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🌐The new tskit.dev is live!🌐
The site aims to be a central hub for all things tree sequence. Let us know what you think, and what other useful things we can put there. Thank you to all those who helped with the site!

📢Registration to attend #ICBG2022 is now open! We are accepting abstract submissions for short talks and posters until October 31st. Those selected for short talks will be notified by November 7th. Early registration advised as capacity is limited. icbgsymposium.com/registration/

Popgroup this year will be at Queen Mary's University London Jan 4-6. The web-site will be up shortly for registration and title submission.

Multiple genome alignment in the telomere-to-telomere assembly era genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

SHORT THREAD: Was just on BBC News (UK) responding to the comments made by Sunak & backed by Truss saying scientists had too much power, lockdowns were a mistake etc

1. They are rewriting what happened - the situation pre vaccine was very very scary with 150K dying pre wide vax. 1/7

📢We are delighted to announce our fifth keynote speaker for the symposium Dr Yan Wong. Yan currently works at Oxford University’s Big Data Institute helping to develop open source software for storing, analyzing, and simulating huge genomic datasets using an evolutionary approach

Hello twitter! I am new here and came just to advertise this wonderful SMBE symposium about ancestral recombination graphs that I'm helping organize!

Come present your latest research using ARGs and learn about all the new exciting developments #SMBEeverywhere

Keeping human faeces out of the waterways people use recreationally is a key public health intervention.

Water companies can and should act on sewage and effluent discharge.

We lay out why and how below.

gov.uk/government/new…

🎉😍 tskit 0.5.0 is live on PyPI and conda 😍🎉
This is a major release so it's time for a
new features thread. Thank you to all our contributors for their hard work on this release. 🧵github.com/tskit-dev/tski…

Can anyone help me identify this map projection (and even better, tell me how to reproduce it in #cartopy )

There is something deeply wonderful about finding a tree - a Patagonian cypress - that is likely over 5,000 years old - a new record theguardian.com/environment/20…

So excited to announce our paper in Science Science Magazine 'Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals' doi.org/10.1126/scienc… 🧵

Research Highlight on our recent Unified Genealogy paper in Nature Methods. Just to reemphasise the point in the final paragraph - everything is free-as-in-freedom software, and based on open, extensible APIs. Download the trees and explore!
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Are you an undergrad/masters student looking for a PAID internship working at the cutting edge of biomedical data science? Join my group for a summer studentship at the Big Data Institute to apply the most powerful tools in the PyData ecosystem to COVID genomics:
bdi.ox.ac.uk/study/bdi-summ…

How are we all related to each other and what does this tell us about human evolution?
Read about how we’re reconstructing the genealogy of everyone in this piece by Dr Yan Wong and I in The Conversation

Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history newscientist.com/article/230956…

Scientists have built a vast family tree connecting all humanity, based on genomes of living people & our ancestors. Analyses of the tree recovers key events in hominin evolution, including out-of-Africa & archaic introgression. Published today in Science: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Great article in CNN about our Science paper, just published today: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/02/24…