🎉 tskit 0.6.0 is released! 🎉.Thanks to our wonderful contributors, this is a bumper release. Read all about it at:.

RT @DrYanWong: How to load 1.27 million Covid genomes, and their complex ancestry, into your laptop in ~1 second. If you're into #bioinform….

🥳 tskit Python 0.5.5 and C 1.1.2 are released 🥳.This has the excellent random tree seeking by Kevin Thornton which makes hopping to a specific tree much faster. See the full release notes at

RT @pastramimachine: Tomorrow at 1PM EST I'll be leading an "Intro to stdpopsim" workshop as part of #ProbGen2023. Zoom info attached if pp….

RT @fleventy5: A new version of our slendr #rstats📦 is now on CRAN! Nothing dramatic, but you should upgrade if you can as it brings new co….

tskit can make fancy 3D plots for your talks!

And finally Python3.11 support means that you can use tskit with the massive performance improvements from Python3.11! (@benjeffery).

"simplify" now has a "update_sample_flags" option for when you want to manage your own sample nodes. (@jeromekelleher).

"draw_svg" now has "max_num_trees" to prevent the accidental drawing of thousands of trees, and "canvas_size" for those vertical node labels. (@DrYanWong).

It's now quick and easy to get a tuple of a node's siblings. (@shingheizhan)

Tree sequences now know their min and max times, based on the nodes and mutations. (@shingheizhan)

Checking if a node was a root could be expensive. No longer with " (@DrYanWong)

🥳 tskit 0.5.4🥳.This first release of the year brings some useful features and support for Python 3.11. Thank you to our lovely community of contributors! 🧵👇.

We've got a new marketing expert for the tskit ecosystem:

"The ARG revolution in population and statistical genetics" @WilderWohns talk at @OfficialSMBE is now available at:.

RT @MarieGurke: Here is @tskit_dev trying to cheer up their readers. Love it!

🎉tsinfer 0.3.0🎉.This release brings a set of fixes and features, including a substantial improvement in date estimation when tsdate is used after tsinfer 0.3.0. Read all about it here:.

🥳tskit 0.5.3 is released!🥳.Available now on PyPI and conda. This point release contains some fixes and improvements. Full changelog: Thank you to all the contributors and the tskit community. ❤️.

📣"The ARG revolution in population and statistical genetics".👨‍🏫An invited keynote by @WilderWohns at the SMBEeverywhere symposium. 🗓️Sep 30th at 10am EDT. Details here:.