Another job opening! I am hiring a postdoc in my lab at University College London to work on developing new phylogenetic comparative methods for modeling the evolution of complex phenotypes! Details here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Are you a student (or scientist of any seniority, really) looking for a relaxed and welcoming conference to present your systematics and/or phylogenetics-based reasearch at?

Then give our Biennial Meeting a go!

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Do you want to help us sequencing Kew's Fungarium? Please, apply to senior project manager ASAP!
You will have a degree, or a relevant equivalent qualification, in a science discipline and a professional qualification in project management.🍄🧬 #omics
careers.kew.org/vacancy/senior…

We are looking for a postdoc to develop
novel machine-learning approaches to model coevolution across
biological scales. The successful candidate will join the Model-Based
Evolutionary Genomics Unit (bit.ly/mod2evol) at OIST 🌺🌊🔬
Apply by May 10:
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/…

Muthukumaran Panchaksaram's preprint on the statistical properties of Bayesian selection of relaxed-clock models is up!
We show an approximate method can be used to select the best rate model in very large datasets.
doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

There will be a mitochondrial symposium at #Evol2024 Evolution Meetings 🥳. Organised by Sophie Breton and Andrea Pozzi.

Please submit abstract soon as places might fill up. Hope to see you there! 🎇

First piece of popular science. Thanks for my Editor Jenna and all colleagues :)

Flowers may be more ancient than dinosaurs – but scientists can’t agree on when they evolved theconversation.com/flowers-may-be… via The Conversation

Introducing treesurgeon (github.com/evo-palaeo/tre…), a new R package of tools and tricks for working with phylogenetic trees and data, especially morphology! Here's a few things it can do...

Keen on bridging statistics, physics & computational biology to develop Bayesian MCMC algorithms with a focus on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo & covariance-informed MCMC samplers? 💻🧬There is a unique opportunity to work with these three wonderful researchers!

More info ⬇️

📢The registration for our launch event is open!

We will present our main objectives and discuss the importance of the EU research diaspora in the UK in 🇬🇧-🇪🇺 relations

📍 Imperial College London (SW7 2AZ)
🗓️ 10-4-24

All the info available here: connects-uk.org/events

Please RT!🔁

🚀Join the forefront of digital research at UCL ARC! 💻Multiple opportunities for Research Software Engineers available. DevOps, HPC, cybersecurity and more. From coding to leadership. Apply now: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… #RSEng #DigitalResearch UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing

The AleRax paper with Alexis Stamatakis, Tom Williams and Benoit Morel leading is now out in Bioinformatics!

academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

The 2024 LinneSys call is open!

Need funding for a systematics-based project?

Details on eligibity and how to apply here: systass.org/linnesys/

You need an active The Systematics Association or The Linnean Society of London membership to apply!

Applications close Sunday, 7th April at 23:59 BST

Looking for Postdocs, Senior Postdocs and Scientific Programmers:

oist.jp/careers/postdo…

oist.jp/careers/staff-…

oist.jp/careers/scient…

Responsibilities:
Devise and carry out state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research in Evolutionary Biology, and have fun doing it!

The deadline for submitting POSTER abstracts to the legend2024 conference on Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data (legend2024.sciencesconf.org) on the fabulous island of Crete is on April 1st

Do you work with Archaea and have a protocol that you'd like published? At the Society for Archaeal Biology we are aiming to have a coherent and consistent space for all types of archaeal protocols, with peer-review: archaea.bio/protocols/subm…

🚨🍏The IV En Foco Photography Competition is OPEN!
📸Take a picture of your research or something related to Science/Nature, and participate!🖼️

All ℹ️: shorturl.at/rEFZ8
🏆💷You could earn up to £200!
🔴Deadline: 15th April (23:59 GMT)
🙏FundaciónRamónAreces Spain Culture & Science UK

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the legend2024 conference on Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data (legend2024.sciencesconf.org) on the fabulous island of Crete is in 6 days (Feb 21)!

After many years of intending we finally did some work on language evolution, one interesting finding is that you shouldn't just use default priors that work well on molecular data for analyzing language data arxiv.org/abs/2402.02807

In this upcoming special issue we will discuss phylogenetic discordance throughout the #TreeofLife , from tips to root! Share your insights and expertise on patterns, processes, methodological approaches and limitations! Co-edits with Tomáš Flouri and Adam Leaché💻🧬🥀🦎🐌🦠🤓