Rui Borges
Lecturer in Statistics at the University of St Andrews. Interested in statistical/computational population genetics and phylogenetics. Math enthusiast. He/him. 🇵🇹🇱🇻🇬🇧 mrborges23.github.io/mypage/
- If only I wee a candle in the dark.
- Glad to share my work on phylogenetic inference for wee, tiny organisms (or highly diverse): the infered topologies seem largely unaffected by unaccounted recurrent mutations, but branch lengths, and mutation-selection usage biases, are significantly impacted. #eseb #eseb2025
- @janekay27.bsky.social presenting her work on merging time scales of evolution to infer adaptive evolution. Great talk! #eseb #fwf
- This might sound naive, but I once genuinely believed that the European Union stood firmly for freedom, the rule of law, and human rights.
- This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
- I love engaging in outreach activities with math-enthusiastic students, and I always take the opportunity to introduce them to stochastic processes. One process I particularly enjoy teaching is the Gambler’s Ruin. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #standrews #smmb #statistics #maths
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- Reposted by Rui BorgesNow accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!
- Glad to see this out today in MEE! The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #popgen #populationgenetics #evolution #bacteriagenomics #bacteria #microsky #statsstandrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
- Glad to present my work on the implications of different mutation models in #popgen and #phylo inference at #PopGroup58 in Sheffield (even tried my hand at cèilidh dancing). Kudos to the organizers for this excellent meeting! #statsstandrews
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- Super proud of @janekay27.bsky.social for receiving an OEAW grant to continue their PhD work on codon evolution for another two years 🥳 It was a pity I couldn't be there in person for the award ceremony, but @bio-diogo.bsky.social did a fantastic job stepping in and capturing some great photos:
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- Reposted by Rui Borgesgo.bsky.app/NiaWN5i I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.at://did:plc:gtifezj4vdssuxqjq4m2tvya/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lamlijfwtn2l
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- 1/9 I’ve seen many posts here asking whether Bluesky is an echo chamber. I don’t think so, and I’d argue that the very fact we’re questioning it is already an indication that it’s not. I’d like to bring up Nguyen’s paper on the differences between epistemic bubbles and echo chambers:
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