Ellie Armstrong

Amy Goldberg, PhD - Join The Goldberg lab is moving to UCLA summer 2025, and recruiting postdocs and graduate students. We are a computational lab with occasional wet lab or field collaborators. We will be located in the Depa...

The Goldberg lab at UCLA is hiring one or more postdocs. Flexible start date.

We develop methods to study population genetics of humans, our primate relatives, and our pathogens.

www.goldberglab.org/join

Molecular Ecology Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.

Hello! Molecular Ecology is now on @bsky.app!
Follow us for updates about Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources publications, as well as special issues, events, and awards!
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ANALYSIS: Even with Trump in office, election rigging conspiracy theorists have struggled to score wins or produce any evidence.

Colorado Gov Jared Polis' seemingly imminent clemency for Tina Peters would be a massive victory for those urging Trump to seize control of elections.

Stanford researchers help trace ancestry for African Americans A group of Stanford researchers is offering a mathematical model to help link family connections up to 410 years ago.

Excited that our work was featured on the local (Bay Area) news for their Black History month series. Interview with Noah and clips from my interview with @dornsife.usc.edu and CGSI talk in the article below

www.nbcbayarea.com/discover-bla...

Calling all researchers working on *Genomics of Adaptation to Extreme Thermal Environments*
I'm serving as a guest editor of an upcoming collection in BMC Genomics and am eager to read your submission! More on scope and how to contribute here: bit.ly/4kH3PIx 🧪 @springer.springernature.com

UC Farm Smart Celebrates 25th Anniversary on Valentine’s Day - Calexico Chronicle UC Farm Smart shared the love of their craft with the public during their 25th anniversary event, hosted on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14.

Farm Smart brings kids out to the @ucanr.edu Desert Research & Extension Center to pick veggies and gain a better understanding of agriculture & how food is grown @ivweekly.bsky.social calexicochronicle.com/2026/02/16/u...

I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March.
Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

New paper! From Sam Snodgrass and @genomeofforrest.bsky.social, w/ @druncie.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social, and a collaboration with Andres Moreno and @santiagogmm.bsky.social. Can we quantify the impact of humans on maize dispersal?

Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear:

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A red fox looks just beyond the camera, staring at something intently with yellow eyes.

We are urging #Colorado officials to move quickly to halt the sale of furs from native animals. The call comes ahead of a planned annual fur auction on Feb. 4 and 5 in Hugo, CO.

Thousands of pelts from animals labeled as #furbearers have typically been sold at this auction.

bit.ly/4a9EIJo

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up

Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

We’re #hiring a #postdoc @ucriverside.bsky.social 🌿
Work on cis-regulatory evolution, gene family diversification, and cell-type-specific climate responses using single-cell and comparative genomics - kenchanmanelab.com/research/

Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
Apply: aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02058

If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons:
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;

NEW: All Aurora Public Schools will be closed tomorrow due to staff shortages (anti-ICE strike). Denver Public Schools will deal with staff shortages on a school-by-school basis.

Registration is open for the inaugural GRC conference in the Function of Evolving Systems. Aug 9-14, 2026, Waterville Valley. Truly stellar speaker lineup. Student/postdoc fellowships are available! Please come join us! www.grc.org/function-of-... @joybergelson.bsky.social

A foraging teenager was mauled by a bear 27,000 years ago, skeleton shows The remains of a teenage boy who lived around 27,000 years ago suggest he was attacked by a cave bear—some of the first direct evidence of a predator attacking an ancient human

The remains of a teenage boy who lived around 27,000 years ago suggest he was attacked by a cave bear—some of the first direct evidence of a predator attacking an ancient human

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Job alert:
NOAA NWFSC & UW are looking for a postdoc (ASAP) in Seattle study foraging ecology of Cook Inlet beluga whales using eDNA. Genetics/ecology/eDNA experience preferred. Interested candidates reach out to kim.parsons@noaa.gov or rpkelly@uw.edu directly. #eDNA #ConsGen

Exploring #PAG33 and San Diego for the first time! If you're interested in knowing more about why bird microchromosomes are so hard to sequence, come by poster 287 this afternoon!

A thread on our latest publication – a publication we worked > 10 years on. 🙃 This project has driven us mad at times. But in the end, it has made it onto the cover of tomorrow’s issue of @ScienceMagazine, so I suppose it was worth it... 😅 1/

Not sure if I celebrated this, but mine and @elliecat.bsky.social's PhD co-mentee Raya advanced to candidacy over break! Y'all! I'm so proud! This is my 4th PhD student - all phenomenal women in science. My 1st - Tamsen, is now an NSF PRFB fellow with @barkerms.bsky.social, (contd.)

I'll be presenting my work tomorrow morning at #PAG33! Stop by Pacific C (Comparative Genomics - Animals) @9:16am to learn about structural variation of swordtail Y-chromosomes and alternative reproductive tactics.

Biomedical Sciences - Ladder Rank Associate or Full Professor (Tenure) University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

New tenured faculty position open here at University of California, Riverside School of medicine! Please share and feel free to reach out with questions! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207
#academicsky #PhDchat

Sequencing Instrumrnt Outlook 2026

My observations & predictions on sequencing instrument companies

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omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/sequ...

WOOOOOOO! Huge thank you to SICB and all of my collaborators on this project!

🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙

Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile).

We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago.

Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl
#aDNA #popgen

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Reposts appreciated :)

Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪

Allele Frequencies at Recessive Disease Genes are Mainly Determined by Pleiotropic Effects in Heterozygotes The classic theory of mutation-selection balance predicts the equilibrium frequency of genetic variation under negative selection. The model predicts a simple relationship between the total frequency ...

Well well. The standard model for how frequencies of recessive disease genes are established doesn't work. And that seems to be because recessive variants are visible to selection due to pleiotropy. (But still we teach Mendelian genetics...)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...