It is a little bit depressing that 80 % of papers applying population genetic methods typically estimate π (nucleotide diversity per bp) wrong, and even worse, do not realize that when looking at the point estimates.

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Baffling failure of a well-studied trade-off in plants to survive the transfer from greenhouse studies to the open field. Intriguing study from @derekseveri.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social and colleagues in @plosbiology.org

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

You know over the years what I have been really bothered by? When I was in college, bryophytes were taught as if they were relics of the past. Its sole purpose was to demonstrate trait progression leading to angiosperm, w/o mentioning their importance in nature, research, or potential in biotech.

Googlen NotebookLM on alkanut tehdä suomenkielisiä pocasteja. Nais-AI:n ääni kuulostaa karmivan samalle kuin Tuija Pehkonen. Pehkonenhan on ollut radiossa paljon äänessä.

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Who started this ridiculous habit of using K for thousands? 10K run? 10 kelvin run is freezing! And now in scientific writing too. I know there are big battles going on now, but I will focus on this one instead.

The de-extinction of the dire wolves? "Colossal Baloney"— @stemcells.bsky.social www.latimes.com/business/sto... @latimes.com by @hiltzikm.bsky.social

The NSF discontinuing “misinformation” research b/c it threatens free speech is laughable. 9/

Still waiting for a reimbursement from a US University that invited me there to give a talk last August. My advice: do not ever pay the travel expenses yourself when invited and promised reimbursement.

Me to my lab members: "No need to stress about your Lab Meeting presentation. Just show us where you are at in your project". Also me: *spending 8 hours to prepare my own lab meeting presentation and getting nervous about it*.

Today I have spoiled myself with reading just single review paper all day, taking pauses to think. Luxury!

I'm excited to share our new preprint on the molecular evolution of heterodichogamy in two wingnut genera of Juglandaceae. Heterodichogamy features two morphs synchronously alternating male and female flowering phases in time to generate disassortative mating. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

"Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet." "[---] Ylen johto tapaa parhaillaan aluetoimitusten henkilöstöä ja kertoo heille heidän työsuhteensa kohtalosta." www.lapinkansa.fi/yle-lopetti-...

The newer sequencing tech, Oxford Nanopore, is traded on the London exchange as part of the FTSE 250, and it is likewise having a rough day, down 10% today so far, 42% since Trump took office. These tools are how we genotype cancer, flu, measles, etc., by the way.

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

I do not talk about politics a lot here. But the way Trump and Vance talked to Zelenskyi is the most disgusting thing I have seen for a long time. So sad, we are not able to really stand up for Ukraine. We could do so much more.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Watched meeting between Trump and Zelensky and all I can say is that I have never ever seen something like that. IMO, disrespectful were Trump and Vance, not Zelensky. And not only to the US but to Ukraine and Europe as well.

seriously, how did nobody question (from the ethics review stage to publication) this 🔽 research using and abusing rats! #AnimalEthics #AnimalWelfare

A few warm days stimulate early-flowering trees. This hazel alder, Alnus serrulata, has opened long yellow catkins - male inflorescences - to release pollen to the wind. The red female inflorescence opens a bit later on an individual tree to minimize self-pollination. Are you seeing tree flowers?

Tutkijat hei! Miten käytettä tekoälyänne työssänne vai käytättekö lainkaan? Kysymystä sopii jakaa.

Not all is well in the academic system, but one thing that continues to surprise positively is the improving research assessment here. New guidelines take a stronger stance still & explicitly forbid even mentioning IF in CVs, applications etc julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/user...

People that use Mac, and have to deal with exchange/outlook and google calendars! Is there a solution, where only one calendar application would allow you to see, sync, invite and RSVP all accounts? The multiple calendar sync issues ruin my life and mental health!

We are searching broadly for a PhD candidate interested in the evolvability of heat tolerance and the interaction between evolution and plasticity in 🐦🐣, based at @biologylu.bsky.social. Be great if you could re-post. Details 👇 #ERC #HotLife @ercresearch.bsky.social

I organized a roundtable about this a couple of years ago: sfdora.org/2023/06/06/p...

Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr0932

For something uplifting... Mimulus is kind to its kin! We add to the growing evidence that plants sense their neighbours and respond differently to kin vs unrelated individuals! Congratulations to @isabeaulewis.bsky.social 🧪🌾 #evolution #mimulus #botany royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

* Spending freeze was blocked by a judge! * Collaborators found backup DNAs! * Campus told us business as usual! * NSF emailed to tell us to stop everything. * Campus told us to keep going anyway. ...quite the emotional rollercoaster.

What DNA variants alter transcription factor (TF) binding affinity? Here, we describe a new workflow baal-nf. We used it to trawl through 6017 ChIP-Seq data sets for 558 TFs and 46 genotyped cell lines, finding 298,783 allele-specific binding sites (ASBs). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/2

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

Ei ihan vielä ole opettajan graafikkokaveriksi tästä tekoälystä.

Oh no, no...., no! This was not what I wanted to see.

It’s ~impossible to explain how we in Finland feel about Russia to someone who didn’t grow up here. A couple of years ago, my new PhD student was worried about the war, and I tried to reassure her by telling how it is. Half-way, I realized it’s going to be inexplicably complex:

At SLU (Uppsala, Sweden) We are currently looking for 3 new full professors within the areas of 1) Animal Genetics with special emphasis on Breeding; 2) Molecular Animal Genetics; and 3) Bioinformatics. Please check out these links: 🧪🧬🐄 1) lnkd.in/dnKHqqMP 2) lnkd.in/dwUgqHhY 3) lnkd.in/dkiEXpss

For everyone interested in Forest Genetics, start here: go.bsky.app/JX3tZaD Hi @katrinheer.bsky.social - please can you add EVOLTREE?

New pine results from our PhD researcher Robert Kesälahti! 🥳 Species-specific DNA blocker helps to capture more unique reads and less repetitive genome than a universal blocker. Great news for everyone working with large genomes! With @pyhatanja.bsky.social et al! 🌲 doi.org/10.1111/1755...

Both MDPI and Frontiers are full Open Access Journals. In this case, journal revenue = number of paper * OA fees per paper. High peer review standard only brings down the revenue. So OA makes papers open but are these papers still “science”? Is OA model working for a better science?

It has taken more than 4 years but the methodologically poor (doi.org/10.1016/j.th...) and questionable paper (1-day peer review bmcmedresmethodol.bi...) that promoted HCQ for COVID-19 is finally retracted. We've been saying for years it had to be (doi.org/10.1016/j.th...).

Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

Tässä kompaktissa muodossa tiedejulkaisemisen nykytilanteeseen johtaneista trendeistä. En itse ehkä sanoisi, että kyseessä kriisi, mutta ongelmia on, ja jotkut pohjimmiltaan hyvät projektit saattavat myös aiheuttaa ei toivottuja seurauksia. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Even though the Finnish publication forum is a national organization, its decision attracts attention and has an impact widely. I've been in the biosciences panel for 8 years, but I don't remember anyone bringing up the animal welfare aspect before. Thanks for pointing this out @amcell.bsky.social !

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

Ah nautintoa! Koivutietoa suomeksi. Lähdin kuokkimaan dendrologian seuran koivuseminaariin enkä kadu yhtään. Niin harvoin saa nykyään kuunnella esityksiä omalla äidinkielellään.

We are thrilled to announced the publication of chromosome level genome assemblies and genetic maps for the Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....