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@awrgenes

Human geneticist - UNT Health

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Amy Goldberg, PhD - Join The Goldberg lab is moving to UCLA summer 2025, and recruiting postdocs and graduate students. We are a computational lab with occasional wet lab or field collaborators. We will be located in the Depa...

The Goldberg lab at UCLA is hiring one or more postdocs. Flexible start date.

We develop methods to study population genetics of humans, our primate relatives, and our pathogens.

www.goldberglab.org/join

05.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A question about Falconer's formula. The standard formula is:
h^2=2*(r_MZ - r_DZ)

My question is: can I replace the mono- and dizygotic twin correlations with terms for full-sibs and half-sibs?

It's the same ratio of genetic relatedness, so I don't see why not. What am I missing?

24.02.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
PostDoctoral Associate

We're excited to be recruiting an NSF funded postdoc to work in the Villanea lab at CU Boulder. We're specifically interested in candidates who want to work at the intersection of population genetics, ancient DNA, and computer modeling. Please RT

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

09.02.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

09.02.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 169 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5

Honestly, yeah, LFG. Maybe this is meant to feed biotech AI slop but we can outcompete them with good scientific proposals. If you’re interested in a post-doc applying neural networks to better integrate ancient DNA to demographic models reach out to me. I’ll help you tool the application for β€œAI”.

06.02.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Medical Education | Biomedical Research

Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

05.02.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

For PIs hiring post-docs, do you usually as for a letter of recommendation (or letters) in addition to the CV and cover letter?

04.02.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Getting Started

I'm looking to update the SRA growth curve for the intro lecture of my computational genomics course, and I noticed that the data traces provided by SRA end in 2024 ... Does anyone have an idea what's up here or how to get more up-to-date data? www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/docs/sra...

01.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Please spread the word β€” a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship is available in my group funded by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) to perform a study testing the contribution of functional non-coding variants in glutamatergic neurons to autism. 1/3

30.01.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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20.12.2025 01:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are recruiting!

If you like evolutionary biology, microbial genomics, and host-pathogen interactions we have a PhD opening at @ugiatucl.bsky.social using population-scale metagenomics to map global phage diversity and uncover evolutionary signatures that could point to new antimicrobials.

24.11.2025 10:50 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Early Career Scientist Awards 2026 Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.

Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.

Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6

19.11.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Absolutely buzzing about a figure one of my students just sent me! I love it when good data is amplified by good visualization.

19.11.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’re hoping to expand the functionality of EpipwR, so let us know what additions you’d like to see in v2! #ASHG25

17.10.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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EpipwR A quasi-simulation based approach to performing power analysis for EWAS (Epigenome-wide association studies) with continuous or binary outcomes. 'EpipwR' relies on empirical EWAS datasets to determine...

You can use EpipwR now! www.bioconductor.org/packages/rel... #ASHG25

17.10.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Please come by poster #8068 today and speak with my collaborator Jackson Barth about EpipwR, our new EWAS power calculator for both quantitative and case/control studies! #ASHG25

17.10.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

15.10.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 211 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5
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Recovering the pre-colonial population structure of Khoe-San descendant populations San populations from Botswana and Namibia retain exceptional linguistic, cultural and genetic diversity, but few Khoisan-speaking groups remain south of the Kalahari Desert. However, historically, far...

New preprint out with Brenna Henn, led by two fantastic grad students in our labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

08.10.2025 16:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Indian Ocean slave trade and colonial expansion resulted in strong sex-biased admixture in South Africa Using genetic data from >1,200 South Africans, we examine admixture patterns from Cape Town to the historic colonial frontier’s northern edge, finding male-biased European ancestry and female-biased K...

πŸ“£New from @awrgenes.bsky.social & co
πŸ“„The Indian Ocean slave trade and colonial expansion resulted in strong sex-biased admixture in South Africa
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

23.09.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Indian Ocean slave trade and colonial expansion resulted in strong sex-biased admixture in South Africa Using genetic data from >1,200 South Africans, we examine admixture patterns from Cape Town to the historic colonial frontier’s northern edge, finding male-biased European ancestry and female-biased K...

I’ve got a new paper out today in @ajhgnews.bsky.social on sex-biased admixture patterns in South Africa. A long time in the making and thrilled to finally have it out! www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

23.09.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“Š Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: "EpipwR: Efficient power analysis for EWAS with Continuous outcomes"

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf150

Authors include: @awrgenes.bsky.social

14.07.2025 09:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Senior Research Associate in Population Genomics (RA2327) in University of East Anglia | UEA View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate in Population Genomics (RA2327) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Biological Sciences Senior Research A...

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK.

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

13.06.2025 08:46 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Gotta get you in for a prompt engineering tutorial in my bioinformatics course..

04.06.2025 03:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My review of computational methods for anthropological genetics with @kwittadna.bsky.social is out for the Yearbook issue of AJBA.

We talk about all sorts of cool methods that YOU could use too!

Also check out this great figure we commissioned from @janey1216.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

20.03.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Less than a week left to apply for a postdoc in my group. Closing date 31 Jan. If you are interested in human popgen please apply!

25.01.2025 12:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0