Rasmus Nielsen

Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - ranging from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. riken.jp/en/careers/res… Lab page: speidellab.github.io

I am thrilled to announce that I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology Jan 2026! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research or if you know of people who could be interested!🧬🦊

Got several responses exploring which software can deal with this. My point was that students should not rely on the precision of any standard software/functions but should learn how to maintain precision and avoid underflow/overflow before starting to code.

Quantitative graduate students should start by studying this. Would save them endless frustrations.

Two new postdoc positions in Computational/Statistical Genomics and Statistical Population Genetics, respectively, at the University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancies/… employment.ku.dk/all-vacancies/… . Please help us advertise.

Save the date! ProbGen 2026 will be hosted at UC Berkeley, March 25 to March 28, 2026, featuring keynote speakers @jkpritch and Sally Otto. Help spread the message to people who are not this dystopian hellsite.

Our paper is finally out: Genetic and training adaptations in the Haenyeo divers of Jeju, Korea: Cell Reports ⁦@ras_nielsen⁩ ⁦@andrewhvaughn⁩ cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Congratulations to the newest members elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Evolutionary Biology today: Beth Shapiro, Fred Nijhout, and Jonathan Pritchard! Also International Member Valeria Souza from Mexico!

I’ve done a lot of things in my lifetime, but I’ve always come back to teaching. When I decided to retire, I wanted to do it quietly. Instead, my colleagues at @imcivicaction decided to make a film about my last class. Learn more here. robertreich.substack.com/p/my-last-class

The Greenlandic population offers significant potential for precision medicine. The largest analysis of its kind is now in @Nature. A big thank you to all participants in the health surveys throughout the last 25 years 🙏 nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵1/6

Join us March 5th 4-5 p.m. at 125 Li Ka Shing for Dr. Michael Campbell's CCB Seminar: Exploring the demographic histories of rainforest hunter-gatherers and neighboring Bantu-speaking agriculturalists and the genomic basis of short stature in Africa. Visit events.berkeley.edu/CCB/event/2676…