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Megan Smith

@snaildit

Assistant Prof at Mississippi State | population genetics, phylogenetics | she/her | www.meganlsmith.org

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Thanks! I’ll check with them.

04.08.2025 23:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking for suggestions for outsourcing size selection on a Blue Pippin along with Illumina sequencing at a good price. I've previously used Novogene for sequencing, but they don't provide any size selection services.

04.08.2025 21:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...

Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!

Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer

ssb2026.github.io

24.05.2025 11:30 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
Snails aggregating in a log

Snails aggregating in a log

24.05.2025 03:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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20.04.2025 15:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.02.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a blast illustrating some slugs for the lab while I was away on break :-)
From left to right:
Blue-grey Taildropper (Prophysaon coeruleum)
Carolina Mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus)
Red slug (Arion rufus)
Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)

10.01.2025 02:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Preprint with postdoc @kerrycobb.bsky.social! When processes (e.g., ghost introgression) are omitted from training data, machine learning approaches are error-prone. Domain adaptation allows accurate inferences of introgression in the presence of unmodeled processes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

20.01.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Careers | MSU Jobs

Looking to hire a postdoc to join the lab to work on coastal microbial ecology in the northern Gulf of Mexico!

Feel free to reach out via email with any questions. Application review starts Jan. 10, 2025.

explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...

19.12.2024 20:56 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grad student @ashsilliman.bsky.social bringing some cool new slug MicroCT scanning to the lab!

18.12.2024 19:50 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social❗

You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction!
This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches.

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

13.12.2024 14:35 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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07.12.2024 15:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Word cloud showing favorite animals from an animal diversity class. 'dog', 'snail', and 'slug' are most popular.

Word cloud showing favorite animals from an animal diversity class. 'dog', 'snail', and 'slug' are most popular.

End of semester 'favorite animal' word cloud from my animal diversity class. Not strange at all how many of them love snails and slugs.

03.12.2024 21:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@snaildit.bsky.social

18.11.2024 02:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ONE new preprint (led by Sarthak Mishra and @snaildit.bsky.social ),

TWO new programs (reconcILS and dupcoal).

Check it out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

06.11.2023 14:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

New from @snaildit.bsky.social and me. We find that popular methods for detecting introgression between sister species (fastsimcoal2, dadi, BPP) all have high false positive rates in biologically realistic settings.

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

30.10.2023 14:16 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

New review paper led by Yu Mo (not on Bluesky yet) and Megan Smith (@snaildit.bsky.social):

Applications of machine learning in phylogenetics
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

16.10.2023 13:17 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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15.10.2023 18:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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01.10.2023 14:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Re-upping this, as we start to review applications in 10 days!

21.09.2023 14:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0