TL;DR: Even the most advanced language models crumble on first-person false beliefs, showing sharp accuracy drops and revealing that their “understanding” of others’ minds is still shallow pattern mimicry, not genuine epistemic reasoning. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature

We did a penguin GWAS! Turns out that yellow-eyed penguins (or hoiho) are actually three very divergent groups, which we are calling subspecies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @josephguhlin.bsky.social @peterkdearden.bsky.social @annasanture.bsky.social @cegrueber.bsky.social

🚩Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar: Remember to tune in tomorrow for our ECR special symposium 🧬 - "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology"! Registration link on poster below

GSA is now on linked in! Follow us at: www.linkedin.com/company/gene...

🧬 Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar: 📅 30th September Join us for the "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology" symposium, featuring three outstanding early career researchers who will share their latest discoveries. 👉 Register now using the poster below!

Our other fantastic sponsers include @wilderlab.bsky.social, @geneticsaus.bsky.social and Genomics Aotearoa!!

Genetics Society of AustralAsia (a professional organization for genetics researchers, educators, and professionals across Australia, New Zealand, and the Asia‑Pacific region) moves to Bluesky (2.001 followers on X) Bluesky: @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Excellent keynotes this morning from Professor Alexei Drummond and Professor Cris Print on the power of genomics and computational biology in precision medicine and health research. #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

Congratulations to all our #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025 award winners. Great talks at the GSA award session from @cegrueber.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, Stephanie Waller, and Margaret Byrne.

The actual PopGen Power Rangers were revealed at the #GSA2025

Day three of #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025 kicking off with a great plenary session: diving into the world of plants and regulatory genetics with excellent talks by Miloš Tanurdžić and Erika Varkonyi-Gasic.

@testeeves.bsky.social chats at @geneticsaus.bsky.social about how #genetics could play a role in careful #management of small endangered #bird populations.

Libby Liggins and Claire Rye chat about the #Aotearoa #Genomics #Data #Repository, including how #metadata can be submitted (including #eDNA). They are hoping to take #indigenous #governance to the #Genomic #Standards #Consortium later this year… @geneticsaus.bsky.social

@sebasalco.bsky.social talks at @geneticsaus.bsky.social about #Hector and #Maui’s #dolphins, including chromosomal inversions which may help keep these species separate… @laninsky.bsky.social

Richard O’Rorke chats about #eDNA from #bugs on #cars at @geneticsaus.bsky.social

So proud of Teremoana Porter-Rawiri for doing fungal #eDNA in the #Wairarapa. Restored, unrestored, and remnant sites showed differences, correlating with nitrogen. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Meriam Van Os finds #fish differences in preserved #Kurī (dog) 💩 , showing what some of the diet may have been. #aDNA #eDNA @geneticsaus.bsky.social

@rebeccakfrench.bsky.social chats about #Kākāpō #disease #transcriptomics, showing that E. coli may correlate with #diseased birds. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

@EmZLCarroll chats about #Tohorā right #whale #conservation #genetics and potential impacts in foraging #habitat #decline. Whale snot and #eDNA can be partnered with long term #datasets for effective #monitoring. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Amazing talks in the Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, and the Human Genetics concurrent sessions today. Emma Carroll, Isabelly de Lima, Graham McCulloh, Amara Shaukat, Kathleen McLay, & some excellent lightning talks! #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

If you're at #GSA2025 check out Mark de Bruyn's talk today at 5.15pm in OGGB3 on our #ancientDNA research into postglacial recolonization of the Southern Ocean by elephant seals from multiple glacial refugia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AotearoaGSA2025 @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Megan Leask chats about how we can move towards #culturally competent #precision #medicine in #Aotearoa New Zealand. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Megan Leask closing off the Indigenous Early Career Leaders session with her work designing precision medicine for Māori, by Māori. #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

Catherine Collins walking with us through the tāhuhu kōrero in DNA. #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

Amazing start to #GSA2025! Amanda Black and Dawn Lewis opened with beautiful, thought-provoking science. Indigenous Early Career Leaders Alana Alexander, Jordon Lima, and Conor Watene O'Sullivan shared wonderful projects and reflections on community and communication. More to come!

