Matt Osmond

Modeling evolution with math at UofToronto, Turtle Island.

2025-04-23

@chtalbot sounds very interesting! Excited to see what you guys get up to

2025-03-03

@HildegardUecker and I are excited to be running the second edition of our #EvolutionaryRescue workshop series at the #MaxPlanck Plön, June 30-July 3. This time the focus is on bridging theory and experiments.

Invited speakers: Helen Alexander, Lutz Becks, Robert D Holt, Laure Olazcuaga, Jitka Polechova.

Submit an abstract by March 15 and tell your friends.

More info: workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event

#Evolution #ecoevo #evol_gen #MathematicalModeling #MathematicalBiology

poster for the workshop. photo of plön lake with cartoon rescue curve. details redundant with text of post.
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2025-03-03

I'm looking forward to giving the inaugural Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Cancer seminar live online tomorrow at 9am PST (12pm EST; 5pm UK). Tune in if you're interested in any of the following:

* Cancer evolution & mathematical oncology
* Spatial stochastic processes
* Evolutionary rescue theory
* Selective sweeps
* Quantifying phylogenetic tree shape

youtube.com/live/E0nO9VfVUX8

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Jeremy B. Yoder is aligned with the relevant statutory languagejbyoder.org@bsky.brid.gy
2025-01-06

The program for #ASN2025 at Asilomar is finalized, and I'm super excited for the roster of speakers joining the symposium I've organized, "Not ‘when’ but ‘how’ — towards a process-centered view of species evolving together", on Sunday afternoon docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ASN Asilomar 2025 PROGRAM

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Christian Meestersrupdecat@fediscience.org
2024-12-20

Want to see a talk by me about #Snakemake on #HPC clusters? The benefits of using a workflow system? Its impact on #reproducibility and subsequent data management?

Then see me at @FAU (Erlangen, Germany) on 14. January.

Further information: hpc.fau.de/2024/12/19/monthly-

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A-Dub 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈adub@kolektiva.social
2024-12-18

oh no. 💔💔

University of Waterloo says two PhD students killed in Israeli airstrike

kitchener.ctvnews.ca/universit

#Gaza #Scholasticide

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Majd Al-Shihabi 🏴مجد الشهابيmajdal@indieweb.social
2024-11-26

We only started naming anti-Palestinian racism a few years ago. We used to call it “the Palestine exception”, but it now has a name, ans it’s very pervasive.

The Arab-Canadian lawyers association wrote a brilliant report that also names #UofT as one of the hot beds of #APR in Canada.

Full report here: static1.squarespace.com/static

Screenshot of the ACLA website showing their report
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Julia Evansb0rk@jvns.ca
2024-11-22

I love this protest game for Toronto bike lanes by @omarieclaire so much, having a lot of fun dying repeatedly

play here: marieflanagan.com/loserlane/
#BikeTooter

cute ASCII art, saying: 

I survived 10 seconds without a bike lane

picture of person on bike saying "NOOOOO" in front of car

THANKS DOUG
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2024-11-08

Some nice new stuff in latest tskit release:

tskit.dev/news/20241106-tskit-

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nixCraft 🐧nixCraft
2024-11-02

On November 2nd, 1991, Vim was released. Happy cake day, ! Let the celebration start with Vim Easter egg:

Open VIM

Type

:smile

vim Easter egg
2024-10-16

That time of year again: postdoc fellowships available at the Unviersity of Toronto. Get in touch if you want to apply to work with me on some evolutionary theory.

artsci.utoronto.ca/faculty-sta

#uoft #postdoc #evolution #popgen

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A-Dub 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈adub@kolektiva.social
2024-10-14

Zionist ‘safety patrols’ on campus have little concern for Jewish safety.

‘Self-defence’ has vastly different meanings for the colonised and the coloniser.

by Yoav Litvin, Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, writer, photographer.

Published On 14 Oct 2024.

aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10

#Gaza #StudentProtests 🍉

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A-Dub 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈adub@kolektiva.social
2024-10-13

motion made to the U. of Windsor Board of Governors to **welch on the deal** the Administration made with student protest encampment participants. >:[

i seriously fail to comprehend the ethical code of supposedly educated people who think a university is morally tainted by **divesting** from what most of the world knows is a genocide in progress.

windsorstar.com/news/local-new

#StudentProtests #Gaza 🍉

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2024-08-15

Excited to announce the release of version 0.0.2 of the `tskit_arg_visualizer` Python package on PyPI! This update brings functionality for handling larger ARGs, including major performance improvements (thanks to @yan) and a new Node View that shows local connections around a focal node, useful when your ARG is too large to display fully. Styling has also been overhauled, allowing for customizability in the colors and symbols used in your plots. Check it out at pypi.org/project/tskit-arg-vis!

#tskit

The two available views within the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package. The standard view shows the ARG in full. The node view shows a subgraph centered around a selected node marked with a star. I've highlighted that subgraph in pink to show how it fits within the standard view.
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A-Dub 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈adub@kolektiva.social
2024-08-09

The UK's largest pension fund has sold off £80m in assets linked to Israel amid internal pressure from members. The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) manages investments totalling £79bn and has more than 500,000 members who work for universities and higher education institutions in the UK.

middleeasteye.net/news/largest #Gaza #Divest #HigherEd 🍉

2024-08-06

3 years (and 2 kids) later, I finally revised the manuscript:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

we develop a #popgen method to locate genetic ancestors from tree sequences and apply it to arabidopsis thaliana.

software is ready to be applied to any dataset with Relate trees:
github.com/osmond-lab/spacetre

check out our video to learn more: youtube.com/watch?v=4itER1uEKb

thanks for your patience @gcbias !

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Katie LotterhosDrK_Lo@ecoevo.social
2024-08-06

The GHIST (the Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament) is live! Analyze some data with your favorite demographic inference tool and see if you can discover the true demography of the population to win the contest. More info at ghi.st

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Jeremy B. Yoder is aligned with the relevant statutory languagejbyoder.org@bsky.brid.gy
2024-07-27

Very cool #Evol2024 presentation by Bob Week, laying out a framework for modeling microbiome-mediated traits, with the microbiome transmitted both vertically and horizontally — fully described in a preprint already doi.org/10.1101/2024...

The Evolution of Microbiome-Me...

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2024-07-18

Please share: Professor or Senior Lecturer position in Quantitative Genomics
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