Jeffrey M Kidd
@jeffreymkidd.bsky.social
Genome evolution, podcasts, toast, and popcorn
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rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
October 7, 2026 at 9:26 PM
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
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We studied the evolution of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium and its influence on genetic architecture with genetic drift.
We found that the Bulmer effect is population size and demography dependent.
For nerds: genetic architecture follows from solving PDEs.
We found that the Bulmer effect is population size and demography dependent.
For nerds: genetic architecture follows from solving PDEs.
Linkage disequilibrium moderates how evolving genetic background shapes variant-level architecture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.01.756092v1
October 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
We studied the evolution of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium and its influence on genetic architecture with genetic drift.
We found that the Bulmer effect is population size and demography dependent.
For nerds: genetic architecture follows from solving PDEs.
We found that the Bulmer effect is population size and demography dependent.
For nerds: genetic architecture follows from solving PDEs.
Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644
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October 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644
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I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508
Indiana University Academic Positions
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September 30, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508
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I think administrators cowing to media pressure hurts the reputation of a university much more than piloting a long overdue and quite modest change to grading practices.
NEW: U. Mich is pumping the brakes on its plan to pass/fail first-semester freshmen in one of its colleges. The president wrote to admins that "distorted" media coverage of the plan could hurt the reputations of the university and its students. For @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
U. of Michigan Leaders Hit the Brakes on Pass/Fail
Citing “distorted narratives” about the university’s students in the news media, the president said more “input, analysis, and discussion” is needed before the pilot project begins.
www.chronicle.com
September 30, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I think administrators cowing to media pressure hurts the reputation of a university much more than piloting a long overdue and quite modest change to grading practices.
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Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB!
Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1
I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions
Spread the word!
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Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1
I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions
Spread the word!
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
eeb.msu.edu
August 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB!
Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1
I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions
Spread the word!
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1
I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions
Spread the word!
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Today I went deep into Michigan's run game issues in the 1st half. Short version: I think defenses are triggering off motion to stop Beck's favorite stuff (Jet opposite QB power). The good news is he adjusted.
mgoblog.com/content/neck...
mgoblog.com/content/neck...
Neck Sharpies: Don't Slash My Jet Bash
Why was the second half run game better than the first half run game?
mgoblog.com
September 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Today I went deep into Michigan's run game issues in the 1st half. Short version: I think defenses are triggering off motion to stop Beck's favorite stuff (Jet opposite QB power). The good news is he adjusted.
mgoblog.com/content/neck...
mgoblog.com/content/neck...
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Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
www.404media.co/inside-proje...
www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404…
www.404media.co
September 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
www.404media.co/inside-proje...
www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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What can we learn about a single rare variant?
Published today in Science: the 23andMe Research Institute and Dana-Farber studied the EGFR T790M in 10.1M 23andMe research participants. The variant has OR = 25.2 for lung cancer, rising to 61.7 in never-smokers(!). 🧵
Published today in Science: the 23andMe Research Institute and Dana-Farber studied the EGFR T790M in 10.1M 23andMe research participants. The variant has OR = 25.2 for lung cancer, rising to 61.7 in never-smokers(!). 🧵
September 17, 2026 at 11:09 PM
What can we learn about a single rare variant?
Published today in Science: the 23andMe Research Institute and Dana-Farber studied the EGFR T790M in 10.1M 23andMe research participants. The variant has OR = 25.2 for lung cancer, rising to 61.7 in never-smokers(!). 🧵
Published today in Science: the 23andMe Research Institute and Dana-Farber studied the EGFR T790M in 10.1M 23andMe research participants. The variant has OR = 25.2 for lung cancer, rising to 61.7 in never-smokers(!). 🧵
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Infertility affects ~1 in 6 people, and up to 30% of cases are unexplained. I am excited to present my postdoctoral work from @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social 's lab, now available as a preprint: tinyurl.com/yync6f2r addressing a possible role for the meiotic gene PRDM9 in infertility 🧵/1
September 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Infertility affects ~1 in 6 people, and up to 30% of cases are unexplained. I am excited to present my postdoctoral work from @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social 's lab, now available as a preprint: tinyurl.com/yync6f2r addressing a possible role for the meiotic gene PRDM9 in infertility 🧵/1
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This is a very cool study I have written about for @newscientist.com
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
Wild chimpanzees teach youngsters by handing them tools | New Scientist
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae
www.newscientist.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:58 AM
This is a very cool study I have written about for @newscientist.com
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
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The Carlson Lab at the University of Rochester is recruiting researchers at all levels!
Please reach out to Maryn (marync.github.io/carlsonlab/i...) if you are interested in groundbreaking problems in population and quantitative genetics. Maryn is brilliant and will be a great mentor!
Please reach out to Maryn (marync.github.io/carlsonlab/i...) if you are interested in groundbreaking problems in population and quantitative genetics. Maryn is brilliant and will be a great mentor!
Carlson Lab
The Carlson Lab works at the interface of population and quantitative genetics,
statistics, and evolutionary biology.
marync.github.io
September 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
The Carlson Lab at the University of Rochester is recruiting researchers at all levels!
Please reach out to Maryn (marync.github.io/carlsonlab/i...) if you are interested in groundbreaking problems in population and quantitative genetics. Maryn is brilliant and will be a great mentor!