We’re excited to exhibit at #GSA2025 in Auckland, NZ! Visit our booth to see how LinkPrep™ tech enables same-day, high-res chromatin interaction maps. Connect enhancers, silencers & more to gene targets. Integrates with ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq & other omics data. #ChromatinTopology #3DGenomics

Excited for a week of science at #GSA2025! Have been having a lovely time in Auckland so far and ready to see some cool genetics research over the next few days 😄

Reminder that we have our next Asia-Pacific Genetics seminar series tomorrow at 4pm NZST during the #GSA2025 award talks. Not able to be here in person? Join online using the poster URL!

Alana Alexander chats about how to connect the #Māori world and research, ensuring that Te Ao Māori is protected @geneticsaus.bsky.social

First chilly jog in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland and ready for the #GSA2025 - @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Conner Wātene O’Sullivan chats about the Māori community perspective and some of his outreach in schools as well as precision medicine work. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Just three more sleeps until #GSA2025 kicks off in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland! Bring your love of science, your curiosity, and maybe a rain jacket - just in case 🌧️🧬 We can't wait to see you there!

The next online Asia-Pacific #genetics and #genomics Seminar Series will occur on the 9th of July🧬! @cegrueber.bsky.social will discuss her amazing research on preserving biodiversity and ecological resilience using genetic approaches. Please see the attached flyer for details:

Join over 210 delegates plus 20 sponsor representatives for our amazing GSA conference 2025! 🧬🥝 Final Registration deadline: Mon 23 June www.gsa-2025.com/registration Check out our schedule of 92 amazing talks plus 39 posters here: www.gsa-2025.com/program

What impact has the small and bottlenecked population history of Hihi had on relatedness within current populations? Hui Zhen Tan uses genomics to show inbreeding levels are moderately high. #BirdsNZ2025 #consgen

Interested in measuring genetic load? We have a new paper out providing a modified version of GERP which is more user friendly in wildlife species and with scripts to automate making input files and pulling out derived alleles in your species #consgen #popgen star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4202

New preprint out: "A Beginner’s Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics: Everything You Wanted to Know" A primer for anyone curious about digging into structural variants within their study system. Huge thank you to my brilliant co-authors! doi.org/10.22541/au....

🚨 LAST DAY: EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES TONIGHT! 🚨 Don’t miss your chance to save on #GSA2025 registration — lock in your discount before midnight! 🐟🦘🦠🦟🌳🥝🦎🌱🦕 👉 www.gsa-2025.com

Reminder: early bird registration for 🧬GSA 2025🧬 closes on the 11th of May! www.gsa-2025.com

The orange-bellied parrot is predicted to go extinct by 2038. We tracked >200 years of genomic erosion. Here’s what we found 🧬🦜 #ConservationGenomics #consgen #popgen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... pic by Marc Gardner

Only one week left to get your abstracts in for GSA 2025! 🐑🍃🐀🦎🌼🐟🥝🦟🦕🌳💻🦉 No matter your flavour of genetics, you'll find it in Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland), Aotearoa (New Zealand) on the 7th - 10th of July! Hope to see you all there! www.gsa-2025.com

📣GSA 2025 Award winners announced! 📣 All winners will be presenting at 🧬GSA 2025🧬 in Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). 🚩Reminder to submit your abstracts by April 7th and register to hear these amazing researchers present their work!

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

🚨REMINDER Make sure to register for🧬GSA’s 2025 conference🧬! The conference will be held at Waipapa Taumata Rau - The University of Auckland in Aotearoa - New Zealand 🥝 from 7-10 July 2025. 🚩Abstracts are due in three weeks (7th April) Early bird registration ends 11th May www.gsa-2025.com

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

Abstract submission and registration for🧬GSA’s 2025 conference🧬is now open! The conference will be held at Waipapa Taumata Rau - The University of Auckland in Aotearoa - New Zealand 🥝 from 7-10 July 2025. 🚩Important dates Abstracts due- April 7 Early bird registration ends- May 11 www.gsa-2025.com

🚩REMINDER: Genetics Society of AustralAsia annual awards are currently open - deadline is midnight AEDT on 28th February 2025. 📣 Please consider applying yourself, or nominate or encourage eligible students and colleagues to apply for one of these awards. genetics.org.au/awards/

Molly Garrett, Lisette Waits, et al. derived a #GTSeq panel for genotyping low quality tissue from the ESA-listed northern Idaho Ground Squirrel throughout it's extant range. They were able to recover population assignments and diversity stats similar to #RADSeq data, useful for monitoring #consgen

We have a great list of ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. 🌍 #conservation #MarineLife #ecology Check it out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #conservation #funding #fellowships #awards