New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

GBF Genetic indicator assessments in the USA higlights that the Endangered Species Act fails to capture the risk of genetic erosion of diversity within and among populations. @coalitioncongen.bsky.social @ginamo-consgen.bsky.social #consgen

Great write up of our study showing that both extrinsic factors (e.g. habitat availability) and intrinsic traits (e.g. body mass and diet) play important roles in shaping patterns of genomic diversity in birds 🦜 🧬 🌏 #consgen #popgen

Finally published! We first uploaded this preprint in 2022 but dropped it after frustrating reviews. It was well received and cited, motivating us to revisit it. We added new content, including simulations and a proof-of-concept genomic green status assessment. #consgen #popgen #PopulationGenomics

Postdoctoral Fellow position in Population Genomics at UNBC, Canada. Lead research on wolf ecology, health, and genomic diversity. More info: https://tinyurl.com/5t56kwx7. Contact: [email protected]. #postdoc

Interested in👇 ? - museomics: genome erosion, adaptation 🦌 🦜 🐬 - marcogenomics of sea warming (methods dev. or empirical data) 🌊 🐟🦭🐋 Check this call (2 y. postdoc) and get in touch to discuss potential projects (deadline 31.03.26) #popgen #consgen #evolbiol 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

one more week to apply for a 4-years PhD position with me to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Deadline: Jan 18th 2026 #MarineGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics #consgen #conservationgenetics

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

@nicolasdussex.bsky.social et al. investigate the genomic basis of adaptation in the Svalbard reindeer, an endemic subspecies that colonized the High Arctic ~7,000 years ago, adapting to extreme cold, day length changes, and resource scarcity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf160 #genome #evolution

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁

'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social‬

🧪 #consgen This de-extinction absurdity is clearly all about $$$$$$. Worse, it is being exploited by the right wing as a cover to justify environmental destruction. Every good biologist at Colossal should resign.

Great to see our latest paper on Ngorongoro Crater lion genomics out @commsbio.bsky.social Even after a rapid post-epizootic recovery in the 1970s, habitat fragmentation and continued isolation led to an increase in genetic load and to a reduction in overall genetic variation.

#consgen authority Fred Allendorf cries out in despair for American science in the Missoulian newspaper. It’s terrifying to watch this destruction unfold day by day. My heart goes out to my American colleagues and friends. Stay strong and fight.

#Consgen postdoc position for 2-3 years on Vancouver Island to work on saving a fluffy endemic marmot. and its in Canada! engage.iucn.org/group/iucn-s...

I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic. The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations. #conservationgenetics #consgen Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Robin Waples' reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne) #biodiversity #genomics #conservation #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are making a brand new #Museomics Lab at NHM Denmark, University of Copenhagen - working with DNA from museum & herbarium specimens. We are looking for a lab manager to join us - unlocking the amazing potential of our collections for global change 🌐 and #conservationgenomics research

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters. Find out more in the Science news here www.science.org/content/arti... #Consgen

Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wildlife and fisheries metabarcoding geneticist position at USFWS in Lamar, PA! Email Dr. Stacey Nerkowski with any questions: [email protected] #genomics #consgen #metabarcoding

Nice! #consgen #conservationgenetics #conservationgenomics www.cell.com/current-biol...

Genomics job at NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center being hired off the fish biologist call. They are looking for scientists to lead, plan, and conduct research in the Marine Mammal Molecular Genomics program to support marine mammal conservation 🧬 🦭 #ConservationGenetics #marinemammals

🚨Puffins are starving! We urged Commissioner Costas Kadis to back the sandeel fishing ban in UK & Scottish waters. Sandeels are vanishing, leaving seabirds like Atlantic Puffins without food The EU is challenging the ban, risking declines & fragile ecosystems www.birdlife.org/news/2024/12... #birds

I've updated this starter pack for all interested! Now bursting with over 100 natural history museum related accounts 🎉🌱🦆🙌 go.bsky.app/NtdUnyF

Check out this new paper just out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on better understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... #conservationgenetics #PopulationGenetics

I am looking for a Postdoc (2 years, start Spring 2025) with strong bioinfo. skills to work on herring adaptation to climate change at @naturhistoriska The project will use modern + aDNA, climate data, SDM and genomic simulations. #aDNA #conservationgenetics #consgen Ad will come soon!

Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection: Genomics of endangered species 🐬🐒🐸🐍🫎🐧🦉🌴🌿 #consgen #conservationgenetics #conservationgenomics I’m very happy to be serving as Guest Editor and eager to read your submission. Deadline: 13 August 2025 More info: bit.ly/48VA9l6 @BioMedCentral

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Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in! www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...

Conservation Genetics and Genomics Community! We now have also a dedicate feed - which is linked to this Starter Pack. The Feed is dedicated to Conservation Genetic and Genomic discussions and you need to be part of the starter pack and use the hashtag #consgen or #conservationgenetics !

Let´s form a community of conservation geneticists here - I started with some people I know, but there are likely to be many more... I can happily add them to this list go.bsky.app/VMqVSAi

The Functional and Evolutionary Genomics group (me!) at Nord is recruiting a PhD student on an exciting project on dwarf Atlantic salmon - please share widely! Applications and more information: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Two opportunites for those interested in marine mammal population genomics. 1. A postdoc position to study pilot whales and dolphin species in the North Atlantic with Marie Louis: tinyurl.com/zfwdsnz3 2. A genomics workshop at the upcoming Society of Marine Mammalogy in Perth tinyurl.com/57z9cwy7

Avoidable false PSMC population size peaks occur across numerous studies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.17.599025v1

I'm looking for a postdoc keen to apply for funding (e.g. Marie Curie, EMBO) to work with me at the Swedish Museum of Natural history (NRM) on herring adaptation to climate change using aDNA. 🐟 Open to discuss other marine life related ideas too 🦭🐋🐚🦐 Project is ready to go; samples + seq funding ✅

I'm looking for a postdoc keen to apply for funding (e.g. Marie Curie, EMBO) to work with me at the Swedish Museum of Natural history (NRM) on herring adaptation to climate change using aDNA. 🐟 Open to discuss other marine life related ideas too 🦭🐋🐚🦐 Project is ready to go; samples + seq funding ✅

Presenting a new coldrein.org study: Ancient reindeer mitogenomes to infer the ancestral origins of the reindeer on Svalbard, and the first genomes from the extinct East Greenland pop. Team effort with Mike Martin, @lovedalen.bsky.social and led by Katha Hold @HoldKatha doi.org/10.1038/s415...

we need more #genetic 🧬 #monitoring - not only in Europe! Read more in www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🦤

"By calculating ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores, we show that height differences between Northern and Southern Europe are associated with differential Steppe ancestry, rather than selection ..." The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians doi.org/10.1038/s415...

When did the ancestors of takahē & moho (two flightless rails endemic to Aotearoa) arrive in NZ? How did humans & past environmental change impact them? Our new ancient DNA research out now in Molecular Ecology sheds light on these questions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 📷 Oscar Thomas.

New paper out in Molecular Ecology! "Molecular ecology of microbiomes in the wild: Common pitfalls, methodological advances and future directions" Was great co-writing this paper with other Mol Ecol microbiome editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New #openAccess article: we tracked flycatcher hybrid viability across life stages, hatchling,nestling,fledgling & life long survival using 17 years monitoring of a Swedish natural population, pinpointing evolution of incompatibilities essential to understand speciation doi.org/10.1093/evol... 🧪🪶🌍👩🏻‍🔬

Our new preprint by Gözde Atağ et al on the genomes of Anatolian and Cyprian mouflons and how they relate to other wild, feral and domestic sheep groups 🐏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Woolly mammoths are almost synonymous with the Ice Age era, but what made them so special & well-equipped to survive such a difficult time? Researchers at the University of Stockholm analyzed their genomes to find out! Learn more: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/wha...

Population genomics of the muskox' resilience in the near absence of genetic variation Patrícia Pečnerová, @lovedalen.bsky.social & team 🧪⚒️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Well, the new #takahe population in the Greenstone Valley (near Queenstown) isn’t hanging around: we found 5 nests this week. We released 9 pairs in August, and 6 subadults last month. #conservation #rails

Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Evidence suggests that editors are having to invite more and more reviewers to identify those willing to perform peer review.