I am blessed by great mentors in science so far. Not having to get awkward to get recommendation letters is apparently not the average experience for early career researchers 🥲

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue. Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October. kevingdaly.github.io

Is it just me or "genetic purity" sounds fascist?

Do you want to build a symposium 👉🏼👈🏻 #SMBE2026 smbe2026.org/symposia/

Thanks Roberto for the kind commentaries 🥰 I co-lead this study with the bluesky-less Rosie Drinkwater who tirelessly tracked the metadata & the details of the spatial modelling and cannot join the interview because she was on the field. Always a privilege to work with brilliant people 😁

Indonesia: Jakarta protests resume after overnight clash kills motorcycle taxi driver https://www.europesays.com/2368213/ Indonesia: Jakarta protests resume after overnight clash kills motorcycle taxi driver https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cdrk7rjv8z5t Posted by thinkB4WeSpeak

What is happening in Indonesia deserves more attention www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Very nice explainer from twitter user normelpeople on what's happening in Indonesia this week and how people are feeling

Just sharing for what happen in my country right now 🇮🇩 #Indonesia #StopPoliceBrutality

What a busy August it’s been for our group! 🌍✈️ From our Summer Course in Copenhagen to #EPIC25 in Aarhus and #ESEB25 in Barcelona. So great to see so many of our researchers sharing their work through talks and posters! An inspiring month full of science, learning, and collaboration! 🙌✨

Surprised SMBE being allowed in such an expensive city LOL but here we are: save the date for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen on 28 June - 2 July 2026! If you need visa, apply 2 months in advance the latest; as long as I'm still here I can help nudge the committee if you need anything :D smbe2026.org

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

Something we need to grasp is that Establishment power meant imperialism. Imperialism is a system of thought that sees upper class white men as the pinnacle of humanity, with a sacred duty to control the lives of others. What we now call the far right is an extension and revival of imperialism.

Preparing my 'Long Read Genomics' course for a visit at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Materials will be freely available on GitHub: github.com/bpucker/LRG #Genomics #Bioinformatics #OpenEducation @puckerlab.bsky.social

"The UK imports nearly 50% of its food, making it highly dependent on international supply chains, particularly from Europe. #Climate shocks in key export regions like Spain, France, and Brazil could disrupt imports and further exacerbate inflation." autonomy.work/portfolio/on...

Denmark enters the global race for chip production: uniavisen.dk/en/wafers-fo...

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

Say all the bad things about X/Twitter all you want, it still has the realest conversations about the Israel-Palestine conflict than this place.

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

Ooh, look. When we covered the climate impacts of machine learning (“AI”) on Rare Earth in June we found it really frustrating that none of the tech companies would tell anyone the water and energy costs. Now Google has made at least some of it public. More of this! (and preferably raw data too).

I cannot believe there are this many Indonesians in #ESEB2025 After so long of being almost the only Indonesian in these kinds of conferences, I am just so happy to have found *literally* my people. I hope many more to come from Indonesia studying evolutionary biology around the EU 🥹

Room size for forecasting evolution symposium was not properly forecasted 🥁

Thanks to Sofia and May Sheday for the courageous and inspiring talks! The scientific world cannot remain silent @eseb2025.bsky.social #ESEB2025 #inclusivity 🏳️‍🌈 #transrights 🏳️‍⚧️ #freepalestine 🇵🇸

a bit unhappy that the talks about being trans & Palestinian in academia were concurrent with other science talks #ESEB2025. How will these inspiring people’s stories percolate / get everyone to reflect if the schedule selects for attendance only by those who are already sympathetic?

#ESEB2027 will be a hub meetings! Not sure if I will can afford still be around EU at that time, but those who can please do join, it has been a fun experience.

Mike Ritchie reminded to publish in your society journals to keep things rolling. Overpriced journals from big publishers did not circle back their money to society! Surprised the EU still need to be reminded, I thought many funding bodies acknowledged review-community platforms. #ESEB2025

Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience! If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

The amount of food waste in #ESEB2025 is APPALLING. I seen a ONE-TIME-BITTEN sandwiches and HALF-EATEN desserts being LEFT. How could you? Apparently people around here weren't raised to respect food?

I bonded with new people with cool works upon the forecasting evolution symposium queue I am starting to think this queue is actually a feature not a bug 👀 #ESEB2025

Johanna Mappes on figuring out what behind the aposematic colors of tiger moth. Apparently predator community affects how the morphs alter in frequency. I like how researchers increasingly acknowledge their shortcomings on their scientific process; it encourages early career researchers! #ESEB2025

I can't believe I am giving advice to people on poster sessions of conferences now. I AM AGING 🙈

Is AI transforming science? Apparently not in evolutionary biology. Of nearly 1,700 abstracts at #ESEB2025, only four mention AI or artificial intelligence, another eight mention deep learning, and another two explicitly refer to AlphaFold.

Read some articles in this collection made available in #ESEB2025 today. I saw what has happened to my friends and colleagues, and even a bit of myself. Once again, I’m asking myself if I could have got this far had I been more underrepresented than I am now.

If you ever wondered what the ten most common dance moves are in the world of parrot discos, wonder no more. There's an entire paper devoted to bopping cockatoos, and it's as fabulous as you'd expect. 🪶🦜💃 🚨 News flash, headbanging made the cut! 🧪 🌍 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Day 2 of Museomics at #ESEB2025 and I still think it has been assigned the incorrect room size 😌

Charissa de Bekker on what I think should be titled "what they do not tell you about the zombie fungi" because apparently there are a lot of things need to be achieved by the fungi in the molecular level before the behavioural manipulation happens. #ESEB2025

Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

Lydia Fong’s poster is on Thursday, P03.077. Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. The preprint for this is at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @squarehare.bsky.social #eseb2025 5/n

Surely one of the all-time best conference outreach activities: an evolution-inspired decorated street for Les Festes de Gràcia #ESEB2025

Loving the genetic load picture there 🤩

I wish more highly successful researchers would do what @lovedalen.bsky.social did here: reveal how much effort, and repeated rejection, that typically precedes each success in science. Never give up.

"...as you might know, [insert a technical jargon]..." [me sneaking into a symposium outside my work for fun]: 😶

#eseb2025 talks were great so far. Subjective ranking of the most common quotes: - theory and modeling: "with this very simple approach" - genomics: "using methodology you all know" - plenaries: "Nature/Science" in the bottom right of a slide - posters: "una cerveza por favor"

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Had a blast presenting my postdoc projects from @popgendk.bsky.social at #ESEB2025: figuring out the conservation units of topis from Africa & the selection pressure on the introgression landscape of Indonesian admixed cattles. Thanks for those who came by & gave really useful comments!

Should've made bingo card of museomics talks containing things like "it is difficult because it is low coverage", "we only have so many samples", "how sure are you about the labels", and the likes. #ESEB2025

I think the Museomics is not assigned the correct room size @eseb.bsky.social #ESEB2025

I am definitely biased here but I enjoyed Love Dalén talk on deep-time phylogenomics where ancient samples are changing the divergence times of some species & seeing some genes did not mutate until the last 700ky & how his cool idea gets rejected multiple times. #ESEB2025

Pierre Veron on an attempt bridging microevolutionary process with macroevolution. Apparently with a very high mutation rate it is difficult to speciate because you cannot get fixation and enough divergence to behave as separate species. #ESEB2025