I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

A high-quality chromosome-level genome of roughskin sculpin was assembled. Learn more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #genomics #evolution #genome

A genome-wide comparison of #gene regulatory sequences & embryonic gene expression in arachnids - new insights into the impact of the arachnopulmonate whole #genome duplication academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #biodiversity #genomics

Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Day 21 of #InsectAdvent Christmas is a time of over-eating. But we're not the biggest feasters. Hermetia illucens (Black-Soldier fly) larvae are capable of eating up to 2x its own body mass in food per day - the best bio recyclers consuming our waste @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

📰 ❄️ Our December newsletter is here! www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-ne... - 2025 Community Highlights - A list of interesting events and conferences coming up in 2026! #newsletter #community #science #ERGANews

We have 🐟 herring pre print! Our new study reveals that ancient gene flow between Pacific and Atlantic herring played a key role in helping Atlantic herring adapt to the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If functional constraints limit the realm of possibilities in terms of allowed #gene evolutionary trajectories then recurring patterns should be observable for genes evolving under similar constraints academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

The Primulina #pangenome provides a resource for dissecting mechanisms underlying edaphic specialisation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #biodiversity #genomics

We have a new preprint! In this study, we use #genomic data to uncover population structure and adaptive potential in the meadow #spittlebug, the main European #vector of #Xylella fastidiosa.

🎥 Want to hear directly from our committee representatives? They presented these highlights during the last #ERGAPlenary. Rewatch their talks anytime: youtu.be/ldj49yUimeI?... 👏 Congratulations for the great work!!! #community #plenary #ERGA

What was the #ERGACommunity up to in 2025? The answer is: a lot! Head to our website for an overview of the main achievements and ongoing priorities across our community ➡️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-20... #community #2025highlights #ERGA @ebpgenome.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

The @ergabiodiv.bsky.social December newsletter ⏩ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-ne... ⏩ Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season! #biodiversity #genomics

We want to thank our BGE community for all their efforts in 2025! We have done a lot thanks to you! We are looking forward to an amazing #biodiversity #genomics year in #europe in 2026 Happy Holidays to you all!

🦋 i5k Annual Meeting: February 4th, 2026! Anyone with an interest in arthropod #genomics is encouraged to join this open meeting. More details here: i5k.github.io/2025_annual_... #i5k #arthropods #genomics #insects #biodiversity

We have a new date for the 2025-2026 i5k Annual Meeting: February 4th, 2026! Anyone with an interest in arthropod genomics is encouraged to join this open meeting. More details here: i5k.github.io/2025_annual_... #i5k #arthropods #genomics #insects (please re-post)

#WntA is a crucial marker of stripe elements early in development for the Nymphalidae butterfly family. @jasminealqassar.bsky.social & co explore if WntA has maintained its role in stripe elements over 95 million years of evolution in the Hesperiidae family of butterflies. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

An accessible, easily understandable description of the Earth BioGenome Project @ebpgenome.bsky.social - a worldwide effort aiming to read the complete set of genetic instructions (genomes) for every known eukaryotic species on Earth kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... #biodiversity #genomics

📢 ECCB2026 - Call for proceedings now open ! The Scientific Committee welcomes full manuscripts presenting original and unpublished work in computational biology. 🗓 Deadline: 5 March 2026, 1 p.m. CET 🔗 eccb2026.org/call-proceedings #ECCB2026 #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #CallForPapers

🌳 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "Performance assessment of phylogenetic inference tools using PhyloSmew"  Explore the full study: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf300

🌊 Exploring the ocean data with #AI (3/4) EMBRC is involved in the Augmented Observatory (@embrc-france.bsky.social) programme to connect marine data by: 🔬 Combining genomics, imaging & environmental data 🧠 Using AI to analyse datasets & detect ecosystem changes 🔗 www.embrc.eu/using-ai-to-... 🧪

Follow @ergabiodiv.bsky.social for all the latest #biodiversiy #genome news in Europe 🟣 did you miss the ERGA plenary on Monday? No worries, we put it online for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldj4...

🎉 The last newsletter for #eccb2026 is out! Organized by the @sib.swiss, from 31 Aug to 4 Sept 2026, the European Conference on Computational Biology will bring together the international #computationalbiology community for 5 days of science, collaboration & inspiration. 👉 Read more: chk.me/jcH79HN

Every year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! 📣Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th!📣 Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

Organisers - @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social | @sib.swiss - Chiara Bortoluzzi | @sib.swiss - Tristan Cumer | University of Lausanne - Landen Gozashti | UC Berkeley Invited Speaker - @thinks.lol | University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Announcing ERGA Community #Genomes on GoaT Guidelines: zenodo.org/records/1582... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics The European Reference #Genome Atlas

📣 Reminder: only 3 weeks left to submit tutorial or workshop proposals for #ECCB2026! Deadline: 5 January 2026 🔗 eccb2026.org/call-tutoria... #ECCBTutorials #ComputationalBiology #AI #MachineLearning #DataScience

The first European Reference Genome Atlas - ERGA @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Community Genome Report published using the ARPHA platform at the RIO Collection riojournal.com/article/1749...

