Julien Joseph

Hi everyone, I just started a bluesky account to share my work and keep up with the work of others :) ! I am very pleased to share this review on the evolutionary causes behind the existence of meiotic recombination hotspots: doi.org/10.1371/jour... I hope it will be useful to some of you!

Amazing work by Enzo Marsot, our PhD student, clarifying that: - Ghost LTT - Ghost speciation times - Birth-death-sampling parameters (identifiability recovery) - Complete species tree topology (including ghosts!) Can theoretically be recovered from gene trees (if HGTs): doi.org/10.64898/202...

Accompanying the publication of my second PhD paper today, I wrote a little bit about the behind the scenes. How did this project come about? Inspiration can come from many unexpected places. I’m so grateful that Scott and Matt gave me the opportunity to follow my passion and curiosity!

Ever wondered why diverse organism shrink their genome in specific cells? We try to make sense of these curious cases of programmed DNA elimination in a review that came out today @naturerevgenet.bsky.social trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/... @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social

Excited to share this review that @needhibhalla.bsky.social and I wrote on meiotic checkpoints! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

Last year we took a small amber with a fossil bee to the Oxford synchrotron. Little did we know that it would become a tiny window into the ecology of bees and their mites in the subtropical forests 40 million years ago. @charliezoology.bsky.social @hfspo.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🏔️🐟🧬 Excited to share my first PhD publication! We investigated how phenotypic plasticity, rapid selection, and genetic drift contribute to rapid phenotypic divergence in Arctic charr populations isolated for just over a century. Thanks to all my co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers! 😊

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Maybe late to the game, but if you have not read the 75th Anniversary special series of @systbiol.bsky.social you should. So many good ideas and history there academic.oup.com/sysbio/pages... #systematicbiology

Our latest contribution on #regulatoryevolution in which we show that the shape of fitness functions and the distribution of mutational effect sizes jointly limit adaptation by regulatory mutations. Led by @simonaube.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share my new paper in Syst Biol! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Spread the word! My lab group is hosting a workshop tomorrow at #ESA2026: Ecological Theory for Everyone: A practical introduction to engaging with theory in your own research for those with little or no theoretical experience 1:30pm, Room 254B events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

Our latest work on drug resistance and epistasis. We performed comparative deep mutational scanning of two fungal orthologs to estimate how much data on one can help predict the impact of mutations on the other. We dissect the source of epistasis at the atomic level. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share that Maëva Gabrielli's latest work on Zosterops borbonicus is now published in Evolution! Interested by identifying barrier loci with genomic data? I hope you will find this piece of work interesting! ⬇️ academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Meiotic drive has long been considered as a genetic curiosity. Genomic "footprints" suggest otherwise. Check out our new review doi.org/10.1093/molb..., a cross-taxa synthesis arguing that recurrent drive is a pervasive and underappreciated force in genome evolution.

Very happy to have contributed to the study of the genomic differentiation of the British swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon britannicus). Despite the regular immigration of P. machaon from the nearby mainland, the British swallowtail butterfly remains genetically distinct. 1/..

Happy to share this review led by Janek Sendrowski, and written with Thomas Bataillon. We provided an overview of sequence-based AI models: what they can (and cannot) do, and what differentiates them from traditional techniques based on statistical associations link.springer.com/article/10.1...