Þetta er búinn að vera svakalegur veikinda vetur hjá mörgum. Var að skoða gögnin frá landlækni í gærkvöld og þetta er sýnileg stigmögnun á inflúensu sýkingum síðasta rúman mánuð. app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrI...

Ingibjörg G. Jónsdóttir at @mfri.bsky.social along with her co-authors Jón Sólmundsson, Peter J. Wright, William Butler and Pamela Woods published a paper in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. The study explores the roles of total egg production and the survival of young fish in their first year.

MFRI is taking part in a large-scale international project on harmful algae > Marine phycotoxins in the Arctic: an emerging climate change risk (PHATE) which is a collaborative project on sustainable development and food security in the Arctic. See more here: www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

🧬 Last Friday we held our first Taxon Sampling SOP “Hackathon”! Researchers collaborated in real time to develop 17 taxon-specific SOPs that will be shared openly 🍄🌱🐟🪸 Learn more about the Sampling Committee & stay tuned: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/samplin... #sampling @ebpgenome.bsky.social

@icefishresearch.bsky.scial Did you know that the farts of herring almost started a war? 🐟💣 #icefishresearch #didyouknowfacts #herring

Ef þú ert vanur/vön að taka sýni í felti þá hvet ég þig að taka þátt í lausnamóti (hackathon) fyrir sýnatöku leiðbeiningar @ergabiodiv.bsky.social. Mótið fer af stað núna á föstudaginn og stendur yfir frá kl. 9-11 UTC. Skráningar skilafrestur er kl. 16 í dag. www.cognitoforms.com/ERGAEuropean...

The final salmon fry samples of the year were just collected in western Iceland. One year old fry are being sampled for signatures of genetic introgression of aquaculture salmon following an escape event in Patreksfjörður in 2023. Video is from Kjallakstaðaá by Fellsströnd. @mfri.bsky.social

Síðustu erfðasýnatökur ársins úr laxseiðum eru nú í gangi á Vesturlandi. Verið er að safna eins árs seiðum til að skoða umfang erfðablöndunar í kjölfar stroksins í Kvígindisdal í Patreksfirði 2023. Myndskeið frá Kjallakstaðaá og Tunguá (Galtardalsá) við Fellsströnd. @mfri.bsky.social

Two new studies led by the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute uncover hidden stock structure in Northeast Atlantic blue whiting, a key species for ecosystems and fisheries. More here: hafogvatn.is/en/about/new... #bluewhiting #marinebiology

Themes and sessions of @wcmb2026.bsky.social - Part 6 Session 1.6: "From Local to Global: scaling national marine biodiversity best practices" www.wcmb2026.org/1-challenges... Stay tuned for more! @unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be #WCMB2026 #marinebiodiversity

🎙️ We're excited to welcome Dr. Christina Hvilsom as a keynote speaker at the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference! Don’t miss her talk “Genomes in Action for Conservation” 🌍 💻 Online & free | 29–31 Oct 🔗 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social

The first article from last year's expedition on the famous Polarstern that I participated in has been published. The amphipod species Amathillopsis spinigera was found for the first time during this expedition in the 25 year sampling history of the Fram Strait. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fyrsta grein frá leiðangrinum í fyrra á Þýska ísbrjótnum Polarstern sem ég tók þátt í er komin út. Marflóategundin Amathillopsis spinigera fannst í fyrsta sinn í þessum leiðangri á 25 ára sýnistökuferli um Fram sundið. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new paper ‘Key drivers and spatio-temporal variation in the reproductive potential of Icelandic cod’ was published recently in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. More here: hafogvatn.is/en/about/new... #codresearch #marinebiology #codjuviniles #icelandiccod

Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland. The mosquito species Culiseta annulata has been confirmed in Iceland. It might survive the cold weather in Iceland, at least in Reykjavík. www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...

Hot of the press #mitochondria paper!! 🎉 @jevbio.bsky.social New evidence that #mitonuclear discordance and early-life #diet jointly shape development and adult behaviour in #Drosophila. 🪰🦠🧬🍝 @fcamus.bsky.social @dk-dowling.bsky.social et al., academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

Nú er Líffræðiráðstefnan að fara að skella á! Opnunarerindi er á fimmtudaginn, 9. okt. kl. 13 í aðalsal Íslenskrar Erfðagreiningar. Nálgast má dagskránna hér: biologia.is/liffraedirad...

First 10 @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #genome reports now online at the ORE collection open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/collections/...

MFRI´s research vessel Thorunn Thordardottir is on a charter from for a research project focused on the oceanography and current measurements in the East Greenland Coastal Current. The measurements of this project aim to assess its possible impact on AMOC stability. www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

We're running a virtual genome assembly workshop next week. Online, but live instruction on a real HPC. Code and session recordings distributed to participants.

MFRI is looking for an individual for a position which involves diverse research on the effects of ocean acidification and climate change on marine life and its ecosystems. See more in a news item on www.hafogvatn.is, also there a link to more information on ResearchGate. #oceanadification

Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper. Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is. www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

Over the weekend, I finally published a piece I’ve been sitting with for several months now, trying to do it justice. It's about the state of climate change journalism (mainly in the U.S.)

