left to right:
Blue-grey Taildropper (Prophysaon coeruleum)
Carolina Mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus)
Red slug (Arion rufus)
Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)
January 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Had a blast illustrating some slugs for the lab while I was away on break :-)
From left to right:
Blue-grey Taildropper (Prophysaon coeruleum)
Carolina Mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus)
Red slug (Arion rufus)
Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)
From left to right:
Blue-grey Taildropper (Prophysaon coeruleum)
Carolina Mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus)
Red slug (Arion rufus)
Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)
Preprint with postdoc @kerrycobb.bsky.social! When processes (e.g., ghost introgression) are omitted from training data, machine learning approaches are error-prone. Domain adaptation allows accurate inferences of introgression in the presence of unmodeled processes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Preprint with postdoc @kerrycobb.bsky.social! When processes (e.g., ghost introgression) are omitted from training data, machine learning approaches are error-prone. Domain adaptation allows accurate inferences of introgression in the presence of unmodeled processes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Megan Smith
Looking to hire a postdoc to join the lab to work on coastal microbial ecology in the northern Gulf of Mexico!
Feel free to reach out via email with any questions. Application review starts Jan. 10, 2025.
explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...
Feel free to reach out via email with any questions. Application review starts Jan. 10, 2025.
explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...
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December 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Looking to hire a postdoc to join the lab to work on coastal microbial ecology in the northern Gulf of Mexico!
Feel free to reach out via email with any questions. Application review starts Jan. 10, 2025.
explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...
Feel free to reach out via email with any questions. Application review starts Jan. 10, 2025.
explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...
Grad student @ashsilliman.bsky.social bringing some cool new slug MicroCT scanning to the lab!
New title unlocked: slug radiologist
(MicroCT scan on slug!)
(MicroCT scan on slug!)
December 18, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Grad student @ashsilliman.bsky.social bringing some cool new slug MicroCT scanning to the lab!
Reposted by Megan Smith
New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social❗
You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction!
This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction!
This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 13, 2024 at 2:35 PM
New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social❗
You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction!
This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction!
This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
End of semester 'favorite animal' word cloud from my animal diversity class. Not strange at all how many of them love snails and slugs.
December 3, 2024 at 9:07 PM
End of semester 'favorite animal' word cloud from my animal diversity class. Not strange at all how many of them love snails and slugs.
Reposted by Megan Smith
ONE new preprint (led by Sarthak Mishra and @snaildit.bsky.social ),
TWO new programs (reconcILS and dupcoal).
Check it out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
TWO new programs (reconcILS and dupcoal).
Check it out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2023 at 2:58 PM
ONE new preprint (led by Sarthak Mishra and @snaildit.bsky.social ),
TWO new programs (reconcILS and dupcoal).
Check it out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
TWO new programs (reconcILS and dupcoal).
Check it out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Megan Smith
New from @snaildit.bsky.social and me. We find that popular methods for detecting introgression between sister species (fastsimcoal2, dadi, BPP) all have high false positive rates in biologically realistic settings.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 30, 2023 at 2:16 PM
New from @snaildit.bsky.social and me. We find that popular methods for detecting introgression between sister species (fastsimcoal2, dadi, BPP) all have high false positive rates in biologically realistic settings.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Megan Smith
New review paper led by Yu Mo (not on Bluesky yet) and Megan Smith (@snaildit.bsky.social):
Applications of machine learning in phylogenetics
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Applications of machine learning in phylogenetics
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
October 16, 2023 at 1:17 PM
New review paper led by Yu Mo (not on Bluesky yet) and Megan Smith (@snaildit.bsky.social):
Applications of machine learning in phylogenetics
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Applications of machine learning in phylogenetics
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Reposted by Megan Smith
Re-upping this, as we start to review applications in 10 days!
New postdoc position available! Evolution of mutation rates! 🚨🚨🚨
Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly.
(RTs [or whatevs] appreciated)
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/19856
Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly.
(RTs [or whatevs] appreciated)
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/19856
September 21, 2023 at 2:08 PM
Re-upping this, as we start to review applications in 10 days!