"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

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Huzzah! Tomorrow's Sewage Spill Day when the full stats are released on how much was discharged into rivers, lakes and coasts last year. To whet your appetites I’ve mapped the 2025 spills at outfalls affecting bathing waters. Here are the top 10 worst offenders in reverse order:

Check out our bear-y cool paper about Scandinavian brown bears published today in Royal Society Open Science!🐻 More about it in the thread🧵 @cpgsthlm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Special Issue on Genetic Rescue is out 🎉🎉🎉 The 21 papers on the SI highlight how evolutionary biology can enhance resilience & long-term survival of biodiversity. Introducing genetically diverse individuals can boost fitness in small, isolated populations 🧬🌿 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70225

The northern white rhino is effectively extinct. Can a healthy pop be restored from cryopreserved cells of only 12 inds? @arynwilder.bsky.social et al. show how restoration from biobanked cells eases constraints of a limited founder pool to enable recovery 🦏 📸 San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

It’s always been a mystery to me how the genetic diversity and composition of the Scandinavian brown bear originated 🤔 Today, we publish a new paper that sheds new light on this, and a real-time example of how mito-nuclear discordances can evolve during severe bottlenecks: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

The last of the three pioneers of great ape studies has died. Galdikas, Fossey, and Goodall dedicated their lives to understanding the lives of these extraordinary creatures.

As one of the authors of this thought I’d share a bit about how we got here and how you can do what we’ve done at you institution. Over the two years I’ve been at the University of Edinburgh I’ve grown increasingly concerned by fellow academics uncritically using LLMs, especially OpenAIs’s ChatGPT.

Meet our plenary speakers 💁‍♂️ CHRISTINA WARINNER (@harvard.edu) @christinawarinner.bsky.social investigates ancient microbiomes to reveal insights into the diets and health of past human populations. Conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org ⚠️ Abstract submission open! (deadline 30th Nov) ⚠️

Meet our plenary speakers 💁‍♂️ JOHANNES KRAUSE (eva.mpg.de) Johannes' research has made major contributions to our understanding of human pathogens, hominin evolution, and the peopling of Europe. Conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org ⚠️ Abstract submission open! (deadline 30th Nov) ⚠️

Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ LUCY VAN DORP (@ugiatucl.bsky.social) Lucy is a leading expert in ancient microbe research, using ancient DNA to reconstruct the origins, evolution, and spread of major human pathogens throughout history. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Your shrinking sense of humor

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Robin's new tool - looks nifty!

Like #hemocytes? I'm advertising a 3 year, BBSRC #postdoc position, in #Edinburgh, using #Drosophila & human cells to understand sex differences in the regulation of #macrophage function, an exciting collaboration with the Bénézech and Wood labs. Please share! 🪰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU604/p...

We had a 'data forensics' lab meeting yesterday. We investigated everyone's close-to-submission datasets under the (false) assumption the data was faked & we had to find proof 🔍🧐 We found some mistakes & weirdnesses and it was such a good exercise in good data management! Highly recommend!

I wrote lectures about DE-EXTINCTION for my human evolution and anthropological genetics courses and have been really popular with students so I decided to turn it into a very long 🧵 I'll post everything as replies here but will try to break into bite size pieces and retweet as I go:

Gut #dysbiosis has been linked to #NeurologicalDisease, but what's the mechanism? @grakoui.bsky.social @dweisslab.bsky.social &co show that a high-fat diet increases gut permeability, enabling bacterial translocation from gut to brain via the vagus nerve in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ruE6EP

New blog post: The Camel's Camel. Today, I found a beautiful example of synonymized plagiarism involving the microbiome of a camel’s udder. #TorturedPhrases #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/03/12/t...

Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature? Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness. You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data: Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

This article is related to this scientific paper published in Biological Conservation, where I focus on the legal vacuum in addressing the impact of pets on wildlife and suggest ways to bridging the gap between conservation and animal welfare laws in the EU. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When pets devour biodiversity. My new article on the European edition of @uk.theconversation.com about the impacts of pet-wildlife interactions and the opportunities for their legal regulation in the EU. theconversation.com/our-pets-are.... Related paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🇺🇦 4 years of full-scale war. 12 YEARS OF FIGHTING Nothing better to remember and reflect about the fight for freedom and democracy of Ukrainian people than the words from our colleagues at #Chornobyl Radiological and Biosphere Reserve. www.facebook.com/zapovidnyk20... СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ! ГЕРОЯМ СЛАВА!

Excited to be in Passau (Germany) at the start of the 9th yearly conference from the Society of Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social If you are around don’t miss our session on Molecular Tropical Ecology organised by Prof. Ute Radespiel and myself.

Very excited to be advertising this project with the excellent cosupervision of Peter Mergaert through @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social and @uniexecec.bsky.social. This position is open to international applicants and will involve stints in both Penryn UK and Paris France. Please share! Apply: adum.fr

We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.