Population-scale long-read datasets, involving sequencing and de novo assembly of multiple individuals within a species, are better at capturing the full spectrum of structural variants, but such datasets are rare outside of humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics

Join the last #ERGAPlenary of 2025 @ergabiodiv.bsky.social at 15:00 CET today!

Apennine brown bear #genomic diversity - comparing whole #genome resequencing data from Apennine, Central European, and North American brown bears academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #biodiversity #genomics

For our 2019 #Genome #Biology study we had just 6 beetle 🐞 genomes 🧬 to work with link.springer.com/article/10.1... ... today there are >300 chromosomal-level reference genomes for Coleoptera! #biodiversity #genomics

Please help! We are looking for tissue-specific RNA-seq datasets or pubs with both male and female individual gene expression data, not pooled, from animal species. If you know of any relevant resources, please drop a link in the comments or send me a DM. Also, please help spread the word - thanks!

Population resequencing data from five brood-parasitic species across three independent origins of brood parasitism—three parasitic finches, a honeyguide and a cowbird—alongside related non-parasitic outgroups www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The African Union has called for stronger cooperation to safeguard Africa's biodiversity, as leaders, scientists and policymakers gathered in Botswana for the first Africa Biodiversity Summit aimed at aligning environmental conservation with economic transformation. 🔗 https://ow.ly/W3lr50XpcZS

Microbial eukaryotes keep challenging assumptions about eukaryotic cell and genome biology. Our upcoming workshop explores the frontier of protist genomics and how it shapes cell biology, ecology and evolution. Please save the date! Talks, posters and ECR events Websites and details coming soon

eggNOG v7, the first release implementing a fully phylogenetic, domain-centric workflow - Speciation and duplication events are detected using a noise-tolerant algorithm to generate hierarchically consistent, evolutionarily dated OGs academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #orthology #evolution

Sequencing and hybrid #genome assembly of 45 taxonomically and ecologically diverse termites and two cockroaches 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity #genomics

A reference genome for Batesia hypochlora, the painted beauty from the Amazon - first reference genome for Biblidinae subfamily. Led by Tan Pham, with help from collaborators in Peru, UK, Finland, & Poland. Here's to many more Neotropical Lepidoptera genomes! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join us at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen this summer! 🔵 With @ergabiodiv.bsky.social & @official-smbe.bsky.social 🟣 Symposium 21 | From genomic graphs to evolutionary insights: standardising #pangenomes for population inference 🟢 smbe2026.org/programme/ #biodiversity #genomics

📣 ELIXIR homepage has a new look! We have updated and modernised the ELIXIR homepage to help users reach key content quickly. Browse through our new homepage and learn more about ELIXIR: https://loom.ly/6IC-fxk

👉 Point your friends, family and connections to our new video 📹 on the point of bioinformatics! The 90-second video is available in: 🇬🇧 youtu.be/yjbv1WZcM2M 🇫🇷 youtu.be/BG-h_nxwSE4 🇩🇪 youtu.be/e4S4m1IhfiU 🇮🇹 youtu.be/V4QcZHjnsGo

🔔Join the last #ERGAPlenary of 2025 next Monday for an end-of-year wrap-up! Our committees will present this year’s activities and outputs, and look ahead to 2026! 📅 15/12 at 15:00 CET Register as an #ERGAmember to receive the link: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/join-contact #Community #Genomics

À quoi sert la #bioinformatique? 🔴 @sib.swiss nous organisons les données des sciences de la vie, les conservons dans des bases de données et les transformons en connaissances Découvrez la vidéo ⏩ www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-h...

What's the point of #bioinformatics? 🔴 @sib.swiss we organize life-science data, preserve them in databases, and transform them into knowledge Check it out ⏩ youtu.be/yjbv1WZcM2M

A post on the genome of the yellow gorgonian Eunicella cavolini. Start for more analyses!

The traditional pipeline view of academia no longer reflects the reality of scientific #careers. In this Perspective, Alexandra A-T Weber @eawag.bsky.social reframes success as a network of paths that recognizes excellence in its many forms 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4pSgzx5

🟢 Are you a researcher in #Switzerland involved in collecting species observations #data ? 🗺️🦋🐸🦉 🟣 Then you can help assess the needs, practices, & challenges on Swiss #biodiversity data mobilisation, publication, & sharing ! 🔵 How ? Fill this short survey: form.jotform.com/253342763497...

📣 After years of development and earlier informal feedback rounds, the official @tdwg.org #DarwinCore public review is now live, your input is needed! This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀 🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...

🗣️ “Getting recognition and external validation for this, and all the work involved, feels very good” , said Ilan Gold from the @scverse.bsky.social core team, SIB Bioinformatics Innovative Resource Award 2025 laureate. Read full interview www.sib.swiss/news/getting...