Confirmed in post 🎉 passed probation and made permanent at Queen’s, woohoo! (Perhaps not the usual sense of relief given the current HE environment…. But nice nonetheless)

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I’m really happy to share that my invited review on social insect genome evolution, co-authored with @corriemoreau.bsky.social, is out now in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social 🐝🐜 This is the paper I wish I’d had when studying for quals in grad school, and was a ton of fun to write.

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I’m very honoured to be a newly elected member of the Academia Europaea. Nothing beats recognition from the people you work with, so thank you, and sorry to miss you all in Budapest next week. (It comes with a cute pin!)

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It was an honor to host our event last week to celebrate 50 years of The Selfish Gene. A special pleasure to meet biology alumni from Richard's time as tutor at New College. (It sounds like I'm more gentle in my essay feedback!) @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

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The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course

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