🎙️ New podcast! We often hear that invasive species are bad for ecosystems they invade, but the consequences can seem fuzzy. We hear from @naikasanuchara.bsky.social and @carolboggs.bsky.social about their study system, where an invasive plant has very tangible effects for a native butterfly.

Lineage-specific targets of positive selection in three leaf beetles correspond with defence capacity against their shared parasitoid wasp www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome sequence analysis provides evidence that a boreal crustacean colonised Svalbard well before the ongoing Atlantification of the Arctic www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quantifying genetic and genotypic gain gaps in Eucalyptus: the hidden cost of ignoring inbreeding and dominance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Expansion of satellite DNAs derived from transposable elements in beetles with reduced diploid numbers www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genomic analysis of differentiation and demography of the formerly conspecific agile (Dipodomys agilis) and Dulzura (D. simulans) kangaroo rats www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

🎙️ Have you discovered the Heredity Podcast? 👂 Hear about the latest genetics research straight from the authors 📚 Archive: www.nature.com/hdy/podcast @gensocuk.bsky.social

🎙️ Have you discovered the Heredity Podcast? 👂 Hear about the latest genetics research straight from the authors 📚 Archive: www.nature.com/hdy/podcast @gensocuk.bsky.social

🎙️ 📻 New Heredity Podcast! We talk with @caitismuheil.bsky.social and Jessica McNeill about their work showing the sensitivity of meiosis to temperature and what this might mean for populations in a warming world. @ncstate.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social Episode: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

🎤 🦎New Heredity Podcast: The genomes of organisms can tell us about evolutionary processes in the past - but can they also give clues about the future? André Yves and Fernanda Werneck tell us about their work on climate adaptation in Amazonian lizards. Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

Another presentation from the team at #ESEB2025 today 21st - 11:30am room 115 Laura will be presenting her work on the effect of temperature on recombination - fresh from the oven 👉 journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Well done @lauuragon.bsky.social !!! Presenting at #ESEB2025 her work on temperature & recombination. Thanks to the symposium organizares @amandabretman.bsky.social et al for selecting the work ☺️

I presented my poster at the #ESEB2025 ! 📢 Call for entomologists🐝 We are looking for Vespula germanica from Europe to further our understanding of the invasion dynamics of the species. Please get in touch!

Surely one of the all-time best conference outreach activities: an evolution-inspired decorated street for Les Festes de Gràcia #ESEB2025

Thanks to all who popped by the booth at lunch, we're here the rest of #eseb2025 so anyone with questions feel free to come and see us. @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social

Wonderful wrap up for a great symposium #ESEB2025 - thank you to all parcitipants for their high quality presentations, talks and posters (here most of the female contributors, but there were more 😉)

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it! youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...

If you are at #ESEB2025 feel free to reach us to discuss your work with us @heredityjournal.bsky.social

Heredity has a new EiC and if you fancy meeting Louise Johnson or Aurora @aruizherrera.bsky.social our amazing Co-EiC at #eseb2025 please find them or contact them via the app. @gensocuk.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

I'm missing #eseb2025 but the lab is well-represented 🤩 📊 Kenneth Aase: genomic prediction of crossover rates (Mon S03) 🎤 Lisa Ammer: sex-differences in CO landscape (Thu 11.30am S28) 📊 Gina Henderson: (no) selection on immunity (Thu S48) 📊 Marie Raynaud: recombination hotspot variation (Thu S02)

Come find us at the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social stand #eseb2025 exhibition hall

Excited to be here! #ESEB2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social Join us next Tuesday 19th August 11AM - Symposium 38 - New frontiers in Genome Diversity and Evolution

A little late to share, but the first paper from the @heredityjournal.bsky.social special issue on functional and adaptive effects of genomic structural variation is now out!

Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions! Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @heredityjournal.bsky.social

Heredity Podcast Many Anolis lizards have a sail of colourful skin on their throats which they use to communicate, but how does something like that evolve? Find out with researchers Renata Pirani, Carlos Arias and Mike Logan @gensocuk.bsky.social @mdpointer.bsky.social

Check out this amazing work from @wbderry.bsky.social lab on nucleolar size regulation by CDK-4 published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social as part of the C. elegans Special Issue. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extended deadline for @heredityjournal.bsky.social Special Issue: C.elegans genetics and biology-31st October 2025. We have amazing papers getting into the special issue. Heredity is the official journal of @gensocuk.bsky.social and supports many conferences and training events. @biouea.bsky.social

New Heredity Podcast! Frank Burbrink and Ed Myers talk about their recent work on American Racers. Spatial patterns, hybridisation and why the shapes of evolutionary trees might be more complex than we thought. @gensocuk.bsky.social Episode: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

Continuing the recent theme of conservation genetics, we return to the sea with Marc Gose and Rob Ogden. They discuss their work on the white-beaked dolphin, and the importance of international collaboration to manage populations that span borders @gensocuk.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

The next online Africa-Europe #genetics #genomics seminar will focus on mosquitoes that vector malaria. It features Hilary Ranson from ‪@lstmnews.bsky.social‬ & Charles Wondji and will be held on May 13. Register for free access using the link in the flyer below!

Thank you to @gensocuk.bsky.social and all organisers for a wonderful meeting- amazing range of topics, excellent talks and really fun QandA sessions. Only problem is that I'm going back home with too many ideas for new experiments!

In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research. Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland. We are hiring postdocs & postbacs! Please reach out :)

It was actually 1998 when I first published GCUA. Where does the time go? in fact, when i try to find the article now, it come us 404. Sigh. academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

New #popgen tools I found that use a likelihood method to mitigate small sample size problem when calculating IBD that can be great for #consgen purposes: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This has Windows implementation as well as Linux and Mac! Let me know if anyone has tried this :D

ERGA Plenary meeting, Monday, April 28 at 15:00 CEST, Dr. Thomas Mathers: improving reference genome assemblies for challenging species & new insights from complete bird microchromosome 🐦🧬 assemblies www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/plenary...

We had a fantastic 3 days of inspiring science. This was only possible because of the passionate and collaborative spirit of this amazing community. A big thanks to everyone who attended.

Big congratulations to Prof. Kathy Niakan on receiving the 2025 Mary Lyon Medal from the Genetics Society UK in recognition of her outstanding research in genetics and developmental biology @niakanlab.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social

Deadline is Monday 28th.

🧬 Happy DNA Day! Today we celebrate the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003 and the discovery of the double helix of DNA in 1953! #DNADay

We have a postdoc position in my group in collaboration with EMBL Rome; join us to make important discoveries in this exciting project. Please apply or share. hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

PhD position in my group to work on epigenetics in glioblastoma cancer stem cells (UK based only). Deadline May 6th eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

New computer progam by Jinliang Wang to estimate IBD coefficients, inbreeding and relatedness from marker genotypes EMIBD9 Available at www.zsl.org/about-zsl/re..., or at zenodo.org/records/6672... go.nature.com/42YTS1F

Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The mosaicism of Cas-induced mutations and pleiotropic effects of scarlet gene in an emerging model system www.nature.com/articles/s41...

FISH mapping in Xenopus pygmaeus refines understanding of genomic rearrangements and reveals jumping NORs in African clawed frogs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deforestation-induced Hybridization in Philippine Frogs Creates a Distinct Phenotype With an Inviable Genotype www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Revealing stable SNPs and genomic prediction insights across environments enhance breeding strategies of productivity, defense, and climate-adaptability traits in white spruce www.nature.com/articles/s41...