Please reach out to Maryn (marync.github.io/carlsonlab/i...) if you are interested in groundbreaking problems in population and quantitative genetics. Maryn is brilliant and will be a great mentor!
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I am excited to share that I will be joining the Baker Institute for Animal Health and College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor next spring!
I am grateful to my mentors and colleagues who have supported me throughout this journey.
I am grateful to my mentors and colleagues who have supported me throughout this journey.
September 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I am excited to share that I will be joining the Baker Institute for Animal Health and College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor next spring!
I am grateful to my mentors and colleagues who have supported me throughout this journey.
I am grateful to my mentors and colleagues who have supported me throughout this journey.
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Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
Learn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
usccareers.usc.edu
September 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
This is a very nice review article from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and @mathiesoniain.bsky.social . Figure 2 gives a very nice summary of the different ways selection tests are calibrated. They also offer 5 succinct summaries of the current state of the field for humans.
New online! Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history
Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-01010-9Advances in genome-wide selection scans and ancient DNA have greatly expanded our ability to study human evolution. This Review discusses the conceptual and statistical challenges in identifying and interpreting selection signals, and how recent approaches are reshaping our understanding of human evolution over the past 10,000 years.
dlvr.it
September 11, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This is a very nice review article from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and @mathiesoniain.bsky.social . Figure 2 gives a very nice summary of the different ways selection tests are calibrated. They also offer 5 succinct summaries of the current state of the field for humans.
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New online! Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history
Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-01010-9Advances in genome-wide selection scans and ancient DNA have greatly expanded our ability to study human evolution. This Review discusses the conceptual and statistical challenges in identifying and interpreting selection signals, and how recent approaches are reshaping our understanding of human evolution over the past 10,000 years.
dlvr.it
September 11, 2026 at 10:38 AM
New online! Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history
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How & why does the distribution of fitness effects #DFE vary among species? Meixi Lin, @klohmueller.bsky.social &co analyze genetic variation from 11 animal species, finding that fitness effects are influenced by phylogeny, population size, & organismal complexity @plosbiology.org 🧪 buff.ly/t5q7Mqo
September 10, 2026 at 1:05 PM
How & why does the distribution of fitness effects #DFE vary among species? Meixi Lin, @klohmueller.bsky.social &co analyze genetic variation from 11 animal species, finding that fitness effects are influenced by phylogeny, population size, & organismal complexity @plosbiology.org 🧪 buff.ly/t5q7Mqo
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I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include:
1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc
2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc
2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
September 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include:
1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc
2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc
2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Barking Up Inferred Trees: Detecting Signatures of Selection in Dog Genomes Using Ancestral Recombination Graphs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.02.748875v1
September 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Barking Up Inferred Trees: Detecting Signatures of Selection in Dog Genomes Using Ancestral Recombination Graphs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.02.748875v1
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I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying!
utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
August 28, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying!
utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
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'"At the end of the day ... they're either going to play for you or they're going to play for someone else around the country," Kiffin said at a news conference Monday. "So we've made the decision to recruit them like probably most people are."' - This is exactly what I hear peers say about using AI
August 25, 2026 at 12:36 PM
'"At the end of the day ... they're either going to play for you or they're going to play for someone else around the country," Kiffin said at a news conference Monday. "So we've made the decision to recruit them like probably most people are."' - This is exactly what I hear peers say about using AI
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Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model.
She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus.
Working class.
She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus.
Working class.
August 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model.
She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus.
Working class.
She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus.
Working class.
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Our study published today @science.org shows that X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) attracts L1 mutations to the human X chromosome:
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
With outstanding Perspective from @aurelien-doucet.bsky.social & @retrogenomics.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
With outstanding Perspective from @aurelien-doucet.bsky.social & @retrogenomics.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
July 30, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Our study published today @science.org shows that X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) attracts L1 mutations to the human X chromosome:
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
With outstanding Perspective from @aurelien-doucet.bsky.social & @retrogenomics.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
With outstanding Perspective from @aurelien-doucet.bsky.social & @retrogenomics.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Great, detailed story on a death in a tragic & flawed Chinese gene therapy trial www.science.org/content/arti... Excellent job by Brendan Borrell w/ @retractionwatch.com. Complex, nuanced & in some respects damning. (On line version looks a bit longer than in Science.)
(COI-quotes me, in passing).
(COI-quotes me, in passing).
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
www.science.org
July 23, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Great, detailed story on a death in a tragic & flawed Chinese gene therapy trial www.science.org/content/arti... Excellent job by Brendan Borrell w/ @retractionwatch.com. Complex, nuanced & in some respects damning. (On line version looks a bit longer than in Science.)
(COI-quotes me, in passing).
(COI-quotes me, in passing).
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How should we apply linear mixed models to populations under stabilizing selection?
The first paper I wrote with my grad school advisor is published in Genetics.
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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The first paper I wrote with my grad school advisor is published in Genetics.
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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July 15, 2026 at 12:23 AM
How should we apply linear mixed models to populations under stabilizing selection?
The first paper I wrote with my grad school advisor is published in Genetics.
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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The first paper I wrote with my grad school advisor is published in Genetics.
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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