@mollyschumer.bsky.social
Genetics & Evolution, Faculty at Stanford & Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI. My views do not reflect those of my employer. schumerlab.com
This is what work looks like these days. Interesting days at the NSF.
11.12.2025 17:06 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research!
For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Applyβ¦or tell someone to apply!
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We use Asana, I've also heard good things about Notion
10.12.2025 03:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tell your members of Congress that it's time to stand with science, or they have to go. Defunding the NIH isn't just costing researchers their jobs, it will cost Americans their lives.
We're leading the charge to hold them accountable on this front. Join us at standupforscience.net
Very happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC CoG to build predictive and mechanistic models of pigment pattern development and evolution across cichlids!! π π¨ I've been dreaming about this for a long time, and Iβm incredibly excited that we can now pursue it in full. #ERCCoG @erc.europa.eu 1/3
09.12.2025 20:56 β π 110 π 7 π¬ 12 π 0The Sudmant Lab & Wilsterman Lab are hiring a postdoc! Come work on the genetics and evolution of the placenta and dissecting genetic adaptations to altitude in deer mice!
Check out more details here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
www.sudmantlab.org
www.thewilstermanlab.com
Please Share!
The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at BIOEDGE@nsf.gov if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
08.12.2025 21:00 β π 87 π 56 π¬ 1 π 2Excited to share our final accepted version of the CiFi method out today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
08.12.2025 17:55 β π 46 π 16 π¬ 1 π 1BAPG 2025 was a blast. Looking forward to seeing folks in Davis in Spring 2026! bapg2025.github.io/bapg2025stan...
07.12.2025 03:58 β π 10 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0Super excited about our schedule for BAPG at stanford on Dec 6. bapg2025.github.io/bapg2025stan... Amazing talks, a fabulous keynote, a lively poster session. A brilliant and interactive community. Whatβs not to love? 1/2 @sophiejwalton.bsky.social
24.11.2025 22:54 β π 15 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1
A square graphic broken into four quadrants, with the NatSci logo and text "2025 College Awards" in the top left corner, a photo of Emily Josephs receiving her award from Eric Hegg in the top right, a photo of David Lowry receiving his award from Eric Hegg in the bottom left, and a headshot of Sue Rhee in the bottom right.
PRI is proud to highlight the extraordinary achievements of 3 faculty recognized with awards from the College of Natural Science:
Emily Josephs: Teacher-Scholar Award
David Lowry: Postdoctoral Mentoring Award
Sue Rhee: Research Leadership Award
Read more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...
Please apply to the ASN student research awards! This is such an amazing opportunity to get experience grant writing as a grad student, and the $$$ has funded some really fantastic research!!!
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EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/
High-quality mouse reference genomes [PacBio Long Read genomes of 17 strains] reveal the structural complexity of the murine protein-coding landscape, Cell Genomics. www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Genomes and annotations here: projects.ensembl.org/mouse_genomes/
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Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!
14.11.2025 12:40 β π 83 π 26 π¬ 1 π 3Richard so deserves this - a legend in bioinformatics and computational biology - work genome, human genome, Pfam, 1,000 genomes, Sam/bam format, bwa, vcf, psmcβ¦ and so many more
14.11.2025 13:37 β π 86 π 17 π¬ 4 π 0We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #π―π²π±π±π²πΏ, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #π―π²π±ππΌπΌπΉπ! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.
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I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here.
βTrump says he wants to βpermanently pause migrationβ from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.β
apnews.com/article/trum...
How to keep in step when your (protein) partner speeds upβ¦
Here we investigated the adaptive remodeling of a protein-protein interaction surface essential for telomere protection.
Congrats to whole team!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
π doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. πΊπ§ͺ
Evolution 2026 logo. Text: Evolution 2026, Cleveland, OH, June 20-24. A globe with a plane flying across it. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: January 30.
Applications now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Apply by January 30: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
26.11.2025 13:16 β π 13 π 22 π¬ 0 π 0
One of my favorite preprints of the year from the great @mollyschumer.bsky.social. A foamy virus that makes things sparkle, now up on TWiEVO episode 120 for some podcast peer review www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T65...
26.11.2025 21:01 β π 22 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1Can't believe that our pre-print on the evolution of iridescence in swordtails was covered by @elearlybird.bsky.social on the TWiEVO podcast! I love the suggestion to rename the endogenous foamy retrovirus to "sparkle pony" -- what do you think @nadiahaghani.bsky.social?
bsky.app/profile/elea...
Work from my amazing undergrad @leyan-wang.bsky.social is just preprinted! TL;DR: If you worry that ARG methods might fail on unphased data due to phasing errors, you may not need to.
Check it out & consider reposting to support a great young scientist!
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The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying βVaccines can help you stay healthyβ and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social
ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5
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The last work of my PhD is finally out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...! This work is about accurately estimating branch length in the Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG), which is achieved by a really simple framework with minimal assumptions. (1/n)
25.11.2025 20:27 β π 48 π 16 π¬ 1 π 2
Our new collaborative work led by @taliamycota.bsky.social
Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau between my lab @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social & the Karasov Lab (tkarasovlab.org) @uofubiology.bsky.social
and collaborators: @plantricia.bsky.social et al.
tinyurl.com/5yx2wmz5
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Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is true.
I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems.
Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.
