We endured strong winds & sleet showers, we were wet and cold, but the light made it worth it. The skies opened, the magic happened, & we rushed to capture the awe inspiring beauty! Tombstone, Yukon, Canada.⁠ #photography #nature #bluesky #naturephotography #landscapephotography #mountains #travel

There is ONE thing I am looking forward to this heatwave: Pictures of paschal candles that have melted in churches. Here's an example from a few years ago. It's my favourite phenomenon. Because, well... Look at it.

Couldn’t be happier about contributions by group members at #ICP2026 #museomics session! @markella-morait.bsky.social presented on oral #microbiome evolution in mammals, @johnlrichards.bsky.social talked about historical #AMR & @anniegwest.bsky.social had a poster on microb in declining populations

Great intro from @kguschan.bsky.social on the wonderful world of museomics at #ICP2026 @palaeogenomics.bsky.social. My poster is tonight if you want to come have a chat, stop by board 160 😁

Cool new study on display #ICP2026 #SMBE2026! @markella-morait.bsky.social on why oral microbiomes matter in mammalian evolution and adaptation #aDNA #metagenomics #museums: from okapis to orcas, from Alpine marmots to African elephants Read more in the new pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What principles govern the evolution of host-associated microbiomes? Are they the same for all microbial communities? The brilliant @markella-morait.bsky.social turns to #museums to study dental calculus oral microbiomes in #mammals with #aDNA #metagenomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are advertising a 3-year Evolution Education Trust funded #PhD studentship at @ugiatucl.bsky.social UCL to investigate the genomic history of infectious diseases preserved within historical pathology collections. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #findaphd #EET

'The jump' quilt by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono, inspired by an illustration by Ukrainian artist Svetlana Dorosheva #WomensArt

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

"Whose Larva Is This?" A quick guide to figure out what you're looking at when you find something that resembles a worm or a Zerg unit crawling around. #insect #bug #education #SciArt

Talks by: @cpogoreutz.bsky.social Irina Velsko Søren B. Hansen Julien Martinez Amalia Bogri @mmontonerin.bsky.social Qing Xiang Charles Mak Linnéa Ekström André Bourbonnais Maximiliana Bogan @markella-morait.bsky.social

#SMBE2026 L04: Understanding adaptive evolution through the lens of hologenomics 🗓️ Mon Jun 29, 10:20am 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

“In other words, unwritten science is not just incomplete; it simply does not exist for the purposes of the field. When you look at it this way, the job of a scientist - having ideas, testing them, and persuading others they are right - turns out to be, fundamentally, an act of writing.”

Lalla A. Essaydi, Moroccan-born photographer and artist who.explores such areas as Orientalism and cultural stereotypes #womensart

Wait. For. It. NASA animation shows Global temps warm slowly at first, then rapidly. Warming is accelerating! Here’s the truth. It’s real. It’s us. And we have to come to terms with it, and deal with reality, rather than deceiving ourselves, and hoping it goes away. It won’t… without intervention.

Lochside mornings

🧬Join our online course Population Genomics Using Ancient DNA Data (21–25 Sept) with @arunsethuraman.bsky.social and @cegamorim.bsky.social & learn how ancient genomes are processed, authenticated, and analysed to reconstruct population history, migration, demography & selection shorturl.at/tXl7p

Quilt art by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono #WomensArt

Very cool to see that the forensic tool is now actively being used and the first conviction of poachers through individual identification of the poached lion is a fact. 🦁 🧬 👮 Read the whole story on our website: tinyurl.com/3vybce3b #LeoFoundation #StichtingLeo

This has picked up >10k signatures in the last 24h, and passed 100k signatures total. Worth spreading around!

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Want to contribute to growing this resource? Find us in the AaRC Element channel (animal-adna.org/about/) and join the fun!

Need metadata for published ancient animal genomes? The metAaRCive project has recently made its first public release, containing metadata for 1518 published genomes across a range of species, curated by members of @aarc-community.bsky.social Find the release here: github.com/AaRC-Animal-...

Have you heard of OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer? It's a great tool for visualising how all biodiversity in the world is related. And since it's #BiodiversityDay, well... Find yourself a friend whose love language is "I sponsored a slime mold for you". www.onezoom.org 🧪🌏 🦊🐦🐝 #biodiversity

Are you interested in doing local ancestry inference (LAI) using imputed #aDNA? Take a look at our preprint, together with @bodkan.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If there's DNA hiding in the vaults, we'll find it! 🧬 📣 New paper out, affectionately called BUCKET-Seq, we explored liquid media as a non-destructive source of specimen DNA. DNA is recoverable from specimen media but we caution that it stems from mixed sources. bit.ly/3P7hEVk #Museomics #eDNA

Gilbert's U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory Children's Set, Supplied with Real Radioactive Materials, 1950s

"A conversation with Aviâja Lyberth Hauptmann on Greenland, food sovereignty, and why the plant-based diet we're all pushing may represent "a failure of imagination"." quote from the really interesting article by MAD digest.🦠 Read the interesting conversation via the link💡 @dg.dk @ucph.bsky.social

Tove Jansson in her studio,1956, Finnish artist and creator of the Moomin book series #womensart #RoomArtWeek

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

Commentary: You Can’t Even Watch A Movie Anymore Without Seeing Some Theme Explored https://theonion.com/you-cant-even-watch-a-movie-anymore-without-seeing-some-theme-explored/

Scotland The Third Rainbow. Just back from a magical tour to the Hebrides, the western Isles of Scotland. The Callanish Stones, a 5k years old stone circle, were high on our list. #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #outerhebrides #callanishstones

I have an open postdoc position in my group. If you're excited about developing machine learning methods for multi-omics data analysis in metabolic diseases, I’d love to hear from you. Please apply here euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/430305

Our new pipeline for analysing highly degraded genomic DNA data is now available at biorXiv! Study led by Bilal Sharif

Check out our study!

Dear White Folx, "Nothing in whiteness teaches you about joy, pleasure, play, and passion that isn't about control, entitlement, or competition. You don't know joy just to be joyful." I said this on the Yell Fire! podcast recently and I want to sit with it here because it names something...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC. 📷 Royal Ontario Museum 🏺

Complex Patterns of Hitchhiking Mutation Load Among Stickleback Populations. New paper led by Jana Nickel out in GBE @genomebiolevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants? Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A sea stack.

A new phD position in my lab about amphibian, infection diseases in a global changing world. Check it out! And spread the word ;)

Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ KATERINA GUSCHANSKI (@kguschan.bsky.social) Katerina is expert in using genomics of museum collections to explore primate evolution, conservation genetics, and the historical impact of environmental change. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Genomic erosion across avian lineages in the context of their evolutionary history academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Look out for these seven hairy caterpillars found on our precious peatlands in the North of England 🐛🔍 Spotted a hairy caterpillar? Report your sighting to us through the ‘Peatland Caterpillars Recording Project’ on iRecord 👉 https://irecord.org.uk/join/peatland-caterpillars-recording-project

Seashells Transform Suburban Bathroom Into Tropical Hideaway https://theonion.com/seashells-transform-suburban-bathroom-into-tropical-hid-1819571584/

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...

Tuesday

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest