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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler

@rejectresubmit.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | phylogenomics, genome evolution | EIC at Frontiers in Posting

938 Followers  |  601 Following  |  115 Posts  |  Joined: 11.09.2023  |  1.8449

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Estimating the rate of quantitative trait evolution in the presence of gene tree discordance by calculating likelihoods across trees Quantitative traits provide insights into how phenotypes evolve across species. However, standard comparative methods often assume a single species tree and overlook the discordant gene tree histories...

New preprint led by grad student, Yu Mo! We introduce new software to calculate evolutionary rates of quantitative characters in the presence of discordance

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

07.10.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

First grant submitted πŸ™

30.09.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Memories of Lake Superior

Old Woman Bay, Ontario
July 2016

#WeekNforNights #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #sunset #ShareCanGeo #blueskyphotography #PukaskwaNP #LakeSuperior

29.09.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5414    πŸ” 419    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 15

Looks like only first year grads can apply now

26.09.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Board of Coalescence is nearly full

25.09.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UR Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor in mathematical/computational evolutionary genetics. Join us!

apply.interfolio.com/173431

24.09.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

too many documents

23.09.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Estimating waiting distances between genealogy changes under a Multi-Species Extension of the Sequentially Markov Coalescent Abstract. Genomes are composed of a mosaic of segments inherited from different ancestors, each separated by past recombination events. Consequently, genea

super excited to share this big project with @daeaton.bsky.social out now inΒ Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy:Β doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

11.09.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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writing a phylogenetics-oriented grant without using the word "diversity" or any of its derivatives

09.09.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not even teaching yet!

08.09.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking up at the sky in a dark room . ALT: a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking up at the sky in a dark room .

when the first September hits as a new PI

08.09.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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 β€ͺβ€ͺ@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

27.08.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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How sex shapes transcriptome evolution in the songbird brain Sex differences have captivated scientists for a long time, yet the evolutionary rate of change in sex-biased gene expression has not been directly quantified. To address this issue, we leverage brain...

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv.

We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

27.08.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I learned a lot during my postdoc too, but it was kind of overshadowed by the stress introduced by the temporary nature of the position. Here it really feels like you're a part of building something meant to last.

25.08.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Being a PI is definitely a step up in responsibility and workload but so far I am really enjoying it. I'm being challenged in an incredibly fulfilling way that I haven't felt probably since I was a first year grad student.

25.08.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Real Northerners know that the two week stretch including the last week of August and the first week of September has the best weather of any time of the year

25.08.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

21.08.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please share β€” Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions!

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

20.08.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Wear sunscreen folks. I am Suffering

12.08.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Old Man Yells At FASTA Headers

05.08.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems like acceptable hangover fare also

05.08.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Taking notes

05.08.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Need a larger sample tbh. Poutine has a high variance. It's about as good as the average poutine imo, but I have had poutines that were better

04.08.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finally tried a garbage plate. I have been Baptized

04.08.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like a caddisfly larva to me but they are typically aquatic. Is that a dry stream/riverbed?

04.08.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(The first time)

30.07.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Returning to the command line after a break of many months got me feeling like Jordan when he came back from retirement

30.07.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seeing the finalized plans for my lab space renovation has me SO hyped for the future

30.07.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

new institution, new flavor of package dependency hell

28.07.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You ever randomly get stressed about something and then completely forget what it was five minutes later? What a nice feeling. Like oh it couldn't have been that bad

26.07.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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