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out! Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My paper "Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should" is formally published in an issue. It's a how-to guide to using Bluesky, the first ever published in the scientific literature! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ar...

A new webpage on sea temperature has been launched on the MFRI's website. It contains a new presentation of data from sea temperature gauges in various parts of the country. www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

I was fortunate enough to get to attend the Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference in Italy this month. Amazing to meet, reconnect, and hear from so many amazing researchers from just about all over the world working on the dynamics of ecological and evolutionary change.

We are super proud of this paper led by @jcuofficial.bsky.social PhD student @joelgaylard.bsky.social - so cool that #sharks follow these centuries-old mathematical scaling 'rules' almost perfectly!!

We are the European Reference Genome Atlas #ERGA community! 🌍🧬 🔹 An open community of 1000+ members and the European node of @ebpgenome.bsky.social 🔹 ERGA connects people and institutions to advance #biodiversity #genomics across Europe 🔗 Learn more & join us: www.erga-biodiversity.eu

🚀 We've launched an Integrated Release on Ensembl Beta!  Beta Release 2025-02 features 2,919 genomes, ready for both current & long-term use. You can explore the data on zurl.co/FuoKx or read more about Ensembl Beta releases on our blog at zurl.co/xbRr4

Two exciting research projects were just awarded the first ever Explorer's Grant by the Icelandic Biological Society, in cooperation with jbcharcot.fr and en.fin.is! The projects focus on Arctic Charr spawning and nursing grounds, and Redwing and Common Blackbird habitat partitioning.

I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬 Want to learn more about #genome sequencing, assembly, curation and analysis? Why not head to Florence this autumn? ⏳ There's still time to apply and attend #EMBOgenomeSeq — deadline is the end of May! meetings.embo.org/event/25-gen... @embo.org @ebpgenome.bsky.social

The French newspaper Mediapart interviewed me last week about our review article of long standing bias in conservation research. There are always minor details that get warped in translation, but it was great to see the willingness to mediate technical results. www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecol...

We still have a few spots left for the GRC Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tuscany this summer (July 13-18). Lots of great speakers already lined up, and we'd love to hear from you! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

The report: The Circular Economy of Fishing Gear in Nordic Fisheries was published recently. It sets region-specific guidelines for reducing plastic waste and ghost fishing by embedding circular-economy principles throughout each fishing gear’s lifecycle. Mroe here: www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

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...

A new article describes the genetic stratification of inshore shrimp and offshore shrimp (Pandalus borealis) populations in northern Iceland. Reduced representative genome sequence data was collected from samples North of Iceland. More here: www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new... #shrimpresearch

About 15-20 yrs ago, a bunch of reviews (inc. 1 by me) made predictions about the future of genomics in conservation. 1 yr ago at ICISB, Robin Waples assessed which of those predictions had been fulfilled. Sam May & Sam Rosenbaum now led the effort to turn this into a review: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Excited to see our article on the cover! @drk-lo.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998...

#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

Our paper describing the genetic stratification of inshore and offshore northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) in Iceland just came out! RADseq data was collected from samples across Arnarfjörður bay in the North-West, Skjálfandi bay in the North. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Nýja greinin okkur um stofngreiningu á milli innfjarðar og úthafs rækju (stóra kampalampa, Pandalus borealis) á Norður Íslandi kom út í dag. Við sjáum lítinn sem engan mun á milli innfjarðar rækja, en greinilegan stigul á milli innfjarðar og úthafsins. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

"Hafrannsóknarstofnun leitar eftir framúrskarandi háskólanemum úr líffræði, efnafræði, eðlisfræði eða tengdum greinum, til starfa í sumar. Starfstímabil háskólanema er um 3 mánuðir eða samkvæmt frekara samkomulagi". www.hafogvatn.is/is/midlun/fr...

MFRI´s new research vessel, Thorunn Thordardottir HF 300, is on its way to Iceland. It is named after a pioneer of research on primary productivitym Thorunn Thordardottir. See more on MFRI´s website (in Icelandic): www.hafogvatn.is/is/moya/news... #marineresearch #researchvessel

Need extra funds to help cover costs of caring for someone while you attend #Evol2025? Apply by March 15 for the SSE Caregiver Award - up to $500 US. Funds can be used as the awardee wishes to facilitate attendance virtually or in-person. buff.ly/4ayQxbG @evolmtg.bsky.social

We have a new paper out today, where, among other things, we find evidence that a locally adaptive chromosomal inversion likely trapped an even older inversion along its path to becoming the supergene it is today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It is with great pleasure that we announce that the application for the Explorer's grant is now open! The grant is funded by the Biological Society and Les Amis de Jean Baptiste Charcot. Additional information as well as the application form can be found here: biologia.is/um-felagid/s...

Það er okkur sönn ánægja að tilkynna að nú er opið fyrir umsóknir um Könnuðarstyrk Líffræðifélagsins og Les Amis de Jean Baptiste Charcot. Frekari upplýsingar um styrkinn og umsóknina sjálfa er að finna hér: biologia.is/um-felagid/s...